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Date/Time: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:33:58 +0000
Formatted Alerts to Text or Excel Live would be Useful
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| [2015-10-18 00:38:11] |
| User931283 - Posts: 55 |
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I've studied Alerts Log output,& see only copy selection to Clipboard and Email, SMS output. I can't find a disk output log file. Alert data (trigger point, alert formula result, symbol, alert name) could be very useful for building a composite visual (chart, graph). "Pipelining" alerts "as is" would be OK, but delimited would be better for non-programmers to not have to parse text. Would it be difficult to add an Option to write Alerts to a Text File or Add to an Excel file in a delimited format-- possibly allowing a Header Format Layout, to add 3 or 4 more fields (by Excel or other Lookup of Alert), such as Alert Code, Symbol, weight, etc.? Ideally, we could then do a lookup in Excel Tables for the Symbol and Alert, to compute a Value result for each alert to keep short period sums. Later integrating "Alert Summation Studies" into SC would make it even better. |
| [2015-10-18 06:28:51] |
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We will see about adding a command to save the Alerts Log to a file.
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| [2015-10-18 14:27:59] |
| User931283 - Posts: 55 |
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No hurry. Do think it over. Speed is your/our prime consideration (probably why you don't write alerts to file). An "either" option for add-file "only" versus default standard show alert log (as now)-- would avoid speed issues for most users who don't need this. Nobody wants slower or a large portion of main-memory being eaten-up! Creating session or period (hour or minute) text files may be least-likely to slow SC. I can have 5 to 8 alerts per SECOND, sometimes.. about 10,000+/hour. You sure don't want a file to grow from session to session = slow to open, etc. A 1-minute add-file that clears the file each minute--can work. I used a Perl program to grab such a file each 60 seconds to build it's own add-file. You could later make an option for minute, hour, session or Off. Maybe much later, an option for continuous (one file) for running long (month on ticks) backtesting only (I saw a request). Speed may not be quite as crucial in back-testing. Clarifying the REASON for this: Your fast-easy alerts, like horizontal line, are otherwise not accessible to computation/graphs. Trying to find and move many horizontal line studies is impossible in fast markets, and clutters up studies. |
| [2022-01-14 10:28:34] |
| User290950 - Posts: 13 |
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Hello friends, I saw this Thread after several years, Is it possible to save the Alerts Log to a file ? |
| [2022-01-14 18:24:50] |
| John - SC Support - Posts: 38388 |
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On the Alert Manager window select File >> Save Log to File.
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