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[Programming Help] - How to play an alert sound on every bar when there is 1 min left on a 5 min chart?

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[2023-06-23 03:30:54]
fuzzy - Posts: 7
I am trying to write an Alert Condition on the Main Chart/Price Graph so that it plays alert sound on every bar when there is 1 min left to the close of 5 min bar. I tried the following, but it doesn't work:

ABS((NOW()-BARTIME)-TIME(0,4,0))<TIME(0,0,1)

My understand of these functions maybe wrong. Anyone can help me to fix this?

Thanks in advance.
[2023-06-23 13:29:17]
Sawtooth - Posts: 4120
Try this:
=NOW()-BARDATETIME>=4/1440

Note 1: The NOW function updates with the computer's DateTime, not the chart's DateTime.
This means this won't work in Replay, only in real time in the current bar.

Note 2: 4/1440 equals 4 minutes in SerialDateTime because there are 1440 minutes in 24 hours.

See this for a more complete countdown alert study:
https://www.sawtoothtrade.com/free-stuff-11.html
[2023-06-23 14:07:56]
fuzzy - Posts: 7
It works!

Thank you so much.

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