Alert Counting and Grouping

With these 2 new parameters you can now use multiple alerts for confirmation of a single order.

Alert Count [ac=] and Alert Count Group [acg=] parameters.

This allows us to use multiple alerts, strategies or even timeframes to decide whether or not to act upon a specific alert.

Let's start with [ac=].

The acceptable parameters here are two numbers separated by a /. Default being 1/1. Think of it like a thread. The first number being which alert you're currently on, and how many you need in the sequence to act being the second number.

ac=1/3 will initiate a count, anything following this command in this alert would be ignored. You then receive an alert with ac=2/3. Again, any command in this alert would be ignored. Finally, your ac=3/3 fires triggering all the commands in it.

Similarly to the above scenario, if we would have seen ac=1/3, followed by ac=3/3 then Autoview would ignore everything in this alert as the sequence was broken by going 1 to 3.

Here are the 3 alerts we fired to try it yourself:

Alert 1
ac=1/3
e=oandapractice s=usd/cad b=long q=1% p=-10% d=1

Alert 2
ac=2/3
e=oandapractice s=usd/cad b=long q=1% p=-10% d=1

Alert 3
ac=3/3
e=oandapractice s=usd/cad b=long q=1% p=-10% d=1

The most important aspect is the sequence. The second value lets you choose whether to act or not.
For example, as long as you maintain a sequence you can use the second value to choose whether or not to act.

1/3 - Skip
2/4 - Skip
3/3 - Act
4/3 - Act
5/7 - Skip
6/6 - Act
8/8 - Reset - Sequence Broken

Hopefully that covers the basics of this new parameter. Now let's talk about [acg=].

This parameter allows you to maintain multiple counts in the event you're running multiple strategies.
ac=1/7 acg=macd

This will only count alerts that include acg=macd. So if you then fire an alert with ac=2/7 acg=rsi your Macd alert count would not be affected or considered upon seeing this newest alert.

This opens a lot of new doors and opportunites, so we are sure there are a lot more use cases and scenarios than we were able to cover. So if you have any specific questions or scenarios, please don't hesitate to contact us directly at support@autoview.with.pink.