Newbie Here;

Although there is a wealth of info on this forum, it doesn't make much sense to me because I don't get programming. I suppose I could spend weeks trying to figure it all out, but what I am looking for is so simple.

Each drawn trend line has a unique identifying number and all I want to do is set up a generic program to send an alert to signal me when price touches that trend line. And be able to change the identifying number as the new trend lines are drawn.

The type of trend line I am referring to is not a horizontal price but a line drawn from swing high to swing high or from swing low to swing low.

How can I create a simple adviser that says:

Alert when price (touched, is above, is below, has crossed through, etc…whatever) trendline 57086.

Thank-you for your patience and I deeply appreciate your help.

you'd better post a picture of what are you trying to create.

Except I don't want auto trading, just to be alerted when trendline is touched or broken.

Picture borrowed from ykimyego Trendlines and Divergence Strategies

Thanks ykimyego

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If you draw TLs manualy on a price chart then you may set up standard MT alerts on correspondent levels and adjust them again by hand.
If you want an automatic TLs drawing then you have to define the way they will appear on the chart. It can be either fractals or DeMark points.
Have no idea how to set alerts on TLs drawn on indicator.

Jacob must be more competent on this issue

Since each TL line has its own unique identifying number, it seems like it should be easy to just say: “alert when price touches TL #xxxx.” As sophisticated as MT is, there has to be a way to program something so simple.

The standard MT alerts are for price only. So the only way to use it would be to set the price where the period line intersects the trend line and reset the price alarm for every period. What a pain, the whole point is to set it up and get some sleep until the next TL bounce/break.

Anyway, thank you very much for your time and interest.

This was taken from the Metaquotes forum. It doesn't give the exact details, but hopefully somebody can take the info and create "something" out of it.

Hope this helps. Here's the direct link: http://www.metaquotes.net/forum/493/

For your time and effort.

I'll have to dissect the line and figure out how to adapt it to my needs. I guess there is no easy way around learning code but thanks to codersguru it can be done. I was just lazy to spend the time. You have given me a place to start and thats good enough.

Thank you.