Hey, so I’m wanting to create a condition in an Alert that will detect when the nyse TICK moves greater than a total of 500 points in a 4 minute time period. It doesn’t need to be coordinating with the TICK price, just the grand total of the move needs to be more than 500 points in this 4 minute time period, and then activate. Do you think this is possible, or is it something that needs to be created in Strategy Builder?
As long as you create the alert on a chart that is both time-based and has an interval that is a factor of 4 minutes, you should easily be able to do this with an alert. Just compare the price at “now” vs the price x bars ago +/- an offset of 500 points. If you need it on a non time-based chart type (renko, range, etc..), an interval greater than 4 minutes, or an interval that is not a factor of 4 minutes you’ll probably need to go the indicator/strategy route.