Help with MetaTrader Alerts:

So, hopefully someone can help me with this or at least tell me what i'm trying to do is impossible...

So I set up an alert on FxPro's demo feed of MetaTrader. I have also set up an email account to work with MetaTrader (using gmx.com) that works and has been tested thru MetaTrader. So I set up an email alert on a given pair...I.e. if bid < 99.999, send me an email.

The problem is, this is the email I get:


Any idea how to make this more descriptive. The alert "worked" but what if i have 10 alerts and 3 of them are going off at once, I'd like to be able to know which alert I'm getting emailed about.

I tried googling "C:\Program Files\FxPro MetaTrader\sounds\alert.wav" but that gave me nothing. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

You might consider putting this on the Programming Discussion forum where people tend to know a bit more about MT4.

I think the alert may take its information from the indicator or EA you use.

Indeed, I debated where to post this thread. On the one hand a "beginner" question on MT4, other the other hand potentially solved by the programmers at ForexFactory.

MODs - feel free to move this thread.

-SL

Thank you for moving mods.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

So...anyone have any ideas on what I can do?

Is the only way to do this to set up a EA or Indicator that uses the MAIL function? I.e. is the built-in alert system not going to help me in sending useful alerts? Seeing that WAV file really doesn't tell me anything about what they are alerting me about...

So obviously most of you are probably using your own custom Macro to do what I'm trying to do, however I'm just using the basic built-in alerts in MetaTrader. I think what I want to do can be seen here:

http://articles.mql4.com/c/articles/...ail_create.png

In the error I posted above, i had a sound as the "source", so in my prior examples it was sending the location of the sound file. If you replace that with the syntax above, it should give you a more useful alert message

Furthermore, to compose the body of the e-mail message, click the "..." button above and that pops up this screene:

http://articles.mql4.com/c/articles/2006/09/macro.png

The Full article about using MetaTrader Alerts can be found here:
http://articles.mql4.com/190

Hope this helped someone other than just me.