Need help with indicator on sound/arrow alert

Dear Coder's,

I have 2 indicators which I like to confirm a trend. The problem is: Both indicators have a sound and arrow alert, but sometimes they don't show up. I always have to close and open the chart again to get the last signal. You look at the screen and you see that the trend is changing the direction, but no arroe and no sound. Please put them both on a 15 min and 1 hr chart and get an idea how they look like. To test it put it on a 1 min chart to get fast signals to see if the sound and arrow is coming or not. Yoy will see that it is not good to use it like that. Hope somebody can help to make sure that the arrow and sound comes after the candel is closed. Sorry for my english, it is not the best.

Thank you in advance and hope others can use them too.

Holger

I suspect you are seeing the same thing I have observed with regards to objects (arrows) and alerts. MT4 seems to give a lower priority to handling those kind of events which involve calls to the operating system than it does to the trade and chart updating. I have noticed sporadic behaviour when MT4 seems to "forget" to send the alert or create the object, especially when during periods of high tick volumes. The solution is to minimize the number of times this kind of activity is triggered.

Thank you for your information. I can see you know a lot about the coding etc.

Somebody mentioned to use a easy macro recorder to solve the problem. I don't know how to do that.

Can you please let me know what to do, I like to get some instructions from you, if you don't mind.

Thank you a lot,

Holger

I have never heard of a macro recorder in MQL4. I have done that in Excel, but nothing like that in MQL4.