Alerts

Named conditions

Scripts expose alerts with alertcondition(): each event is its own entry in TradingView’s Create Alert dialog, and you pick the one you want.

Some scripts additionally offer one combined alert() rule that carries more context, such as a score or a regime. Their code states that you set up either the named alerts or the combined rule, not both — otherwise the same event fires twice.

Message format

<code> · <event> · {{ticker}} {{interval}}

• Code — a short identifier per indicator, for example CPM4, SMCE or WYS. Codes are listed in indicators/ALERT_KUERZEL.md and never renamed.
• Event — what happened: LONG, EXIT LONG, WATCH LONG, REGIME CHANGE.
• {{ticker}} {{interval}} — TradingView fills these in, so the message names its chart when the same script runs on several charts.

Where it helps, a message adds state: the price as @ {{close}}, or a plotted value such as a score.

Alert titles stay the same across versions, because TradingView binds existing alert rules to the title. A new version changes the message format at most, never the title.

Bar-close confirmation

An alert must not fire on a bar that is still forming and then vanish when the bar closes. The repository convention:

• Scripts with named alerts carry an input Alerts only on bar close (confirmed), on by default. Where the signal itself is already defined on the closed bar, the input is not needed.
• Runtime alert() calls use the frequency once per bar close, unless the code explains why an event should fire intrabar.

Choosing Once Per Bar Close in the alert dialog is still possible, but the scripts do not rely on it.

Kinds of alert

Alert kinds follow the signal types of the indicator design:

Kind	Example title	Purpose
Entry / trigger	XYZ Long, XYZ Short	the actionable core signal
Exit	XYZ Exit Long	only where the indicator defines exits
Watch / setup	XYZ Watch Long	early warning, always separate from the entry
Regime / context	XYZ Regime Change	context, not a trade signal
Quality / confluence	XYZ High-Quality Setup	optional note on how strong a setup is
Invalidation / warning	XYZ Bull Weakness	reversal risk or trap

Watch and entry are always two alerts, so you decide how much lead time you want.