Configure Strategies and Alerts

Brief

This section describes how to add, change, stop, pause and start strategies and alerts, as well as show or hide strategy and alert events using the Configure Strategies and Alerts dialog box.

Details

All currently used strategies and alerts, both running and paused, are shown in the Configure Strategies and Alerts dialog box.

Using this dialog box, you can:

• Add new strategies and alerts
• Pause and restart strategies and alerts
• Change or stop running strategies and alerts
• View events of a certain strategy or alert and of all strategies and alerts.

To use the Configure Strategies and Alerts dialog box:

• On the Alerts and Trading Automation menu, click Configure Strategies and Alerts.
  
  In the E*TRADE FX platform, the command is available on the Alerts and Trading Automation submenu of the Charts menu.

The Configure Strategies and Alerts dialog box will appear.

To add a new strategy or alert:

• Click New. For details, see Add Strategy or Alert.

To pause/restart a strategy or alert:

1. Click the strategy or alert.
2. Click Pause or Restart respectively.

To change parameters of a strategy or alert, do one of the following:

• Double-click the strategy or alert.
• Click the strategy or alert, and then click Parameters.

For details, see Change Strategy or Alert Parameters.

To stop a strategy or alert:

1. Click the strategy or alert.
2. Click Stop.

To show/hide strategies and alerts events:

• Click Show Events or Hide Events.

To show/hide events for a certain strategy or alert:

1. Click the strategy or alert.
2. Click Show Events or Hide Events.

For details, see Show/Hide Events.