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[Programming Help] - Signal ignored because current Alert Condition formula is FALSE.

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[2018-02-05 01:53:03]
User202045 - Posts: 11
I'm just learning how to use the Spreadsheet System for Trading and I am repeatedly (but not always) seeing the message "Signal ignored because current Alert Condition formula is FALSE" in the Trade Service Log. The system is based on a 1 tick chart and is running on replay data of CLH18. It only has 2 conditions: buy at the market if there are four consecutive downticks in the Ask price (that is, 4 downticks with no upticks, although there can be multiple trades at the ask as long as it doesn't uptick) and sell at the market if there are 4 consecutive upticks. Targets and stops are being managed by Attached Orders. How can I force the system to take all signals?
[2018-02-05 19:07:43]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
Refer to:
Automated Trading Management: Troubleshooting Automated Trading System Behavior

It makes sense you are going to see this often we would expect:
Signal ignored because current Alert Condition formula is FALSE"

It would not make sense that your trading system would always be returning true constantly.
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[2018-02-05 21:20:35]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
One thing that we want to add, is that your formulas should check the current Position Quantity cell and check to make sure it is 0 and combine that with your formula to ensure that it does not return TRUE when there is a Position.
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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2018-02-05 21:21:10
[2018-02-05 22:55:30]
User202045 - Posts: 11
The problem is I'm getting that message when there has just been a signal and I am flat. It seems like the system is ignoring actual signals. But it is taking some signals.

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