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In pinescript alerts is there any way to detect what the timeframe of the chart and then send alerts based on that?

I have a tradingview indicator through which I send alerts to discord, the alerts are like this

msgr1=syminfo.ticker + ',' + timeframe.period + ', Crossed Resistance 1'


if srLines==true and close > h10
    alert(msgr1)

The problem is timeframe.period sends alerts in multiples of 60, so if timeframe of the chart is 2 hours it sends 120, and 3 hours is 180, and so on. This is confusing to interpret for discord members, so I thought that if I could detect if timeframe.period is under a 1 day period then I could return timeframe after doing its modulus with 60

So I tried to do this

if timeframe.period < 1D
    timeframe=timeframe.period%60
else
    timeframe=timeframe.period
msgr1=syminfo.ticker + ',' + timeframe+ ', Crossed Resistance 1'


if srLines==true and close > h10
    alert(msgr1)

This does not work, but is there any way I can code this in pinescript?

Solution 
  • string timeframe = na

if timeframe.isintraday and timeframe.multiplier >= 60
    timeframe := tostring(timeframe.multiplier / 60) + "H"
else if timeframe.isintraday and timeframe.multiplier < 60
    timeframe := tostring(timeframe.multiplier) + "m"
else
    timeframe := timeframe.period