Optional: Search & Replace Alerts Modifier

No matter if alerts are coming from TradingView or Telegram, it might happen that they are not exactly following TradingConnector’s Alerts Syntax rules. And therefore - cannot be executed by TradingConnectorEA.

It can happen especially when alerts triggered on TradingView are coming from closed-source scripts (and script author has no intention of modifying them) or signals on Telegram are also posted in a format differing from ours.

But don’t worry, we’ve got it covered!

Between receiving alerts from TradingView or Telegram and sending the to MetaTrader for execution, then can be modified on-the-go, while inside TradingConnector.EXE.

The optional functionality is called

SEARCH & REPLACE ALERTS MODIFIER

It works in a well-known from text editors Search&Replace mechanism - you define two strings of text: one to be found in incoming alert and a second one to replace the first one in every occurrence.

Example - let’s say your alert looks like this:

{“id”:1701248700,”symbol”:”XAUUSD”,”command”:"short tradesymbol=XAUUSD lot=0.01”,”time”:1701248700} 

Such alert will not be parsed by TradingConnector, because keyword like short will not be found. There is only …mind”:”short - which will not be recognised. But if you process your alerts through Search & Replace Alerts Modifier, specifying to replace “ symbol with plain space, above alert would become this:

{ id :1701248700, symbol : XAUUSD , command : short tradesymbol=XAUUSD lot=0.01 , time :1701248700} 

Nicely separated short keyword will be recognised and alert will get executed in MetaTrader. Irrelevant words (time, id, symbol, command) or strings (:1701248700, XAUUSD) will be ignored doing no harm.