Alligator Alert indicator is a free MT4/MT5 indicator that you can download here and use in your MetaTrader to receive notifications via email, mobile app, and in the platform when Alligator lines align properly.
Bill Williams created several technical indicators that together are widely used as a foundation for trading strategies. One of these indicators is Alligator.
Bill Williams created this indicator by combining the following three moving averages:
MetaTrader platform includes Bill Williams' Alligator among its standard indicators, however, it has no notification feature.
In many cases, traders want to get notifications when all three moving averages are one on top of the other. This situation usually indicates that there could be a trading opportunity.
You can use such alerts in both trend following and trend reversal strategies.
This missing MetaTrader feature appears in our Alligator Alert indicator presented below.
This indicator allows you to receive alerts when Alligator starts opening its mouth, that is, when the moving averages are all aligned. You can receive notifications via:
Another useful feature of this Alligator Alert indicator is that it can draw arrows for buy and sell signals when the three moving averages cross.
If you are interested in alert indicators, you can use the source code of the present Alligator Alert Indicator for your further development. Additionally, you can inspect the code of our Alert Indicator Template, which was used as a foundation for this indicator.
You can download the indicator for free using the link below and install it by following the provided instructions.
The installation is very easy to perform. The same is true for using this tool.
Once you run the indicator you can set the parameters. You can select Alligator moving average settings to use and how to receive notifications.
➥ Download MQLTA MT4 Alligator With Alert
To install MT4 Alligator Alert Indicator, please follow the instructions below:
For more detailed instructions on how to perform the installation please visit this article.
Alligator Alert Indicator for MetaTrader 5 is a plugin that allows you to set up alerts for Alligator moving averages coming one top of the other on your MT5 chart. It has exactly the same features as the version of the indicator for MT4.
You can download the indicator for free using the link below and install it by following the provided instructions.
➥ Download MQLTA MT5 Alligator With Alert
To install the MT5 Alligator Alert Indicator please follow the instructions below:
For detailed instructions on how to setup the alerts in MetaTrader please refer to our guide on notifications in MT4/MT5..
You can open a trading account with any of the MT4 Forex brokers to freely use the presented here indicator for MetaTrader 4. If you want to use an MT5 version of the indicator presented here, you would need to open an account with a broker that offers MetaTrader 5.