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Issuing email notifications from within Quantopian

hi all

I'd like to have my algorithm send me a note every time it makes a trade (or otherwise issue regularly scheduled portfolio updates etc). What's the best way to do this? I know IB triggers trade confirmations on a daily basis, too; but I'm looking for some additional flexibility.

thanks!

mm

3 responses

Hi Mikko, currently you can't generate automatic emails or SMS alerts from your algorithm. Though it has been requested by others in the past! I'd like to see it, but it's not being worked on at the moment. In the meantime, you can log information in your algo (ie when a trade occurs or a signal is reached): https://www.quantopian.com/help#ide-logging

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hello Alisa, thanks for helping. It's a shame there is no email support yet but maybe we'll get it some day :-) The logging facility your link talks about is invaluable and I naturally use it all the time

mm

Any news on this feature? I am interested in notifications about log.error or log.critical events in my algo (trade notifications should be doable via IB).