The SMS Library is a DLL which developers can use to add SMS alerts to any EA or indicator. (This library forms the basis of our
TradeTalk EA for traders, and the SMS notifications in our
auto-restart tool.)
The SMS transmission requires an account with
Nexmo or
Clickatell.
All SMS can be sent asynchronously - i.e. without blocking the execution of an EA/indicator. Nevertheless, delivery to recipients typically takes less than 5 seconds. This is not only substantially faster than using an email-to-SMS gateway, but is also more reliable, more flexible, and easier to configure.
The library caters for multiple SMS recipients, and automatically splits long messages over multiple texts (i.e. messages exceeding 160 characters).Signal services, with different subscriber lists for different kinds of signal