[scooby-doo]

Originally Posted by SteveHopwood

Sounds like a plan to me.

I did use to be a cobol programmer many many many years ago.

[SteveHopwood]

One for the coders here.

MinsUntilNews = 90
MinsAfterNews = 60

The code to calculate the robot's sleep time for 150 minutes is:
int SleepTime = ((MinsUntilNews + MinsAfterNews) * 60) * 1000;

Looks ok?

[scooby-doo]

Steve,

Have you seen this: http://www.eainstall.com/ ?

[scooby-doo]

Originally Posted by SteveHopwood

One for the coders here.

MinsUntilNews = 90
MinsAfterNews = 60

The code to calculate the robot's sleep time for 150 minutes is:
int SleepTime = ((MinsUntilNews + MinsAfterNews) * 60) * 1000;

Looks ok?

Dont you just do this ?

int Mins.Before.News = 90;
int Mins.After.News = 60;

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert NewsHandling function |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
bool NewsHandling()
{

bool NewsTime = false;
int minutesSincePrevEvent =
iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCal", true, true, false, true, true, 1, 0);
int minutesUntilNextEvent =
iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCal", true, true, false, true, true, 1, 1);
if((minutesUntilNextEvent <= Mins.Before.News) ||
(minutesSincePrevEvent <= Mins.After.News))
{
NewsTime = true;
}
return(NewsTime);
}

[SteveHopwood]

Originally Posted by scooby-doo

I did use to be a cobol programmer many many many years ago.

Hehe. Me too - it was the first language I learned that compiled into machine code. At the time, compared with the BBC Basic I had been using the speed of execution was breathtaking.

[SteveHopwood]

Originally Posted by scooby-doo

Steve,

Have you seen this: http://www.eainstall.com/ ?

No, I hadn't. Thanks.

[SteveHopwood]

Originally Posted by scooby-doo

Dont you just do this ?

int...

<Huffy sniff> Mine would work too.

This is better though; consider it adopted.

[scooby-doo]

Originally Posted by SteveHopwood

<Huffy sniff> Mine would work too.

This is better though; consider it adopted.

[smjones]

As a help, (I hope) I modified an old SCRIPT ( again, THIS IS A SCRIPT) to look at your system time and then tell you what your GMT SHIFT is.

Steve, I think this would answer your question better than the file you sent me to make into a function. In the mean time anyone can just put this script on their chart and get an instant answer about the shift hours.

[SteveHopwood]

Cheers Scott. I have put a link to your post in post 1, so it will not get lost.

[scooby-doo]

Blimey 25,000 views, I hope Warren Buffet is not one of them, he probably does have the equity to take on the BOJ.

[smjones]

Originally Posted by SteveHopwood

Cheers Scott. I have put a link to your post in post 1, so it will not get lost.

If you want to incorporate it as a function, just put the import info at the top of the script above your #property...
and then you could just change the start () into a void LocalGMT() function and declare a couple of variables to hold what is the the string variable com.

However, I personally feel, if a person cannot figure out what their shift is with this bit of help, they should not use this EA, and maybe need to seriously reconsider their trading level and education. I mean this is not Rocket Science.

I don't mean to offend, just pointing out the obvious.

[scooby-doo]

Originally Posted by SteveHopwood

Anybody know where we download the latest version of FFCal? We all have a version, I am sure, but don't know whether it is the latest.

Added the news and public hols filter - haven't posted it in post 1 yet, but here it is if people want to play with the settings to test them out.

Don't use this version of the robot on a trading account; it has a call to start() to force it to display information that might have unpredictable effects.

I understand that this is the latest one.

[dryclean]

I take it the single pair robot has been shelved (for obvious reasons)

All sould re-read post 1.

[SteveHopwood]

Originally Posted by dryclean

I take it the single pair robot has been shelved (for obvious reasons)

All sould re-read post 1.

Yes, it has.