Yet another news reader...

wow excellent work master!! some i see forexfactory site not works/load at high impact news time ,i hope it will not do the same .thanks

Thanks Mladen and
Regads

Is there someone who can tell me where the actual is, if not can someone tell me what is the use of it please.

If I understand correctly, the obvious use would be to warn you of upcoming news, plotted on your MT4 chart, so that you don't have to also refer to the FF calendar.

All of the news indicators that I've seen get their information from this source, perhaps because it's more convenient programatically. However, as can be seen, this XML file is limited to only the 'previous' and 'forecast' values for the current week. I also wanted to see 'actual' and 'revised from' values for past news announcements, plotted under the relevant candles so that I could see the effect that they had on price. Hence I wrote my own news indicator, including a downloader which obtains its news data directly from the Forex Factory calendar HTML. More info here and here.

Data comes from FF

With alerts and on chart displays, in the form it is now, it can help you if you are trading (or not trading) the news (any impact of news), but that should have been obvious I guess. There are no hidden way of using any news indicator (unless one wants to tie it to experts but that is a completely different thing and usage from what this indicator does)
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As of live data : FF data source that is normally available for normal minimal hustle API access does not contain live results (this data : http://www.forexfactory.com//ffcal_week_this.xml ) All the other would mean doing parsing and parsing and parsing of some data that mostly has nothing in common with the news in order to find current live results which would, on the other hand, slow down what the indicator was intended for in the first place : alerts and to know what is ahead of us - not what is behind of us, and that would slow down the terminal in the time when it is critical : in the time of news - which would be quite the opposite of the intended

PS: you might have noticed that I did not mention anything about comparing actual and forecasted data of the news. Frankly, for quite some time, I think that news are used only as a liquidity provider intended to lure small fish that hurdles on news believing that the "quality" of news has something in common with the direction of the change, which could not be further from the truth. Hence, I think that the fact alone that we know WHEN is the news is enough. The rest is not up to the results of the news, but up to something completely else (at least that is my opinion of the news and the "actual" news)

Mladen and Hanover,
Now I understand why you did it without "actual" data. Thank you for both of you. Have a blessed new year. JP

Hi all, just wondering regarding this indicator, does it display only future events? Will it display historical events?
cheers
T

[quote=mladen;10373243]First some words of explanation

Hi mladen

Perhaps you can check the display?

Thanks

[quote=mladen;10373243]First some words of explanation ... __________________________ There are already quite a few very good news readers. And they can be used as any other good indicator/ea can. Yet a lot has changed in the last years for mt4 and it is giving us the opportunity to make some things in a different way, so I decided............
The best news indicator I ever had.
Thank you mladen.

Mladen, thanks very much for developing and sharing this utility, I am very happy with it.

Can someone explain the time on this news indie. What time does it represent? The pic says Aussie news release at 19:00 which today is at 7pm est. Where is it 19:00? It's not Aussie, not GMT and not EST, can't figure it out. Thanks for any comments.

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anyone else's reader stopped working?

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Yes, I have been experiencing the same problem since yesterday. The reason is that the forexfactory news events xml file is not available at its original location at https://www.forexfactory.com/ff_calendar_thisweek.xml

If you visit that link you will see that it brings up a blank page. I wrote FF about this but I got no response from the FF moderators so I don't know what is going on. Once the xml file becomes available again or if Mladen finds another url where the xml file is available and updates the program with the new url then it will start working again. Let's hope there is a solution soon because this Newsreader is very convenient and useful.

This url looks to be working

https://cdn-nfs.faireconomy.media/ff...r_thisweek.xml

Thanks knaimad. Let's hope that Mladen see this and updates the News Reader program to use this url instead.

This is the best and most practical news reader I've used so far.

Let's hope that @mladen sees this and updates the indi with the new url (or even better, adds an input with the url so that if it changes in the future we could be able to change it in the parameters)

The url works but the content is empty. Does anyone know of another news reader we can use?

Due to the changes how FF stores news, the news readers that rely on FF as news source stopped working.
Here is the updated version

Thanks again for the update.