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  • #261
  • Sep 4, 2007 8:21am Sep 4, 2007 8:21am
News.csv?

Also, not sure what you mean by setting your trading desk to one time and your local time to another....(?)

Are you using an old copy?

-Derk


Quoting gifog
Perhaps I missed something on the thread, but I just noticed that the news.csv file contains the wrong info if the time adjustment pushes the time beyond midnight.
Here an example:
Take AUD Services PMI for 4 Sep. It is scheduled for 19h30 EST (or FF-time). If I set my trading desk to GMT (EST+4), and my local time to GMT+2 (EST+6), then the news.csv contains the right time on the left side, the wrong day on the right amongst the text (Tue instead of Wed), and the wrong date on the left side (3 Sep instead of 5 Sep).
2007.09.03 23:30;1;146;1;ALL;111100000;23:30 AUD L "Services PMI" 1266;[Tue 1:30am] Act: F'cast: Prev: 56.0

Or am I going nuts?
  • #262
  • Sep 4, 2007 3:52pm Sep 4, 2007 3:52pm
Quoting optimu
Hi.
I have found the bug from the calendar.
Try this version.
Best regards,
Optimu
Great work...Thanks
  • #263
  • Sep 5, 2007 2:29pm Sep 5, 2007 2:29pm
Quoting DerkWehler
News.csv?

Also, not sure what you mean by setting your trading desk to one time and your local time to another....(?)

Are you using an old copy?
Sorry, I think I hit the wrong thread. I am looking for help on ff.cal/plot_news. Please ignore.
  • #264
  • Sep 5, 2007 9:03pm Sep 5, 2007 9:03pm
I'm using the optimu version and was working intially but now MT4 just hangs, anyone has a working version please

Cheers.
  • #265
  • Sep 10, 2007 7:42am Sep 10, 2007 7:42am
Ok i get it i need to say please twice...ok here it is please please anyone has a current working version lol

Cheers.
  • #266
  • Sep 11, 2007 4:13am Sep 11, 2007 4:13am
Quoting optimu
Hi.
I have found the bug from the calendar.
Try this version.
Best regards,
Optimu
Thanks optimu
Good job!
  • #267
  • Sep 12, 2007 3:24am Sep 12, 2007 3:24am
Quoting claypot
I'm using the optimu version and was working intially but now MT4 just hangs, anyone has a working version please

Cheers.
PLEASE SEE POST #1
  • #268
  • Sep 14, 2007 11:12pm Sep 14, 2007 11:12pm
Hello DerkWehler! thank you for this great gadget! I've been using it since the last NFP report which got me completely by surprise. with this indicator of yours I can at last say I won't be surprised by the news again. http://www.forexfactory.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

I trade with many charts open. I've noticed that if I put your indicator on everyone of them, they take a lot of system resources. I wonder whether or not it's possible to turn this into a standalone application, one that has a always in front feature to keep it sight, and a timezone feature for traders to adjust the news release time to their own location.

thanks again for your work. it's such an inspiration.
  • #269
  • Sep 15, 2007 7:30am Sep 15, 2007 7:30am
Very interesting thought. I have far too much on my plate now to work on such an application, but perhaps someone else will be interested in converting it to a stand-alone app. It's really not a bad idea, since it would relieve MT4 from using so many resources. And might also make it more stable:

A friend told me recently that the DLL we use (WinInet32) to get the web page might have memory leaks, so that may be one of the reasons we have such varied behaviour from this indicator.

-Derk




Quoting bluefox
Hello DerkWehler! thank you for this great gadget! I've been using it since the last NFP report which got me completely by surprise. with this indicator of yours I can at last say I won't be surprised by the news again. http://www.forexfactory.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

I trade with many charts open. I've noticed that if I put your indicator on everyone of them, they take a lot of system resources. I wonder whether or not it's possible to turn this into a standalone application, one that has a always in front feature to keep it sight, and a timezone feature for traders to adjust the news release time to their own location.

thanks again for your work. it's such an inspiration.
  • #270
  • Sep 28, 2007 1:27am Sep 28, 2007 1:27am
Hi.
ForexFactory has changed the date format. I have updated the FFCal indicator. This update fixes the problem of very big numbers at time since a news and time to a news.

Best regards,
Optimu
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 FFCal.mq4   47 KB | 536 downloads
  • #271
  • Sep 30, 2007 10:12pm Sep 30, 2007 10:12pm
Hey Mate , thanks for the updated version , was starting to wonder what I was going to do about the big numbers thing.

Overwrote the last version with yours ,but still getting big numbers problem.

Cleared out the script, Recompiled, restarted MT, still no go.

Got any thoughts on what im doing wrong??

Regards Marty.
  • #272
  • Oct 1, 2007 2:33am Oct 1, 2007 2:33am
Hi.
Try to delete the FFCal.ex4 file.
Optimu
  • #273
  • Oct 1, 2007 9:34am Oct 1, 2007 9:34am
I can confirm that this indicator still does not work properly - I have deleted the exe file, re-compiled etc.

This indicator is both one of the most useful and one of the most fustrating to work with imo - works for a month or two then either FF fcuks with the calander format in some way or Metaquotes changes something causing FFcal to crash Metatrader!

Fustrating...

PS - Almost forgot, this error messge keeps appearing, maybe this has something to do with it?

FFCal: cannot delete file C:\Program Files\WHC Trader 4\experts\files\10-1-2007-GBPJPY15-FFCal.xml
  • #274
  • Oct 1, 2007 8:12pm Oct 1, 2007 8:12pm
Quoting optimu
Hi.
Try to delete the FFCal.ex4 file.
Optimu
Hey mate, still no go, deleted Original fixed version, and reinstalled newest fixed version.

So unless im doing something wrong ,might be back to the drawing board on the date format thingy.

Im not up on the programming ,that much but not wanting to be a "non-programming forum I want guy", Please Let me know what I can do to help ,if I can at all.

Regards Marty.
  • #275
  • Oct 2, 2007 3:19am Oct 2, 2007 3:19am
I have found a bug in the modifications I have made. Here it is fixed.
Optimu.
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 FFCal.mq4   47 KB | 590 downloads
  • #276
  • Oct 2, 2007 7:11am Oct 2, 2007 7:11am
Quoting optimu
I have found a bug in the modifications I have made. Here it is fixed.
Optimu.
Optimu, I am so sorry to always be finding problems for you but not being able to fix them.

I just installed your newest version, and thought you little ripper !

Untill the alert window poped up and kept popping up with about 20 messages all saying one thing "5" , I think its a bug ,as I took it back off the chart and it stopped , Put FFCal back on and they started again.

At first I thought it was because I had an alert set to fire off a news alert in FFCal 10 mins before news.

But then after reattaching it to the chart without the alert enabled, it still continued.

Bummer , sorry to keep breaking it on you.

Marty.
  • #277
  • Edited 10:11am Oct 2, 2007 8:26am | Edited 10:11am
The Alert problem seems to be a couple of 'Alerts' that were used for debugging - removed in the indicator attached.

There still appears to be a problem displaying News though - the second entry is blank.....

PS - My bad - image removed...
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 FFCal.mq4   47 KB | 457 downloads
  • #278
  • Oct 2, 2007 8:51am Oct 2, 2007 8:51am
Quoting omelette
The Alert problem seems to be a couple of 'Alerts' that were used for debugging - removed in the indicator attached.

There still appears to be a problem displaying News though - the second entry is blank.....
is this version show correctly on IBFX MT,
since when i attach the FFCal, it show 10 hours 10 mins until 10 hrs 9 mins until USD : ADP nonfarm Employment

is it correct?
  • #279
  • Oct 2, 2007 10:00am Oct 2, 2007 10:00am
Quoting omelette
The Alert problem seems to be a couple of 'Alerts' that were used for debugging - removed in the indicator attached.

There still appears to be a problem displaying News though - the second entry is blank.....
Omelette, could it be that theres not any more news for GBP/JPY for this week that would be med/high impact.

I dont think theres any more with the acception to the GB interest rate.

Marty
  • #280
  • Edited 9:10pm Oct 2, 2007 10:13am | Edited 9:10pm
Quoting optimu
Hi.
ForexFactory has changed the date format. I have updated the FFCal indicator. This update fixes the problem of very big numbers at time since a news and time to a news.

Best regards,
Optimu
Edited:

Yes, the date format has changed, see post below.
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