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  • #281
  • Oct 2, 2007 10:15am Oct 2, 2007 10:15am
Quoting martaroony
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
Hehe, yeah, just realised it and edited the post b4 I saw your post

There does seem to be a problem though - stick it on USD and 'ADP Non Farm Employment Change' is about 9 hours - should be 21 (shouldn't it?)
  • #282
  • Oct 2, 2007 10:40am Oct 2, 2007 10:40am
Quoting omelette
Hehe, yeah, just realised it and edited the post b4 I saw your post

There does seem to be a problem though - stick it on USD and 'ADP Non Farm Employment Change' is about 9 hours - should be 21 (shouldn't it?)
ya, the amended version still show 8 hours something .....
  • #283
  • Oct 2, 2007 4:08pm Oct 2, 2007 4:08pm
Yes.
Sorry about the alerts. I needed those for debugging and forgot to remove them.

Yes. FF has changed the Date format in the XML file. I have modified the function that calculated the date and time.

Optimu

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.....

PS - My bad - image removed...
  • #284
  • Edited 8:47pm Oct 2, 2007 7:52pm | Edited 8:47pm
Quoting optimu
Yes.
Sorry about the alerts. I needed those for debugging and forgot to remove them.

Yes. FF has changed the Date format in the XML file. I have modified the function that calculated the date and time.

Optimu
I had agreements with FFCal that they would not change it. That was the whole point. It must have been an accident.

Does anyone have Merlin's address laying about? I seem to have lost it.
  • #285
  • Oct 2, 2007 9:01pm Oct 2, 2007 9:01pm
Hi Derk...

so it seems u guys allready know about the new error?

My FFcal in 3 different mt4s tells me i have more than 4000days until the next news ROFL

I hopefully wait for the fix !

Thx a lot for ur time which u invest here Derk !

Ur the man!
  • #286
  • Oct 3, 2007 6:33am Oct 3, 2007 6:33am
Don't shoot the messenger but neither the correct up-coming event(s) nor the 'time-till-event' are being displayed properly.

atm, on a EURUSD chart, neither ADP or ISM 'High Impact' events are being displayed, whereas 'Crude Oil Inventories' is, and with the wrong 'time-till-event'........

This is really great indicator but is pretty much useless with its present problems
  • #287
  • Oct 3, 2007 6:53am Oct 3, 2007 6:53am
Quoting omelette
Don't shoot the messenger but neither the correct up-coming event(s) nor the 'time-till-event' are being displayed properly.

atm, on a EURUSD chart, neither ADP or ISM 'High Impact' events are being displayed, whereas 'Crude Oil Inventories' is, and with the wrong 'time-till-event'........

This is really great indicator but is pretty much useless with its present problems
Im sorry omelette, im ganna need to shoot something soon.

What you guys say to us getting the announcments moved to suit the FFCal. That might be eaiser.
  • #288
  • Edited 11:56pm Oct 3, 2007 3:08pm | Edited 11:56pm
Hey there guys:

Sorry I have not been attentive to this thread; I have too many other things going on. I appreciate that Optimu quickly created a solution for the date-change issue, but my solution was a bit different: Contact Merlin and ask him to change it back!

I reminded him we agreed the XML would not change; that was the whole point: to make sure the code did not have to frequently change.
His reply:

Derk, sorry about that man, we recently globalized a new time format. I will have the team change it back to how it was. Hopefully will be done today

SO... thus far I see it has not been changed back, but I will take care of it, which means we can go back to the old version (in post #1). If Merlin tells me we need to keep it this way, I will re-implement Optimu's code.


Best,
-Derk

PS: I am looking into creating a different stand-alone version of this (NOT metatrader 4). If I find a good way to do it, I'll let you all know. Don't expect anything soon though; it's at least a month or two out.

UPDATE:
Merlin changed the date back, but I realise now that they also changed the time, which is why optimu's didn't work (I think). I have asked them to change that back too. Should be done shortly....
  • #289
  • Oct 3, 2007 4:44pm Oct 3, 2007 4:44pm
Quoting DerkWehler
Hey there guys:
PS: I am looking into creating a different stand-alone version of this (NOT metatrader 4). If I find a good way to do it, I'll let you all know. Don't expect anything soon though; it's at least a month or two out.




WOOOHOO!! Don`t forget to create a Donation Link in it !!!! It will be used very often !!!
  • #290
  • Oct 3, 2007 11:54pm Oct 3, 2007 11:54pm
Quoting AidanPryde

WOOOHOO!! Don`t forget to create a Donation Link in it !!!! It will be used very often !!!
Yes, well, donations may or may not be a factor in whether I do such a "stand alone" version. If it is, I'll do some kind of a poll to gauge interest.

But if you want to send money, supermodels, a house, a ferrari, just let me know!
  • #291
  • Oct 4, 2007 3:57am Oct 4, 2007 3:57am
Hi,

They have changed the date, but it is not like the old one. On the old one the year was 07 .. now it is 2007. So the file from post 1 still is not working. I have modified it to work, but probably this will be a temporary fix, until they change it back again.
Best regards,
Optimu

Quoting DerkWehler
Hey there guys:

Sorry I have not been attentive to this thread; I have too many other things going on. I appreciate that Optimu quickly created a solution for the date-change issue, but my solution was a bit different: Contact Merlin and ask him to change it back!

I reminded him we agreed the XML would not change; that was the whole point: to make sure the code did not have to frequently change.
His reply:

Derk, sorry about that man, we recently globalized a new time format. I will have the team change it back to how it was. Hopefully will be done today

SO... thus far I see it has not been changed back, but I will take care of it, which means we can go back to the old version (in post #1). If Merlin tells me we need to keep it this way, I will re-implement Optimu's code.


Best,
-Derk

PS: I am looking into creating a different stand-alone version of this (NOT metatrader 4). If I find a good way to do it, I'll let you all know. Don't expect anything soon though; it's at least a month or two out.

UPDATE:
Merlin changed the date back, but I realise now that they also changed the time, which is why optimu's didn't work (I think). I have asked them to change that back too. Should be done shortly....
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  • #292
  • Oct 4, 2007 4:12am Oct 4, 2007 4:12am
Hello all:

I realised after optimu's post (thanks again!) that he's right. I thought the time format changed, but it did not; the year format is 4 digits instead of two.

I have written Merlin to tell him my error and ask that he just leave it alone, because it is working now.

One feature has been added, defaulted to false:

ReportAllForUSD

If set to true, it will include any USD annoucement regardless of what chart it is on.

To download this newest version 14, please go to post #1.

Happy trading!
-Derk
  • #293
  • Oct 4, 2007 6:33am Oct 4, 2007 6:33am
Excellent, thank you!
  • #294
  • Oct 4, 2007 1:25pm Oct 4, 2007 1:25pm
Thank you for the update DerkWehler..
  • #295
  • Oct 5, 2007 4:31am Oct 5, 2007 4:31am
Quoting DerkWehler
One feature has been added, defaulted to false:

ReportAllForUSD
The new 'ReportAllForUSD' is a great idea, I have often thought something like that would be useful.

Thanks!
  • #296
  • Dec 9, 2007 10:35pm Dec 9, 2007 10:35pm
Quoting DerkWehler
Yes, it is optional. I'm not completely convinved how much I like it as well. It may disappear later, depending on folk's response.

But either way, you can just turn it off.
Hello DerkWehler,
thanks for all your effort so far on this indicator.I dont know if i have the wrong setting as i keeping getting error on my platform.like GetNewsFF error-web page download not complete.can you be of help in this regard.thanks
  • #297
  • Dec 10, 2007 12:19pm Dec 10, 2007 12:19pm
Quoting ayour2a
Hello DerkWehler,
thanks for all your effort so far on this indicator.I dont know if i have the wrong setting as i keeping getting error on my platform.like GetNewsFF error-web page download not complete.can you be of help in this regard.thanks
Are you using the latest version? If you edit the file, you should see a line like this near the top, in the comment block:

// $Revision:: 14 $

I can tell you are not using version 14 because the text error you quoted has been changed. Please get a new version from Post #1 and try it again.

Best,
-Derk
  • #298
  • Dec 10, 2007 1:37pm Dec 10, 2007 1:37pm
Quoting DerkWehler
Are you using the latest version? If you edit the file, you should see a line like this near the top, in the comment block:

// $Revision:: 14 $

I can tell you are not using version 14 because the text error you quoted has been changed. Please get a new version from Post #1 and try it again.

Best,
-Derk

THANKS.I GOT IT
  • #299
  • Dec 12, 2007 5:19pm Dec 12, 2007 5:19pm
Quoting DerkWehler
Good day all:

With the generous cooperation of the folks at ForexFactory, I have created an indicator which will tell you how many minutes till the next relevant news event (or two). Normally I peruse the Yahoo MetaTrader_Experts_and_Indicators group, where this has already been posted. But it's only proper that it be posted here as well.

In order to use it, you need to turn on DLL Imports in your Metatrader platform options, because it calls a DLL to get your timezone, as well as another to read the ForexFactory web page to get news information. (Be aware it will write out .XML files to your expert/files folder).

The indicator has settings so you can filter out (or in) news announcements of High, Medium, or Low impact, as well as those with the word "Speaks" in them. You can have it display the minutes till (and info about) the next announcement, or the next two. And you can adjust the colours of the text.

You just apply it to your chart, set your desired options, and it will give you announcement info relating to either currency in the pair on the chart.

The indicator can also be called from within an EA using the iCustom call. By accessing buffer 1, index 0, you can get the minutes until the most recent past event (so minutes will be negative or zero), or by using buffer 1, index 1, minutes until the next news event (positive or zero). If you want to use this feature and need more info, I can post a more detailed sample.

Enjoy,
-Derk


EDIT: The latest version of FFCal is here now in Post #1. I will try to keep it that way, so you can always have the latest. NOTE: FFCal doesn't have a version number in the name anymore. I keep it on a revision control system. If you want to know what "version" it is, open (edit) the file and look at line 7. The text you'll see will look like this:

$Revision:: 14

So yes, at the time of this edit, it is revision (version) 14.

-Derk
Sir, thanks for the indicator FFCal.
I would love to know if this indicator could show the Actual Forcast and also how many pips move that it will go within the hour.
Best regards
Arnold
  • #300
  • Dec 13, 2007 3:27am Dec 13, 2007 3:27am
Heavens! That would be useful; I'll get right on it!


Quoting Arnoldchidi
Sir, thanks for the indicator FFCal.
I would love to know if this indicator could show the Actual Forcast and also how many pips move that it will go within the hour.
Best regards
Arnold
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