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  • #301
  • Dec 13, 2007 5:27pm Dec 13, 2007 5:27pm
Quoting DerkWehler
Heavens! That would be useful; I'll get right on it!
Wow people cant say you don't aim to please.
  • #302
  • Dec 16, 2007 11:20pm Dec 16, 2007 11:20pm
Thanks to all esp. Derk for making and sharing this great indicator. I apply this indicator on G/J & A/U charts and find that it display non matching time variance for the news event with almost identical time released. The JPY is correct but not for the GBP and AUD. Can anyone pls advise me what could be the possible reason that cause this minor tech issue here?
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  • #303
  • Dec 18, 2007 10:02am Dec 18, 2007 10:02am
Quoting TurtleOnion
Thanks to all esp. Derk for making and sharing this great indicator. I apply this indicator on G/J & A/U charts and find that it display non matching time variance for the news event with almost identical time released. The JPY is correct but not for the GBP and AUD. Can anyone pls advise me what could be the possible reason that cause this minor tech issue here?
Hello TurtleOnion:

You said "non matching time variance"; I presume you simply mean that the times are not matching..(?) I have applied this to GBPJPY and AUDUSD as in your post, and am seeing correct times, with the exception (and keep in mind that this is just what I am seeing at the time of posting) of the BOE report:

2:35am GBP http://www.forexfactory.com/images/m...mpact_high.gif BOE Governor King Speaks

According to what my FFCal says, that would have occurred at 2:45, not 2:35. Everything else is correct (at the moment). So I looked at the source, and indeed, the page that FFCal reads says that it was at 2:45.

Occasionally (it does not happen much, from what I have been told), the time of a news event changes, and ForexFactory does not [immediately] update the XML page that FFCal uses to report the news. In this case, that was 5 hours ago, and should have been updated....

Perhaps Merlin can speak to this. It is not a problem with the FFCal indicator...

On the other hand, if you were speaking to a different problem, and I have misunderstood, please clarify....

Thank you and happy trading,
-Derk
  • #304
  • Dec 20, 2007 6:48am Dec 20, 2007 6:48am
Quoting DerkWehler

You said "non matching time variance"; I presume you simply mean that the times are not matching..(?)

Perhaps Merlin can speak to this. It is not a problem with the FFCal indicator...

On the other hand, if you were speaking to a different problem, and I have misunderstood, please clarify....

Thank you and happy trading,
-Derk
Yeap...you understood me correctly. It was the time differences for the 3 events which released almost at the same time (time gap vary from 10 to 40 minutes). But display different time counting for the "since" and "until" of the events with time gap about 10 hours.

Maybe this is kind of occasional case that happen when I newly download and apply the indicator on my charts...If I come across this "bug" again... i will post it here... But would it be my computer time is GMT+8, MT is GMT+1 and the indicator is using GMT, causing complications?

But so far it works well and good...

Btw, is there any way I can modify the GMT time to GMT+1 for the indicator to match with my MT? I have been playing around with MT language but still have not got a good hand on it yet (I'm an alien when comes to understand programming language but have not given up on trying yet...still learning minor modifications on existing simple indicator and EA and testing...and wonder when I will create one and share it in the forum...)

Thanks Derk.

Have a great holiday and Happy New Year 2008! For those who celebrate Christmas, wishing you a Merry Christmas!

  • #305
  • Dec 20, 2007 10:37pm Dec 20, 2007 10:37pm
Attached AUDUSD chart may bring out the minor tech issue more clearer... Can it be this occurs only for news with low impact or other earlier mentioned possible causes?
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  • #306
  • Dec 21, 2007 3:06am Dec 21, 2007 3:06am
FFCal calls a windows DLL to get the local timezone information it uses to be able to tell you how many minutes until news, your-time. I am not sure what you mean by "modify the GMT time to GMT+1 for the indicator to match with my MT". Your MT server is at GMT+1 and you are at GMT+8, so what does it have to do with GMT?

The best thing for you to do when you see a discrepancy, is to check the web page where FFCal gets its info:

http://www.forexfactory.com/ff_calendar_thisweek.xml

Find the event in question and see if they time that is posted is correct (matching the Calendar page). When I looked, it was not. If you also find that this data page is wrong (relative to their Calendar), then I will need to write to Merlin and ask that he check into why there are so many mistakes lately.

-Derk



Quoting TurtleOnion
Yeap...you understood me correctly. It was the time differences for the 3 events which released almost at the same time (time gap vary from 10 to 40 minutes). But display different time counting for the "since" and "until" of the events with time gap about 10 hours.

Maybe this is kind of occasional case that happen when I newly download and apply the indicator on my charts...If I come across this "bug" again... i will post it here... But would it be my computer time is GMT+8, MT is GMT+1 and the indicator is using GMT, causing complications?

But so far it works well and good...

Btw, is there any way I can modify the GMT time to GMT+1 for the indicator to match with my MT? I have been playing around with MT language but still have not got a good hand on it yet (I'm an alien when comes to understand programming language but have not given up on trying yet...still learning minor modifications on existing simple indicator and EA and testing...and wonder when I will create one and share it in the forum...)

Thanks Derk.

Have a great holiday and Happy New Year 2008! For those who celebrate Christmas, wishing you a Merry Christmas!

  • #307
  • Dec 21, 2007 4:41am Dec 21, 2007 4:41am
Quoting DerkWehler
FFCal calls a windows DLL to get the local timezone information it uses to be able to tell you how many minutes until news, your-time. I am not sure what you mean by "modify the GMT time to GMT+1 for the indicator to match with my MT". Your MT server is at GMT+1 and you are at GMT+8, so what does it have to do with GMT?

The best thing for you to do when you see a discrepancy, is to check the web page where FFCal gets its info:

http://www.forexfactory.com/ff_calendar_thisweek.xml

Find the event in question and see if they time that is posted is correct (matching the Calendar page). When I looked, it was not. If you also find that this data page is wrong (relative to their Calendar), then I will need to write to Merlin and ask that he check into why there are so many mistakes lately.

-Derk
I have checked FF Calendar page against the given site and find no discrepancy appeared. So, to identify the causes that one event appear correct but another not, what is the next diagnosis I should perform?

What I was trying to ask about "to modify GMT time..." is the indicator appear one hour late as compare to my MT trading platform. It would be nice if I can synchronize the time between them. I believe Alpari MT platform is default setting for time and cant be modified or no?
  • #308
  • Dec 21, 2007 8:32am Dec 21, 2007 8:32am
Quoting TurtleOnion
I have checked FF Calendar page against the given site and find no discrepancy appeared. So, to identify the causes that one event appear correct but another not, what is the next diagnosis I should perform?

What I was trying to ask about "to modify GMT time..." is the indicator appear one hour late as compare to my MT trading platform. It would be nice if I can synchronize the time between them. I believe Alpari MT platform is default setting for time and cant be modified or no?
Server time cannot be modified in MT4. If FFCal is one hour off in its reports, then I would guess something is wrong with daylight savings time. Where are you? Does your computer switch to DST and back correctly and at the right date? FFCal just goes off of a DLL which consults your computers settings.



Regarding the diagnostics on the other thing... this is tough. I cannot think of any reason it would do this. Again, where are you located? Maybe if I get some time soon I can watch it on your screen or something...

-Derk
  • #309
  • Dec 21, 2007 10:23am Dec 21, 2007 10:23am
Quoting DerkWehler
Server time cannot be modified in MT4. If FFCal is one hour off in its reports, then I would guess something is wrong with daylight savings time. Where are you? Does your computer switch to DST and back correctly and at the right date? FFCal just goes off of a DLL which consults your computers settings.



Regarding the diagnostics on the other thing... this is tough. I cannot think of any reason it would do this. Again, where are you located? Maybe if I get some time soon I can watch it on your screen or something...

-Derk
Thanks Derk & appreciate your time spent here. I'm from Malaysia. I will try the method suggested i.e. DST in my computer settings etc... and see if after making changes the time will synchronize.

I will see how the indicator will perform after a period of time and whether it happens only on certain currencies during certain times..as it is relatively new to me still.

Have a good holiday and Merry Christmas (if you celebrate Christmas).
  • #310
  • Dec 22, 2007 11:19am Dec 22, 2007 11:19am
yea i have tried it and it work
this is the screenshot

  • #311
  • Dec 22, 2007 11:21am Dec 22, 2007 11:21am
i have tried it and it works
see the screenshot below.



  • #312
  • Dec 22, 2007 11:55am Dec 22, 2007 11:55am
i have tried it and it works
see the screenshot below.


http://www.geocities.com/lakenside/untitled1.jpg
  • #313
  • Dec 25, 2007 9:59pm Dec 25, 2007 9:59pm
Hi,

I wonder what I have doe wrong?
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  • #314
  • Dec 26, 2007 7:42am Dec 26, 2007 7:42am
Hi All,
I read the thread through and thought I had this figured out. I cannot get this indicator to show future news, only past.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

MG
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  • #315
  • Jan 4, 2008 6:23am Jan 4, 2008 6:23am
Hi,

Can somebody let me know if I did somethine wrong.
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  • #316
  • Jan 7, 2008 6:47am Jan 7, 2008 6:47am
The latest date showing in the xml file is 4/1/2008. Anyone know who to approach to request an update for this week?

cheers
  • #317
  • Jan 17, 2008 2:00am Jan 17, 2008 2:00am
Quoting TurtleOnion
Thanks Derk & appreciate your time spent here. I'm from Malaysia. I will try the method suggested i.e. DST in my computer settings etc... and see if after making changes the time will synchronize.

I will see how the indicator will perform after a period of time and whether it happens only on certain currencies during certain times..as it is relatively new to me still.

Have a good holiday and Merry Christmas (if you celebrate Christmas).
Hi Derk, looks like only AUD & JPY news have the "jet lag" error (as attached). Others are in good order.

As for the time setting in the PC, it is automatically synchronize with an internet time server (as attached).

Have a good trading.
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  • #318
  • Jan 18, 2008 3:51am Jan 18, 2008 3:51am
Thanks...
  • #319
  • Feb 13, 2008 1:03am Feb 13, 2008 1:03am
Hi there to all,

thanks Derek for this great indicator! I just installed it and am testing it. Will let you all know of the results.

Well, I know you already discussed to some level but still - having also the results displayed would be great. My thinking of how it would have to be programmed:
1. when news are published FF publishes them to XML (this will not cause any high traffic problems...)
2. in EA, just after the news - EA starts to check xml if the actual news result is already published - if so, then it reloads the xml file and displays the results

For EA to check if news results are already published it could just check the previous and current xml file size and if it different it would load it - this would not cause any big traffic.

And also - just after the news are published people already do a lot of "refreshes" on their internet pages so at FF probably already is a bigger traffic during the beginning of a news...

I just noticed that maybe past vertical lines are not correct... Shifted by one hour... Will check again and let you know if it is working or not.

Otherwise - "THE BEST INDICATOR EVER!"

Jerry
  • #320
  • Feb 13, 2008 3:59am Feb 13, 2008 3:59am
Quoting pircj
Hi there to all,

thanks Derek for this great indicator! I just installed it and am testing it. Will let you all know of the results.

Well, I know you already discussed to some level but still - having also the results displayed would be great. My thinking of how it would have to be programmed:
1. when news are published FF publishes them to XML (this will not cause any high traffic problems...)
2. in EA, just after the news - EA starts to check xml if the actual news result is already published - if so, then it reloads the xml file and displays the results

For EA to check if news results are already published it could just check the previous and current xml file size and if it different it would load it - this would not cause any big traffic.

And also - just after the news are published people already do a lot of "refreshes" on their internet pages so at FF probably already is a bigger traffic during the beginning of a news...

I just noticed that maybe past vertical lines are not correct... Shifted by one hour... Will check again and let you know if it is working or not.

Otherwise - "THE BEST INDICATOR EVER!"

Jerry

Jerry:

Thank you, and I am glad you like it. Unfortunately, I do not have much time these days to work on this. As far as your idea of displaying the results goes, it has been brought up int he past, and the folks at FF have said they were not yet willing to put the required time into updating the XML page. So your plan will not work at present, but they have said maybe someday they will re-visit this.

Best to you,
-Derk
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