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  • #21
  • Mar 6, 2007 7:51am Mar 6, 2007 7:51am
Good point, I have that set for a different reason, that is not a part of this discussion. Good catch.
  • #22
  • Mar 6, 2007 8:25am Mar 6, 2007 8:25am
Quoting Yannis
Well, in that case i would suggest setting these parameters as per the picture below.
I don't think you want to confirm every DLL call, and also having the 'Disable Experts.......' checked, will make the EA reset to its hard coded default settings, loosing any change you may have made to the EA's parameters each time the ea initializes itself (which happens a lot and under various circumstances). This causes more often than not to run EA's with what we think to be the new parameters, but in reality it runs on its default - internally coded - settings.
Just a friendly advice.
than you all.it is working like a charm now
  • #23
  • Mar 6, 2007 9:22am Mar 6, 2007 9:22am
Quoting Why Oh Why
It looks great. I'll use it.
Your work with FF's help now appears on Bag TV. Thank you both - a great indicator. I just need cable to go down a bit to see it better! But it's still useful.
Do not focus on making money; focus on protecting what you have.
  • #24
  • Mar 6, 2007 7:53pm Mar 6, 2007 7:53pm
Two questions about the indicator,

Where is the option to change the timezone? It is mentioned in post #5. Also the indicator seems to list speaking events that have already happened. For example on my chart it shows "407 minutes until USD: Fed Chairman Bernanke Speaks". Checking the FF calendar it shows he spoke today and is not scheduled for tomorrow. It also shows GBP:Consumer confidence index which occurred a couple of hours ago.

Are there any settings that need to be changed?
  • #25
  • Mar 7, 2007 11:27am Mar 7, 2007 11:27am
Quoting amenlo9
i put it on cable 5M chart with all default parameters.nothings come out before news

Yes. And/or go to your platform... under the tools menu select options, then the Expert Advisors tab. Make sure the "Allow DLL imports" box is checked. Make sure the "Allow external experts imports" is checked too, for goo measure.

On mine, the only two boxes on there that are NOT checked are "Ask manual confirmation" and "Confirm DLL function calls".

-Derk
  • #26
  • Mar 16, 2007 8:40am Mar 16, 2007 8:40am
is it possible to display the result inside the chart after the data was published?
  • #27
  • Mar 16, 2007 9:32am Mar 16, 2007 9:32am
Awesome! It is amazing to see how my good old GrabWeb expert has evolved.
  • #28
  • Mar 17, 2007 1:13am Mar 17, 2007 1:13am
I have been looking for something like this Thanks for sharing this it is greatly apprecited.
  • #29
  • Mar 17, 2007 4:25am Mar 17, 2007 4:25am
Quoting pavejon
Two questions about the indicator,

Where is the option to change the timezone? It is mentioned in post #5. Also the indicator seems to list speaking events that have already happened. For example on my chart it shows "407 minutes until USD: Fed Chairman Bernanke Speaks". Checking the FF calendar it shows he spoke today and is not scheduled for tomorrow. It also shows GBP:Consumer confidence index which occurred a couple of hours ago.

Are there any settings that need to be changed?
Please see me next posting for a newer version. Perhaps it will fix your problem.
  • #30
  • Mar 17, 2007 4:26am Mar 17, 2007 4:26am
Quoting amenlo9
is it possible to display the result inside the chart after the data was published?
You will have to harass FF for that. They do not update the file after each event to add the actual numbers. It would be resource-consuming for them to do so I suspect...
  • #31
  • Mar 17, 2007 4:27am Mar 17, 2007 4:27am
Quoting Abhi
Awesome! It is amazing to see how my good old GrabWeb expert has evolved.

Great thanks to Abhi! He started all this. Without his grabweb research, I doubt I would have gotten around to this for some time.
  • #32
  • Mar 17, 2007 4:36am Mar 17, 2007 4:36am
Hello all:

Thank you for your praise; you are all welcome. I do not puruse this forum much; I don't have enough time these days, what with a full time jay-oh-bee.

But I have managed to complete a new FFCal version, FFCal_v04.

It does not have a LOT of changes. Let me try to summarize them though...

1. The comment has become text objects (but they were in v03 too). You can put these text objects in any corner you like, and change colors.

2. A couple minor bug fixes.

3. From Mike Nguyen on the yahoo group, comes an optional feature to display the title of the news even vertically on/nera the candle where it happens. I am not sure if this works 100%.... I must admit on this one, I took Mike's word for it. I guess y'all'et me know if it has bugs.

4. Changes in how to call the indicator from an EA. Well, not so much changes, but I added impact. PLEASE SEE THE TOP COMMENTS IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT FROM AN EA. There is sample code.

5. Indicator now updates (i.e. re-grabs the FF page fro mtheir site) less frequently. It used to do so once per hour, but their servers were getting slammed. Should still work just fine.

Hope it makes your trading/EAs better! Don't forget to send me a copy of your killer EA that this code completed! ;-)
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 FFCal_v04.mq4   40 KB | 3,388 downloads
  • #33
  • Mar 17, 2007 8:19am Mar 17, 2007 8:19am
Quoting DerkWehler
You will have to harass FF for that. They do not update the file after each event to add the actual numbers. It would be resource-consuming for them to do so I suspect...
that's fine if we can't do that.i noticed this indicators will slow down/hang the MT4 when start-up,is it possible to improve this?
  • #34
  • Mar 17, 2007 10:24am Mar 17, 2007 10:24am
Quoting amenlo9
that's fine if we can't do that.i noticed this indicators will slow down/hang the MT4 when start-up,is it possible to improve this?
It outright crashes my MT4. I've never seen that happen before. :-)

Jason
  • #35
  • Mar 17, 2007 11:23am Mar 17, 2007 11:23am
i dont like vertical text,i hope we can select to turn it off.besides,what is the purpose for logging?
  • #36
  • Mar 17, 2007 3:29pm Mar 17, 2007 3:29pm
EVERYONE:

If you are using FFCal, PLEASE UPDATE TO USING VERSION 4.

You can delete all the older ones.

Thanks,
-Derk
  • #37
  • Mar 17, 2007 3:34pm Mar 17, 2007 3:34pm
Quoting DerkWehler
1. The comment has become text objects (but they were in v03 too). You can put these text objects in any corner you like, and change colors.

2. A couple minor bug fixes.

3. From Mike Nguyen on the yahoo group, comes an optional feature to display the title of the news even vertically on/nera the candle where it happens. I am not sure if this works 100%.... I must admit on this one, I took Mike's word for it. I guess y'all'et me know if it has bugs.

4. Changes in how to call the indicator from an EA. Well, not so much changes, but I added impact. PLEASE SEE THE TOP COMMENTS IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT FROM AN EA. There is sample code.

5. Indicator now updates (i.e. re-grabs the FF page fro mtheir site) less frequently. It used to do so once per hour, but their servers were getting slammed. Should still work just fine.
Drat!

I forgot the most important one:

6. No need to set your timezone anymore -it autosets. Indicator calls a standard windows DLL to get your timezone now. You have to have DLLs enabled, but you already had to have that done for the previous versions, so no changes there.

Best,
-Derk
  • #38
  • Mar 21, 2007 12:27pm Mar 21, 2007 12:27pm
I get an error when the indicator compiles (see attached). Am I doing something wrong here?
Attached File(s)
File Type: txt FFCal_v04.txt   4 KB | 1,714 downloads
  • #39
  • Mar 21, 2007 3:04pm Mar 21, 2007 3:04pm
I also get an error when I try to enable DLL imports. Previous version worked fine.
  • #40
  • Edited 8:05pm Mar 21, 2007 5:59pm | Edited 8:05pm
Hi all,

I'm absolutely lovin' this FF Calendar indy, but I notice that the news times reported by it seem to be advanced by 1 hour...

I'm in Eastern Time (GMT -5) right now and my PC clock is set manually (not synchronized to DST through the Microsoft timeserver) to the correct DST time of 6:39pm. Yet, the FFCalc indy says that the news due at 7:50pm is only 19 minutes away when it should read 79 minutes away....

I also noticed that when I go to the main FF Calendar page on the site, the time is one hour ahead of the time on my PC. When I go into the sync-up function on the site, it syncs up correctly, then a minute or two later, the time on the FF site moves ahead 1 hour.... I know they started DST a week ahead of time this year (so I've been told). What's up? Anyone know?

Thanks!
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