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  • #41
  • Mar 21, 2007 10:07pm Mar 21, 2007 10:07pm
Is there any way to get it to include all of the high impact news for the 6 majors. I trade the EUR/USD but it is effected by JPY news in addition to EUR and US announcements.

I tried changing this part
PHP Code
 // Get the currency pair, and split it into the two countries
    string pair = Symbol();
    string cntry1 = StringSubstr(pair, 0, 3);
    string cntry2 = StringSubstr(pair, 3, 3);
    if (DebugLevel > 0)
        Print("cntry1 = ", cntry1, "    cntry2 = ", cntry2);
But every thing that I tried messes the whole thing up.

Also I added this function to my EA...

PHP Code
 // News ON OFF function           
  bool TradeNews(){
     int minutesSincePrevEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 1, 0);
     int impactOfPrevEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 2, 0);
     int minutesUntilNextEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 1, 1);
     int impactOfNextEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 2, 1);
 // (where impact of 1 = Low, 2 = Medium, and 3 = High)       
NewsTime = false;

if (minutesUntilNextEvent <= 30 || minutesSincePrevEvent >=30) {NewsTime = true;}

return (NewsTime);
  
 }
And it turns the EA off 30 min before an event but I cannot get it to stay true after the event. Any suggestions ?
Keep it simple stoopid....
  • #42
  • Mar 22, 2007 12:12am Mar 22, 2007 12:12am
Quoting dominicanosrus
I get an error when the indicator compiles (see attached). Am I doing something wrong here?
Did you try re-downloading and re-compile? It compiles for others fine... your must have been corrupted.
  • #43
  • Mar 22, 2007 12:14am Mar 22, 2007 12:14am
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?
Do you still see that happening? It's predicessor, GEtNewsFF did that for a while, but we fixed it (it had to do with it being unable to make the connection to get the FF page).
  • #44
  • Mar 22, 2007 12:15am Mar 22, 2007 12:15am
Quoting jlowder
It outright crashes my MT4. I've never seen that happen before. :-)

Jason
Still happening? Perhaps there is some problem here when it does not connect or some such. If I can get enough info on reproducing it, perhaps I Can discover a fix.
  • #45
  • Mar 22, 2007 12:16am Mar 22, 2007 12:16am
Quoting amenlo9
i dont like vertical text,i hope we can select to turn it off.besides,what is the purpose for logging?
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.
  • #46
  • Mar 22, 2007 12:17am Mar 22, 2007 12:17am
Quoting pavejon
I also get an error when I try to enable DLL imports. Previous version worked fine.
What error?
  • #47
  • Mar 22, 2007 12:18am Mar 22, 2007 12:18am
Quoting Pipskateer
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!

I had that problem on mine, but then I got it fixed. On my machine, it was related to my time being off because I use Win2K and MS doesn't support it anymore, so they did not make a patch for adjusting DST.

You don't happen to use Win2K do you?
  • #48
  • Mar 22, 2007 12:36am Mar 22, 2007 12:36am
Quoting Kurka Fund
Is there any way to get it to include all of the high impact news for the 6 majors. I trade the EUR/USD but it is effected by JPY news in addition to EUR and US announcements.

I tried changing this part
PHP Code
 // Get the currency pair, and split it into the two countries
    string pair = Symbol();
    string cntry1 = StringSubstr(pair, 0, 3);
    string cntry2 = StringSubstr(pair, 3, 3);
    if (DebugLevel > 0)
        Print("cntry1 = ", cntry1, "    cntry2 = ", cntry2);
But every thing that I tried messes the whole thing up.

Also I added this function to my EA...

PHP Code
 // News ON OFF function           
  bool TradeNews(){
     int minutesSincePrevEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 1, 0);
     int impactOfPrevEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 2, 0);
     int minutesUntilNextEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 1, 1);
     int impactOfNextEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 2, 1);
 // (where impact of 1 = Low, 2 = Medium, and 3 = High)       
NewsTime = false;

if (minutesUntilNextEvent <= 30 || minutesSincePrevEvent >=30) {NewsTime = true;}

return (NewsTime);
  
 }
And it turns the EA off 30 min before an event but I cannot get it to stay true after the event. Any suggestions ?


Okay, let me give you a hand. There should be no need to change the indicator.

Your code:

// News ON OFF function
bool TradeNews()
{
 int minutesSincePrevEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 1, 0);
int impactOfPrevEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 2, 0);
int minutesUntilNextEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 1, 1);
int impactOfNextEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCAL_v03", true, true, false, true, 2, 1);
// (where impact of 1 = Low, 2 = Medium, and 3 = High)
NewsTime = false;

if (minutesUntilNextEvent <= 30 || minutesSincePrevEvent >=30)
NewsTime = true;

return (NewsTime);
}

...was not quite right. The first param in any iCustom call is the currency pair.


Try this:


// News ON OFF function
bool TradeNews()
{
 int minsSinceE-G = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 int minsUntilE-G = iCustom("EURGBP, 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 int minsSinceU-C = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 int minsUntilU-C = iCustom("USDCHF, 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 int minsSinceC-J = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 int minsUntilC-J = iCustom("CADJPY, 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 int minsSinceA-N = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 int minsUntilA-N = iCustom("AUDNZD, 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 // (where impact of 1 = Low, 2 = Medium, and 3 = High)
NewsTime = false;

if minsUntilE-G <= 30 || minsSinceE-G >=30)
NewsTime = true;
 if minsUntilU-C <= 30 || minsSinceU-C >=30)
NewsTime = true;
 if minsUntilC-J <= 30 || minsSinceC-J >=30)
NewsTime = true;
 if minsUntilA-N <= 30 || minsSinceA-N >=30)
NewsTime = true;

return (NewsTime);
}

Do you see what I have done here? I have used every currency that pairs with the USD, in various combos. And the "true" in the line is for high-impact news, then false for medium, false for low, and true for "speaks" (make this false if you wanted to filter out news like "Chariman Whoever Speaks").

Got it?

-Derk

  • #49
  • Mar 22, 2007 12:40am Mar 22, 2007 12:40am
Everyone:

Sorry it takes me a while to answer. Life is quite busy these days. If you are also on the Yahoo group, posting stuff there is likely to get tome faster.

I hope most of you got your troubles solved. You can write again if you are still having problems. Try to be specific with what you were doing and any error messages from the experts (or journal) tab.

Best to all,
-Derk
  • #50
  • Mar 22, 2007 2:28am Mar 22, 2007 2:28am
Fixed the Errors but it still does not work right. th eindicator is going crazy and it eliminates all trades....

PHP Code
// News ON OFF function
bool TradeNews()
{
int minsSinceEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
int minsUntilEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
int minsSinceUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
int minsUntilUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
int minsSinceCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
int minsUntilCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
int minsSinceAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
int minsUntilAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
// (where impact of 1 = Low, 2 = Medium, and 3 = High)
NewsTime = false;

if (minsUntilEG <= 30 || minsSinceEG <=30)
NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilUC <= 30 || minsSinceUC <=30)
NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilCJ <= 30 || minsSinceCJ <=30)
NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilAN <= 30 || minsSinceAN <=30)
NewsTime = true;

return (NewsTime);
}
Keep it simple stoopid....
  • #51
  • Mar 22, 2007 2:30am Mar 22, 2007 2:30am
The idea is to have

if NewsTime == true then trading is disabled.

NewsTime should only be true 30 min before and 30 min after an announcement.
Keep it simple stoopid....
  • #52
  • Mar 22, 2007 11:28am Mar 22, 2007 11:28am
Quoting Kurka Fund
The idea is to have

if NewsTime == true then trading is disabled.

NewsTime should only be true 30 min before and 30 min after an announcement.
Kurka:

Yes, I got that. I would think it should have worked. Is what I did what you want? Do you want to trading near any high-impact news on those 8 currencies? The 8 calls to the indicator is a pretty heavy. You should only do it once per minute.

You might try putting print statements in to make sure it's getting the minutes as expected. Try this:

// News ON OFF function
static lastMin = -1;
bool TradeNews()
{
if (Minute() == lastMin)
return (false);

lastMin = Minute();

 int minsSinceEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
Print("MinsS_EG = ", minsSinceEG);
 int minsUntilEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_EG = ", minsUntilEG);
 int minsSinceUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 Print("MinsS_UC = ", minsSinceUC);
 int minsUntilUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_UC = ", minsUntilUC);
 int minsSinceCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 Print("MinsS_CJ = ", minsSinceCJ);
 int minsUntilCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_CJ = ", minsUntilCJ);
 int minsSinceAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 Print("MinsS_AN = ", minsSinceAN);
 int minsUntilAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_AN = ", minsUntilAN);
 NewsTime = false;

if (minsUntilEG <= 30 || minsSinceEG <=30)
 NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilUC <= 30 || minsSinceUC <=30)
 NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilCJ <= 30 || minsSinceCJ <=30)
 NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilAN <= 30 || minsSinceAN <=30)
 NewsTime = true;

return (NewsTime);
}
  • #53
  • Mar 22, 2007 11:38am Mar 22, 2007 11:38am
Quoting DerkWehler
Kurka:

Yes, I got that. I would think it should have worked. Is what I did what you want? Do you want to trading near any high-impact news on those 8 currencies? The 8 calls to the indicator is a pretty heavy. You should only do it once per minute.

You might try putting print statements in to make sure it's getting the minutes as expected. Try this:

// News ON OFF function
static lastMin = -1;
bool TradeNews()
{
if (Minute() == lastMin)
return (false);

lastMin = Minute();

 int minsSinceEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
Print("MinsS_EG = ", minsSinceEG);
 int minsUntilEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_EG = ", minsUntilEG);
 int minsSinceUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 Print("MinsS_UC = ", minsSinceUC);
 int minsUntilUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_UC = ", minsUntilUC);
 int minsSinceCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 Print("MinsS_CJ = ", minsSinceCJ);
 int minsUntilCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_CJ = ", minsUntilCJ);
 int minsSinceAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 Print("MinsS_AN = ", minsSinceAN);
 int minsUntilAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_AN = ", minsUntilAN);
 NewsTime = false;

if (minsUntilEG <= 30 || minsSinceEG <=30)
 NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilUC <= 30 || minsSinceUC <=30)
 NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilCJ <= 30 || minsSinceCJ <=30)
 NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilAN <= 30 || minsSinceAN <=30)
 NewsTime = true;

return (NewsTime);
}


Oops, that "return (false)" at the top won't work when it IS news time.

Have to think about that a bit more. Have to go to work now though.

-Derk
  • #54
  • Mar 22, 2007 1:04pm Mar 22, 2007 1:04pm
Quoting DerkWehler
Still happening? Perhaps there is some problem here when it does not connect or some such. If I can get enough info on reproducing it, perhaps I Can discover a fix.
No, it's not crashing, however the vertical entries on my chart are off by like 2 hours. Did you mention it should automatically figure out the timing based on your server connection?

A request. It would be nice to have the comment data in a separate window. I have another indicator that uses comments for information and they overwrite each other.

I like this indicator though. It's a cool idea.

Jason
  • #55
  • Mar 22, 2007 1:51pm Mar 22, 2007 1:51pm
The idea is exactly what I want. I have toyed around with it, I got it to disable trading before the event.

- still does not work with multiple currency pairs

and keeping the trading sisabled after the event does not work.

Also dont think that updating every min is nessacary, could do every 15 shouldent make a difference.

I think that this would be a great function to add to allot of EA's. one of the underlying problems with trading robots is that they cannot predict the news.

One more thing, It would be nice to add Burgers new straddle script to this function. The idea would be to turn your EA off and use this indicator to set the time on the script. I can see the pips piling up...

Quoting DerkWehler
Oops, that "return (false)" at the top won't work when it IS news time.

Have to think about that a bit more. Have to go to work now though.

-Derk
Keep it simple stoopid....
  • #56
  • Mar 22, 2007 2:46pm Mar 22, 2007 2:46pm
  •  tesla
  • Joined Oct 2006 | Status: Friendly Neighborhood Programmer | 533 Posts
Two problems that I'm seeing.

  1. All of your "minutes since" indicator calls are returning either zero or negative numbers. Your code assumes the return values will be positive.
  2. A suspicious preponderance of the indicators are returning zeros. I'm guessing that's the default return value though I haven't had time to dig into the indicator for a looksee.

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/4023/ssez0.jpg


I've rewritten the function to account for the negative values, not much I can do about the zeros unless zero is to be considered a "no data" type of situation.

Pardon the formatting, posting to the web always screws up the tabbing.

Inserted Code
bool isNewsTime() {

    #define    RETVALUE_CACHE    5    // Minutes since last function call to simply return previous value
    #define    NOTRADE_PRIOR    30    // Minutes prior to news release during which it's considered "news time"
    #define    NOTRADE_POST    15    // Minutes since news release during which it's considered "news time"
    
    static datetime dtLastCall    = 0;
    static bool        bRetVal        = false;
    
    // if it's been less than 'x' minutes since this function was last
    // called, simply return previously determined value.
    if (dtLastCall + RETVALUE_CACHE*60 >= TimeCurrent())
        return(bRetVal);
    
    // check the calendar
     int minsSinceEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
    int minsUntilEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
    int minsSinceUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
    int minsUntilUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
    int minsSinceCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
    int minsUntilCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
    int minsSinceAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
    int minsUntilAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
    
    // gotta love print statements
    Print("minsSinceEG = ", minsSinceEG);
    Print("minsUntilEG = ", minsUntilEG);
    Print("minsSinceUC = ", minsSinceUC);
    Print("minsUntilUC = ", minsUntilUC);
    Print("minsSinceCJ = ", minsSinceCJ);
    Print("minsUntilCJ = ", minsUntilCJ);
    Print("minsSinceAN = ", minsSinceAN);
    Print("minsUntilAN = ", minsUntilAN);

    // see if the return value should be tripped to true
    if (minsUntilEG <= NOTRADE_PRIOR || minsSinceEG*(-1) <=NOTRADE_POST) bRetVal = true;
    if (minsUntilUC <= NOTRADE_PRIOR || minsSinceUC*(-1) <=NOTRADE_POST) bRetVal = true;
    if (minsUntilCJ <= NOTRADE_PRIOR || minsSinceCJ*(-1) <=NOTRADE_POST) bRetVal = true;
    if (minsUntilAN <= NOTRADE_PRIOR || minsSinceAN*(-1) <=NOTRADE_POST) bRetVal = true;

    // update the last call timestamp and return a value
    dtLastCall = TimeCurrent();
    return (bRetVal);

}
  • #57
  • Mar 22, 2007 10:57pm Mar 22, 2007 10:57pm
Kurka:

Okay, this is what I meant:


// News ON OFF function
static int lastMin = -1;
 static bool lastRet = false;
bool TradeNews()
{
if (Minute() == lastMin)
return (lastRet);

lastMin = Minute();

 int minsSinceEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
Print("MinsS_EG = ", minsSinceEG);
 int minsUntilEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_EG = ", minsUntilEG);
 int minsSinceUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 Print("MinsS_UC = ", minsSinceUC);
 int minsUntilUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_UC = ", minsUntilUC);
 int minsSinceCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 Print("MinsS_CJ = ", minsSinceCJ);
 int minsUntilCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_CJ = ", minsUntilCJ);
 int minsSinceAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
 Print("MinsS_AN = ", minsSinceAN);
 int minsUntilAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
 Print("MinsU_AN = ", minsUntilAN);

lastRet= false;

if (minsUntilEG <= 30 || minsSinceEG <=30)
 NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilUC <= 30 || minsSinceUC <=30)
 NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilCJ <= 30 || minsSinceCJ <=30)
 NewsTime = true;
if (minsUntilAN <= 30 || minsSinceAN <=30)
lastRet= true;

return (lastRet);
}



Since CFG has gone south with their "creative embezzling", I have to find a new broker. Or else I would test this myself...

Good luck,
-Derk
  • #58
  • Mar 23, 2007 12:57am Mar 23, 2007 12:57am
I figured out one bug.. it looks lik you cannot call two currency pairs that both include the same base or cross ... So here i used EUR/GBP and UDS/JPY and this pulls the 4 currencies which for the times i am trading should be all i need anyway.

Regardless it still does not quite work right.

PHP Code

bool TradeNews() {

    #define    RETVALUE_CACHE    5    // Minutes since last function call to simply return previous value
    #define    NOTRADE_PRIOR    30    // Minutes prior to news release during which it's considered "news time"
    #define    NOTRADE_POST    30    // Minutes since news release during which it's considered "news time"
    static bool     bRetVal        = false;
    static datetime dtLastCall    = 0;

    
    // if it's been less than 'x' minutes since this function was last
    // called, simply return previously determined value.
    if (dtLastCall + RETVALUE_CACHE*60 >= TimeCurrent())
        return(bRetVal);
    
    // check the calendar
    int minsSinceEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
    int minsUntilEG = iCustom("EURGBP", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
    int minsSinceUJ = iCustom("USDJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
    int minsUntilUJ = iCustom("USDJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
    /*
    int minsSinceUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
    int minsUntilUC = iCustom("USDCHF", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
    int minsSinceCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
    int minsUntilCJ = iCustom("CADJPY", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
    int minsSinceAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 0);
    int minsUntilAN = iCustom("AUDNZD", 0, "FFCAL_v04", true, false, false, true, 1, 1);
    */
    // gotta love print statements
    Print("minsSinceEG = ", minsSinceEG);
    Print("minsUntilEG = ", minsUntilEG);
    Print("minsSinceEG = ", minsSinceUJ);
    Print("minsUntilEG = ", minsUntilUJ);
    //Print("minsSinceUC = ", minsSinceUC);
    //Print("minsUntilUC = ", minsUntilUC);
    //Print("minsSinceCJ = ", minsSinceCJ);
    //Print("minsUntilCJ = ", minsUntilCJ);
    //Print("minsSinceAN = ", minsSinceAN);
    //Print("minsUntilAN = ", minsUntilAN);

    // see if the return value should be tripped to true
    if (minsUntilEG <= NOTRADE_PRIOR || minsSinceEG*(-1) <= NOTRADE_POST) bRetVal = true;
    if (minsUntilUJ <= NOTRADE_PRIOR || minsSinceUJ*(-1) <= NOTRADE_POST) bRetVal = true;
    
    //if (minsUntilUC <= NOTRADE_PRIOR || minsSinceUC*(-1) <= NOTRADE_POST) bRetVal = true;
    //if (minsUntilCJ <= NOTRADE_PRIOR || minsSinceCJ*(-1) <= NOTRADE_POST) bRetVal = true;
    //if (minsUntilAN <= NOTRADE_PRIOR || minsSinceAN*(-1) <= NOTRADE_POST) bRetVal = true;

    // update the last call timestamp and return a value
    dtLastCall = TimeCurrent();
    return (bRetVal);

}
Keep it simple stoopid....
  • #59
  • Mar 23, 2007 11:01am Mar 23, 2007 11:01am
Quoting Kurka Fund
I figured out one bug.. it looks lik you cannot call two currency pairs that both include the same base or cross ... So here i used EUR/GBP and UDS/JPY and this pulls the 4 currencies which for the times i am trading should be all i need anyway.

Regardless it still does not quite work right.

When I get another platform set up, I will do some tests. Because of the nature of how it works, what you said should not matter ("it looks lik you cannot call two currency pairs that both include the same base or cross").

-Derk
  • #60
  • Mar 24, 2007 9:51pm Mar 24, 2007 9:51pm
Quoting DerkWehler
I had that problem on mine, but then I got it fixed. On my machine, it was related to my time being off because I use Win2K and MS doesn't support it anymore, so they did not make a patch for adjusting DST.

You don't happen to use Win2K do you?
No, I use WinXP Pro. But you know what...I just remembered that I am using ZoneTick's free version clock...I'll try uninstalling that and see if it's causing a problem...I'll let you know if that fixes it.
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