FF Calendar Indicator for MT

When i click "ok", it doesnt appear nothing and MT4 go in crash!
Anyone can help me?

Have you changed the indicator as per my post here: http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...&postcount=432 ?

Thank you Dhmnzr, good work

2)What is "Report allforUSD" for?

3) What is "EnableLogging" for?

4) What is "Showvertnews" for?

1. Normally, if you attach the indicator to the chart, it will only report news which are connected to either one of the currency pair (for EUR/CHF for example, it will report EUR and CHF news), if you enable reportallforusd it will also report USD news in addition to that.

2. logging means it will create a file somewhere and log all activity to that file, it's mostly for debugging purposes

3. I'm not really sure, but I think it's used to change the way in which the news are drawn to the chart.

Hi Folks,
Appreciate your efforts DerkWehler.

Anyone else having the same problem as me?

My MT4 broker recently updated to MT4 build 225. FFCal is now causing MT4 to crash. (I am also running Vista64, if that has anything to do with it). All my other indicators run fine.

Much appreciated

It works for me in build 225. Have you updated the calendar URL as I explained before?

Thanks for this


You have to modify the URL of the calendar in the indicator.
This is how you can do it:
1. Open the FFCal indicator in the MetaEditor (right click on the indicator in the platform and click "Modify")
2. Find this line:
string sUrl = "http://www.forexfactory.com/ff_calendar_thisweek.xml";
3. Change it to this:
string sUrl = "http://cloud.forexfactory.com/ffcal_week_this.xml";
4. Press the "Compile" button on the top of the MetaEditor (or press F9)
5. Close MetaEditor
That's all, you can now use the FFCal indicator as before and it will work :-


It is now working... Thank you...

Hi Folks,

Whilst trading the "Core Durable Goods Orders m/m" was coming out in 2 days time. As a result the time, plus the currency affected plus the name of the news coming out, stretched half way across my screen. It read "2 Days 15 hours 45 mins until USD Core Durable Goods Orders m/m" and occurred whilst the pairs were trading upwards.

So I have made changes to the layout so that the news used up less horizontal space as can be seen in the pic below.

I also made the sponsor text size linked to the time's text size. So if you are really short of space, you can reduce the times text size and the sponsor's long name will also reduce to ensure the sponsor's name does not obstruct your trading screen.




The small changes:

1. All USD news is set to true.
2. Two lots of news is set to true.
3. News Corner default top right.
4. Horizontal space being used has been converted to vertical space.
5. Text size of sponsor is linked to text size of count down time to news event.
6. Text size of count down time until news event is separately adjustable to other parts of the news.
7. Text size of News Event Title is separately adjustable.
8. Text size of the news result group is separately adjustable.
9. Website URL mentioned in post above has also been adjusted.

Most of it, in the name of saving horizontal space.

Thank you very much too DerkWehler the original creator of FFCal and to FF for enabling us to do this.

Hope this Helps. To get it running it is the same as FFCal.mq4 found here.

thx for that great work , works fine

Hi folks,
I have been told that the FFCalH worked found at the bottom of this link:
http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...&postcount=450


I was asked if I could do FFCalH with Email alerts. Here is the same thing with Email alerts I HOPE.




To work email FFCalH_with_Email_Alerts or FFCalH_with_Email_Alerts_Unlinked on the platform side:

1. Close platform (otherwise MT4 often does not recognise new files).
2. Put indicator in the indicators folder, usually found in a place like C: Program Files, YourBrokersName, experts, indicators
3. Open platform.
4. Then set the email address in the platform by going to tools, options and then the email tab. Enable and then type the appropriate details.
5. Attach indicator to the chart.

For FFCal_With_Email_Alerts...

1. Set Alert1MinsBefore or Alert2MinsBefore to the number of minutes before the news that you would like the warning.
2. Ensure that EmailAlert is set to true, but if you want the indicator to work like FFCalH just set EmailAlert to false.
3. A pop alert will occur at the same time on the computer screen as you should have an email sent.

For FFCal_With_Email_Alerts_Unlinked...

1. Set EmailAlert1MinsBefore or EmailAlert2MinsBefore to the number of minutes before the news that you would like the Email warning.
2. To make email alert inactive set EmailAlert1MinsBefore to -1, this should make it work just like FFCalH.
3. Pop up alerts work separately, therefore nothing on computer screen.

Hopefully one or both of these work. If not you might need someone else to get it right for you.

My FFCal is still producing an error message:

FFCal: cannot delete file... expertsfiles10-15-2009-EURCHF60-FFCal.xml

I can't figure out how to fix this. Manually deleting the file doesn't help, because as soon as I re-open the platform, that message is back.

Anyone have any idea?

Thanks

Hi Guys,
Interesting thread; arrived here after downloading eurocross, but was unable to trade on the market.
Backtest was available, and good on euro-chf pair on the standard setting. I have included a picture of the trading screen.
I get the error message "FFCal Error Webpage download was not complete, this is a regular alert."

Also the ea has expired in 1970, and will not reboot

Any idea's anyone !!???

- Pete...

Hi guys,
The latest revisions (19 & 20) crash my MT4 completely, right off the bat. I get a white alerts screen and then nothing... I hear some audio alerts but it hangs up and the only way to kill it is kill the process.
Any idea?
Thx,
P.S. trying to atach to EURUSD @ GMT-2.

Same thing on vista.

I have been told that the FFCalH worked found at the bottom of this link to a post. It is recently constructed during Sept, while at time of writing version 20 in post 1 was less recent. So hopefully this more recent edition of FFCal will work for you. It is slightly different.


How to Get it Working
After downloading it, to get FFCalH working, on the platform side:

1. Close platform (otherwise MT4 often does not recognise new files).
2. Put indicator in the indicators folder, usually found in a place like C: Program Files, YourBrokersName, experts, indicators
3. Open MT4 platform.
4. After MT4 is open, press F4 to open MetaEditor.
5. Find and open FFCalH by going to C: Program Files, YourBrokersName, experts, indicators
6. Press F5 to compile FFCalH indicator.
7. Close MetaEditor.
8. In MT4 attach indicator to the chart.

FFCalH Differences to FFCal
FFCalH works as I am presently using it, but it has a couple of small changes compared to FFCal:

1. All USD news is set to true.
2. Two lots of news is set to true.
3. News Corner default top right.
4. Horizontal space being used has been converted to vertical space.
5. Text size of sponsor is linked to text size of count down time to news event.
6. Text size of count down time until news event is separately adjustable to other parts of the news.
7. Text size of News Event Title is separately adjustable.
8. Text size of the news result group is separately adjustable.
9. Website URL mentioned in previous page posts has also been adjusted.

Most of it, in the name of saving horizontal space.

Thank you very much too DerkWehler the original creator of FFCal and to FF for enabling us to do this.

Hopefully this works for you. If not you might need someone else.

Can you post this version with the changes?

All the FFCalH that looked like FFCalH are the links.

This is also the link...
http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...&postcount=450

Hi Peoples

I often switch between timeframes.

However the news lines objects go missing when doing so.

Does anyone know how to make those news lines stay there? or even stay there for the most recent news?


Thanks,

Your page 1 "always current" file for download is all screwed up! It appears as an "attachment. php" and NOT a ".mq4" file!!!!!!!.....and cannot be added to the MT4 experts/indicators file in that state!

Please correct this situation so that those that want to download and install the .mq4 FFCal indicator can do so. Thank you.