FFcal - Plot News indicator

David,
Just giving a general BUMP.
Appreciate all your hard work & generosity.
God bless Sir!

I've searched the thread but can't find an answer ... can the downloading of data be automated by running the .bat file using Task Scheduler or something similar ?? If so, what parameters (if any) do I need to use ?

Sorry, simple answer is no, more info in post #638 above. However, if you can find a third party scheduling app that's also capable of keystroke playback then you might have a solution. I've only looked briefly at Autohotkey (so I'm only guessing), but it's freeware that might be capable of doing this.

hi i got a quation

is the actual and the forecast data is updating automatically as soon as the news came?

i lookin for something that can show the actual data on the second so i can trade the news..

is there is any option to do that in this indicator?
thanx

The indicator gets its data from the FF calendar. Since the Actual data there is not necessarily updated until several minutes after the release, it's not possible to get Actual data on the second.

The way the indicator works, the data is downloaded from FF calendar manually by an external application (FFcal.EXE). One reason for this is that it reduces the possibility of all Plot_News users accessing the calendar simultaneously, where the high traffic volume could potentially overload the FF servers.

Dustin Pass have a lil tool that download the actual data on the second and even get in the trade automatically before the spike

http://forextradersdaily.com/subscribe2.php

but his software cost 30$ in the first 14 days and after that 300$ per month

is it possible to see the actual data in the same time of the forexfactory release?

I don't work for Forex Factory. You would need to send your request to the FF owners/webmasters/developers.

ok thanx

Dear hanover,

Do you have any plans to convert Plot_News.mq4 to Plot_News.mq5?

Thanks,

Micky

I'm afraid not. If somebody else wants to take over maintaining the Plot_News.MQ4 file, or create an MQ5 version, then of course that's their prerogative.

FFcal.EXE v 1.37 is the final release that will be made available to the public domain. I will no longer be supporting this product.

Thanks for this wonderful indicator!

Now those damn news won't surprise me anymore.

Sorry to hear u will no longer be supporting Plot News publicly. It will be missed, but I do want to say a BIG thank you for all ur contribution it will be a loss and I hope someone will pick up from where u left off.

We will talk again soon my friend, Trade good. THANK YOU.

Many thanks for the feedback.

No promises, but I'm going to look at the possibility of developing a new MT5 indicator that performs the whole process from reading the calendar through to plotting the circles, which would remove the need to run FFcal.EXE. This indicator will probably not be released publicly via FF, however.

My 1997 version of Clarion (used to develop FFcal.EXE) seems to run on Win-98 only, and since I can't cost justify upgrading it, the recent demise of my "old faithful" Win-98 PC has effectively forced my decision.

Gidday Hanover,

I've just stumbled across your indicator & I think it's absolutely fantastic,
i was absolutely blown away with the time & effort you have put into this
project, and say a big thankyou and hope your health is OK!!!

Go the kiwis...

Cheers

HR

Hi,
I am looking for a code that is able to automatically find out what actual interest rate is on a specific currency. Example: say I have AUDUSD, so the script will be able to automatically tell me what is policy rate in Australia and USA, and so it will be able to do AUD-USD=x (USD-AUD=z) so I will know what is the differential and main fundamental analysis based direction of the currency (= carry trade based trading).

Is FFCal able to find out those interest rates? Do you think it is changeable to find out Do you know about any other script that might be able to do that?
Thanx a lot in advance
N.

Set up the Export parameters (blue boxes) as shown in the screenshot, and click OK. The "Show only events....." parameter needs to be:
RATE|~UNEM|~UTIL|~STAT|~PROF

This should generate a file ..../experts/files/XLOutput.CSV
whose content shows the rate changes, something like this:

"2009-06-02","04:30","AUD","Cash Rate","3.00%"
"2009-06-04","11:00","GBP","Official Bank Rate","0.50%"
"2009-06-04","11:45","EUR","Minimum Bid Rate","1.00%"
"2009-06-04","13:00","CAD","Overnight Rate","0.25%"
"2009-06-10","21:00","NZD","Official Cash Rate","2.50%"
"2009-06-16","05:34","JPY","Overnight Call Rate","0.10%"
"2009-06-18","09:30","CHF","Libor Rate","0.25%"
"2009-06-24","20:18","USD","Federal Funds Rate","<0.25%"
"2009-07-02","13:45","EUR","Minimum Bid Rate","1.00%"
"2009-07-07","06:30","AUD","Cash Rate","3.00%"
"2009-07-09","07:00","GBP","Official Bank Rate","0.50%"
"2009-07-09","13:00","GBP","Official Bank Rate","0.50%"
"2009-07-15","00:35","JPY","Overnight Call Rate","0.10%"
"2009-07-15","06:35","JPY","Overnight Call Rate","0.10%"
"2009-07-21","09:00","CAD","Overnight Rate","0.25%"
"2009-07-21","15:00","CAD","Overnight Rate","0.25%"
"2009-07-29","17:00","NZD","Official Cash Rate","2.50%"
"2009-07-29","23:00","NZD","Official Cash Rate","2.50%"
"2009-08-04","06:30","AUD","Cash Rate","3.00%"
"2009-08-06","13:00","GBP","Official Bank Rate","0.50%"
"2009-08-06","13:45","EUR","Minimum Bid Rate","1.00%"
"2009-08-11","04:53","JPY","Overnight Call Rate","0.10%"
"2009-08-12","20:15","USD","Federal Funds Rate","<0.25%"
"2009-09-01","06:30","AUD","Cash Rate","3.00%"
"2009-09-03","13:45","EUR","Minimum Bid Rate","1.00%"
"2009-09-09","23:00","NZD","Official Cash Rate","2.50%"
"2009-09-10","13:00","GBP","Official Bank Rate","0.50%"
"2009-09-10","15:00","CAD","Overnight Rate","0.25%"
"2009-09-17","05:39","JPY","Overnight Call Rate","0.10%"
"2009-09-17","14:00","CHF","Libor Rate","0.25%"
"2009-09-23","20:15","USD","Federal Funds Rate","<0.25%"
"2009-10-06","05:30","AUD","Cash Rate","3.25%"
"2009-10-08","13:00","GBP","Official Bank Rate","0.50%"
"2009-10-08","13:45","EUR","Minimum Bid Rate","1.00%"
"2009-10-14","05:14","JPY","Overnight Call Rate","0.10%"
"2009-10-20","14:00","CAD","Overnight Rate","0.25%"
"2009-10-28","21:00","NZD","Official Cash Rate","2.50%"
"2009-10-30","05:05","JPY","Overnight Call Rate","0.10%"
"2009-11-03","05:30","AUD","Cash Rate","3.50%"
"2009-11-04","21:19","USD","Federal Funds Rate","<0.25%"
"2009-11-05","14:00","GBP","Official Bank Rate","0.50%"
"2009-11-05","14:45","EUR","Minimum Bid Rate","1.00%"

You could then have your software read this file, to obtain the rates, and calculate the differences.

Not a perfect solution, but that is the best that FFcal can do.

There seem to be some terrific features on this software.
Unfortunately, my download has been working in the past.
But this week, it only plots data til mid Sept 09.

I've tried everything- many times- resettng, redownloading, the lot.

It seems to be the correct data in news.csv( ie thro November) but won't plot on the chart. I'm at a total loss

Shame, I have lots of ideas on how to use it. But without support / a working version, I cant do a thing.. Oh well...

PS now I can plot the last 4 weeks, but nothing before...

UPDATE seems to be working now.. Yippeee! : )
May have been loss of the debug file somehow in experts/file where the news.csv is.

Strange. If the data is reaching news.csv correctly, then the problem lies with the Plot_News.MQ4 indicator, which plots whatever it finds in news.csv on the chart. The only previously reported problem was MT4's inability to deal with HTML tokens like &amp; &lt; etc, if these occur within an object name/description that it's attempting to plot. I modified FFcal to have it strip these out so that they never got as far as news.csv. No other problems of this type have been reported until yours just now.

Anyway, glad to hear that it's working again now.

This indicator is no longer supported, and the thread obsolete.

Plot News v2.0 is now available here.

Windows Seven x64 work?