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  • Edited at 11:08pm Mar 19, 2013 10:33pm | Edited at 11:08pm
Quoting pemann
very useful indicator, great work, thanks for creating it
Useful but don't work!

"NewsCal-v107 EURUSD,M15: executable file is corrupted. Please recompile it." So we need the code.

Later edit: I found version 1.0 on 4shared site and works.

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File Type: ex4 NewsCal-v1.ex4   42 KB | 2 downloads


And my alerts:

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still working for you?
Quoting giraia_br
still working for you?
Yes.

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Quoting shogun12
{quote} Yes. {image}
thanks

this indicator put a vertical line at eash news/speak?
Quoting pgtips
Hi, great indi. Is it possible to look back further in time, to look at historical impact at each news event. I tried increasing mins back but that wasn't it. Is there somehting else I ened to change in the settings. 3 months would be plenty. thanks PG
It only has the current week's events.

I've updated the current version in post 1. It's just a minor bug fix.
Quoting giraia_br
{quote} thanks this indicator put a vertical line at eash news/speak?
Yes
Quoting jesuscheung
The times are always 2 hours late on my MT terminal. Please fix this.
It uses your Windows time zone setting and clock to determine GMT and calculates the server time from the incoming ticks automatically. So if your PC clock doesn't match your time zone settings, it won't work properly. I'm not planning to change this method at the moment.
Thank you for thr great efforts made here.

initial test is great. will keep an eye on it.

parameters are clear, concise and practical.

meiow.
If ask a silly question.. forgive me!i'm just confused again!
the indicator is not loaded in the terminal (vantageFX)
can someone please help me ..
A great help for us MT4 platform users!

Quoting euclid
I've been working on this news indicator and it's now developed enough to share. I've also added a beta version of my breaking news indicator for you to play with. Data from the ForexFactory weekly calendar is refreshed hourly to catch any mid-week calendar updates from FF. Events can be filtered by impact, currency and category. A table of current and upcoming events can be displayed in a choice of two widths and may be placed anywhere on the chart. Vertical lines may be plotted on the chart to mark past events. Mouse over the lines to see details....
did forex factory change their new feed or something today?

it just stopped working for me a few hours ago, mid session. the breaking news is stuck on the last one that it worked for (fed's evans: Fed could keep rates low....) and the calendar says "no further matching events" even though there are lots lined up tomorrow.

suddenly realised how reliant on this i've become, thanks for an awesome indicator!

MJL
Same here. Just realize that it has stopped working.
Quoting mlewis
did forex factory change their new feed or something today? it just stopped working for me a few hours ago, mid session. the breaking news is stuck on the last one that it worked for (fed's evans: Fed could keep rates low....) and the calendar says "no further matching events" even though there are lots lined up tomorrow. suddenly realised how reliant on this i've become, thanks for an awesome indicator! MJL
This is just because the .xml file used in all news tools is still showing the news from last week:

http://www.forexfactory.com/ffcal_week_this.xml
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
... it looks like that problem simply disappeared somehow
Thank you very much for sharing this awesome news/calendar indicator.
Happy trading to all.
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Yes. The .xml file was finally updated.

Back to work!
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
Don't forget: When the FF isn't working you can switch to the backup source.

Quoting euclid
UseAlternateSource.......False = Forex Factory calendar data (recommended), True = DailyFX calendar data
Downloaded both NewsCal and BrkNews from Post 1 yesterday.

1. How about Table Background and Narrow Table menu options on BrkNews as well?

2. Any possibility to make the calendar and breaking news entries as live links, so one
can just click for more details?

Regards,
Athar.
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  • Edited at 1:23am May 29, 2013 12:30am | Edited at 1:23am
Just found this thread, many thanks for creating the indicators. It's a lot of work and people asking for the sky is really not appreciating your time.

Question for users:
1. What is the blank.mq4 used for?
2. I know the fonts can't be changed, but what else can I do on MT4 platform to make the font smaller? Anything like a global setting for MT4? For me the currency symbol overlapped with the calendar item, so "CHF UBS ..." becomes "CHFUBS ...".
3. What does the setting 'IncludeSymbolCurrencies' actually do?
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No longer trading forex. Looking for full time job.
Quoting mmaker
Just found this thread, many thanks for creating the indicators. It's a lot of work and people asking for the sky is really not appreciating your time. Question for users:1. What is the blank.mq4 used for?2. I know the fonts can't be changed, but what else can I do on MT4 platform to make the font smaller? Anything like a global setting for MT4? For me the currency symbol overlapped with the calendar item, so "CHF UBS ..." becomes "CHFUBS ...".{image}
Based on what I can see on your chart, it seems that the calendar isn't plotting as it should. It may be a screen resolution problem.
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
Hi, well done in the indicator! Great work!
For me MT loads it but there's no news, it says "File Error"
To my knowledge, I have the latest version and DLL imports are enabled.
Any tips?
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