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  • #101
  • Jun 1, 2013 11:36am Jun 1, 2013 11:36am
Quoting Theodore8882
Hi Euclid, thanks for your help bro for the shifting of the calendar..really thank you.....bro as Im new to forex..and been trading demo acc with mt4 with currency pair eur/usd...Can u Kindly teach me how to read candlestick chart,support and resistance and leading indicators that will tell me when to enter a trade and when to take profit....with the lagging indicators and leading indicators..i dun wan to depend on the so call indicator that can earn fast money but rather with skills and knowledge...thank you so much for your help...Million thanks...
Go to http://www.babypips.com/school/ and register a user name and password. Then go through the course. It's free. The site tries to be humorous but the information they teach you is 100% serious. It will teach you everything you need to know to start trading Forex. Don't expect anyone at FF to give you trading lessons. Good luck.
  • #102
  • Jun 1, 2013 5:52pm Jun 1, 2013 5:52pm
Theodore:
I agree with bobby2, http://www.babypips.com/school/ is great, I'm studying it now.
Also, this is excellent: http://www.investopedia.com/walkthrough/forex/ and a little more serious, see which you like.
  • #103
  • Jun 2, 2013 3:11pm Jun 2, 2013 3:11pm
Quoting oktavian
I agree with bobby2, http://www.babypips.com/school/ is great
That's nice but not relevant to the topic of this thread.
  • #104
  • Jun 2, 2013 4:24pm Jun 2, 2013 4:24pm
Quoting euclid
{quote} That's nice but not relevant to the topic of this thread.
Apologies!
Any tips on the file error? I haven't seen anyone else mention this error.
  • #105
  • Edited 4:15pm Jun 3, 2013 3:50pm | Edited 4:15pm
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 ...". 3. What does the setting 'IncludeSymbolCurrencies' actually do? {image}
1. blank.mq4 just creates a blank sub-window below your chart where you can put the indicators.
2. That looks like XP you are using, if you go to Control Panel > Display > Settings click Advanced. Set the DPI setting to Normal size (96 DPI). I think you must have it set higher. Setting it to normal will make everything on your PC smaller though.
3. E.g. on a EURUSD chart this setting will show news for EUR and USD (in addition to any currencies in the list)

Also if you hit F8 and untick "Chart on foreground" it looks better. IMO.

Quoting oktavian
Any tips on the file error? I haven't seen anyone else mention this error.
You get this error when the indicator can't read or write it's file in the the experts/files directory. Check the experts tab in the terminal. It should have printed a more helpful error message there.
  • #106
  • Jun 3, 2013 5:50pm Jun 3, 2013 5:50pm
Quoting euclid
You get this error when the indicator can't read or write it's file in the the experts/files directory. Check the experts tab in the terminal. It should have printed a more helpful error message there.
Thanks for the your response, I truly appreciate it.
There are no errors in the terminal:

2013.06.04 08:30:00 Custom indicator stdlib GBPUSD,H4: loaded successfully
2013.06.04 08:29:58 Custom indicator NewsCal-v107 GBPUSD,H4: loaded successfully


In the experts/files folder "31-5-2013-grabweb.xml" is a blank file. Actually, I think I had the same problem with other downloading indicators. Strange
I tried copying in the content of "ffcal_week_this.xml" manual, closing and reopening but still file error.
Using alternative source is the same. I'm really confused over this one.
  • #107
  • Jun 4, 2013 4:28pm Jun 4, 2013 4:28pm
Quoting oktavian
There are no errors in the terminal: 2013.06.04 08:30:00 Custom indicator stdlib GBPUSD,H4: loaded successfully 2013.06.04 08:29:58 Custom indicator NewsCal-v107 GBPUSD,H4: loaded successfully
That looks like the Journal tab. The Experts tab should have something like this:

2013.06.05 00:22:45 NewsCal-v107 USDJPY.lmx,M5: initialized
2013.06.05 00:22:45 NewsCal-v107 USDJPY.lmx,M5: loaded successfully
  • #108
  • Jun 4, 2013 5:10pm Jun 4, 2013 5:10pm
Quoting dangj
One great feature would be to show the Actual/Forecast/Previous values of each item in the calendar (as per FF's). Any chance of this happening?
euclid: Yes. I don't need it myself, but it's on my to do list.
Not sure how you'd do this Euclid? FF decided not to offer an "actual" column in their data release, as their servers would get hammered, here's Merlin's original post; many moons later, the xml still doesn't have an 'actual' node.

I hope you don't mind me posting the pic below as it compliments your MT4 indy. Your indy displays more historical and detailed info, so users would get a full picture if they used our indies in tandem in their MT4 terminals.

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  1. shows news events in a widget you can move around your screen
  2. pin it so it's always on top
  3. doesn't use any MT4 resources because it's a separate app
  4. view any breaking news RSS feed and click the links
  5. view upcoming events
  6. sounds alerts for new RSS feeds and calendar events

link

Politics is the womb in which war develops.
  • #109
  • Jun 4, 2013 6:05pm Jun 4, 2013 6:05pm
Quoting FiatFap
Not sure how you'd do this Euclid? FF decided not to offer an "actual" column in their data release, as their servers would get hammered, here's Merlin's original post; many moons later, the xml still doesn't have an 'actual' node.
Simply use a data source that has the actuals. It may not get them until 5-10 minutes after the event of course.

Quoting FiatFap
I hope you don't mind me posting the pic below as it compliments your MT4 indy.
No problem. It makes much more sense to use a separate application like yours for this. MT4 custom indicators shouldn't really be holding up the interface thread by fetching web pages and stuff. It only makes sense to use an indicator for marking stuff on the chart.
  • #110
  • Edited Jun 5, 2013 3:09am Jun 4, 2013 10:27pm | Edited Jun 5, 2013 3:09am
Quoting euclid
{quote} That looks like the Journal tab. The Experts tab should have something like this: 2013.06.05 00:22:45 NewsCal-v107 USDJPY.lmx,M5: initialized 2013.06.05 00:22:45 NewsCal-v107 USDJPY.lmx,M5: loaded successfully
Ah yes! Thanks
In the Experts window it says:

2013.06.05 13:26:06 NewsCal-v107 EURUSD,M30: Can't load data file, cannot open file
2013.06.05 13:26:06 NewsCal-v107 EURUSD,M30: Download failed - Error number: 2
  • #111
  • Jun 5, 2013 9:01am Jun 5, 2013 9:01am
Quoting euclid
{quote} It makes much more sense to use a separate application like yours for this. MT4 custom indicators shouldn't really be holding up the interface thread by fetching web pages and stuff. It only makes sense to use an indicator for marking stuff on the chart.
What if you used an EA to extrapolate all the data from "web pages and stuff", as EA's use different threading from the chart GUI. The EA does this once when the chart loads and then writes all the data to an excel file in the experts/files folder as a sequential 1D or 2D array; users would then attach an MT4 indy to their chart(s), which is dedicated to only drawing chart objects by reading the excel file.

Also, you could use the Sleep function in the EA (can't use it in custom indies), so it doesn't hang MT4 if processes become too back-logged in the queue when making web-page requests.

So in summary: EA = data crunching, custom indy = draw chart objects

Just my 2c, but appreciate the above involves a lot of refactoring

Edit: just remembered you mentioned DLL's in some posts, so you most likely do stuff in there and this post is fluff
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
  • #112
  • Jun 7, 2013 6:18pm Jun 7, 2013 6:18pm
well, in the end it was just easier to re-write, thanks for your help.
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  • #113
  • Jun 8, 2013 8:34am Jun 8, 2013 8:34am
Quoting oktavian
{quote} Ah yes! Thanks In the Experts window it says: 2013.06.05 13:26:06 NewsCal-v107 EURUSD,M30: Can't load data file, cannot open file 2013.06.05 13:26:06 NewsCal-v107 EURUSD,M30: Download failed - Error number: 2
OK. So the actual error was that it couldn't open the URL. The file error is not the problem. I'll have to fix the error reporting.

Quoting oktavian
well, in the end it was just easier to re-write, thanks for your help.
That usually is the best solution.
  • #114
  • Jun 11, 2013 7:20am Jun 11, 2013 7:20am
Has any one used this to post directly into Microsoft outlook?
  • #115
  • Jul 1, 2013 2:49am Jul 1, 2013 2:49am
Hi I have been using the news cal for sometime and as today I have a download has failed,no vertical lines are displaying. I recheck all my setting and they seem fine,how do I go about fixing it.

Thank you..
  • #116
  • Jul 15, 2013 8:46am Jul 15, 2013 8:46am
NewsBrk v0.04 does not work since Today.

Anyone got a clue whats wrong?

Says "No news" , I doubt that is the case as of today Monday 15 July
  • #117
  • Jul 15, 2013 9:04am Jul 15, 2013 9:04am
Quoting daujones
NewsBrk v0.04 does not work since Today. Anyone got a clue whats wrong? Says "No news" , I doubt that is the case as of today Monday 15 July
http://rss.forexfactory.net/news/breakingnews.xml is not being updated by FF.
  • #118
  • Aug 2, 2013 12:57am Aug 2, 2013 12:57am
NewsCal-v107.ex4 ........error when I use for MT4 on my laptop.


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  • #119
  • Aug 2, 2013 4:10am Aug 2, 2013 4:10am
Quoting xavtias
NewsCal-v107.ex4 ........error when I use for MT4 on my laptop. {image}
Did you enabled DLL in your platform settings ?
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
  • #120
  • Aug 2, 2013 4:41am Aug 2, 2013 4:41am
I can not find DLL in my platform settings where is it. where is DLL setting?, why we need to enable DLL?
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