FF Calendar Indicator for MT

David,

Thanks for responding. To clear up some confusion about confusion that I see here

I do run Win7, but because of discussions with you and others, I simply moved my MT4 from under Program Files to its own folder under C:\. And your News Setup has run fine along with FFCal.exe which I now have to run separately first to download news. What has happened is that Download News was working fine as a MT4 script- when initiated it loaded, in either auto or manual mode, the FFCal.exe and I got the news. At about the time you announced you were no longer updating it, Download News stopped working on my PC, but this is no problem, as I simply run FFCa.exel that is loaded separately on my PC desktop as a shortcut.

Why Download News has stopped working, I do not know. Don't think it has to do anything with Win7 or your decision not to update.

So what I asked Sanami was whether his 'update' would work on its own, without manual intervention as I now have to do. Looks like there are many FFCal products floating around, hence the other part of the confusion.

BTW, over the last several days, I don't seem to be able to get Medium News after erasing and then retyping Medium=Yellow after High=Lime, on your products MT4 menu...tried reloading, retyping etc. But again, this is a minor inconvenience. High importance news continue fine. Also I had to manually change the GMT offset after DST took effect, but changed it back to the old setting after 2 days- so something happened in between, and this situation I have noted with several folks online. Strange things happen.

Looking forward to some more great products from you, whenever you have the time !

Regards,
Athar.

I'm assuming that FF Cal would have to correlate the upcoming news time from the FF server data

What happens? http://cdn.forexfactory.com/ffcal_week_this.xml is showing last week event???

This is a customized version of FFCal.mq4 .
This gets the news data from DailyFX. (when set to UseDailyFXData = true

Noticed the same; it's a US bank holiday today, let's see if it's fixed tomorrow, but it's suspicious the main FF calendar is displaying current events, so perhaps they've changed the data source.

Will have to use DailyFX if xml not fixed.

The xml is ok now

Thank you for this indicator.

not working anymore? I tested it here and dont shows the correct information.

Hi! I'm very impressed with the FF Calendar Indicator, but I don't use MT4 and I have no need for an indicator; per se. I am, however, a pretty advanced programmer so I'd be happy to create my own calendar downloader, if possible. Better yet, I'd like to open-source it. The thing I need to know, though, is all the of the API details. I'm guessing that there's something akin to the "http://www.forexfactory.com/ffcal_week_this.xml" feed that I can access, although I could find any info on the subject even after an extensive read of the site. I also realize, from reading a number of forum entries, that there's a bunch of "meta" issues that I need to deal with (i.e. timezone adjustments, etc.) Anyway, any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated....

hi anyone got the latest copy of ffcal or a copy that does not produce the


FFCal: cannot delete file... expertsfiles10-15-2012-EURCHF60-FFCal.xml for example.

Can you confirm a working copy for the latest mt4 build 509. without errors
thankyou

Hi,

I am trying to GMT offset this indicator to show vertical news lines at the correct times. The indicator does have a GMT offset, however its for the main headline news icon not the vertical news lines can someone please add coding to the indicator its an mq4 file so adjustable. Indicator attached.

Hi everyone, can someone please help me understand how to back test an EA with the FFCal indi? I don't understand how to catch historical data (XML file?) plus I fear that even if I store some sort of history in my platform, MT continues to connect to FF website. PLS HELP!!!!!!

Hi Everyone,

Is there a version of this indi that works on MT5?

Perhaps someone could help me with this:

Along with the current news display, I want the indicator to display the next news title, day, hour and minute each in a separated label.

Example: Title: Unemployment claims
Day: 27
time: 13
minute: 30

I went though the whole source file but it's so complicated to get these variables. The only thing that I've been able to get so far is the news title which is dispTitle[0]

Any idea?

attached the ffcal indicator with alerts, you will have to adjust the OffsetHours (time difference), but it is working (the alerts also) ...
(I think I did not post this indicator before at forexactory)

Hi!

Here is my modified version of the indicator. Please be aware that the code has been heavily modified to suit my needs (especially backtesting), so you can consider it almost a "fork" of the original.



Changes introduced are:

1. Related Calencar functions externalized to library. This library is easily usable from an EA
2. The indicator / funtions have been abstracted from the source used (ForexFactory or DailyFX)
3. Additional graphic capabilities added (future events lines, coloring of vertical lines, ...)
4. Backtesting capabilities added. The indicator can instruct the library to use an External Time reference. This reference can be easily provided by the EA under test adding the following line of code at the beginning of the start() function:

TimeLocal() Returns local computer time as number of seconds elapsed from 00:00 January 1, 1970. But at the testing, local time is modelled and is the same as the modelled last known server time. This means TimeLocal() = TimeCurrent() when testing, but many times TimeLocal() != TimeCurrent in real.

Additionally, the time is only modeled into the EA context. If you backtest visually, the indicators set at the chart are not called by the EA, but the chart directly. The External Time Reference is my solution to this problem.

1. ForexFactory XML files are kept on a permanent basis with different name on a daily basis. This is done so to have backtesting capabilities for FF XML files.
2. Added daylight saving zone awareness. It's needed to differenciate between the timezone of the broker and our time zone. The library uses a file called daylightsavings.xml to keep track of the lightsaving periods.
3. And many other changes ...

Please be aware the code can have some bugs, as I'm not a profesional programmer.

All the neede files are at the attached ZIP file. Just copy the files at the corresponding directory under experts.

Best regards,
Sergien

Hi,

Update for FFCalMOD.

FXDaily has a tricky combination that make havoc with the CSV read rutines (i.e, "USD Someone speaks, at somewhere"). For MT4 FileReadString() funtion that is not a unique string but two of them. I have added code ot make sure everything is read correctly.



Best regards,
Sergien

Hello,
I made some small modification that indicator will work proprely - from original one.

BR
Zbyszek

Hi everyone.

What a great thread and News Indicator "magic" I am a chronic hater of popups so I added "codersguru" speek.dll you can download it from the following LINK:
http://www.forex-tsd.com/attachments...live-speak.zip

BTW I have added extra voices to my PC so I don't have to listen to Microsoft Sam it was a small price to pay ..

Thank you to everyone who has contributed .

Cheers
Roddo

Hello guys.
Is somebody have version of this indicator worked under 600 build MT4 and higher?