FF Calendar Indicator for MT

I was woundering if there is some version of this FFcal or any other news indicator that can display " actual " ?
if yes then a link to it would be mutch appritiated!

FFCalMOD_v20d stopped working on the upgrade of MT4 to v830. Can anyone please get it work? Thanks, RS

I have modified a version of FFCal to get it working on 600+ builds. I didn't see the FFCal_Mod version here but mine does work on the December 2014 MT4 builds and I'm happy with the results.

Here's a detailed list of the problems in the original FFCal source that I fixed.

*** Fixes ***
- The TimeGMT() function is now a native function and conflicted with the custom implementation of it. No biggie, just renamed it.

- Original source could no longer fetch the web pages. This was a problem with ANSI calls to the web fetching DLLs where the new scripting updates were trying to send Unicode strings. I wrapped the internal functions to handle the string conversions in both ways to make that happy.

- Indicator would display blank news entries if you got beyond the download problem. This was a result of FileReadString() command which now does not tolerate having a value larger than that of the actual file. The read size was set correctly and we had news entries.

- The time of the news entries was helter-skelter. News 13 hours apart were showing a bizarre 9 hour gap. This happened to be because the update to the scripting engine changed the precedent of the && and || conditional operators which messed up the internal logic of the "am" and "pm" checks in the original indicator.
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Other things worth noting:

- You may want to set the OffsetHours to 0. I had it set to -1 on the release of the above version.

- A fix I forgot to mention: The original source used the Year(), Month(), etc... commands to date its downloaded files. I changed these to TimeYear(), TimeMonth(), because the other commands *do not update during runtime*. In other words if you were to let the original FFCalendar run through the weekend without restarting the indicator or your MT4 terminal you would not get the news for the new week. The adjustment I made *should* allow it to continue to run consistently forever without needing to restart the terminal/indicator.

Problems with ffcal_net:

ngfast, I downloaded the revised ffcal from your post above, I was able to run it on the 4 digit broker, but when I attached it to a 5 digit broker, it did not work, anything I should do to make it work?


Thanks

The ForexTSD_Calendar_v1.6.ex4 indicator doesn't require dll, MT4 840 билд works with Windows 7 x64. The user of ir0407 modified the forum MT5.

@tumir66

I'm running a 5-digit broker here successfully. If you explain the error and/or check the "Experts" tab for errors I'll take a look though.

Thanks for ffcal_net. I'm using on a 5 digit broker with no problems as of today.

Hi It works on windows 10 for me, but how to change the time zone?

This update is a really nice feature to back test DailyFx calendar but while we have success in Mt4 Build 840 on Win7, Win 8 etc, we continue to see inconsistent file failures with DailyFX apparently not supporting .csv consistently. With debug features activated, the LibNEWS_B6_v2a library reports the file name convention to be correct, but the contents of the .csv DailyFX Apache returns is now either...


The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
or
Error 503 backend read error

Worse, because these files become loaded as valid .csv files, it appears one needs to delete the specific file in the \files directory to "re-grab" the file, assuming because the downloader found a valid file already exists with that name in \files. I thought the library uploaded new csv every time regardless, but my time stamps are not changing here on the news file to suggest this is happening each run, possibly because the file never becomes fully valid.

Interestingly, when one converts the file request to an .xls type in browser, valid data does return from DailyFX in a browser so it may be simply a change at DailyFX or issue in html encoding causing it. http://www.dailyfx.com/files/Calendar-08-02-2015.xls

When compiling the library LibNEWS_B6_v2a.ex4, a warning returns that a constant is not coded as an unsigned integer reporting "truncation of constant value" but I doubt this is the immediate cause meaning the compiler is converting the constant to unsigned automatically which doesn't look like it would cause the problem above.

1) Does anyone know if ForexFactory format can be read with this library as yet, rather than DailyFX?
2) Is anyone else still using this updated version by ngfast?
3) If so are the same errors happening to others using it?
4) Has anyone solved this if so and would you post update please if there is a solution?
5) Any known alternative news readers coded to work in current Mt4 back testing?

Seems ngfast hasn't been around for a few weeks. I was unable to locate anyone else updating this library or addressing the FF format issues or DailyFX' file read error responses.

Any helps would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for sharing.. you are a great coder.. I need help about this indicator.. Could you tell me please how to read the Title of Event (News) in this indicator into EA?

@sudirman

Your best bet is to enable logging and pull the name from the log file that's created. MT4 only allows you to hook the standard indicator output buffers. The only other way would be to call memory sharing mechanisms in Windows but that would be even more complicated.

@afp

It pulls the data for the current week from forexfactory by default: http://www.forexfactory.com/ffcal_week_this.xml

It pulls a fresh copy of that every day.

Other XML files from other providers may not be formatted similarly.

try this ....

Hello everyone..
Need help with FFCal indi its always error "downloading incomplete". How to fix this
Thanks before

Hello Ramaparasu..
i download your indi but its show nothing please help. Thanks

maybe your problems are ...

1. Updated to MT4 build 920, it does not allow to attach your external indicator, EA, and etc...there are a couple of threads discussing how to fix the issues that 920 is causing.... ( There is a build 940 coming this Friday which might solve the latest issues )

Sorry I cannot help you, personally I am having no problems with build 920

2. Sometimes when an internet connection is not good enough, can interfere your Indi, Scripts and EA's performance ....
( delete unnecessary indi , script, EA that you're not using for )

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there's no problem with my MT4

4 digits broker


5 digits broker

Does everyone know why forexfactory.com calendar show alter 1 hour with actual new release?
TODAY: FEB 10
10 PM (GMT+7) Fed Chair Yellen Testifies BUT this new release at 9 PM (GMT+7 - THIS MY loca cation time)
How can we change to other source?

I saw that there is a exemple code to use on EA.

Any idea to how actually use it on my EA? I tried to just copy the exemple and add to ea but it wont compile.

Id like to filter news.

Thanks

Sorry I do not have spare time to modify any indicator and ea

Hey Ramaparasu and everyone,

I am using the "ffcal_net" indicator with an EA I am developing. It´s working fine with the iCustom to read those infos.

Although, now I would like to read the CURRENCY of the next event. Could tell me which code lines should I add on the .mq4?

Tks in advance for your help.