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  • #341
  • Aug 29, 2015 9:04am Aug 29, 2015 9:04am
Quoting Alraqeem
{quote} save under MQL4/EXPERTS you can modify news time setting to any AREA time. {file}
Thanks Alraqeem

Regards
  • #342
  • Sep 4, 2015 3:16am Sep 4, 2015 3:16am
hi everyone,

on my fcal headline indicator is doesnt show medium impact news even thought it is set to true.

any ideas why?
  • #343
  • Edited 3:33am Sep 10, 2015 3:07am | Edited 3:33am
Hi,
Is there a way to make the newscal indicator show more historical vertical lines? Mine only show about the last 5 days & I'd like to see more (just High priority) events shown for some historical analysis.

Any help/ideas appreciated?

Cheers
padnoter

p.s. ok now i see that this is due to ff 1 week xml - ff_calendar_thisweek.xml
anyway around this? to see more & plot vertically?
  • #344
  • Sep 10, 2015 4:47am Sep 10, 2015 4:47am
Quoting padnoter
Hi, Is there a way to make the newscal indicator show more historical vertical lines? Mine only show about the last 5 days & I'd like to see more (just High priority) events shown for some historical analysis. Any help/ideas appreciated? Cheers padnoter p.s. ok now i see that this is due to ff 1 week xml - ff_calendar_thisweek.xml anyway around this? to see more & plot vertically?
There's somewhere on FF historical files for the old datas news. You should find this with the search function. If I remember, this comes with an indicator plotting all the historical news found in these files.

I may be wrong but I think Hanover was involved in this ...
MT4/MT5 EAs/Indicators/Alerts coder
  • #345
  • Sep 10, 2015 10:26am Sep 10, 2015 10:26am
Quoting padnoter
this is due to ff 1 week xml - ff_calendar_thisweek.xml anyway around this? to see more & plot vertically?
The XML file is limited to the current week, and it also lacks both the 'actual' and 'revised from' values shown on FF calendar.

FerruFX is correct. Back in 2007 I wrote an indicator/system ('Plot News') that gets around this problem by downloading and processing the FF calendar HTML data, instead of the XML. If you're interested, you can find the latest version here (it's free, despite being hidden away in the commercial section). In addition to the indicator, the toolkit there also includes a CSV file containing all 38,000+ news announcements from FF calendar's inception (1 Jan 2007), and a standalone app that downloads news items from FF calendar for any week(s)/month(s), and in any format, that you specify. The Plot News indicator plots this data on your MT4 chart; or alternatively you can load the data into another app (e.g. Excel) to perform your own analysis.
  • #346
  • Sep 10, 2015 11:58am Sep 10, 2015 11:58am
thanks to both hanover & ferrufx - i'll take a look at it - it sounds like what i need... cheers
  • #347
  • Sep 11, 2015 7:09am Sep 11, 2015 7:09am
very nice indicator & download program hanover - easy to customise & use

- just what i needed - many thanks

  • #348
  • Sep 13, 2015 11:15pm Sep 13, 2015 11:15pm
Quoting rayphua
Hi Pmak, Thanks for your time in developing this. Would like to know how I can increase the number of news articles to show instead of just the current 4. thank you again.
Not at present, they are hard coded.

Quoting feifeiyu7247
{quote} Hi! I have made a version from your works which can be "iCustom" but whithout any "Object" in chart, only for used in EA. It only contains the two most important value: nearest past and future minutes. But it has a problem, how to used in EA backtest? I don't know which sUrl to download the xml file for any week in history. Do you know it or any one know? Please tell me. And I share my works too here, It cann't be used in EA backtest, but can be used in EA running. {file}
Quoting padnoter
Hi, Is there a way to make the newscal indicator show more historical vertical lines? Mine only show about the last 5 days & I'd like to see more (just High priority) events shown for some historical analysis. Any help/ideas appreciated? Cheers padnoter p.s. ok now i see that this is due to ff 1 week xml - ff_calendar_thisweek.xml anyway around this? to see more & plot vertically?

I haven't had a chance yet to try Hanover's app but it looks like it is what you are looking for to get historical data.
What you can do with the indicator is save your chart on a regular basis as a template "NewsHistory" to save a history of all events on the chart.
Of course this does not fetch old data, just update the chart with the latest news data. But if you let it run for a few weeks you should have enough for a decent test.

Then when you are backtesting you rename it to "tester.tpl" and the EA Backtester will call it when testing your EA and all objects created by the indicator and saved to the template will be available for your EA to access.

Quoting feifeiyu7247
{quote} HI，PMak Thanks for your work. I found 3 sentences which I can't understand in your codes. the first: else if (!StringSubstr(mainData[newsIdx][TITLE],0,8)=="Daylight") {skip=true;} I don't understand the "!" here. If the 8 letters isn't "Daylight",then skip? but the execution result is inverse. I am confused. the second: else if((mainData[newsIdx][TIME]=="All Day" && mainData[newsIdx][TIME]=="") || (mainData[newsIdx][TIME] == "Tentative" && mainData[newsIdx][TIME] == "") || (mainData[newsIdx][TIME] == "")) {skip=true;} Can the "TIME"...
No idea, I didnt code the original indicator. Maybe hanover knows.

Quoting siboneloz
hi everyone, on my fcal headline indicator is doesnt show medium impact news even thought it is set to true. any ideas why?
Mine works fine. Maybe double check your settings and reboot your Metatrader. Anyone else with that problem?
  • #349
  • Sep 14, 2015 1:59am Sep 14, 2015 1:59am
Quoting PMak
No idea, I didnt code the original indicator. Maybe hanover knows.
Sorry, can't help, I didn't code it either.
  • #350
  • Sep 14, 2015 3:33am Sep 14, 2015 3:33am
Quoting feifeiyu7247
{quote} Hi! I have made a version from your works which can be "iCustom" but whithout any "Object" in chart, only for used in EA. It only contains the two most important value: nearest past and future minutes. But it has a problem, how to used in EA backtest? I don't know which sUrl to download the xml file for any week in history. Do you know it or any one know? Please tell me. And I share my works too here, It cann't be used in EA backtest, but can be used in EA running. {file}

what were the changes you made that make it usable with iCustom?
  • #351
  • Sep 17, 2015 6:46am Sep 17, 2015 6:46am
Wow this is a great indicator.
Thanks a lot, will be using it!
  • #352
  • Sep 24, 2015 9:37am Sep 24, 2015 9:37am
Quoting euclid
{quote} It's already free for all to use. I haven't had time to do any development on this for a while, but I'll take look at the alternate source feature.
Hey. I use your NewsCal 107a and would like to use it in your strategy with EA. Can you share the source file, for free or at a sensible price?
  • #353
  • Oct 23, 2015 12:18am Oct 23, 2015 12:18am
Quoting ForexSpider.
Hey there, does anyone know if is possible to modify the hour of the MT4 platform server to my local time? so i can be tuned better? Regards
Hi There,

I do a fair bit of coding on the side so not an expert (avoiding a deluge of requests lol) but the '!' is used in front of a Boolean variable i.e. True/False and if you wish to test for a Bool (short term) to be false, you can say if(BoolName == false) OR a shorter way is if(!BoolName) which translates to if(not(BoolName)) so in the code you showed it is simply checking to see if :
if (!StringSubstr(mainData[newsIdx][TITLE],0,8)=="Daylight")
if(A Sub-string of the data 'newsIdx' (in the first eight characters[0,8] ) IS NOT "Daylight") then do something.....

It is literally saying if the statement < "The first 8 characters of the string array mainData[newsIdx] is equal to "Daylight" > is NOT TRUE // IS FALSE then...

And this is shortened to if(NOT(Statement == true)) then.....


Hope I haven't confused you but I think I've done a cross between explaining it and teaching a tiny bit of code lol

Paul
  • #354
  • Oct 25, 2015 7:05am Oct 25, 2015 7:05am
hi, how can i contact Euclid （aka. Tim Morris)
he had not left mailbox

can the font type and size be changed in the Newscal-v107 indicator?
  • #355
  • Oct 30, 2015 2:52am Oct 30, 2015 2:52am
Hi,

I found these news indicators on the web it is in russian though. It doesn't work maybe some one can have a look and fix it thanks.


Cheers
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  • #356
  • Nov 8, 2015 4:20pm Nov 8, 2015 4:20pm
hi can anyone tell me how can i make the calendar read properly?
they are too close to each other. time-currency-news

i think its because of the high resolution of my monitor (3840*2160)
is there anyway to make it more readable?
thanks
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  • #357
  • Dec 16, 2015 10:37am Dec 16, 2015 10:37am
Hi, euclid, great indic, love it.
Could you make, instead of lines, dots to be plotted, same as Hanover's News indic? Dots make much cleaner view, while vertical lines often overlap each other.

Thank you,

Simon
S love nia
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  • #358
  • Dec 23, 2015 7:44pm Dec 23, 2015 7:44pm
Is there a way to interact this indicator with my EA. that is getting the event time and impact?
Thanks.
  • #359
  • Feb 5, 2016 12:19pm Feb 5, 2016 12:19pm
Can you tell me where to download the latest version of your Forex Calendar Indicator? Thank you very much for your time!
  • #360
  • Feb 7, 2016 12:21pm Feb 7, 2016 12:21pm
Awesome indicator!! But I think I'm doing something wrong... my calendar and breaking news aren't updating automatically. Only update when I change the timeframe then if I want another update I need to change the timeframe again.

I've checked "Allow DLL imports" and "Allow WebRequest for listed URL" in Options/Expert Advisors and I also checked "Allow DLL imports" and "Allow external experts imports" in indicator Common tab.
I've copied the files to MQL4/Indicators/Market folder.

Does anybody knows what am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
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