NewsTracker to control EAs around newstime

I've developed an include file that can be added to any EA that works on the shorter timeframes (eg 1M, 5M and 15M) to give them the opportunity to be out of the market during news events.

It has a detailed explanation of how it works included in the file, including the following suggestion on avoiding news:

#include <NewsTrackerV1_0.mqh>

string strNews;
datetime NewsTime;

// avoid buying if within 5 minutes of news event
if (MyBuySignal && !NewsEvent(5,strNews,NewsTime)) DoMyBuying();

// close all positions if within 5 minutes of news event
if (OpenOrders() && NewsEvent(5,strNews,NewsTime)) CloseOrDeleteAllOrders();


The NewsLoggerV1_0 EA that uses NewsTracker is also attached as another example. It creates records of news events and stores them in experts\files

Copy NewsTrackerV1_0.mqh to experts\include and don't compile
Copy NewsLoggerV1_0 files to experts
Copy NewsItems.csv to experts\files and update with news events as they become known

Where does your expert get the calendar and news from?

You have to type them in yourself. The file I sent contains all the orange & red flagged forexfactory calendar items for this week, but you could get them from anywhere else, such as this one http://fxtrade.oanda.com/resources/e...alendar/ec.pdf from Oanda.

This little tool should grab the news automaticly.
Results are stored in Calendar.txt

Nice bit of scraping, TraderSeven! I might change my file format to match.