red news

[Jaap]

how to i tell ea not to open trades one hour before and after red news ?

[l'andorrà]

If you know exactly at what time those events happen, you can create two string variables to specify those opening/closeing periods within a 'Time filter' block.

[Jaap]

@l-andorrà i thought there were a auto red news identifier

[trader.philipps]

@jaap News filter is on my list of things to do, so I don't have a solution, yet. One popular indicator is ffcal. Check this one it should be working with the "new" Forex Factory Calendar URL.

https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=12238559#post12238559

It should provide 2 buffers that you can use as I remember correctly. It's counting the minutes down till next news.

[l'andorrà]

Dear trader.philipps. Would be so kind to share it once you develop it?

[trader.philipps]

@l-andorrà I know you can do so either. If you have some spare time, here is all you need (from what I see at the moment).

Use this version! I only added lables to the 2 buffers.

0_1580085642689_forexfactory.mq4

Use those settings!

Buffer considerqations:
For usage, please bare in mind that the 2 buffers only show the next news event that is a valid entry due to configuration. So for instance if you want low and medium news covered and 2 events of each time occur at same time and for some reason the medium news is found first, it will display the 2 buffers only for that one. Hence, if you plan for more than one news type, I'd suggest to make 1 configuration per news type!

Does that make sense?

You may start a project and share the results to us.

[l'andorrà]

Haven't you tried it yourself? Can you please share some screenshots about how it looks?