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@Jura informed me that v4 was not downloading events which happen at the same time as the previous event. It was due to another change in the structure of Forex Factory calendar.

Enclosed please find a new version (v5) of EconomicEventsDownloader.jar which corrects this issue.

As for previous versions, the enclosed ZIP also contains source code. This source code is useless for the execution of EconomicEventsDownloader.jar. It is just given as a reference if, for any reason (for instance: security), you prefer to review the code and compile yourself the .jar file.

I have not tested it. I mean... it works, but I have not made deep tests in order to check that the output files fully correspond to the content of Forex Factory calendar. Please check it if you want to use it.

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Hi Jura

I placed the .dll file in C:\Program Files\TS Support\MultiCharts64, but i seem to still get the error.

IS it a 64 bit MC thing or maybe i am doing something wrong.

OK i had the 32bit file all ok thanks

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You should place the .DLL file in the MultiCharts directory, not the folder itself since then MultiCharts can't find it.

Like this:



Let us know how that goes.


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Is it possible load more historical data and have a time clock count down to economic event and a forecast from
Forex Factory
or fxcm website?

Why this nice tool is not native included in mc?

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Hi @bomberone1

I am (was) in charge of the Java part for downloading, so I will only answer to "Is it possible load more historical data" question.

When previous versions of the tool were designed, downloading data from ForexFactory was only possible back to 2009. Now, it seems OK back to 2007.

So, enclosed please find a new version (v5.1) of EconomicEventsDownloader.jar which downloads back to 2007 (instead of 2009 in v5). It is the only change.

As for previous versions, the enclosed ZIP also contains source code. This source code is useless for the execution of the jar file. It is just given as a reference if, for any reason (for instance: security), you prefer to review the code and compile yourself the .jar file.

I have not tested it. I mean... it works, but I have not made deep tests in order to check that the output files fully correspond to the content of Forex Factory calendar. Please check it if you want to use it.

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Fantastic tool. Wish there was an equivalent for NinjaTrader for economic news filtering during backtests.
It can definitely help to stay clear of some unwanted drawdowns on some markets.

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Fantastic tool. Wish there was an equivalent for NinjaTrader for economic news filtering during backtests.
It can definitely help to stay clear of some unwanted drawdowns on some markets.

Start a separate thread for NinjaTrader. I know users have created such a thing, @MWinfrey I believe for one. Also a simple test for if (Time[0] == Time[1]) will help to not trade during news events because for non-time based bars (ie: range bars) they will move quickly with identical timestamps in NT, and you can know to not trade under that circumstance.

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For completeness purpose, enclosed please find documentation for the Java tool which downloads economic events from Forex Factory.

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there seems to be a few examples of this using future news events. I am trying to create an indicator that plots historical events by showing it as a 0 for no news on the bar or 1 for news on that bar. i am using EE.GetHistoricalEvents but seem to be having all sorts of issues. could someone post a simple example of this in indicator form and not as some pop up. I am doing this because I want to use it in back testing.

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could someone post a simple example of this in indicator form and not as some pop up. I am doing this because I want to use it in back testing.

See the code below, which highlights economic events with an arrow and text. It's not 'production ready' (and therefore not "officially" published), but should give you more than enough to start with:

 
Code
Inputs:
	NameOfList("myHistList"),
	RegionsToKeep("EUR;USD;GBP"),
	ChopUpStrings(False),
	Ticks_OffSet(8),
	HighImpact_Color(Red),
	MediumImpact_Color(yellow),
	LowImpact_Color(cyan),
	DisplayArrow(True),
	Arrow_Size(5),
	DisplayLine(True),
	Line_Width(1),
	Line_Style(2),
	DisplayText(True),
	Text_FontSize(10),				
	Text_FontName("Lucida Sans Typewriter"),
	Text_FontColor(white);

Variables:
	tickOffSet( Ticks_OffSet * MinMove), //(Power(10, Round(Log(PriceScale) / Log(10), 0)) / MinMove) ),
	tickSize(MinMove / PriceScale), 
	dtEconEvent(0), prevDtEconEvent(0), dtNextBar(0), dtPrevBar(0), indexNumber(1),
	firstDate(0), firstTime(0), arrowID(0), textID(0), tlID(0), loopDoneForBar(False), impactOfEvent(0),
	listLength(0),
	x(0), y(0), z(0);

if (CurrentBar = 1) then begin 
	 firstDate = Date;
	 firstTime = Time_s;
end;

Arrays:
	barPrice[](0), barDT[](0), barPriceLow[](0);

once cleardebug;

// Collect data
if (BarStatus(1) = 2) then begin 
	x = Array_GetMaxIndex(barPrice);
	
	Array_SetMaxIndex(barPrice, x + 1);
	Array_SetMaxIndex(barDT, x + 1);
	Array_SetMaxIndex(barPriceLow, x + 1);
	
	barPrice[x+1]  	= Highest(High, 10);  //High;
	
	if (x > 10) then 
		barPrice[x+1-10] 	= Highest(High, 20);
	
	barDT[x+1] 			= ELDateToDateTime(Date) + ELTimeToDateTime_s(Time_s);
	barPriceLow[x+1]	= Low - (MinMove * 2);
	
end; //: Data collection


if (LastBarOnChart_s = True) and (BarStatus(1) = 2) and (GetAppInfo(aiRealTimeCalc) = 0) then begin 

	// Generate economic events list
	once begin 
	
		value1 = EE.GetHistoricalEvents(NameOfList, firstDate, Date);
//		value1 = EE.GetFutureEvents(NameOfList);
		value1 = EE.KeepTimeRange(NameOfList, SessionStartTime(0, DayOfWeek(Date)), SessionEndTime(0, DayOfWeek(Date)));
		value1 = EE.KeepRegions(NameOfList, RegionsToKeep);			// Only keep the specified regions in the list
		value1 = EE.RemoveImpact(NameOfList, 0);							// Remove all events with impact 0 (i.e. bank holiday)
	
		// Note: uncomment the line below to see which Economic Events are in the list after the filtering functions. (For debugging purposes)
//		EE.PrintToOutputLog(NameOfList); 
	end;

	Print("Lengt of bar array: ", array_getmaxindex(barPrice), "  and barDt: ", array_getmaxindex(barDT));
	
	dtEconEvent 	= EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);	
	listLength 		= EE.GetMaxIndex(NameOfList);
	
	z = 1;
	y = 1;
	value1 = 1;
	value2 = 1;
	
	// Loop through data
	for x = 1 to Array_GetMaxIndex(barDT) - 1 begin 
	
		// if there are multiple economic events on this time
		for z = 0 to 9 begin
		
			if (IntPortion(barDT[x]) = IntPortion(dtEconEvent)) and (barDT[x-1] < dtEconEvent) and (barDT[x+1] > dtEconEvent) then begin 
			
				Print("PrevBar: ", DateTimeToStr(barDT[x-1]), " Event: ", DateTimeToStr(dtEconEvent), "  next bar: ", DateTimeToStr(barDT[x+1]));
				Print(Spaces(2), "Date of event: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yy", ELDateToDateTime(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber))),
						"  Time of event: ", FormatTime("HH:mm:ss", ELTimeToDateTime(EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexnumber))),
						"  name of event: ", EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber));
						
				// Plot
				if (z = 0) then begin 
					
					if (DisplayText = True) then
				
						textID = Text_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber), 
									EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
									barPrice[x] + (tickSize * 2) + Arrow_Size, 
									IffString(ChopUpStrings = True, 
										StrChopUp(Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")")),
										Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")")
									));
					
					if (DisplayArrow = True) then 
					
						arrowID = Arw_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber), 
													EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
													barPrice[x], True);
					
					if (DisplayLine = True) then 							
					 	tlID = TL_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
					 						EE.TimeList(nameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
					 						barPriceLow[x],
					 						EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
					 						EE.TimeList(nameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
					 						barPriceLow[x] * 0.85);
					 		
			 									
				end //: z = 0
				
				else if (DisplayText = True) then
					value1 = Text_SetString(textID, Text(Text_GetString(textID), NewLine, "&", NewLine,
								IffString(ChopUpStrings = True,
									StrChopUp(Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")")),
									Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")"))	
								));
				
				// Formatting
				value6 = Text_SetSize(textID, Text_FontSize);
				value6 = Text_SetFontName(textID, Text_FontName);
				value6 = Text_SetStyle(textID, 0, 1);
				value6 = Text_SetColor(textID, Text_FontColor);
				
				value7 = Arw_SetSize(arrowID, Arrow_Size);
				
				value8 = TL_SetStyle(tlID, Line_Style);
				value8 = TL_SetSize(tlID, Line_Width);
				
				impactOfEvent = EE.ImpactList(NameOfList, indexNumber);
				
				switch (impactOfEvent) begin 
				
					case 1: 				// low impact
						value5 = Arw_SetColor(arrowID, LowImpact_Color);
						value5 = TL_SetColor(tlID, LowImpact_Color);
					
					case 2:				// medium
						value5 = Arw_SetColor(arrowID, MediumImpact_Color);
						value5 = TL_SetColor(tlID, MediumImpact_Color);
					
					case 3:				// high
						value5 = Arw_SetColor(arrowID, HighImpact_Color);
						value5 = TL_SetColor(tlID, HighImpact_Color);
				
				end; //: ImpactOfEvent switch

				indexNumber	= indexNumber + 1;
				
				dtEconEvent = IFF(indexNumber > listLength, 9999999, EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber));
				
				Print(Spaces(3), "Next econ event = ", DateTimeToStr(dtEconEvent));
				
//				value2 = value2 + 1;
			
			end else if (IntPortion(barDT[x]) > IntPortion(dtEconEvent)) then begin 
			
				Print("BarDT: ", DateTimeToStr(BarDT[x]), " econ event: ", DateTimeToStr(dtEconEvent), " - happened on a market closed day");
				
				indexNumber	= indexNumber + 1;
				
				dtEconEvent = EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);
			
//				value1 = value1 + 1;
			end;
	
		end; //: z loop
	end; //: x loop
	
//	Print("How many economic events missed? ", value1);
//	Print("How many economic events plotted? ", value2);

		loopDoneForBar = False;
		
		while (loopDoneForBar = False) begin 
		
			// If the economic event doesn't happen on this day -> skip
			// that way, when the market is closed when economic events happened, the list moves on
			if (IntPortion(barDT[x]) > IntPortion(dtEconEvent)) then begin 
			
				y = y + 1;
				
				Print(Spaces(2), "How many days skipped? ", NumToStr(y, 0));
				
				Print(Spaces(4), "Date: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yyyy", barDT[x]), 
					"  event date: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yyyy", dtEconEvent));
			
				indexNumber	= indexNumber + 1;
				
				if (indexNumber <= listLength) then begin
					dtEconEvent = EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);
//					Print("indexnum: ", NumToStr(indexNumber, 0));
				end;
				
				loopDoneForBar = True;
						
			end else 
			
			if (barDT[x-1] < dtEconEvent) and (barDT[x+1] > dtEconEvent) then begin 
			
				z = z + 1;
							
				Print("How many events are there according to the code? ", NumToStr(z, 0), 
						"  And what is x? ", NumToStr(x, 0));
			
//				Print(Spaces(2), "dt: ", NumToStr(dtEconEvent, 10), " indexNumber: ", indexNumber,
//					" Date: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yyyy", dtEconEvent), "  time: ", ToTime_DT(dtEconEvent));
				
				// Draw text & arrows
				textID = Text_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber), EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber) * 100, barPrice[x] + tickOffSet,
									Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), "(", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")"));
				
				arrowID = Arw_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber), EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
				 					barPrice[x] + 0.33 * tickOffSet, True);				
			
				indexNumber	= indexNumber + 1;
				dtEconEvent = EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);
				
				if (dtEconEvent = prevDtEconEvent) then 
					loopDoneForBar = False 
				else 
					loopDoneForBar = True;
				
			end else 
				loopDoneForBar = True;
		end;
		//prevDtEconEvent = dtEconEvent;
	
	

	
	Print("length of list? : ", EE.GetMaxIndex(NameOfList));

end; //: LastBarOnChart_s check

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See the code below, which highlights economic events with an arrow and text. It's not 'production ready' (and therefore not "officially" published), but should give you more than enough to start with:

 
Code
Inputs:
	NameOfList("myHistList"),
	RegionsToKeep("EUR;USD;GBP"),
	ChopUpStrings(False),
	Ticks_OffSet(8),
	HighImpact_Color(Red),
	MediumImpact_Color(yellow),
	LowImpact_Color(cyan),
	DisplayArrow(True),
	Arrow_Size(5),
	DisplayLine(True),
	Line_Width(1),
	Line_Style(2),
	DisplayText(True),
	Text_FontSize(10),				
	Text_FontName("Lucida Sans Typewriter"),
	Text_FontColor(white);

Variables:
	tickOffSet( Ticks_OffSet * MinMove), //(Power(10, Round(Log(PriceScale) / Log(10), 0)) / MinMove) ),
	tickSize(MinMove / PriceScale), 
	dtEconEvent(0), prevDtEconEvent(0), dtNextBar(0), dtPrevBar(0), indexNumber(1),
	firstDate(0), firstTime(0), arrowID(0), textID(0), tlID(0), loopDoneForBar(False), impactOfEvent(0),
	listLength(0),
	x(0), y(0), z(0);

if (CurrentBar = 1) then begin 
	 firstDate = Date;
	 firstTime = Time_s;
end;

Arrays:
	barPrice[](0), barDT[](0), barPriceLow[](0);

once cleardebug;

// Collect data
if (BarStatus(1) = 2) then begin 
	x = Array_GetMaxIndex(barPrice);
	
	Array_SetMaxIndex(barPrice, x + 1);
	Array_SetMaxIndex(barDT, x + 1);
	Array_SetMaxIndex(barPriceLow, x + 1);
	
	barPrice[x+1]  	= Highest(High, 10);  //High;
	
	if (x > 10) then 
		barPrice[x+1-10] 	= Highest(High, 20);
	
	barDT[x+1] 			= ELDateToDateTime(Date) + ELTimeToDateTime_s(Time_s);
	barPriceLow[x+1]	= Low - (MinMove * 2);
	
end; //: Data collection


if (LastBarOnChart_s = True) and (BarStatus(1) = 2) and (GetAppInfo(aiRealTimeCalc) = 0) then begin 

	// Generate economic events list
	once begin 
	
		value1 = EE.GetHistoricalEvents(NameOfList, firstDate, Date);
//		value1 = EE.GetFutureEvents(NameOfList);
		value1 = EE.KeepTimeRange(NameOfList, SessionStartTime(0, DayOfWeek(Date)), SessionEndTime(0, DayOfWeek(Date)));
		value1 = EE.KeepRegions(NameOfList, RegionsToKeep);			// Only keep the specified regions in the list
		value1 = EE.RemoveImpact(NameOfList, 0);							// Remove all events with impact 0 (i.e. bank holiday)
	
		// Note: uncomment the line below to see which Economic Events are in the list after the filtering functions. (For debugging purposes)
//		EE.PrintToOutputLog(NameOfList); 
	end;

	Print("Lengt of bar array: ", array_getmaxindex(barPrice), "  and barDt: ", array_getmaxindex(barDT));
	
	dtEconEvent 	= EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);	
	listLength 		= EE.GetMaxIndex(NameOfList);
	
	z = 1;
	y = 1;
	value1 = 1;
	value2 = 1;
	
	// Loop through data
	for x = 1 to Array_GetMaxIndex(barDT) - 1 begin 
	
		// if there are multiple economic events on this time
		for z = 0 to 9 begin
		
			if (IntPortion(barDT[x]) = IntPortion(dtEconEvent)) and (barDT[x-1] < dtEconEvent) and (barDT[x+1] > dtEconEvent) then begin 
			
				Print("PrevBar: ", DateTimeToStr(barDT[x-1]), " Event: ", DateTimeToStr(dtEconEvent), "  next bar: ", DateTimeToStr(barDT[x+1]));
				Print(Spaces(2), "Date of event: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yy", ELDateToDateTime(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber))),
						"  Time of event: ", FormatTime("HH:mm:ss", ELTimeToDateTime(EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexnumber))),
						"  name of event: ", EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber));
						
				// Plot
				if (z = 0) then begin 
					
					if (DisplayText = True) then
				
						textID = Text_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber), 
									EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
									barPrice[x] + (tickSize * 2) + Arrow_Size, 
									IffString(ChopUpStrings = True, 
										StrChopUp(Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")")),
										Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")")
									));
					
					if (DisplayArrow = True) then 
					
						arrowID = Arw_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber), 
													EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
													barPrice[x], True);
					
					if (DisplayLine = True) then 							
					 	tlID = TL_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
					 						EE.TimeList(nameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
					 						barPriceLow[x],
					 						EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
					 						EE.TimeList(nameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
					 						barPriceLow[x] * 0.85);
					 		
			 									
				end //: z = 0
				
				else if (DisplayText = True) then
					value1 = Text_SetString(textID, Text(Text_GetString(textID), NewLine, "&", NewLine,
								IffString(ChopUpStrings = True,
									StrChopUp(Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")")),
									Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")"))	
								));
				
				// Formatting
				value6 = Text_SetSize(textID, Text_FontSize);
				value6 = Text_SetFontName(textID, Text_FontName);
				value6 = Text_SetStyle(textID, 0, 1);
				value6 = Text_SetColor(textID, Text_FontColor);
				
				value7 = Arw_SetSize(arrowID, Arrow_Size);
				
				value8 = TL_SetStyle(tlID, Line_Style);
				value8 = TL_SetSize(tlID, Line_Width);
				
				impactOfEvent = EE.ImpactList(NameOfList, indexNumber);
				
				switch (impactOfEvent) begin 
				
					case 1: 				// low impact
						value5 = Arw_SetColor(arrowID, LowImpact_Color);
						value5 = TL_SetColor(tlID, LowImpact_Color);
					
					case 2:				// medium
						value5 = Arw_SetColor(arrowID, MediumImpact_Color);
						value5 = TL_SetColor(tlID, MediumImpact_Color);
					
					case 3:				// high
						value5 = Arw_SetColor(arrowID, HighImpact_Color);
						value5 = TL_SetColor(tlID, HighImpact_Color);
				
				end; //: ImpactOfEvent switch

				indexNumber	= indexNumber + 1;
				
				dtEconEvent = IFF(indexNumber > listLength, 9999999, EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber));
				
				Print(Spaces(3), "Next econ event = ", DateTimeToStr(dtEconEvent));
				
//				value2 = value2 + 1;
			
			end else if (IntPortion(barDT[x]) > IntPortion(dtEconEvent)) then begin 
			
				Print("BarDT: ", DateTimeToStr(BarDT[x]), " econ event: ", DateTimeToStr(dtEconEvent), " - happened on a market closed day");
				
				indexNumber	= indexNumber + 1;
				
				dtEconEvent = EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);
			
//				value1 = value1 + 1;
			end;
	
		end; //: z loop
	end; //: x loop
	
//	Print("How many economic events missed? ", value1);
//	Print("How many economic events plotted? ", value2);

		loopDoneForBar = False;
		
		while (loopDoneForBar = False) begin 
		
			// If the economic event doesn't happen on this day -> skip
			// that way, when the market is closed when economic events happened, the list moves on
			if (IntPortion(barDT[x]) > IntPortion(dtEconEvent)) then begin 
			
				y = y + 1;
				
				Print(Spaces(2), "How many days skipped? ", NumToStr(y, 0));
				
				Print(Spaces(4), "Date: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yyyy", barDT[x]), 
					"  event date: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yyyy", dtEconEvent));
			
				indexNumber	= indexNumber + 1;
				
				if (indexNumber <= listLength) then begin
					dtEconEvent = EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);
//					Print("indexnum: ", NumToStr(indexNumber, 0));
				end;
				
				loopDoneForBar = True;
						
			end else 
			
			if (barDT[x-1] < dtEconEvent) and (barDT[x+1] > dtEconEvent) then begin 
			
				z = z + 1;
							
				Print("How many events are there according to the code? ", NumToStr(z, 0), 
						"  And what is x? ", NumToStr(x, 0));
			
//				Print(Spaces(2), "dt: ", NumToStr(dtEconEvent, 10), " indexNumber: ", indexNumber,
//					" Date: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yyyy", dtEconEvent), "  time: ", ToTime_DT(dtEconEvent));
				
				// Draw text & arrows
				textID = Text_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber), EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber) * 100, barPrice[x] + tickOffSet,
									Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), "(", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")"));
				
				arrowID = Arw_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber), EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
				 					barPrice[x] + 0.33 * tickOffSet, True);				
			
				indexNumber	= indexNumber + 1;
				dtEconEvent = EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);
				
				if (dtEconEvent = prevDtEconEvent) then 
					loopDoneForBar = False 
				else 
					loopDoneForBar = True;
				
			end else 
				loopDoneForBar = True;
		end;
		//prevDtEconEvent = dtEconEvent;
	
	

	
	Print("length of list? : ", EE.GetMaxIndex(NameOfList));

end; //: LastBarOnChart_s check



Hello Jura
I compiled code in Multicharts but the chart does not show me anything.

Can you please advise where it can be wrong?

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