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Economic News Indicator for NT8 available for download
I just uploaded an economic news indicator that I wrote for Ninjatrader 8 to the Elite downloads section. If you have been looking for one, head over to
Version 1.0.1:
This indicator shows the economic news for the day on your chart in Ninjatrader 8. It is fully configurable for the type of news items you would like to see, the colors of different impact news items, the fonts you want to use and which …
to download it. Attached to this post you will also find an installation and configuration guide for it.
Just my little way of giving back to the community that I have learned so much from, it's a big pleasure. I hope to add quite a few more for free download here.
In answer to your questions:
Unfortunately not. I wrote the indicator specifically for NT8.
The information is pulled from the forexfactory.com news feed
The impact comes directly from the feed at forexfactory.com
You my friend are a superstar. I'll go an check it out after market close.
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I haven't looked at the code yet. Is there any reason why the date and time has been shifted? Is it set for your region per chance?
If you are pulling the source direct from an XML, those times are shown as EST. You could leave these times as per the XML and get the indicator to offset for the timezone (or hour shift) via a selection within the the indicator itself.
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Thanks @JonnyBoy, I love writing elegant UI's that is user friendly.
I am not shifting the time in code at the moment, investigating why I am getting those times specifically. You gave me another good idea though. Seeing that the news is just for the current day, I don't need to display the date and time, just the time is enough.
I will update the indicator and release a new version ASAP as soon as I have a fix.
- Not displaying date as the news is for the current day only. Will refresh automatically for the next day
- Showing the time of the news item in its raw format as it comes from the source
Coming up in the next version:
- Allow the user to choose if they want the announcement time shifted to their timezone
The timezone / hour offset will be a nice addtion.
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