News Reminder Indicator

September 15th, 2009, 09:12 AM

TAJTrades

Forex Factory has a XML page that can be accessed: Retail Sales m/m

Very good find!

Parsing XML in C# is not my area of expertise, so if anyone wants to take a shot at it be my guest.

September 15th, 2009, 09:48 AM

I'm playing with something like this, not with XML data source, with a basic .csv.

But, how to draw a vertical bar in the future (DrawVerticalLine), with NT ?
As it does not seems to be possible, I'm looking for a smart idea, parsing the file downloaded is not very hard, but if I can't have the informations on the chart...

September 15th, 2009, 09:17 PM

Well, I'm able to put together something rude and crude that does work. It might help us brain storm a little to see where it might take us. I don't know how to parse XML data but maybe somebody else can help. I do have a book on it I just need to dust it off. It's been a long time since I've coded.

Attached is the indicator file, txt file(s) needed for News and NewsTimes.

Step1:
Create the following directory under NT: "My Documents\NinjaTrader 6.5\NewsFiles"
Step2:
Extract the NewsFiles.Zip file into NewsFiles directory.
Step3:
Extract the NewsReminder.cs from the Zip file and place it in the Indicator directory.
Step4:
Edit the NewsReminder.cs and change its path to the location of the News files. There's a variable that contains the path location.
Step5:
Add the indicator to a chart and watch is plot the news information.

I've tried using Excel spreadsheet to extract the data from the website and then create these file(s) with a click of a button. It didn't quit work out. Still working on a few issues within the code.

cunparis, I hope you didn't mind me modifying your code a bit. I added an entry in the comment area and left everything else alone. I think you did a heck of a job on this indicator and I really like this indicator.

-Rich

Also, the NewsTimes.txt file(s) must contain all 9 times. Add them with 0's if there is no news. I'm also gonna check tomorrow(Wednesday) if it automatically picks up Wednesday News items. That would be cool.

One more thing if there is no News for the day, don't create the file(s) for that day.

FILES REMOVED AND ATTACHED TO POST BELOW.

September 16th, 2009, 08:36 AM

jonesr9

cunparis, I hope you didn't mind me modifying your code a bit. I added an entry in the comment area and left everything else alone. I think you did a heck of a job on this indicator and I really like this indicator.

I don't mind at all. I'm very happy to see some collaboration, especially on an indicator that doesn't draw squiggly lines!

The only thing I ask is that we pay attention to the name so that we don't have multiple versions of the same name floating around. So if we need to have a few of them (different approaches) we could add an underscore to the name to keep them straight. like newsreminder_jones or whatever.

Thanks for working on it. I hope others will contribute.

September 16th, 2009, 08:38 AM

cunparis

I don't mind at all. I'm very happy to see some collaboration, especially on an indicator that doesn't draw squiggly lines!

The only thing I ask is that we pay attention to the name so that we don't have multiple versions of the same name floating around. So if we need to have a few of them (different approaches) we could add an underscore to the name to keep them straight. like newsreminder_jones or whatever.

Thanks for working on it. I hope others will contribute.

Good point. I'll just change the version number. Give me a sec I'll post the change.

September 16th, 2009, 08:42 AM

Did someone can post a screenshot ?
I'm working on my own indicator, I called it NewsAlert, so this name is copyrighted

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edit: saw the post #1, no screenshot needed, but the vertical line is paint when the news is supposed to come, right ?

September 16th, 2009, 08:45 AM

Okay, here the changes. I also removed the SPACE needed within the TXT files. Instead I use a comma which makes it less confusing.

This display the news name @ 10 minutes before the news come out. This way it alerts you of the following news event in advance. Then at the time of the news event it places NEWS on the chart.

September 18th, 2009, 07:36 AM

Is someone here know why this works:

Code

                            
Stream strm = Client.OpenRead("http://www.dailyfx.com/calendar/Dailyfx_Global_Economic_Calendar.csv?currentWeek=/events-calendar/2009/0913/&direction=none&collector=allInFolderDateDesc&view=week&timezone=GMT&currencyFilter=|&importanceFilter=Medium|Low|");

and this not:

Code

                            
string url_news="http://www.dailyfx.com/calendar/Dailyfx_Global_Economic_Calendar.csv?currentWeek=/events-calendar/2009/0913/&direction=none&collector=allInFolderDateDesc&view=week&timezone=GMT&currencyFilter=|&importanceFilter=Low|";
Stream strm = Client.OpenRead(url_news);

???

September 18th, 2009, 08:40 AM

sam028,

I've had to the same thing in similar situations.

I think it may have something to do with some of the special characters in the string.

Yes, that doesn't really make sense, just my thoughts.

RJay

September 18th, 2009, 08:46 AM

Maybe try this?

Code

                            
string url_news=@"http://www.dailyfx.com/calendar/Dailyfx_Global_Economic_Calendar.csv?currentWeek=/events-calendar/2009/0913/&direction=none&collector=allInFolderDateDesc&view=week&timezone=GMT&currencyFilter=|&importanceFilter=Low|";
Stream strm = Client.OpenRead(url_news);

sam028

Is someone here know why this works:

Code

                            
Stream strm = Client.OpenRead("http://www.dailyfx.com/calendar/Dailyfx_Global_Economic_Calendar.csv?currentWeek=/events-calendar/2009/0913/&direction=none&collector=allInFolderDateDesc&view=week&timezone=GMT&currencyFilter=|&importanceFilter=Medium|Low|");

and this not:

Code

                            
string url_news="http://www.dailyfx.com/calendar/Dailyfx_Global_Economic_Calendar.csv?currentWeek=/events-calendar/2009/0913/&direction=none&collector=allInFolderDateDesc&view=week&timezone=GMT&currencyFilter=|&importanceFilter=Low|";
Stream strm = Client.OpenRead(url_news);

???

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