How to Keep Any EA Out of High-Impact News: Free News Filter Guide

The fastest way to ruin a good week is to let a scalper trade through NFP. Sentinel News Filter is our free utility that watches the MT5 economic calendar and keeps your trading out of the danger window — even for EAs whose code you can't touch.

Sentinel News Filter (100% free, full version): https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/182634

- Chart markers — vertical lines for the upcoming days' events, color-coded by importance, event name in the tooltip. You see the week's minefield at a glance.

- Countdown panel — the next event, its currency and importance, and the time remaining until the pause window opens.

- A pause flag any EA can read — during the window Sentinel sets a Global Variable (default FXEA_NEWS_PAUSE = 1). One line in your own EA makes it news-aware:

if(GlobalVariableGet("FXEA_NEWS_PAUSE") > 0) return; // skip new entries

- Optional close — for EAs you cannot modify, Sentinel can simply close positions during the window (whole account or current symbol, optional magic filter).

- Pre-alert — push, e-mail or webhook a heads-up a set number of minutes before the window starts.

You choose the currencies to watch (e.g. USD,EUR,GBP,JPY), the minimum importance (we recommend high-only to start — medium-and-up pauses a lot of the calendar), and the window: minutes before and after each event. 30 minutes before / 15 after is a reasonable default for high-impact releases; spread and slippage are usually worst in the first minutes after the print, not before it.

1. It depends on the MT5 economic calendar your broker delivers. A few brokers don't provide it — the panel will tell you if so.

2. The calendar is not available inside the Strategy Tester, so this is a live/forward tool. Backtests cannot show you what it saves you from; forward months can.

Attach to one chart — it covers every currency on your list account-wide. Set currencies, importance, window, and decide whether it should only flag (default) or also close. For webhook alerts, add your URL to the terminal's allowed-URL list.

Completely free — full version, no registration. If Sentinel keeps you out of one bad spike, that's the whole point; a short review on the product page helps us keep the free tools alive.

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Not investment advice. Verify behaviour on a demo account around a scheduled event before relying on it.