FFCal indicator into mt4 EA

[8tango]

Hi,

I have FFCal.mql4 indicator (file attached) and I would like to use it into a mt4 EA to filter open trade from impact high and medium news economic.

To use this indicator into EA it is necesary to put this code below into EA code:

// EA Setting variables
extern int MinsBeforeNews = 120; // mins before an event to stay out of trading
extern int MinsafterNews  = 120; // mins after  an event to stay out of trading

// Global variable at top of file
bool NewsTime;

// Function to check if it is news time
void NewsHandling()
{
    static int PrevMinute = -1;
    if (Minute() != PrevMinute)
    {
        PrevMinute = Minute();
        int minutesSincePrevEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCal", true, true, false, true, true, 1, 0);
        int minutesUntilNextEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCal", true, true, false, true, true, 1, 1);
        NewsTime = false;
        if ((minutesUntilNextEvent <= MinsBeforeNews) || (minutesSincePrevEvent <= MinsAfterNews))
        {
            NewsTime = true;
        }

   Comment("\nNewsTime => ",NewsTime,
   "\nminutesSincePrevEvent => ",minutesSincePrevEvent,
   "\nminutesUntilNextEvent => ",minutesUntilNextEvent);

    }
}

It works nice but the minutes return by minutesSincePrevEvent and minutesUntilNextEvent are not correct, for example if the last impact medium news is 1 hour, the minutesSincePrevEvent return 930. Please see sceenshot. What is wrong into FFCal.mql4 code?

Thank you for your answer.

[Rui]

Hi there,

Do you have the ffcal include file? I need it. Thanks

[Marzena Maria Szmit]

Hi

I cannot check this since wininet.mqh file is necessary, but if I were you I would check if the parameters used here in iCustom are the same as the parameters in the indicator you display on the chart. Here in iCustom only first parameters true/false are set (5^th is EA call so it must be different) – the rest are default values, so maybe you set on the indicator other true/false options for news.

Have a nice day👍📊