Hello, I am trying to integrate the Economic Calendar into my MT5 EA !

[82106578]

Hello

I am trying to integrate an economic calendar into my MT5 EA so that the robot temporarily blocks trading before important news events. I am using the stub function EconomicNewsGetNext(), but I keep getting compilation errors like:

- Undeclared identifier

- Implicit conversion from unknown to string

- [array required]

I tried the examples from the MQL5 articles ("Trading with the MQL5 Economic Calendar"), but I still get errors.

Here is the relevant EA code snippet I use to handle news:

Economic calendar parameters

input bool UseEconomicCalendar = true;

enter int NewsBlockMinutes = 5; Block trades ± 5 minutes around news

input bool ClosePositionsOnHighNews = true;

News stub functions (currently placeholders)

bool IsNewsWindowActive() { return(false); }

bool EconomicNewsGetNext(datetime & newsTime, string & currency, int & importance, string & text) { return(false); }

void CloseUnfavorablePositionsAfter News(datetime newsTime, double atr) { }

Using OnTick():

if(UseEconomicCalendar & IsNewsWindowActive()) return;

if(UseEconomicCalendar & ClosePositionsOnHighNews)

{

datetime newsTime; string currency; int importance; string text;

if(EconomicNewsGetNext( newsTime, currency, importance, text))

{

CloseAdverse positionsAfter news(newsTime, atr);

}

}

My goals are as follows:

1. Get real-time news timing, importance and currency.

2. Block the EA ±N minutes before/after the news event.

3. Close existing positions if the news is very important.

Question:

How to properly connect the economic calendar to the MT5 EA so that it works in real time without compilation errors? Is there a simple code example that can be integrated into the EA?

Thanks for your help!

[Oleksandr Medviediev]

82106578:
Hello

I am trying to integrate an economic calendar into my MT5 EA so that the robot temporarily blocks trading before important news events. I am using the stub function EconomicNewsGetNext(), but I keep getting compilation errors like:

- Undeclared identifier

- Implicit conversion from unknown to string

- [array required]

I tried the examples from the MQL5 articles ("Trading with the MQL5 Economic Calendar"), but I still get errors.

Here is the relevant EA code snippet I use to handle news:

Economic calendar parameters

input bool UseEconomicCalendar = true;

enter int NewsBlockMinutes = 5; Block trades ± 5 minutes around news

input bool ClosePositionsOnHighNews = true;

News stub functions (currently placeholders)

bool IsNewsWindowActive() { return(false); }

bool EconomicNewsGetNext(datetime & newsTime, string & currency, int & importance, string & text) { return(false); }

void CloseUnfavorablePositionsAfter News(datetime newsTime, double atr) { }

Using OnTick():

if(UseEconomicCalendar & IsNewsWindowActive()) return;

if(UseEconomicCalendar & ClosePositionsOnHighNews)

{

datetime newsTime; string currency; int importance; string text;

if(EconomicNewsGetNext( newsTime, currency, importance, text))

{

CloseAdverse positionsAfter news(newsTime, atr);

}

}

My goals are as follows:

1. Get real-time news timing, importance and currency.

2. Block the EA ±N minutes before/after the news event.

3. Close existing positions if the news is very important.

Question:

How to properly connect the economic calendar to the MT5 EA so that it works in real time without compilation errors? Is there a simple code example that can be integrated into the EA?

Thanks for your help!

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