Anyone else seeing UK data "vanish" from economic calendar at release time?

[karim elite]

I’ve noticed a recurring issue with metatrader 5 economic calendars specifically regarding UK data (CPI, GDP, etc.).

Today, I was waiting for the UK CPI release. I checked the calendar 5 minutes before the release—it was there. As soon as the clock hit the release time, the "Actual" figure didn't print. I refreshed the page, and the entire event just disappeared from the calendar. This isn't the first time this has happened with UK data. It’s like the calendar glitches out because it hasn’t received the data yet, so it just hides the event instead of showing it as "Pending" or "Late."

[Ryan L Johnson]

No. I'm unable to reproduce the issue. I should note that I generally only select 2 countries/currencies simultaneously.

What happens if you only select UK/GBP, I wonder?

[karim elite]

Ryan L Johnson #:
eproduce the

here is todays retails sale before the release was present , after the release disappeared
and here  the filtered data (GBP only)  . 

[Alain Verleyen]

karim elite #:
here is todays retails sale before the release was present , after the release disappeared
and here  the filtered data (GBP only)  . 

I checked your screenshot 5 times and I am still not able to understand what you are trying to report ? 

[Ryan L Johnson]

karim elite #:
here is todays retails sale before the release was present , after the release disappeared
and here  the filtered data (GBP only)  . 

I'm testing for reproducing your issue with CFTC GBP Non-Commercial Net Positions which will take several hours...

There is no UK Retail Sales event on today's mql5.com Economic Calendar.

[Sergey Golubev]

Ryan L Johnson #:

I'm testing for reproducing your issue with CFTC GBP Non-Commercial Net Positions which will take several hours...

There is no UK Retail Sales event on today's mql5.com Economic Calendar.

I think he is complaining about the following: UK fundamental data as news events were announced in MQL5 calendar and deleted (from calendar) ... and next time: it was posted in calendar in right date/time but - nothing ...

The problem (as I understand it) is the following: the data was delayed ... yes, the US delayed data is normally uploaded to calendar but the UK data ... so ...
ok, I think - it may be somehting to be fixed ... but we all can not predict about any situation related to delayed data with the reasons and so on for example. 

[Ryan L Johnson]

Sergey Golubev #:
I think he is complaining about the following: UK fundamental data as news events were announced in MQL5 calendar and deleted (from calendar) ... and next time: it was posted in calendar in right date/time but - nothing ...

The problem (as I understand it) is the following: the data was delayed ... yes, the US delayed data is normally uploaded to calendar but the UK data ... so ...
ok, I think - it may be somehting to be fixed ... but we all can not predict about any situation related to delayed data with the reasons and so on for example. 

Thanks. If I understand you correctly, you mean delayed from the source--the UK? If so, this is actually quite common recently in the U.S. due to U.S. Congressional "shutdowns."

[Sergey Golubev]

Ryan L Johnson #:
Thanks. If I understand you correctly, you mean delayed from the source--the UK? If so, this is actually quite common recently in the U.S. due to U.S. Congressional "shutdowns."

No, it is not related to the US (all those "delays" are processed in good/normal way in this calendar) ... it is the UK data delay/postpone ... besides, if this MQL5 calendar is uploaded by the robot (and it is; it is not by human) so it may be some technical reason (related to MQL5 calendar itself) ...

I can discuss/reply about it because I am monitoring the fundamental news events (especially the high impacted ones) all the time here.

[Ryan L Johnson]

Sergey Golubev #:
No, it is not related to the US (all those "delays" are processed in good/normal way in this calendar) ... it is the UK data delay/postpone ... besides, if this MQL5 calendar is uploaded by the robot (and it is; it is not by human) so it may be some technical reason (related to MQL5 calendar itself) ...

I can discuss/reply about it because I am monitoring the fundamental news events (especially the high impacted ones) all the time here.

Got it.

I'm well aware that you're a manual trader, and it seems that you're well aware I'm an algorithmic trader. Even so, I haven't noticed "the case of the disappearing Calendar Event" because my best code blocks trading in advance of 26 Calendar Events by unique name of each--and for unique fixed time periods for each. Therefore, if a Calendar Event ever exists in the Calendar prior to actually occurring, the block is triggered.

In any event, I'll continue separate testing in a demo account to see what happens with UK Calendar Events with my specific pc, operating system, MT5 Build, etc.

[Enrique Dangeroux]

The calendar should be used with caution. I have experienced the actual updates with delays up to hours. There are other peculiarites as wel.

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[Sergey Golubev]

Enrique Dangeroux #:

The calendar should be used with caution. I have experienced the actual updates with delays up to hours. There are other peculiarites as wel.

I checked - it is fine with time (at least - for now). We see the different time in calendar and in the chart because the time on the chart is always having the time according to the broker's server time but we can define the timezone for calendar - not for the price on the chart (there is the feature here https://www.mql5.com/en/economic-calendar). 
So, it may be different.