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Check out the new article: MQL5 Bootstrap (III): Simplified Functions for Working with News.
This article presents a unified news model and a set of reusable MQL5 classes for working with the MetaTrader 5 Economic Calendar. You will retrieve, filter, and cache events by time, currency, country, and importance using a single interface across three providers: built-in calendar, CSV, and SQLite. The framework supports export/import, next/previous event lookup, and reliable strategy‑tester backtesting without changing trading logic.
When it comes to forex trading, news plays a key role in moving the markets. High-impact economic events such as interest rate decisions, inflation reports, employment figures, and GDP releases can cause significant market volatility in just a few seconds. While some traders might find this window to be the right time to trade, many avoid or adapt their strategies based on the expected impact of upcoming releases.
While MetaTrader5 provides a powerful built-in economic calendar API that you can access using the MQL5 programming language, making it work properly in all scenarios could be tricky.
Author: Omega J Msigwa