News Sentinel
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Stephen J Martret
With over 23 years of experience trading Forex, Gold, and other financial markets, I have worked extensively with both discretionary (manual) and algorithmic trading strategies across a wide range of market conditions. - Version: 1.0
High-impact news is where spreads blow out, stops get hit on spikes, and orders fill nowhere near where you expected. News Sentinel puts a live countdown and a shaded volatility window right on your chart, and tells you how many pips each release has actually moved the currency so you know the volatility to expect.
A free on-chart news panel for anyone who trades a chart, whether you run Expert Advisors that get stopped on news spikes, or you trade by hand and need to know when the market is about to move. News Sentinel shows you when the next release hits, how big the move usually is, and whether to stand aside or trade it.
ONE-TIME SETUP (required, takes 30 seconds)
News Sentinel reads a live economic calendar, so MetaTrader needs permission to reach it once. When you attach it, the panel shows the exact steps and the exact address to allow, right on your chart. Follow them once:
- In MetaTrader 5, open Tools, Options, Expert Advisors
- Tick “Allow WebRequest for listed URL”
- Add the address shown on the panel, exactly as it appears, then click OK
- Keep AutoTrading switched on (green)
The panel shows “Loading” for a few seconds, then fills in. If it still says the feed is not connected, the on-chart card repeats the steps and the address to add.
WHAT IT DOES
Live countdown to the next release, shown as a draining hourglass, with the header naming its real impact (low, medium or high), colour-coded so you can see at a glance how much it matters.
A countdown on every upcoming event, each pinned chart tag carrying its own live timer, so you can see how long until every release, not just the next one.
Volatility window shaded on your chart around high-impact releases, the minutes where spreads and slippage blow out and fills go wild.
Pinned news tags that never clip when you zoom, colour-coded by impact (red high, amber medium, green low) and neatly stacked when several land at once.
Expected move, measuring how far the affected currency pair actually travelled in the first minutes of past releases.
Forecast, previous and actual values, with actual printing the moment it lands.
Live spread readout and a volatility status: calm, high-impact news incoming, or high volatility now.
Session clock for Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York, with the next open.
Every event shown in your local, broker and GMT time, auto-detecting your broker’s offset.
Alerts before each release: popup, sound, phone push and email.
WHY IT MATTERS
Running Expert Advisors? See the exact windows where your robot is most likely to get spiked, slipped or stopped.
Trading by hand? Never get caught holding a position into a release you forgot about. Know the move size and the countdown in advance so you can tighten up, step aside, or take the trade with your eyes open.
FULLY ADJUSTABLE
Panel size and position, which currencies to watch, impact level (high, high plus medium, or all), volatility-window length, how far ahead to alert, your timezone for display, and more.
NOTE
It is a read-only panel, it never places a trade. Attach it to one chart and enable AutoTrading so it can run and reach the calendar. The expected-move figures build from M1 price history of the pair each release affects, not just your chart’s symbol, so give it a few seconds on first load.
