10/19 - Fixed a date/time formatting issue with non-"en-US" cultures.
10/29 - A got a lot of requests to provide a background and border so that the candles and other indicators didn't overlay the text. If you would like this version it can be found here: https://www.johnthom.com/2009/10/economic-news-indicator.html
There is a much better news indicator available that automatically downloads the news items. Please use that one.
I always forget to stand aside for news so I wrote this little indicator to remind me. It draws a vertical line and plays a wav file. You can set up to 10 times, so you can set it for example 10 minutes before the news and 10 minutes after (Time0 & Time1 for the first news alert). This lets you have 10 single news alerts or 5 news items with start and stop alerts. Leave any times you don't need set to 0 and they're ignored.
I have 1 idea for enhancement: Download the day's news releases from the internet automatically. This is at the edge of my Ninjatrader programming ability but if someone is interested in helping I can provide code to download a web page via HTTP. Parsing it is the problem.
December 1st, 2010 02:24 PM greathopes Hey Cunparis you must be answering my prayers with this one problem is i'm getting an error saying: Property value i
s not valid. i get it when i input the time for the alert. with 24 hour time and with am/pm help cause i love the idea
. Kindly, Tangerine
September 21st, 2009 10:40 PM zwentz I can see if I can code this up to night, to automatically grab the news for each day.
September 13th, 2009 12:22 PM HJay Thanks Paris... Can't wait to see it fire off on Monday!
April 5th, 2011 07:08 AM TimC UGH! Beware! I installed this indicator in NT7 and have yet to get my NT back to normal. Indicator screen takes FOREVER
to load, if at all. Many restarts. I've deleted all files for this indicator from NT but it seems the damage is done. Ma
y have to remove NT7 and start fresh.
March 20th, 2011 12:25 AM Aragorn I used it on Ninja 6.5 but when I switched to 7.0 I found that it tool an enormous amount of time to load a chart- sever
al minutes. I never suspected a ninjascript so I did everything- uninstalled and reinstalled Ninja; downloaded data from
Mirus; used very small charts to load; I even went so far as to question my Windows update so I restarted my computer f
rom a previous start point wiping out all new updates. Nothing helped. Slow Slow Slow. I contacted Ninja Support and I w
ent step by step reinstalling the application. As it turns out it was this ninjascript and I didn't even have it on any
of my charts or the chart I was loading. It was just in the list of indicators. I liked it when I had it on 6.5 but don'
t think I can use it on 7.0.
February 22nd, 2011 04:15 AM tmwff This indicator crashed my Ninja 7 system yesterday. I was told to delete it from the Ninja Support Team. They told me th
at yesterday a lot of useres had problems with this indicator. Be careful!!!
February 9th, 2011 02:58 AM leff Excellent
February 4th, 2011 03:36 AM gat3keeper Very Nice. Thank you!
May 23rd, 2017 05:27 PM mzabarain Very appreciated mompere.
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August 26th, 2013 07:20 AM Cloudy Thanks. Great tool and pro coding.
August 13th, 2012 08:26 PM Don Laing Great a welcome addition. Being a lousy programmer how do I use /n to add lines?
January 31st, 2012 04:27 AM Klausi This is a great help in every day's trading. You are reminded of all session opens and ends as well as of all FOMC + con
tract change dates, also to any custom - dates of your choice, whenever you have added them to the string array.