monexx,

did you download the Economic events before with the Java tool?

Regards,
ABCTG

monexx 

Hello Jura I compiled code in Multicharts but the chart does not show me anything. Can you please advise where it can be wrong?

ABCTG 

monexx, did you download the Economic events before with the Java tool? Regards, ABCTG

Yes, I downloaded it.
Upcoming economic events idicator works well.
This version for backtest published by Jura does not work .
It will not appear historical economic events on the chart .

monexx 

Yes, I downloaded it. Upcoming economic events idicator works well. This version for backtest published by Jura does not work . It will not appear historical economic events on the chart .

What have you tried so far, and when does the error occur?

I turned off : Update on every tick
I compile the code in this form :

Inputs:
NameOfList("myHistList"),
RegionsToKeep("EUR;USD;GBP"),
ChopUpStrings(False),
Ticks_OffSet(8),
HighImpact_Color(Red),
MediumImpact_Color(yellow),
LowImpact_Color(cyan),
DisplayArrow(True),
Arrow_Size(5),
DisplayLine(True),
Line_Width(1),
Line_Style(2),
DisplayText(True),
Text_FontSize(10),
Text_FontName("Lucida Sans Typewriter"),
Text_FontColor(white);

Variables:
tickOffSet( Ticks_OffSet * MinMove), //(Power(10, Round(Log(PriceScale) / Log(10), 0)) / MinMove) ),
tickSize(MinMove / PriceScale),
dtEconEvent(0), prevDtEconEvent(0), dtNextBar(0), dtPrevBar(0), indexNumber(1),
firstDate(0), firstTime(0), arrowID(0), textID(0), tlID(0), loopDoneForBar(False), impactOfEvent(0),
listLength(0),
x(0), y(0), z(0);

if (CurrentBar = 1) then begin
firstDate = Date;
firstTime = Time_s;
end;

Arrays:
barPrice[](0), barDT[](0), barPriceLow[](0);

once cleardebug;

// Collect data
if (BarStatus(1) = 2) then begin
x = Array_GetMaxIndex(barPrice);

Array_SetMaxIndex(barPrice, x + 1);
Array_SetMaxIndex(barDT, x + 1);
Array_SetMaxIndex(barPriceLow, x + 1);

barPrice[x+1] = Highest(High, 10); //High;

if (x > 10) then
barPrice[x+1-10] = Highest(High, 20);

barDT[x+1] = ELDateToDateTime(Date) + ELTimeToDateTime_s(Time_s);
barPriceLow[x+1] = Low - (MinMove * 2);

end; //: Data collection


if (LastBarOnChart_s = True) and (BarStatus(1) = 2) and (GetAppInfo(aiRealTimeCalc) = 0) then begin

// Generate economic events list
once begin

value1 = EE.GetHistoricalEvents(NameOfList, firstDate, Date);
// value1 = EE.GetFutureEvents(NameOfList);
value1 = EE.KeepTimeRange(NameOfList, SessionStartTime(0, DayOfWeek(Date)), SessionEndTime(0, DayOfWeek(Date)));
value1 = EE.KeepRegions(NameOfList, RegionsToKeep); // Only keep the specified regions in the list
value1 = EE.RemoveImpact(NameOfList, 0); // Remove all events with impact 0 (i.e. bank holiday)

// Note: uncomment the line below to see which Economic Events are in the list after the filtering functions. (For debugging purposes)
// EE.PrintToOutputLog(NameOfList);
end;

Print("Lengt of bar array: ", array_getmaxindex(barPrice), " and barDt: ", array_getmaxindex(barDT));

dtEconEvent = EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);
listLength = EE.GetMaxIndex(NameOfList);

z = 1;
y = 1;
value1 = 1;
value2 = 1;

// Loop through data
for x = 1 to Array_GetMaxIndex(barDT) - 1 begin

// if there are multiple economic events on this time
for z = 0 to 9 begin

if (IntPortion(barDT[x]) = IntPortion(dtEconEvent)) and (barDT[x-1] < dtEconEvent) and (barDT[x+1] > dtEconEvent) then begin

Print("PrevBar: ", DateTimeToString(barDT[x-1]), " Event: ", DateTimeToString(dtEconEvent), " next bar: ", DateTimeToString(barDT[x+1]));
Print(Spaces(2), "Date of event: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yy", ELDateToDateTime(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber))),
" Time of event: ", FormatTime("HH:mm:ss", ELTimeToDateTime(EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexnumber))),
" name of event: ", EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber));

// Plot
if (z = 0) then begin

if (DisplayText = True) then

textID = Text_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
barPrice[x] + (tickSize * 2) + Arrow_Size,
IffString(ChopUpStrings = True,
StrChopUp(Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")")),
Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")")
));

if (DisplayArrow = True) then

arrowID = Arw_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
barPrice[x], True);

if (DisplayLine = True) then
tlID = TL_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
EE.TimeList(nameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
barPriceLow[x],
EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
EE.TimeList(nameOfList, indexNumber) * 100,
barPriceLow[x] * 0.85);


end //: z = 0

else if (DisplayText = True) then
value1 = Text_SetString(textID, Text(Text_GetString(textID), NewLine, "&", NewLine,
IffString(ChopUpStrings = True,
StrChopUp(Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")")),
Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), " (", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")"))
));

// Formatting
value6 = Text_SetSize(textID, Text_FontSize);
value6 = Text_SetFontName(textID, Text_FontName);
value6 = Text_SetStyle(textID, 0, 1);
value6 = Text_SetColor(textID, Text_FontColor);

value7 = Arw_SetSize(arrowID, Arrow_Size);

value8 = TL_SetStyle(tlID, Line_Style);
value8 = TL_SetSize(tlID, Line_Width);

impactOfEvent = EE.ImpactList(NameOfList, indexNumber);

switch (impactOfEvent) begin

case 1: // low impact
value5 = Arw_SetColor(arrowID, LowImpact_Color);
value5 = TL_SetColor(tlID, LowImpact_Color);

case 2: // medium
value5 = Arw_SetColor(arrowID, MediumImpact_Color);
value5 = TL_SetColor(tlID, MediumImpact_Color);

case 3: // high
value5 = Arw_SetColor(arrowID, HighImpact_Color);
value5 = TL_SetColor(tlID, HighImpact_Color);

end; //: ImpactOfEvent switch

indexNumber = indexNumber + 1;

dtEconEvent = IFF(indexNumber > listLength, 9999999, EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber));

Print(Spaces(3), "Next econ event = ", DateTimeToString(dtEconEvent));

// value2 = value2 + 1;

end else if (IntPortion(barDT[x]) > IntPortion(dtEconEvent)) then begin

Print("BarDT: ", DateTimeToString(BarDT[x]), " econ event: ", DateTimeToString(dtEconEvent), " - happened on a market closed day");

indexNumber = indexNumber + 1;

dtEconEvent = EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);

// value1 = value1 + 1;
end;

end; //: z loop
end; //: x loop

// Print("How many economic events missed? ", value1);
// Print("How many economic events plotted? ", value2);

loopDoneForBar = False;

while (loopDoneForBar = False) begin

// If the economic event doesn't happen on this day -> skip
// that way, when the market is closed when economic events happened, the list moves on
if (IntPortion(barDT[x]) > IntPortion(dtEconEvent)) then begin

y = y + 1;

Print(Spaces(2), "How many days skipped? ", NumToStr(y, 0));

Print(Spaces(4), "Date: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yyyy", barDT[x]),
" event date: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yyyy", dtEconEvent));

indexNumber = indexNumber + 1;

if (indexNumber <= listLength) then begin
dtEconEvent = EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);
// Print("indexnum: ", NumToStr(indexNumber, 0));
end;

loopDoneForBar = True;

end else

if (barDT[x-1] < dtEconEvent) and (barDT[x+1] > dtEconEvent) then begin

z = z + 1;

Print("How many events are there according to the code? ", NumToStr(z, 0),
" And what is x? ", NumToStr(x, 0));

// Print(Spaces(2), "dt: ", NumToStr(dtEconEvent, 10), " indexNumber: ", indexNumber,
// " Date: ", FormatDate("dd-MM-yyyy", dtEconEvent), " time: ", ToTime_DT(dtEconEvent));

// Draw text & arrows
textID = Text_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber), EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber) * 100, barPrice[x] + tickOffSet,
Text(EE.EventList(NameOfList, indexNumber), "(", EE.RegionList(NameOfList, indexNumber), ")"));

arrowID = Arw_New_s(EE.DateList(NameOfList, indexNumber), EE.TimeList(NameOfList, indexNumber),
barPrice[x] + 0.33 * tickOffSet, True);

indexNumber = indexNumber + 1;
dtEconEvent = EE.DateTimeOfEvent(NameOfList, indexNumber);

if (dtEconEvent = prevDtEconEvent) then
loopDoneForBar = False
else
loopDoneForBar = True;

end else
loopDoneForBar = True;
end;
//prevDtEconEvent = dtEconEvent;




Print("length of list? : ", EE.GetMaxIndex(NameOfList));

end; //: LastBarOnChart_s check




I got this error message : attached screenshot

Hi Jura and Nicolas,
I've been using your wonderful tool for months now.

However, I ran into my first forexfactory problem today - see pic below.
Do you think they've changed their settings again ?

EDIT - IGNORE THIS, IT'S BACK UP AND RUNNING AGAIN

Hi Guys I keep getting the error STD Exception: underflow/overflow/range error??? Anyone know how to fix it??

Jura 

Upcoming Economic Events indicator This indicator plots a text box on the chart with the upcoming economic events: In this screenshot, taken on 15:56 local time (Western-Europe), you can see that Geithner was about to speak in 4 minutes (a Medium impact event) and the business inventories were also announced in four minutes. The indicator has the following settings: Most of these settings are self-explanatory. The 'TicksOffSetBottom' is the number of ticks you want the text box be displayed above the lowest value on the price scale. The 'RecalcAfter' is the number of seconds the box is updated - this is included to prevent excessive updating from MultiCharts to keep everything running smoothing. Important note: You'll need the Economic Events Collection for MultiCharts (see first post in this thread and download here) to work with this indicator. This indicator can be downloaded here.

I'm a little bit confused by this: I only see functions in the download package, but no "indicator." What am I missing here? Thanks...

tortoise 

I'm a little bit confused by this: I only see functions in the download package, but no "indicator." What am I missing here? Thanks...

This is somewhat ironic. My post that you quote has a sentence that read: "This indicator can be downloaded here.". Did you click on that link? It takes me to the download file (.pla) with the indicator. Does the .pla file not work for you?

I just love the Economic Events tools. They are indispensable!

Starting about March 29, the downloader gives an error message:
Problem for identification of hour in: <td class="calendar__cell calendar__time time">1:30am</td>
main.ParseStringAndSave.parseStringAndSaveToFile(ParseStringAndSave.java:165)

Probably Forex Factory changed the calendar format again.

Could Nicolas11 fix the Java or whoever is officially maintaining the source code?

Thank you, very much appreciate this effort.

rrams 

Starting about March 29, the downloader gives an error message: Problem for identification of hour in: <td class="calendar__cell calendar__time time">1:30am</td> main.ParseStringAndSave.parseStringAndSaveToFile(ParseStringAndSave.java:165)

Problem for identification of hour in: <td class="calendar__cell calendar__time time">1:30am</td>
main.ParseStringAndSave.parseStringAndSaveToFile(ParseStringAndSave.java:165)
main.Main.step3_proceedForFutureEconomicEvents(Main.java:134)
main.Main.main(Main.java:319)

Same Problem here, any help how to fix this problem would be apreciated.
Thank you