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Hey traders,

Here we have a nice news from MetaQuotes:
https://www.metaquotes.net/en/metatrader4/news/4230





I hope Myfxbook @Ethan will take part of third-party websites and could provide for example FX Eco Calendar inputs so any EA could now be alerted from news directly into MT4.

Any tutorials would be very welcome to see how to implement and use this new feature... from any third party.


Cheers
CT

I'm always scared of another MT4 update... They always 'add' something that I , and other traders don't want to have.

Metatrader 5 is such a huge flop, it's clear to me that they are slowly but surely implementing MT5 into MT4.

Trying to get us to change in one foul swoop didn't work, so they're gonna slowly, slowly change MT4 into MT5, and I for one don't like it, don't like it a bit.

Hmm so far i'm only coding MT4 to MT5 for mass back testing and optimization purposes. Multi threading, GPU and cloud optimizing does help to get quicker results, especially for HFS strategies.

Live accounts are still MT4 though lol.

I know you guys are gifted coders... I hope someone will show the way to get FX calendar news from third party website using the new feature webrequest.

CrazyTrader posted:
Hey traders,

Here we have a nice news from MetaQuotes:
https://www.metaquotes.net/en/metatrader4/news/4230





I hope Myfxbook @Ethan will take part of third-party websites and could provide for example FX Eco Calendar inputs so any EA could now be alerted from news directly into MT4.

Any tutorials would be very welcome to see how to implement and use this new feature... from any third party.


Cheers
CT

thats pretty cool. whats the best thing we can make with this? any thoughts?

bluemonkey posted:
thats pretty cool. whats the best thing we can make with this? any thoughts?

I wish to get Forex news calendar.

But now possibilties are unlimited

CrazyTrader posted:

bluemonkey posted:
thats pretty cool. whats the best thing we can make with this? any thoughts?

I wish to get Forex news calendar.

But now possibilties are unlimited

ok, lets put up a site and ask for suggestions and develop some cool features. i will put up a site tonight and will get back to you.

bluemonkey posted:
ok, lets put up a site and ask for suggestions and develop some cool features. i will put up a site tonight and will get back to you.

Ok : )

here is a simple sample of WebRequest https://github.com/samuraitaiga/mt4_httpclient

But it is hard to get valuable info from web request, because scrape html in mt4 is too hard(i guess impossible).
My suggestion is implement it by C++ and create dll.