nnfx-news

Generator of mq4 indicator with historical news from forexfactory.com

Requirements:

• PHP 5 or above

How to Use:

To Build the news indicator it must be done in 2 steps: download news and generate indicator.

• Extract files of this repository to a folder like nnfx-news
• In command line, go to that folder and donwload news by execute the command:
  • cd nnfx-news
  • php download-news.php
• Generate mq4 indicator, execute:
  • php generate_indicator.php NNFX_News_offline.mq4

Note: If the php command is not recognized in line command, you can especify the full path of php.exe, like C:\xampp\php\php.exe download-news.php

Options for generator:

The generate_indicator.php script only generate with events referred to by the VP for NNFX.

Instead of filter events for NNFX, it is possible to generate the indicator with all high-impact events. To do this, you can run command like:

php generate_indicator.php HighImpact_News_offline.mq4 --nnfx-events=0 --high-impact=1

NNFX events:

For reference, follow the list of expressions to filter nnfx events in ´generate_indicator.php´ script:

$filterEvents = [
    'USD' => [
        'Non-Farm Employment',
        'FOMC Statement',
        'Fed Chairman',
        'CPI m/m'
    ],
    'EUR' => [
        'ECB Press Conference',
        'ECB President',
    ],
    'GBP' => [
        'MPC Official Bank',
        'Prelim GDP'
    ],
    'CAD' => [
        'BOC Rate Statement',
        'Unemployment Rate',
        'Non-Farm Employment',
        'Core Retail Sales',
        'CPI m/m',
    ],
    'AUD' => [
        'Cash Rate',
        'Unemployment Rate',
        'Employment Change',
    ],
    'CHF' => [
        'SNB Monetary Policy Assessment',
        'Libor Rate',
    ],
    'JPY' => [
        'Monetary Policy Statement',
    ],
    'NZD' => [
        'Unemployment Rate',
        'Employment Change',
        'GDP',
        'GDT Price Index',
        'Official Cash Rate',
    ],
];