Metals Calendar MT4 Indicator

Hi everyone,

Per request I've created a MT4 indicator for Metals Mine Calendar events! If you have ideas for improvement or encounter problems please post them below.

Install: Tools > Options > Expert Advisors > Enable 'Allow DLL imports...', then drag the indicator onto any chart
Download:
Download Inline:
Here's how it looks and below you'll find more information on what it can do and the version history.


Features

Metals Mine Impact Icons
The same icons MM uses are being included with the indicator which has a nice feel to it (hopefully this is ok )

Historical Events
For events that have occurred you can display their impact on your chart (set DrawHistoricImpacts to false to disable this).

Upcoming Events
You can display up to X upcoming events below your chart ordered by which event is next. Make sure you adjust UTCOffset to match your broker and change MaxFutureEvents to display less/more upcoming events.

Inline / Subwindow
There are two versions of the indicator, the inline version will display over your graph and can be positioned using the following parameters: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right

Impact Filter
You can choose to not display High, Medium, or Low impact events.

Event Alerts
The indicator can alert you when an event is X minutes away. The alerts follow your filter settings, so if you hide low impact events you will not receive alerts for them.


Version History

v1.0.4
- fixed issue with calendar export URL changing

v1.0.2
- added TextSize option to overcome text scaling issues

v1.0.1
- icons now have transparent backgrounds
- Time column width has been increased (was sometimes very close to Forecast column)
- The non-inline version can now have a wallpaper background image
- Clicking event titles will now open a browser leading you to the MM Calendar for today
- Fixed bug with indicator crashing if history had not fully loaded when switching timeframes
- Removed chart background option for icons (no longer required)

v1.0.0
- added alerting feature

v1.0.0-beta-3
- added notice if no events were upcoming
- fixed bug with historical impact icons overlapping inline events
- fixed bug when no events were showing
- table background, font, and grid colors can now be changed

v1.0.0-beta-2
- added inline version
- events can be filtered by impact rating
- fixed bug with objects not being deleted when indicator is removed

v1.0.0-beta
- initial release

Nice work!

I had to allow DLL imports:

Tools > Options > Expert Advisors > Allow DLL imports

Yep you'll need to do that, I updated the thread so others can know too -- thanks!!

Hi Metallurgy, thank you, great work But my experience was! Background color did not change, When Indicator removed all objects and colors are not removed from the chart.

For me it is too big taking up the complete indicator window, could you please design it to sit in the left, or right Chart window, with X, and Y coordinate shifts so it can be moved as required.

Pic attached of my current News Indicator in the Left Side Chart Window,

I have attached the 2 MQ4 News Indicator files I am currently using, maybe you could get one of these to read the MetalsMine Calendar page?

Your creative work greatly appreciated

I've got it loaded up. Thanks Metallurgy! Nice work!

Hey Burton, I didn't realise MT4 didn't clean up stuff when an indicator is removed - that seems silly. I'll provide an update that takes care of the issue, I'll look into providing an option to overlay the table in the main chart too.

Thanks for the feedback!

Hi Metallurgy, good to hear from you yes it seems code to remove indicator objects must be added to an indicators code....i think...not sure...lol, your creative time is greatly appreciated,

Best wishes

Wow, nice work Metallurgy!

I've updated the indicator, there are now two versions. The inline one will show the events on your chart, the other will show in a sub-window. The bug with objects not being deleted is fixed and you can filter the events by impact.

Let me know if there's any problems

Hi Metallurgy, thank you, looking great I an using the Inline version, I can not change Background color, even when I delete the word "black" completely it stays black (and then I would need to change text color from white to black) this is not a big issue.

Thank you for you time and clever coding skills

Yeah that variable is for the historical impacts if you have them enabled. I'll see about adding some options to change the style of the box, such as colors and font-size. I appreciate the feedback!

Nice, looking great!

Nice updates! I've got the new ones loaded up. Thanks for the hard work!!

It would be cool if clicking the calendar event opened up the Metals Mine website to that event.

I planned on bringing more changes today but I've been too busy, tomorrow is looking like more of the same. Sorry for the wait, I'll post back once I have an update

I look forward to it! It's a great indicator. Thanks!

Beta 3 is out, you can grab it from the first post
Changes:

Look how ugly you can make it now:

Amazing! Many thank yous to you Metallurgy for Beta 3

Just when I was getting used to the black background...lol, now I can play with colors...lol

Your coding skills are amazing, thank you again, and best wishes

You're very welcome Burton Let me know if you have any ideas or if there's a problem.

Have a great weekend!

loving this indicator, thanks again metallurgy