A new RTX Indicator titled FlexDates is under development. The indicator will build off a list of datetimes that correspond to key events, and will provide ability to plot those events in chart historical but also alert to events as they approach.
The indicator will take a csv file as input. Each row in the csv file will correspond to a datetime of a key event, and each entry will involve the following pieces of information. Date, Time, Label/Title, Value/Price. Options will exist with respect to how to mark historical events in the chart, as well as how to alert to upcoming events (with a timer/countdown and signal action being options).
Users will be able to pull off a local file on their machine, or point to a csv file on a server that someone else maintains for a group (very similar to what currently exists for FlexLevels).
Please share any ideas or suggestion you may have for FlexDates are replies to this topic.
This is what I believe the poster in the clock thread is looking for. It's a terrific idea and using the csv file is perfect. many of us already us that format for other things , I mark levels in Bookmap with it for example. It is a simple and elegant solution allowing the user to store and amend the file on the fly, and well as being able to pull up previous files for reference or easy updating. An example would be having 4 weekly files, and many releases follow monthly format.
Let's start off a list of they key events you're interested in as a trader...
What other events on the economic calendar are of highest importance? Which once are on an automatic schedule that could be programmed indefinitely?
Note: One time only for multiple releases, they are grouped for convenience and synchronization. Bond traders may have additional dates,
Week of Jan 23 https://www.screencast.com/t/r1pKTMzq
Week of Jan 30 https://www.screencast.com/t/WwR063oo
2nd week on Month https://www.screencast.com/t/lxDK7tsFy9C
3rd Week https://www.screencast.com/t/6XZHk0MEF
FOMC Minutes, very important release date https://www.screencast.com/t/XcxUOevLB
rast of that week https://www.screencast.com/t/dGTjUhxfTC
I think it's important that users check the weekly listings against their own sources, and not rely soley on this list. FOMC date can change for example, and other important meetings, like a Draghi Statement are variable, European and Asian traders have their own releases, they should post.
Even a basic list as you are contemplating is an excellent resource, and providing the csv format makes it very user frinedly.
Thank you.
This another popular resource:
Past week https://www.screencast.com/t/TWR72l7CJKo
Next Week https://www.screencast.com/t/PMAlGGU96P
2nd Week https://www.screencast.com/t/LqDyon1e
3rd Week https://www.screencast.com/t/SJh51Zmac
4th Week https://www.screencast.com/t/swICAZKRYZ
I parse the investing.com to a local html file and look through it before each week and before each trading day.
Need to think through how I convert that html into the csv format Chad has described.
Ideally, if there was some automated way to have alarms for a column identified automatially or manually as a three star event that would be great.
Sometimes investing.com does not get it right and one needs to manually highlight something, usually a speech by a key player.
Thanks Chad for this indicator
Jan. 31-Feb. 1;
March 14-15;
May 2-3;
June 13-14;
July 25-26;
Sept. 19-20;
Oct. 31-Nov. 1;
Dec. 12-13; and.