The FXSSI calendar MT5 indicator shows the date and time, country and importance of macroeconomic news releases within the price chart. Since, it stays always visibly on the chart without the need to visit external websites traders can be aware of the time of potential price volatility. As a result, the indicator helps traders decide either to hold on existing open positions, close them or hedge them to accommodate market volatility.
Features of FXSSI Calendar MT5 Indicator
The indicator draws vertical lines at the time of a news release with stars to highlight the importance of news. The star ratings are from 1 to 3 with 3 being high importance news.
For additional information, a left click on the news opens an info panel. The panel opens in the right chart corner to display stars, date and time, country and the name of the news release. If there are multiple news releases at any particular time, the indicator lists all of them. Moreover, traders can go through previous and future news releases by clicking on the arrows below the panel.
The indicator uses forexfactory as primary source and investing.com as secondary source for news. This enables smooth functioning of the indicator without freezing the trading platform. Traders should note that this indicator does not provide published news data. But only provides the date and time of news releases.
Benefits of FXSSI Calendar MT5 Indicator
Economic news releases are a boon and curse for many forex traders. The spike in price volatility may be rewarding or destructing. However, this indicator helps traders to prepare well in advance and embrace the market volatility. That said, it is better to stay clear of the markets 10 minutes before and 15 minutes after major economic news releases.
Unlike most of other news indicators that display all the news info on the price chart. This indicator provides a non intrusive approach with clean vertical lines and an info panel in the right chart corner.
The simplicity of three stars to imply the importance and the possibility of increased price volatility helps traders to focus on volatility. Though the indicator plots vertical lines to indicate a news release it also provides alerts or warning in advance of the news release.
Indicator Settings Description
Filter News by Currencies:, Defined Currencies:, Filter By Volatility: Options to choose the currency pairs using volatility, currency pairs or all symbols.
Hours Ahead:, Hours Behind: The period for which economic news release will be displayed. However a maximum of a week’s data will be available.
Update Interval: Choose from 5 minutes to 60 minutes for update.
Server Time Offset: Set offset to auto or chooses a value.
Show till TimeFrame: Traders can choose from M5 to H4. Maximum chart time frame for news release display.
Display Symbol Names:, Text Position:, Text Size: Display symbols and text options.
Show tooltips: Shows additional information of importance, name and time of news.
Indicator Position:, Horizontal Offset:, Vertical Offset: Adjust indicator panel location.
Color Scheme: Color options.
Alert Method:, Notify Before N Minutes:, Sound File: Alert settings.
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