Alerts and/or flatten open positions when tier-1 news are scheduled

[warcious]

I would like to develop a special indicator/strategy for NT7 that would alert me x hours before a tier-1 news regarding any of the major currencies, and I would also want this code to flatten any open positions x minutes before any tier-1 news.

I am open to suggestions on how to solve this the best way, or if I need some more special feature regarding news that I have not thought of.

It has happened once or twice that I missed important tier-1 news and the volatility made my positions go in big loss.

Any ideas are welcome, not only code.
Thank you!

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello Warcious,

Thank you for your note.

To have an alert that would trigger prior to news you’d have to define a list of dates/times considered tier 1 news. You then could have an indicator/strategy reference this list and if time equals that time minus x hours, trigger an alert.

You could define this list of dates/times in a .txt file which you could then reference, a reference example for this can be found,

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=3476

To have the alert trigger x hours before those defined dates/times, you would need to manipulate the DateTime Objects, a reference example demonstrating that can be found here,

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=19292

Regarding that same logic also closing all positions/flattening everything, NinjaTrader does not support any method which does this. However there is a command which is unsupported and you could read about that on this thread.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?p=216591#poststop

Please let us know if you need further assistance.