News Filter EA (Coding Help)

Trading Systems Expert Advisors and Automated Trading
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Hello,

I paid $30 to a freelancer on Telegram to build a news filter for me. They have delivered the product, but it is not working as I expected. The freelancer is no longer replying.

Logical Conditions:

Before X minutes from news, string News_Trade_Status = “Paused”;
X minutes after news, string News_Trade_Status = “Paused”;

Current Error with Code:

While setting up an EA, it checks logical conditions and based on that, it sets values to News_Trade_Status (Active or Paused). However, after the setup, it does not repeat the condition check whenever news comes.

I have attached my EA. I request your help to get it fixed, as I have no more budget to hire another person for this task.

newsfilter.rar (5.5 KB)

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You might be hiring someone to re-invent the wheel. A quick search shows a news filter indicator on forexfactory.

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Looking at your code, there may be an issue retrieving xml data from a non-secure url that’s hardcoded into the EA

http://nfs.faireconomy.media/ff_calendar_thisweek.xml

I’m still getting my bearings with the mql language and syntax, but from my experience coding web applications attempting to access cross site data without a secure ‘https’ connection can sometimes cause issues.