Hello
I wanted to know if there was a way to incorporate external data into Jforex?
Specifically, I want my strategies to avoid trading 30 minutes before to 30 minutes after high impact news so would need to import a data from a news feed.

I do this manually by reviewing upcoming news at https://www.forexfactory.com/calendar.php and not taking trade set-ups in this period but I wanted to know if this was possible to automate with Jforex, before I begin to try to implement it in a strategy. It may also be possible but just way beyond my current development skills.
Using Dukascopy data would be fine https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english ... ccalendar/ - I just habituated on ForexFactory a long time ago.

Functions I think would be required are Import data, sort data to filter high impact news only, and filter by country (eg EU, US, GB CHF, and JPY news for EURUSD strategy), import times of those news events into variables and then filter strategy by time, so if entry event is triggered within that 30 minute before the filtered news event time to 30 minutes after the filtered news event time, the entry event is not triggered.

I have not worked with pulling external data in my strategies nor filtered by time so I would like to know if these functions are even possible within JForex before I start figuring out how to implement it.

Thanks
LiamsDad

Hello.

You can use News Feed in the strategy: https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#Trade_on_news