Designing an MQL5 Economic Calendar News Dashboard
Summary
This article explains how to build a chart-based dashboard for viewing economic calendar events in MQL5. It proposes a table where each event has a name, scheduled time, affected currency, importance level, and brief description. Contrasting visual styles are intended to make high-importance events easier to spot, while reusable functions create common interface elements such as panels, buttons, and text labels.
The result is a display tool for consulting calendar data, not a news-based trading method. The article describes retrieving and presenting event information and reports that the panel displays calendar data after compilation. It does not provide performance evidence showing that the dashboard improves decisions or trading results. Filtering, real-time updates, and using the news data for trading are identified as later development steps, so the current version is a basic monitoring interface with limited functionality.
Key ideas
- A calendar dashboard can arrange events in rows with time, affected currency, importance, and a short description.
- Contrasting visual categories can help users scan event importance quickly.
- Reusable object-creation functions reduce repetition when building chart interface elements.
- The described panel displays calendar information but does not test a news trading strategy.
- Filtering and live updates are proposed as future improvements.
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