R_NewsReading
Repository for the Udemy course. Please support this project by joining this on-line course:
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Note: this course is the part of the series of step-by-step tutorials allowing to build more comprehensive Automated Trading System based on Decision Support System approach. Check out other courses of the series.
Purpose:
Disable algorithmic trading robots during macro-economic events
R script will scrap news from the table in Forex Factory. It will match collected news versus pre-defined user list. In case there is a match csv file will be written into MQL4 Sandbox and trading will be disabled Job is automated to take place every 24h at 00:10
Setup Twitter connection
R scripts allowing to:
- encrypt API keys provided by Twitter App
- decrypt credentials and establish connection with twitter
- download twitter data
- perform data cleaning and visualisation
- sentiment analysis of twitter data
Build
Everything what is needed to arrange the 'news' reading:
- R script
- List of Restricted Events
- Bat file
- Windows Task Scheduler Job
Disclaimer
Use on your own risk