News Trader is a semi-automatic expert advisor for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 designed to execute trades around high-volatility economic announcements. Users manually input the scheduled news release time, and the robot opens positions a specified number of seconds before the event. It supports single-direction trad
News trading · MT4 · MT5
JB News Bot
JB News Bot is an automated trading expert advisor for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 that executes positions based on scheduled economic data releases.
GitHub stars31
Forks9
Last update3 months ago26 May 2026
LicenceMIT
Latest releasev2.4.88 months ago
Overview
JB News Bot interfaces with the JBlanked News API to fetch calendar events from sources including MQL5, Forex Factory, and FXStreet. The EA allows users to configure specific entry logic based on the relationship between actual, forecast, and previous data points for various currencies. It includes essential risk management controls such as fixed lot sizing, stop loss, and take profit. The tool requires a valid API key for data synchronization.
- API-driven economic news integration
- Customizable conditional entry logic
- Supports MQL5 and Forex Factory sources
- Automated trade execution on data release
Details
Author
jblanked on GitHub
Type
News trading
Platform
MetaTrader 4 (MQL4) and MetaTrader 5 (MQL5)
Strategy
News
Markets
Forex
Timeframes
M1-M5
Risk profile
No grid, martingale or hedging logic was found in its code or README. That says nothing about how it performs: backtest it first.
Input parameters
Read from JB-News-Bot.mq4. Defaults are the author's; change them in the EA's Inputs tab.
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
inpNews | string | ====News Settings==== | |
inpApiKey | string | API-KEY | API Key |
inpNewsSource | ENUM_NEWS_SOURCE | NEWS_SOURCE_MQL5 | News Source |
inpOffset | int | 0 | Offset |
inpTrade | string | ====Trade Settings==== | |
inpCurrency | ENUM_CURRENCY | CURRENCY_USD | News Currency |
inpNewsEvent | ENUM_NEWS_EVENTS | Core_CPI_monthly | News Event |
inpBuyStrat | ENUM_NEWS_STRATEGY | actual_more_than_forecast_equal_to_previous | Buy Strategy |
inpSellStrat | ENUM_NEWS_STRATEGY | actual_less_than_forecast_equal_to_previous | Sell Strategy |
inpLotSize | double | 0.10 | Lot size |
inpTakeProfit | double | 100.00 | Take Profit (Points) |
inpStopLoss | double | 50.00 | Stop Loss (Points) |
Show all 14 inputs
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
inpComment | string | JB-News-Bot | Order Comment |
inpMagic | long | 124211 | Magic Number |
How to install it
- 1Download the sourceUse "Download source (.zip)" above, or clone jblanked/JB-News from GitHub, and unzip it.
- 2Open the data folderIn MetaTrader choose File, then Open Data Folder, and go to MQL4/Experts or MQL5/Experts.
- 3Copy the filesCopy the .mq4 / .mq5 file into Experts, and any .mqh files into the Include folder the code expects.
- 4Compile in MetaEditorOpen the file in MetaEditor and press Compile. Fix any missing includes the compiler reports.
- 5Test before you tradeRun it in the Strategy Tester, then attach it to a demo chart and allow algorithmic trading.
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