Excluding Non-farm Payroll

[Byens]

can you please repost shared project, because its not there anymore

[camhawk]

How would I go about creating a filter to exclude Non-farm payroll, i.e. the first Friday in every month?

[fxDreema]

I never thought about that and there is no such block, but it will be probably easy. There are two simple native functions:

http://docs.mql4.com/dateandtime/day
http://docs.mql4.com/dateandtime/dayofweek (Weekday filter block is using this function actually)

These can be used directly in Condition -> Value (numeric). So my idea is, if the current day is <= 7 and the day of week is == 5 () or you can use Weekday filter), then this is the first friday of the month.

[camhawk]

Thanks, I'll give it a go, pending you creating a specific block for this in the future.

[camhawk]

Can't seem to work it out. Are you able to provide an example?

[fxDreema]

https://fxdreema.com/shared/YTSkcv14b
http://prntscr.com/5rjlwt

[camhawk]

Thanks, got it!

There was a small work required around to get the inverse of your example, i.e. to exclude them.

I created an quick example here for others to see should they stumble on this post in the future:

https://fxdreema.com/shared/8GrB8ZC9b

[baxpar]

Is there any update, can't find projects ?

[Byens]

do it like this