Repository for the Udemy course. Please support this project by joining this on-line course:

https://www.udemy.com/course/forex-news-and-sentiment-analysis/?referralCode=2B76F54F1D33CF06B79C

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.

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

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

Everything what is needed to arrange the 'news' reading:

• Setup Environmental Variables
• R script
• List of Restricted Events
• Bat file
• Windows Task Scheduler Job

Please clone this repository to the folder

"%USERPROFILE%\Documents\GitHub"

Environmental variables could be edited by using template:

/_PROD/Set_Environment_Variables.bat

Edit this file and execute it

(Note: you must restart R-Studio for the settings to take effect from R Studio)

Use on your own risk