NewsGuard High-Impact News Risk Overlay
Indicator
2 purchases
Version 1.0, Jan 2026
Windows, Mac
5.0
Reviews: 1
Since 02/01/2026
2
Sales
Description
NewsGuard – High-Impact News Risk Overlay is a professional risk-awareness tool for cTrader.
It visually highlights time windows around major economic events that are known to cause extreme volatility, spread expansion, and slippage.
Instead of reacting after the move happens, NewsGuard warns you before risk increases.
What NewsGuard shows
- High-impact news risk zones directly on the chart
- Adjustable time window before and after each event
- Clean overlay with upcoming or active news information
- Automatic relevance filtering based on the traded symbol
NewsGuard uses a manual high-impact schedule, making it:
- reliable
- store-safe
- independent from external feeds or APIs
What NewsGuard is NOT
- No news feed
- No forecasts
- No trade signals
It exists for one purpose only:
to make you aware of time-based risk.
Perfect for scalpers, day traders, and anyone who wants to avoid trading blindly into major news events.
Summary
AI summary
NewsGuard High-Impact News Risk Overlay is a risk-awareness indicator designed for the cTrader platform. It visually marks time windows around major economic events known to cause significant market volatility, spread widening, and slippage. The overlay displays high-impact news risk zones directly on trading charts, allowing traders to anticipate periods of increased risk before volatility occurs. Users can adjust the time windows before and after each event to suit their trading preferences. The tool automatically filters news relevance based on the traded symbol, providing a clean and focused overlay with upcoming or active news information. NewsGuard relies on a manually maintained high-impact news schedule, ensuring reliability and independence from external data feeds or APIs. It does not provide news feeds, forecasts, or trade signals; its sole purpose is to enhance trader awareness of time-based risk. This indicator is suitable for scalpers, day traders, and others who want to avoid entering trades blindly during major news events. Supported markets include Forex, indices, and popular symbols such as GBPUSD, XAUUSD (gold), and NAS100.
Indicator profile
Customer reviews
5.0
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Customer reviews
January 16, 2026
Poor entries are easier to skip, but the tool is just one part of the process.
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XAUUSD
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