Vantage_News_Types

Vantage_News_Types — Shared vocabulary of US economic event types and a default severity taxonomy for Pine Script news-filtering strategies.

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WHAT IT DOES

Publishes a shared set of named event-type constants and a default severity mapping so that news-calendar data libraries, severity-override tables, and consuming strategies can all agree on what each event type means without maintaining their own copy of the list.

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WHAT IT PROVIDES

Named constants for 125+ tracked US economic events — CPI, PPI, PCE, FOMC statements and speakers, non-farm payrolls, ISM, retail sales, GDP, housing, consumer confidence, crude inventories, Treasury auctions, bank holidays, and more. Each is a compact integer ID you can store in a packed news table.

A default severity taxonomy expressed relative to equity-index futures — Severity 1 — Watch (low-impact, not expected to move the market), Severity 2 — Delay entry (pause entries until a configurable window after release), and Severity 3 — Block the session (do not trade on a day carrying this event). Callers for other instruments can still use the type IDs and apply their own mapping.

Time helpers for the HHMM → milliseconds conversion used by packed news tables, and append helpers for building up parallel date / time / type-id arrays.

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HOW TO USE

A minimal usage example is in the comment block at the top of the source file. Updated weekly as new event types are observed or severity defaults change.