New very cool CandleTime and session time Clock indicators

"momentarily disappear (just one time) from the chart, and then after >= 1 second (with a new tick?), they all reappear and continue to update the clock times normally every second?"

Yes.

"though I'd have to test it out."

was just wondering if there is a simple solution....I can live with it

I downloaded the P4l Clock but each time I send in a new order it disappears from my chart completely. When I check the indicator list, I can still see the indicator but it isn’t showing up on the chart. I have tried deleting and re-adding the indicator, as long as i have an open position, it won’t stay on the chart.
- The indicator not only disappears on a particular chart it disappears on all open charts. For instance: if I have two charts open (GbpJpy and EurUsD), and I send in a an order for GJ when i go to other open charts I realize the indicator is missing as well. Could someone pls help me out with this?? Thanks in advance

hey pips4life, is it possible to add option so it shows countdown to open and countdown to close of each market? just a suggestion.

thanks for great indicator

The ADR label is not showing any value to me. Tested on a fresh new MT4 install with no other indicators loaded. What could be the problem?

Properties, Common tab, tick Show Object Descriptions

How can I get timezone according to which daylight saving time switch happens on broker server? Through charts, or any other way?

I don't know of any MT4 property one can query to determine the broker data's timezone. I've only been able to figure it out by manually inspecting the hourly data on the charts, but this is problematic on some brokers at this time of year, because many brokers limit how many bars back you can load. If you've been steadily using the same MT4 for many months, and have loaded the hourly data that goes back to at least March 2021, then you can at least make a guess by observing the closing bar on several consecutive Fridays during March and into April (Or equivalently, observe changes during October and November). You should also observe the opening Sunday bar times, and also observe any changes from week to week. When these bar times change from one week to the next, you know that the broker observed some ST/DST change. To know WHAT ST/DST schedule it is following, you have to really dive into a lot details.

Does that date of bar time changes correspond to the USA ST/DST schedule? Or the European schedule? Or no ST/DST change at all? (which implies a true UTC based timezone).

How many hours offset is the broker time vs. true UTC ?

How many H1 bars per week -- EACH week -- do you have? (Often times it is 120, but might be 119 or 121 because of some ST/DST change).

The first place to go is: https://www.worldtimezone.com/index24.php

What timezone matches your current broker time? (You can only do this comparison during the week when the market is live).

Supposing that the broker time matches the time in Helsinki. A few minutes ago, Helsinki said 22:23 DST, which in New York is 15:23 DST. My broker time was 22:23.

My broker has a consistent 120 H1 bars per week, and on my H1 charts, I observe that the Friday Close time & Sunday Open time changes according to the USA ST/DST schedule. Therefore, my true broker timezone is NY+7. Another matching clue for this is my broker Daily charts have 5 bars per week year round; this is most often a NY+7 schedule, although if it follows the European ST/DST schedule, it might be a LON+2 timezone, and things get a little weird on the chart for the weeks between when USA changes and then when EUR changes.

A lot of people would mistakenly refer to this broker timezone as "GMT+2". (Including me in the past, but no longer). You can see this is incorrect because "GMT" (if interpreted as true "UTC") does not observe any ST/DST schedule. Or if it follows the European ST/DST, better to say "LON+2", because the use of "GMT" has been screwed up by inconsistent interpretation. But by observation, it follows the USA ST/DST schedule, therefore "NY+7" is the correct timezone name.

Unfortunately, there are some crappy broker feeds that use a *combination* of timezones! For example, the Forex.com (GAIN Capital) charts made a change during the summer of 2020. After the change, the broker timezone is "NY+7", but prior to the change... well it depends on whether you load data from scratch, or whether you already had the data loaded before the change. (It's really screwed up!). This inconsistency makes Daily charts utterly useless for proper TA, especially for sloped objects like trendlines and pitchforks, because before the transition, there are 6 Daily-bars-per-week, but after the transition, there are now 5 Daily-bars-per-week! Projections that cross the boundary are useless. It makes me really pissed off that any broker provides such a crappy data feed, but in the U.S., there's very little competition anymore, so we get what we get.


Bottom line: AFAIK, you can only determine the broker timezone by careful examination of the H1 charts that include all the common dates of ST/DST changes. It's tricky and complicated, but I've given enough clues to figure it out a specific broker.

Thank you for your reply, it made me some progress towards finally understanding process of getting to know timezone according to which DST switch happens on server, atleast I feel like that.

I need help with getting answers on following question, I don't get exactly what should I look for.

1) Does that date of bar time changes correspond to the USA ST/DST schedule? Or the European schedule? Or no ST/DST change at all? (which implies a true UTC based timezone).

How can I get that information, does date of bar correspond to USA, or Europe or no change at all?

Thanks in advance!

can you make a indicator like this for MT4 ? i found this on MT5 market .

HELLO, can you help me update the indicator? I live in France. It's summer time.