Metatrader Open Market

I didn't see appropriate category and I hope this is the closest to the subject. I would like to know how to find out whether the market is open or closed from within the platform Metatrader 4. I do not live in the time zone of my broker and so far the only way I know of to test whether the market is open or closed is to execute an order. Is there any other reasonable way?

I have seen Saxo Banks platform, prices turn purple after a while if theres no activity ijn market, so there you could see it maybe

This is just one of the design flaws of MetaTrader. There is no indication from the server that the market is closed, so the terminal simply doesn't know for sure. You as the human may know by looking at the MarketWatch window time: if it says 21:59:59 and it's Friday or the weekend and this time doesn't change for some period, you can assume that the market is closed. Programming this is a whole different matter.

Firstly, you would need to run the main Expert Advisor code in a continuous loop instead of relying on incoming ticks for the code to be executed, otherwise there would be no way for the Expert Advisor to keep checking the time.

When the market is closed, there are no more ticks received from the server. However, the reverse does not necessarily apply; just because the client did not receive ticks within the past x minutes, you can't assume that the market is closed, because it could simply be a quiet time of day for the currency pair.

I think this is a reliable way, i.e. submit a Buy Limit order at 0.00001. You'll get a "Market is closed" error or it will be placed. If it's placed you'll have to cancel it.

The problem with this approach is that you wouldn't want to be submitting orders too often (assuming that you are using an Expert Advisor), as your account history will become huge with canceled limit orders, and the broker would probably not like it. The problem you then have is when to submit this order. Maybe when the time since last tick is greater than x minutes? I think that may be the best approach.