The Dying Sunday Bar

Love it or hate it, I see that many brokers who were formerly UTC +1 (or less) are shifting to Eastern European time (UTC +2 or +3) in order to eliminate the Sunday bar.

Am I the only one who is sad that the Sunday bar is being slowly eliminated?

I don't know why but the quirky Sunday bar seemed to give my system a slight edge.

Sure you can code an indicator or EA to "simulate the Sunday bar back" but when a single backtest using tick data takes a few hours on my rusty old computer, more code is a bad thing (also maybe because I'm a noob programmer).

So I just wonder, is there a particular reason why a broker can only offer one time zone? Would a broker that offered the customer a choice of time zones be a good thing or bad thing (from their perspective)?

Maybe it has to do with the trading platform... for an example I think MT4 does not allow you to change the time zones, it does not depend on the broker... but I could be wrong... we need an answer from an expert

The time you see in MT4 is broker's server time. If you would like to have a choice of different time zones then it's a question for developer of MT4. I saw a lot of requests of traders for this. It would be quite easy for developer (MetaQuotes) to just create drop down menu with choices +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 etc. and recount the data as some of other platforms have...

We can just hope or create our own amateur solution.

Another question regarding mt4... in the terminal window I see my balance, profit, and the current balance of every deal expressed in EUR. Can I change that, or it depends on the broker!?