Settings
All the settings are in the indicator's properties: right-click the chart > Indicators List > Tempo > Properties, Inputs tab.
In the tables, the first column is Tempo's internal name for the setting and the second is what you see in the dialog.
None of them is needed to start. Everything comes with a value that works, and the alerts come switched off.
Colours
| Setting | In the dialog | What it does |
|---|---|---|
InpPaleta | Palette | Picks one of the four combinations below |
InpColTokio | Tokyo colour | The colour of the Tokyo session |
InpColLondres | London colour | The colour of the London session |
InpColNuevaYork | New York colour | The colour of the New York session |
InpColMuerta | Dead zone colour | The colour of the dead zone |
InpColRollover | Rollover colour | The colour of the rollover |
The five colours come empty (None in MetaTrader's picker), and that means "use the palette's". As soon as you set one, it wins over the palette and the other four keep coming from it. You can change just the one you do not like without having to pick all five.
The four palettes
Stancel — the brand one: amber, blue and slate. The amber is not spent on any session because it is the "look at this" colour, kept for high-impact releases.
Graphite — the sober one, for anyone who wants the data and not the decoration. It takes its colours from the strip's theme, so it changes with it between dark and light backgrounds.
Amber — black and amber, the classic look of data terminals.
Neon — neons on indigo. It is the one that stands out in a screenshot, and for that very reason it is not the default: the flashy one is chosen, not imposed.
New York is blue in all four. The shade changes, the colour does not: switching palette never costs you the reference you had already learnt.
Display
| Setting | In the dialog | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
InpVerSombreado | Shade sessions over the candles | Yes | Shades the sessions over the candles |
InpVerKillzones | Show killzones | Yes | Draws the killzone line |
InpVerDatos | Show economic releases | Yes | Marks the releases and their countdown |
InpVerLeyenda | Show colour legend | Yes | The colour box at the bottom |
InpSombraPct | Shading strength, 5-60 % | 22 | Shading strength |
InpSombraModo | Session shading style | Fill | Fill or Edges only |
InpVerVela | Show candle close countdown | Yes | The candle countdown |
InpSombraPct accepts 5 to 60. Below 5 you would not see it, and above 60 it hides the candles — exactly the opposite of what shading should do. If you type a number outside that range, it is clamped to the nearest limit rather than drawing something unreadable.
Levels
| Setting | In the dialog | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
InpNivSesiones | Previous Asia, London and New York high/low | Yes | The previous sessions' lines |
InpNivDia | Previous day high/low | Yes | The previous day's lines |
Explained in Highs and lows.
Custom session
| Setting | In the dialog | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
InpPropia | Show a custom session | No | Switches it on |
InpPropiaNombre | Custom session name | NYSE | The name on the strip and in the legend |
InpPropiaIni | Starts at (HH:MM) | 09:30 | Start time |
InpPropiaFin | Ends at (HH:MM) | 16:00 | End time |
InpPropiaZona | Time zone of those hours | New York | Which city's time those two hours are in |
InpPropiaColor | Custom session colour | Goldenrod | Its colour |
Times go as HH:MM, with the colon: 09:30, not 9:30 or 9h30. If one does not have that shape, the session is not drawn and Tempo says so once in the Experts journal.
The zone can be New York, London or Tokyo — with their summer time, like the usual sessions —, UTC or Broker server (your broker's time, with its own clock change). If the end is earlier than the start (22:00 to 02:00), the session crosses midnight.
Alerts
| Setting | In the dialog | Default |
|---|---|---|
InpAlSesiones | Alert when a session opens or closes | No |
InpAlKillzones | Alert when a killzone starts or ends | No |
InpAlNoticias | Alert before economic releases | No |
InpAlMinutos | Minutes before the release | 15 |
InpAlImportancia | Releases to alert on | High impact only |
InpAlSoloPar | Only releases for the chart currencies | Yes |
InpAlVentana | Channel: popup window | Yes |
InpAlSonido | Channel: sound | No |
InpAlSonidoFich | Sound file | alert.wav |
InpAlMovil | Channel: push notification to phone | No |
InpAlCorreo | Channel: email | No |
Explained in Alerts.
Settings belong to each chart
If you have Tempo on three charts, each keeps its own. Changing the palette on one does not touch the others.
To reuse a set of settings: set the indicator up the way you want and, in the properties window, press Save to store it in a .set file. On the next chart load it with Load.