The strip, row by row
The strip sits across the top of the chart and has four rows. Top to bottom:
1 · The hour ruler
A thin row with the hours marked every three. They are in your broker's time, which is the time your candles carry: if the ruler says 09 above a candle, that candle is your broker's nine o'clock.
It is the only part of the strip that speaks broker time, and that is on purpose — everything else runs on market time, which is the one that decides (see Time).
2 · The day bar
The heart of Tempo. A whole day left to right, split into bands:
| Band | What it is |
|---|---|
| Tokyo | The Asian session |
| London | The European session |
| New York | The American session |
| Dead zone | The New York afternoon, with London already closed |
| Rollover | The broker's day change |
The band of the session that is open right now is brighter than the rest and carries a frame. The others dim down so they do not compete.
The day does not start at midnight: it starts when the rollover ends, which is when the FX day really begins. That way no session is cut in half by the two ends of the strip.
3 · The killzones
A thin strip just below the bar, marking the two windows of heaviest institutional activity. They are not sessions: they are windows inside them, and they start before their session opens. See Sessions.
They can be turned off with InpVerKillzones.
4 · The data row
A line of text with, left to right:
- BRK hh:mm — your broker's time.
- NY hh:mm — New York time.
- GMT±n — your broker's offset from UTC, measured.
- The countdown — "TOKYO opens in 01:46:06" or "LONDON closes in 02:14:33", to the second.
- The next economic release — how long, which currency, and what it is.
- The session range, if one is open, with its gauge.
- The version of Tempo you are running, at the far right.
If the row runs out of width it is not cut off mid-word: items drop out in order, least important first. On a narrow chart you see less, but what you see is still true and still fits whole.
The legend
At the very bottom, in a box, each band's colour with its name. It is there for the first few days; once you know the colours, turn it off with InpVerLeyenda and take the space back.