Stancel Tempo
It knows what time it is where it matters.
The sessions, their killzones and the economic data with its countdown, in a strip above your chart. Free, complete and for good.
The question it answers
«Where am I in the day, and what comes next?» Nothing else. No signals, no predictions, no suggested entries. It answers that question better than you can by checking a clock and a calendar separately.
What you see at a glance
- The whole day as a bar. The three sessions, the London–New York overlap marked separately, the dead zone and the rollover. The session that is open stands out.
- The killzones, on their own strip. And you will see something almost nobody draws: they start an hour before the desk opens.
- The economic data, on that same bar, marked by importance. One look tells you whether a big release falls inside the overlap.
- A continuous countdown, to the second: how long until the session closes — or until the next one opens.
- The live session range with a gauge that tells you whether price is high or low in it, without comparing three six-digit numbers.
- The three clocks — yours, your broker's and New York's — with the offset measured, not configured.
- The sessions shaded over the candles, so the bar above and the price below tell the same story.
Your broker's clock decides nothing
Your broker may sit in GMT+2, GMT+3 or anywhere else. That does not change when London opens. Each session is computed in its own city's time, with its own continent's daylight saving, and the broker's clock is only used to draw — because it is the one your candles carry.
The offset is measured. An offset typed in by hand is a number that goes stale on its own: the broker shifts to summer time and the panel lies for months without anything failing.
And there are two or three weeks a year when the two sides of the Atlantic do not change their clocks on the same day. Those weeks the London–New York offset is not the usual one. Tempo says so, instead of drawing the bands shifted and leaving you doubting your own eyes.
Four palettes, and everything configurable
The colour of every session, the strength of the shading and what shows and what does not, from the indicator's properties. Plus four ready-made combinations for anyone who would rather not touch a thing:
Stancel
The house one. Amber, blue and slate.
Oscuro Pro
Restrained. For whoever wants the data, not the decoration.
Bloomberg
Black and amber. The skin of the terminal everyone knows.
Tokio Night
Neon. The one that shows up in a screenshot.
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.
What it does not do, and why
- It does not trade, and it cannot. It is an indicator, and MetaTrader gives an indicator no access to the trading library. That is not a promise of ours: it is the terminal's own limit.
- It never goes online. The economic calendar is read from the terminal, which already ships it. No downloads, no outside source that can go down.
- No DLLs. Nothing outside MetaTrader itself.
- It collects nothing about you. It cannot see your account, your balance or your trades, and it has nowhere to send them.
- There is no paid Tempo. It is not a demo and not a cut-down version: what you download is the whole product.
The usual questions about forex market hours
- What time does the London session open?
- At 08:00 London time. Tempo works each session out in its own city's clock, with that continent's own daylight saving, so your broker's time does not move it.
- What is a killzone and when is it?
- It is the busiest stretch at the start of each session. In Tempo they begin one hour before that city's desks open, which is when the move is already happening and almost nobody draws it that way.
- Why does my broker's time not match mine?
- Because your broker stamps its candles in its own time zone, usually GMT+2 or GMT+3, which need not be yours. Tempo measures that offset instead of asking you to type it: a hand-written offset ages on its own, and the day the broker moves to summer time the panel lies for months without anything failing.
Roadmap
A short, believable path. Every version is free, like the first.
| Version | What it brings |
|---|---|
| 1.000 | The first one. The strip, the day as a bar, the killzones, the data with its countdown, the range with its gauge, the three clocks and the shading over price. |
| 1.100 | Alerts. A configurable warning X minutes before a release, at the session open and close, and when the range breaks. |
| 1.200 | Sessions your way. Configurable hours and per-chart saved profiles. |
| 1.300 | The surprise in a release. Actual against forecast, on the strip itself. The calendar already knows how to work it out. |
| 1.400 | History. How this pair has behaved in this session over recent weeks. |
Not one of them promises signals, entries or profit. Same line as everything else here: we tell you what the tool does, not what you would like to happen.
How to get it
It is not published yet. It is going to the MQL5 Market, and seller registration and moderation take their weeks. I would rather tell you here than have you find a button that leads nowhere.
Leave me your email and I will tell you the day it is out. It is the same notice you would get about Stancel, and there is no other one: no weekly newsletter, no offers, nothing you did not ask for.
And what Tempo does not promise
It will not make you money. It is a map of the day: it tells you where you are and what is coming. What you do with that is still yours, and anyone selling you otherwise is selling something else.