It knows what time it is where it matters.

The question it answers

«Where am I in the day, and what comes next?» Nothing else. No signals, no predictions, no suggested entries. It puts in one place what you would otherwise read off a clock and a calendar separately.

What you see at a glance

• The whole day as a bar. The three sessions, the dead zone and the rollover. Where London and New York overlap, their colours add up. The session that is open stands out.
• The killzones, on their own line. They start an hour before their desk opens, which is when the move that prepares the open happens.
• 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. At the weekend it counts down to the Sunday open, and does not pretend there is a session.
• 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 candle countdown and the New York clock, next to the time model everything is drawn with: «Server GMT+3 · US DST on · EU DST on».
• The sessions shaded over the candles, each candle on the clock of its own date, so the bar above and the price below tell the same story.
• The highs and lows of the previous session and the previous day, as lines that stop where price touches them.
• Alerts for sessions, killzones and releases, to a popup, your phone or your email. All off until you switch them on.

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, week by week: the first candle of each week in your price history tells what time your broker kept that week. An offset typed in by hand goes stale on its own: the broker moves to summer time and the panel lies for months without anything failing.

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:

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.

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.

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

You install it from inside MetaTrader 5, with no files to copy:

• Open the Market in your terminal's Navigator.
• Search for “Stancel Tempo” and download it. It is free: nothing to pay and nothing to activate.
• Drag it onto a chart from the Navigator. There are no more steps.

The Market needs your MQL5.community account set in the terminal, in its settings, on the “Community” tab: that is a MetaQuotes rule for every product, free ones included. If you would rather look at it in the browser first, here is its page on the MQL5 Market.

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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.