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Tracking Global Trading Sessions and Market Overlaps in MT5

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Summary

The document describes a chart dashboard for viewing trading hours across major financial centers. It brings together broker server time, a user's local time, and UTC, alongside the current time and open or closed status for Sydney, Tokyo, London, and New York. This can help traders see which centers are active without checking separate clocks.

The display also counts concurrent active sessions and identifies overlaps. Users can adjust session hours and UTC offsets, with settings intended to account for daylight saving changes. The tool is informational: it does not place or manage trades. The description provides no performance evidence or trading signals, so it supports awareness of market timing rather than forecasting prices or demonstrating a strategy's profitability.

Key ideas

  • The dashboard compares broker, local, and UTC time with clocks for major financial centers.
  • It reports whether each tracked session is open or closed.
  • It highlights concurrent sessions and overlaps among trading centers.
  • Session schedules and UTC offsets can be customized, including daylight saving adjustments.
  • The tool provides timing information and does not execute or manage trades.

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Multi-assetMarket microstructureExecution

This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.