How do I change the time in MT4 ???

[mge0rge]

I cannot seem to find an option on how to change the time. The candles are 2 hours in advance. When I installed MT4 I was in a different country that was 2 hours ahead. Is there an option to change the time, I wouldnt want to reinstall MT4

[rod178]

mge0rge:
I cannot seem to find an option on how to change the time. The candles are 2 hours in advance. When I installed MT4 I was in a different country that was 2 hours ahead. Is there an option to change the time, I wouldnt want to reinstall MT4

The times are Broker dependant. Other than change Broker, hence the feed that contains the time, you are stuck with what they provide. I find that +2/3 GMT is the most suitable as it does not produce w/e candles.

[William Roeder]

If you had used this you would have found out that that is broker time.

• FX opens 5pm ET Sunday and ends 5pm ET Friday. Some brokers start after (6pm is common/end before (up to 15 minutes) due to low volatility.
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  Swap is computed 5pm ET. No swap if no open orders at that time.

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• Brokers use a variety of timezones. Their local time (with or without DST,) GMT/UTC, GMT+2, NY+7.

  Only with NY+7 does the broker's 00:00 equals 5pm ET and the start of a daily bar is the start of a new FX day.

  GMT brokers, means there is a 1 or 2 hour D1/H4 bar on Sunday (depending on NY DST,) and a short Friday bar.

  GMT+2 is close but doesn't adjust for NY DST.

  EET is closer except when their DST doesn't match NYs. Last Sunday of March and 1:00 on the last Sunday of October vs second Sunday in March and return at 2:00 a.m. EDT to 1:00 a.m. EST on the first Sunday in November.

• Non-NY+7, means the chart daily bar overlaps the start, and converting broker time to NY time requires broker to GMT to NY timezone conversions.

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• If you search the web you will find differing answers. Those are all wrong (half the year) because they do not take DST into account (or that it changed in 2007 [important when testing history.])