FWS Tide Clock Session and Activity Monitor
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Maya Roma Oberholzer
A Senior Software Analyst Programmer with a strong software solutions architecture background and has 20+ years of experience in the IT Industry and technologies.
From 2003 to 2006 - contracting in the UK for four years to various well known corporate companies and the UK government. - Version: 1.12
🌊 FWS Tide Clock — Session Clock & Activity Monitor
Know when to trade — at a glance.
FWS Tide Clock is a real-time session clock that shows you exactly what's happening across global forex markets. See which sessions are active, when they overlap, and whether conditions favour trading — all from a compact on-chart panel with a stunning browser-based web dashboard.
Part of the Forex Weather Station suite. This free module gives you instant market timing awareness — right where you need it.
📊 What It Shows
- Three Session Bars — Asia/Tokyo, London/Europe, New York/US with live progress & countdown timers
- Overlap Detection — Automatically highlights when 2+ sessions overlap (peak liquidity zones)
- NYSE Equity Hours — Know when US equities are open (configurable, default 9:30am–4:00pm ET)
- Activity Level — Composite rating: QUIET → MODERATE → ACTIVE → PEAK → WEEKEND
- Next Session Countdown — Always know what's coming next and when
- Weekend Detection — Correctly identifies Fri 22:00 UTC → Sun 22:00 UTC market closure
- Time Zone Toggle — Display time in UTC, Local Time, or New York (ET with auto DST)
🌐 Stunning HTML Web Dashboard
Click "Open Web View" on the panel to launch a beautiful browser-based dashboard featuring:
- Glassmorphism dark theme with subtle grid background
- Large animated session progress bars with open/close times
- Overlap banner with peak liquidity alert
- Info grid: Activity Level, NYSE Status, Next Session, Day Progress
- LIVE connection — updates every 5 seconds from MT5 data
- Bookmark the URL once, access with one click forever
The web dashboard reads live data written by the indicator to MQL5/Files/FWS/. Open the HTML file in any browser — it auto-refreshes automatically.
✨ Key Features
- Draggable panel — click the border/title area and drag anywhere on your chart
- Minimise button — collapse to a compact title bar with [-]
- Weekend-aware — shows "MARKETS CLOSED — WEEKEND" banner when forex is offline
- Three time zones — UTC, Local, or New York (auto EDT/EST detection)
- Fully customisable — all colours, font, font size, session hours adjustable in settings
- Lightweight — no buffers, no plotting, minimal CPU usage
- JSON data bridge — writes session state for integration with other tools or dashboards
- No DLL required — pure MQL5, marketplace-compliant
⚙️ Input Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| InpPanelX / Y | Panel position on chart (pixels) | 20, 50 |
| InpTimeDisplay | Time zone: UTC / Local / New York (ET) | UTC |
| InpAsiaOpen/Close | Asia session hours (UTC) | 00:00–09:00 |
| InpLondonOpen/Close | London session hours (UTC) | 08:00–17:00 |
| InpNYOpen/Close | New York session hours (UTC) | 13:00–22:00 |
| InpNYSEOpen/Close | NYSE equity hours (UTC) | 13:30–20:00 |
| InpFont / InpFontSize | Font name and size | Consolas / 9pt |
| InpColorTitle | Title bar background | Dark navy |
| InpColorBody | Panel body background | Deep dark blue |
| InpColorBorder | Panel border colour | Muted purple-grey |
| InpColorAsia | Asia session colour | Soft blue |
| InpColorLondon | London session colour | Green |
| InpColorNY | New York session colour | Blue |
| InpColorOverlap | Overlap highlight colour | Amber/gold |
| InpWriteJSON | Enable JSON/HTML data output | true |
| InpEnableWebBtn | Show "Open Web View" button | true |
📦 What's Included
- MQL5 Indicator — Compact 340px on-chart panel (drag, minimise, timezone toggle)
- HTML Web Dashboard — Auto-generated to MQL5/Files/FWS/tideclock.html
- JSON Data Bridge — Session state written every 5 seconds for external integration
🔧 Quick Start
- Attach the indicator to any chart (any symbol, any timeframe)
- The panel appears in the top-left corner — drag it anywhere you like
- Click "Open Web View" for the full browser dashboard
- The file path is shown in the Experts tab — paste it into your browser
- Bookmark the URL for instant one-click access in the future
🔌 Part of the Forex Weather Station Suite
This is Module 1 of the Forex Weather Station — a suite of 7 specialised trading tools that each work standalone or combine into a unified premium dashboard:
| # | Module | What It Does | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🌊 Tide Clock (this) | Session clock & activity monitor | FREE |
| 2 | ⛈️ Storm Watch | Economic news radar & impact alerts | FREE |
| 3 | 💨 Pair Bias | Multi-timeframe directional bias | |
| 4 | 🌡️ Currency Strength | 8-currency strength meter | |
| 5 | 🔗 Pair Correlation | Correlation matrix to avoid doubling | |
| 6 | 📡 Pullback Radar | Multi-pair pullback pipeline scanner | |
| 7 | 🧭 Navigator | Trade signal scorer combining all modules | |
| ★ | 🌦️ Weather Station | All 7 modules + master HTML dashboard |
Each module writes data to a shared JSON bridge. The premium Weather Station bundle combines everything into one stunning real-time dashboard.
⚠️ Requirements
- MetaTrader 5 (build 3000+)
- Works on any symbol, any timeframe (uses UTC time, not chart data)
- Web dashboard requires a modern browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox)
- No DLL imports required
💡 Tips
- Minimise the panel with [-] when you need more chart space
- Drag the panel by its border to reposition
- The web view URL stays the same — bookmark it for instant access
- Use the New York time zone setting if you trade US sessions primarily
- The JSON file at Files/FWS/tideclock.json can be read by scripts, EAs, or external tools
By Trading Edge — tradingedge.online
