ICT Kill Zones - Asian, London, New York in New York time, with summer time - indicateur pour MetaTrader 5

Kill zones are the hours in which ICT (Inner Circle Trader) traders expect the important moves of the day. They are defined in New York local time:

• Asian kill zone: 20:00 - 00:00
• London kill zone: 02:00 - 05:00
• New York kill zone: 07:00 - 10:00
• London Close kill zone: 10:00 - 12:00

Every time can be changed (HH:MM-HH:MM, New York time).

The problem with kill zones in MetaTrader: the chart shows the broker's server time, and the broker and New York change their clocks for summer time, in the USA and in Europe on different dates. This indicator converts every candle to New York time, so the boxes stay at the right hours all year.

Broker server clock (input)

• Auto (default): reads the server's GMT offset from the terminal. GMT+2 / GMT+3 servers are treated as "New York + 7 h", the usual forex server clock; other servers (for example GMT+0) as a fixed offset. The chart corner shows what is used.
• New York + 7 h: server midnight is 17:00 in New York, all year.
• GMT+2 / GMT+3 with European summer time dates.
• Fixed GMT offset (for example 0 or +3).

US summer time: second Sunday of March to first Sunday of November.

What it shows

• A box for each kill zone from its high to its low, with its name.
• The high and low of each finished kill zone extended to the right until price trades through them: liquidity that is often taken later, for example the Asian high or low taken in London.
• The midnight open (00:00 New York opening price) as a dashed line.
• The last 5 trading days (input). Kill zones are a few hours long, so they are drawn on M1 - H1 charts; on higher time frames the indicator shows only a short note.
• Hover a box or a line to see its prices.

Alerts

• When a kill zone starts.
• When price takes the high or low of a finished kill zone.
• Popup, push notification and e-mail.

Buffers for Expert Advisors (iCustom, not drawn)

They hold the high and low of the last FINISHED kill zone of each kind, so they never repaint:

• 0 / 1: Asian high / low
• 2 / 3: London high / low
• 4 / 5: New York high / low
• 6 / 7: London Close high / low
• EMPTY_VALUE when there is none (and on charts above H1)

Example: a London breakout EA reads buffers 0 and 1 (the Asian range) on the last closed candle.

Good to know

• The Strategy Tester has no real GMT clock, so Auto uses New York + 7 h there. In the tester, choose your broker's clock if it is different.
• The trading day starts at 17:00 New York (the usual forex day), so the Asian kill zone belongs to the next day.
• It works on any symbol.
• The indicator only draws and calculates; it never trades.