TrendSync Sessions Trade the Right Hours

Session boxes with automatic GMT offset & DST, a global world-clock panel, and a personal Trading Window that alerts you the second a trade slips outside your plan. Set it once — never adjust for daylight saving again.

TrendSync Sessions — Trade the Right Hours, on Any Broker

Every session indicator dies twice a year: daylight saving changes, the boxes shift, and you are left re-entering GMT offsets by hand. TrendSync Sessions was built to end that.

Sessions are defined in each exchange's LOCAL time (Tokyo, London, New York, Sydney). The indicator detects your broker's GMT offset automatically, applies the correct daylight-saving rules for each region (EU, US, Australia) by calendar rule — not by lookup table — and converts everything to your chart. Attach it to any broker, GMT+0 or GMT+3, winter or summer: the boxes land on the right candles.

--- SESSION BOXES ---

• Asia, London, New York (Sydney optional), each with its own color and editable local hours
• Two styles: Range box (session high/low — perfect for Asian-range breakout traders) or full-height background
• The current session grows bar by bar and shows its running range in price on the label
• Overlaps blend like light: Asia+London reads as cyan, London+New York as purple — the most liquid window of the day becomes instantly visible
• ICT Killzones (London / New York, defined in New York time) drawn as dotted outlines over the sessions
• Configurable history depth, optional day separators, auto-hide on higher timeframes

--- GLOBAL WORLD-CLOCK PANEL --- A trading desk in the corner of your chart, updated every second:

• Server clock with the detected GMT offset displayed — verify it with your own eyes, no blind trust
• Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York in sunrise order: local time with weekday, OPEN/closed status, countdown to the next open or close, and a session progress bar
• High-DPI aware: crisp on 4K and scaled displays, with a manual scale input

--- YOUR TRADING WINDOW --- Define the hours YOU are allowed to trade (in GMT, server or local PC time; overnight windows supported):

• Permanent INSIDE / OUTSIDE banner with countdown on the panel
• Alert when your window opens, and a configurable warning before it closes
• TRADE GUARD: if a position is opened outside your window, you get a popup / push / sound alert within seconds — with an optional filter for manual trades only, so your EAs keep working in peace

Honest note: MetaTrader 5 does not allow any indicator to block orders — no indicator can, despite what some listings claim. TrendSync Sessions does the next best thing: it catches the mistake immediately, while it still costs nothing to undo.

--- PERFORMANCE --- Chart objects are rebuilt only on a new bar, never per tick. The 1-second timer repaints only the panel. Your chart stays light.

--- ALERTS --- Popup, push notification and sound — every alert is also logged to the Experts tab for auditing.

--- NOTES & LIMITATIONS ---

• Designed for live and demo charts. In the Strategy Tester, GMT time is simulated — use Manual offset mode there.
• Session boxes skip weekends (stock-exchange sessions do not exist on Saturday/Sunday). Crypto weekend boxes may come in a future version.
• Works on any symbol and any timeframe.

--- PART OF THE TRENDSYNC SUITE --- If this indicator helps you, check the other free TrendSync tools — MTF Dashboard and Risk Calculator — and the TrendSync MACD Pro indicator and EA for XAUUSD.

Questions or suggestions? Leave a comment — the trade guard and killzones came from trader feedback, and the next feature can come from yours.