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Trading Session Highlighter

Tokyo, London, and NY session times — right on your chart.

Tokyo, London, New York — the trading hours of all three major sessions are displayed as colored boxes directly on your chart. See at a glance how price behaved during each session, making it easy to build time-of-day awareness into your strategy.

What It Does

  • Draws boxes for the Tokyo, London, and NY sessions
  • Visualizes the high-low range of each session
  • Each session can be shown or hidden, with customizable colors and start times
  • Can look back and display several days of history

Download

Free for MT5. No license activation required.

Download (.mq5)

Key Parameters

ParameterDefaultDescription
InpDaysBack15Number of days to look back and draw
InpShowTokyotrueWhether to display the Tokyo session
InpTokyoStart2Tokyo session start time (server time, in hours)
InpLondonStart10London session start time (server time, in hours)
InpFilltrueWhether to fill the session boxes with color

Installation

  1. 1Place the .mq5 file in MT5's data folder → MQL5/Indicators
  2. 2Compile in MetaEditor (or restart MT5)
  3. 3Drag and drop the indicator from the Navigator panel onto a chart

Disclaimer

Session times are specified in broker server time. GMT offset varies by broker, so adjust the start and end times to match your trading environment.

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