Triple Clock Axis Strip
Broker server time, the trader's own local time, and GMT (the reference most session and news schedules are published in) are three different clocks a trader mentally juggles throughout the day. This indicator lays out all three as a compact strip along the bottom of the chart, each updating every second, each labelled with its whole-hour offset from GMT, so there is no separate mental conversion needed when reading a news calendar published in GMT against the broker's own server timestamps. Notes and limitations The GMT offset shown is rounded to the nearest whole hour; brokers or locales using a half-hour offset (e.g. some regions at UTC+5:30 equivalents) will display a rounded figure, not the exact fractional offset. TimeLocal() reflects the operating system clock of the machine running the terminal, which is only meaningful if that clock and timezone are set correctly - the indicator has no way to verify this independently.
Indicator · MT4 · v1.0 · Free
About Triple Clock Axis Strip
Triple Clock Axis Strip is an indicator for MetaTrader 4. It has 10 settings, such as Corner, X and Y. MQL source code included.
Files in the download: TripleClockAxisStrip.mq4, TripleClockAxisStrip.txt.
Settings
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Corner | 2 | Anchor corner: 0=LU 1=RU 2=LL 3=RL (default bottom-left) |
| X | 10 | Strip horizontal offset in pixels |
| Y | 10 | Strip vertical offset in pixels |
| Segment width | 190 | Pixel width reserved per clock segment |
| Font size | 9 | Clock font size |
| Show gmt offset | true | Show each clock's offset from GMT in hours |
| Server color | clrLime | Server clock text colour |
| Local color | clrDeepSkyBlue | Local clock text colour |
| Gmt color | clrOrange | GMT clock text colour |
| Strip back color | clrDarkSlateGray | Background strip colour |
How to install
- Download the ZIP from your PolyMaria library and unzip it.
- In MetaTrader 4 open File → Open Data Folder, then go to MQL4 → Indicators.
- Copy the .mq4 file(s) there. Put any .mqh files in MQL4 → Include.
- Open the .mq4 file in MetaEditor and press Compile (F7) if MetaTrader does not show it.
- Drag the indicator from the Navigator onto a chart and adjust the settings.
Tags: Trading Sessions · News Trading · MT4 Indicator · MQL4 Source Code