Does anybody know the begin & end times for Oanda (US) please?? I was with Alpari UK but changing. I live in the UK so need the correct time settings. Thank you
Step 1: Find out current UK or London time by clicking
HERE. Forget about World time or UTC/Zulu time. We want UK time ONLY.
Step 2: Now count how many hours and minutes until 06:30 a.m Local London time.
Step 3: Write that number down on a piece of paper.
Step 4: Now open your Meta trading platform or whatever platform you use to trade.
Step 5: Switch your chart time to the 1hr time frame so you can count the bars in hours.
Step 6: Now look at your notes and use that number and count how many bars on your chart from NOW to that time and add 30 minutes.
Now you know what to put in your settings for the START/END time for FMT.
Example: Lets just say you go to the link above and current London time is 01:00 a.m
How many hours and minutes till 06:30 a.m.?(writing that down, 5 and 1/2 hrs)
Now go to your chart and look at CURRENT BAR time, oh it says 23:00, now I add 5 and 1/2 hrs. =04:30 chart time.
BINGO, that's my new time setting for the next several months.
If your broker/server moves with UK time then you never have to change it. Only those annoying servers that move at a different time or don't move at all with the time change is the ones you have to worry yourself with.
Hope that helps.