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Session Clock
Learn to track the market sessions and today's US news on the chart with the Session Clock in EliteXCharts, in under 3 minutes.
Chapters
Step by step
- Turn on the Session Clock with the clock button in the chart header
- Read Asia, Europe and the US on one 24-hour ruler in New York time, with chips counting to each open and close
- Spot today's US releases on the NEWS row: red is next, yellow is ahead, gray is out
- Hover over the clock to open the whole day, with time, impact, forecast and the actual in green
- Get a five-minute card with a countdown and beeps at 5, 4, 3 and 2 minutes, then every second
- Use the same alert for the session opens, like the US open at 9:30
- Add the Economic Calendar to filter the news by impact and turn on hidden mode
What the narrator says
0:08Welcome to EliteXCharts. In this video: the Session Clock, with the economic calendar built in. See which market session is open, what news is coming, and hear the countdown before it hits.
0:20To turn it on, click the clock button in the chart header. The Session Clock opens in the top-left corner of the chart.
0:27It's one twenty-four-hour ruler, in New York time, with the three sessions: Asia, Europe and the US. The needle marks the current time. Europe is open, and the US opens in about twenty minutes. The chips at the top count down to every open and close.
Read the full transcript
0:42The NEWS row marks today's US releases: red is the next one, yellow is still ahead, and gray is already out. Below the ruler, the next release, with a live countdown: industrial production, at nine fifteen.
0:56Hover over the clock to open the whole day: the time, the impact, and the forecast. When a number comes out, the actual shows up in green.
1:05Five minutes before a release, the clock beeps, and a card appears next to it, with the impact, the forecast, the previous, and a big countdown. It beeps again at four, three, and two minutes.
1:20In the last minute, it beeps every second, so you know the exact moment without looking at the screen.
1:31It's out. Moments later, the actual arrives in green.
1:35The session opens get the same card and the same beeps. Here's the US open, at nine thirty.
1:46Nine thirty: New York opens, and the volume explodes.
1:51To choose which news you see, add the Economic Calendar from Indicators, under Tools. Its settings drive the list inside the clock: all the news, medium and high, or only the high-impact red ones.
2:07Hidden mode keeps the list out of the way until the last five minutes, and the beeps still play. The bell on the clock turns the sound on or off.
2:16That's the Session Clock in EliteXCharts: the three sessions, today's US news, and a countdown to every move.