Trading windows

The Trading Windows feature lets you schedule exactly when trades can be opened and whether any open trades should be closed outside these scheduled times.

Overview

You can create one or more “windows,” each defined by the following:

• A Start Time and End Time in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). If you're not familiar with UTC, you can use this link to convert from your local time zone: https://dateful.com/convert/utc

• An optional set of Active Days (e.g., Monday through Friday)

Trades are only allowed to open during these windows, unless otherwise specified. You can also choose whether to automatically close any open trades when a window ends.

Configuration Options

1. Close Open Trades After Window Ends

   • If switched on, any trades still open when a window finishes will be closed immediately (e.g., at 16:00 if your window ends at 16:00).

2. Temporarily skip until next window

   • This option is only applicable to copiers.

   • When trades occur outside a window and this setting is on, they’re queued up to be opened automatically at the start of the next window. If it’s off, those outside trades are simply ignored.

3. Symbol-Specific Settings

   • If you want different schedules for different symbols (e.g., EUR/USD vs. GBP/USD), you can create separate configurations for each symbol. Symbol-specific settings override any general settings.

4. Copier vs. Account

   • If you’re running multiple “copiers” under the same account, each copier can override the account-wide schedule. That means the copier’s windows apply to trades it places, rather than the account-wide schedule.

How It Works

When a Window Ends

If Close Open Trades After Window Ends is enabled and the clock passes your end time, any positions still open are immediately closed. For example, if your window is 09:00–17:00 on weekdays, any open positions at 17:00 are closed.

Opening New Trades

• Inside Window: Trades open as normal.

• Outside Window:

  • Temporarily skip until next window = ON means those trades wait until the next scheduled window.

  • If that’s OFF, then those trades are ignored permanently.

Active Days

Each window can be active on specific days (e.g., Monday through Friday). If it’s not set, the window applies every day. For example, a window with Start Time = 00:00, End Time = 23:59, Active Days = Monday–Friday means trading is allowed 24 hours a day during weekdays, but stops on weekends (Saturday, Sunday).

Example Scenario

You define:

• Close Open Trades After Window Ends: ON

• Temporarily skip until next window: ON

• Window: Start Time 08:00, End Time 16:00, Active Days = Monday–Friday

Result:

• Any trade that tries to open after 16:00 (or before 08:00) waits until the next weekday at 08:00.

• If a position is still open when you pass 16:00, it’s closed automatically.

• No trading occurs overnight or on weekends.