Blahtech Candle Timer

Over 100,000 users on MT4 and MT5

Blahtech Candle Timer displays the remaining time before the current bar closes and a new bar forms. It can be used for time management

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Feature Highlights

• The only candle timer on MT4 with no stutter and no lag
• Selectable Location
• Tracks server time not local time
• Multiple colour Schemes
• Configurable Text
• Customisable alerts and messages
• Optimised to reduce CPU usage

Input Parameters

• Text Location – Beside / Upper Left / Upper Right / Lower Left / Lower Right
• Text Colour Scheme – Manual  /  Candle Outline Colours  (Bar Up/Down)  / Candle Body Colours (Bar Bull/Bear)
• Text Colour Bull – Colour for timer text when bar is up
• Text Colour Bear – Colour for timer text when bar is down (or use Bull colour if set to None)
• Text Colour Countdown – Colour when counting down the final 10 seconds (select None to disable)
• Text Size – Font size of timer text

Text Position

• Text Shift Bars (Candle Location) –Number of Bars to move the text right (when using Candle Location)
• Text Shift Price (Candle Location) – Move the text up by a specified amount (when using Candle Location)
• Text Shift X (Chart Location) – Move the text right by a specified amount (when using Chart Corner Locations)
• Text Shift Y (Chart Location) – Move the text down by a specified amount (when using Chart Corner Locations)
• Text Anchor (Candle Location Only) – Change the anchor point of the text
• Text Font – Font for timer text
• Text Prefix – Display custom text before the timer
• Text Suffix – Active – Display text after the timer when connected to broker server
• Text Suffix – Inactive – Display text after the timer when server detected as inactive
• Text Suffix – Disconnected – Display text after the timer when disconnected from broker server

Alerts

• Alerts – Popup – Enable/Disable sound and/or popup dialog for active alerts
• Alerts – Email – Enable email alerts
• Alerts – Notification – Enable Notification alerts
• Alerts – Sound Wav File – Change alert sound
• Alerts – Message Text – User customisable popup/notification text
• Alerts – Email – Subject – User customisable email subject text
• Alerts – Email – Body Text – User customisable email body text
• Alerts – Early Seconds – Trigger the alert early to give the user time to react
• Alerts – Startup Delay Seconds – Wait a number of seconds before testing for alerts on startup

Other parameters

• Countdown Seconds – Alter the number of seconds for final countdown
• Inactive Detection Seconds – Set number of seconds to wait before server is set inactive (default no ticks for 20 seconds)
• Custom Period Seconds – Define period seconds for custom charts (e.g. 30 second charts) 
• Candle Time Offset Seconds – Allow the user to start a timer candle early. (e.g. If candles are offset by 5 mins)
• Local Time GMT Offset – Add seconds to the local timer clock to match the server clock (normally only used at weekends when markets are closed)
• Instance Id – Unique identifier. Only modify if you need to use multiple instances per chart