Blahtech Candle Timer MT5

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 MT5 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