Ready-made trading hours
Default: CustomEntry hours presetPick a named session (London, New York, Asia, London-New York overlap) or AvoidRollover to skip 17:00-18:00 New York, when spreads widen. Each preset follows its own market’s daylight-saving changes. Custom uses the hours below.
Available values: Custom · AvoidRollover · AsiaSession · LondonSession · NewYorkSession · LondonNewYorkOverlap
Clock for your own hours
Default: UtcClock for custom hoursTimezone in which you write the custom start and end hours: UTC, your broker’s server time (EET), London, Central Europe, New York, Tokyo or Sydney. Daylight saving is handled for you.
Available values: Utc · BrokerServerEET · London · CentralEurope · NewYork · Tokyo · Sydney
First hour for new entries
Default: 0Custom start hourUsed with Custom. First hour, in the chosen clock, in which new entries may open. If start is later than end, the window crosses midnight (23 to 21 skips 21:00-22:59). Changing this changes the test.
Available values: 0 → 23
Hour new entries stop
Default: 24Custom end hour (24 = midnight)Used with Custom. 24 means midnight. Start 0 and end 24, or equal values, mean no hour filter. Exits and management of open trades are never affected.
Available values: 1 → 24
Entries on Monday
Default: OnEntries on MondayAllows new entries on Monday. Days follow the broker daily candle (New York 17:00 rollover). Exits and management of open trades are not affected.
Available values: true / false
Entries on Tuesday
Default: OnEntries on TuesdayAllows new entries on Tuesday. Days follow the broker daily candle (New York 17:00 rollover). Exits and management of open trades are not affected.
Available values: true / false
Entries on Wednesday
Default: OnEntries on WednesdayAllows new entries on Wednesday. Days follow the broker daily candle (New York 17:00 rollover). Exits and management of open trades are not affected.
Available values: true / false
Entries on Thursday
Default: OnEntries on ThursdayAllows new entries on Thursday. Days follow the broker daily candle (New York 17:00 rollover). Exits and management of open trades are not affected.
Available values: true / false
Entries on Friday
Default: OnEntries on FridayAllows new entries on Friday. Days follow the broker daily candle (New York 17:00 rollover). Exits and management of open trades are not affected.
Available values: true / false
Entries on the weekend
Default: OnEntries on weekend (Sat-Sun)Allows new entries from Friday 17:00 to Sunday 17:00 New York time, when only crypto trades. The Sunday reopening counts as Monday.
Available values: true / false
Close everything before the weekend
Default: OffClose all before the weekendCloses all cBot positions and cancels its pending orders before the Friday close, and opens nothing until the market reopens on Sunday (17:00 New York). For accounts that cannot hold over the weekend, or to avoid Monday gaps. Changing this changes the test. In a backtest the close runs on the ticks of the chart symbol, so attach it to a market that trades until the Friday close, such as gold or a major currency pair.
Available values: true / false
How early to close on Friday
Default: 120Minutes before Friday close (17:00 New York)Minutes before the weekly close at 17:00 New York. 120 closes at 15:00 New York, before the earlier Friday close of some index CFDs such as Germany 40. If a market is already closed, the log says so.
Available values: 15 → 720 · step 15
Also close crypto
Default: OffWeekend close includes cryptoCrypto trades through the weekend and has no Monday gap, so by default it keeps trading. Turn this on to close crypto positions too.
Available values: true / false