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Candle Countdown Timer

A simple chart-based timer designed to help traders stay aware of upcoming candle closes.
Trading Timer provides a real-time countdown to the next candle close directly on your chart, helping you prepare for timeframe changes, review setups, and maintain a consistent trading routine.
Built for discretionary traders who rely on candle closes as important decision points, the indicator provides a clean visual countdown, optional alerts, and a compact dashboard that stays out of the way of your analysis.
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Features
✓ Real-time candle close countdown
✓ Customisable timeframe selection
✓ Alerts before candle close
✓ Automatic symbol recognition
✓ Mobile notifications through TradingView alerts
✓ Compact dashboard display
✓ Minimal mode for a cleaner workspace
✓ Colour-coded timing zones:
Countdown Phases:
🔵Dark grey — waiting
🟡Yellow — approaching close
🔴Red — final minute
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Alert Setup
To receive notifications, create a TradingView alert after adding Trading Timer to your chart.
Recommended setup:
The alert is linked to the chart where it was created. If you want alerts for multiple markets (for example Gold and NAS100), create a separate alert for each chart.
For mobile notifications, make sure TradingView app notifications are enabled on your device.
Example Setup:
For a 15-minute trading setup, set the indicator to 15 minutes and choose your preferred warning time (for example, 1 minute before close)."
The timer keeps you informed so you can focus on the chart instead of watching the clock!
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Intended Use
Trading Timer is a timing and workflow tool. It does not provide trade signals, entries, exits, or predictions.
It is designed to help traders:
Suitable for markets including forex, futures, indices, commodities, stocks, and crypto.
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How it looks on the charts:

Compact Dashboard Display:

Trading Timer provides a real-time countdown to the next candle close directly on your chart, helping you prepare for timeframe changes, review setups, and maintain a consistent trading routine.
Built for discretionary traders who rely on candle closes as important decision points, the indicator provides a clean visual countdown, optional alerts, and a compact dashboard that stays out of the way of your analysis.
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Features
✓ Real-time candle close countdown
✓ Customisable timeframe selection
✓ Alerts before candle close
✓ Automatic symbol recognition
✓ Mobile notifications through TradingView alerts
✓ Compact dashboard display
✓ Minimal mode for a cleaner workspace
✓ Colour-coded timing zones:
Countdown Phases:
🔵Dark grey — waiting
🟡Yellow — approaching close
🔴Red — final minute
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Alert Setup
To receive notifications, create a TradingView alert after adding Trading Timer to your chart.
Recommended setup:
- Add Trading Timer to your preferred chart timeframe (for example, 15 minutes).
- Open TradingView's Alert menu.
- Under Condition, select:
- Trading Timer → Any alert() function call
- Choose your preferred notification options
- Create the alert.
The alert is linked to the chart where it was created. If you want alerts for multiple markets (for example Gold and NAS100), create a separate alert for each chart.
For mobile notifications, make sure TradingView app notifications are enabled on your device.
Example Setup:
For a 15-minute trading setup, set the indicator to 15 minutes and choose your preferred warning time (for example, 1 minute before close)."
The timer keeps you informed so you can focus on the chart instead of watching the clock!
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Intended Use
Trading Timer is a timing and workflow tool. It does not provide trade signals, entries, exits, or predictions.
It is designed to help traders:
- Prepare before candle closes
- Review setups at consistent intervals
- Manage multi-timeframe workflows
- Stay disciplined with candle-based analysis
Suitable for markets including forex, futures, indices, commodities, stocks, and crypto.
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How it looks on the charts:
Compact Dashboard Display:
Script open-source
Nello spirito di TradingView, l'autore di questo script lo ha reso open source, in modo che i trader possano esaminarne e verificarne la funzionalità. Complimenti all'autore! Sebbene sia possibile utilizzarlo gratuitamente, ricordiamo che la ripubblicazione del codice è soggetta al nostro Regolamento.
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Script open-source
Nello spirito di TradingView, l'autore di questo script lo ha reso open source, in modo che i trader possano esaminarne e verificarne la funzionalità. Complimenti all'autore! Sebbene sia possibile utilizzarlo gratuitamente, ricordiamo che la ripubblicazione del codice è soggetta al nostro Regolamento.
Declinazione di responsabilità
Le informazioni e le pubblicazioni non sono intese come, e non costituiscono, consulenza o raccomandazioni finanziarie, di investimento, di trading o di altro tipo fornite o approvate da TradingView. Per ulteriori informazioni, consultare i Termini di utilizzo.