Floor 5: Time
Kill Zone Clock
Kill Zone Clock is a 24-hour dial in your own time zone. You drag the London, New York and Asia windows to where they fall on that clock for a given date. Some rounds visit another city. It teaches the session windows SMC traders watch, and how daylight saving moves them through the year.
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What it teaches
Session windows where you live, daylight saving included.
- The three windows the games use, in New York time: Asia 20:00 to 00:00, London 02:00 to 05:00, New York 07:00 to 10:00.
- Converting them to your own clock without a chart.
- Why the conversion changes when New York and your region change their clocks on different dates.
- What kill zones are meant to mark: hours when activity tends to be higher.
How a round plays
- A 24-hour dial shows a date and a clock: your own time zone, taken from your device, or a city you are visiting for that round. Midnight is at the top.
- The round asks for one, two or all three windows. Drag each coloured window to where it falls on that clock, or tap the dial. Buttons move it 15 minutes or one hour.
- Some dates sit on either side of a daylight saving change, when New York and the other zone are out of step for a few weeks.
- Check with the Lens. The dial shows where each window falls and names the slip: the wrong season, an unconverted New York time, or the gap applied backwards.
- A run is eight dates and takes about four minutes.
How it is graded
The rule here: the windows are fixed in New York local time and converted to the clock shown for that date, with daylight saving applied. The dial moves in 15-minute steps and every asked window must start at exactly the right time to count.
The honest note
Session windows are a convention about when activity is usually higher. They are not a schedule of when a move will happen, and different teachers use slightly different hours.