summary: how to pick the right session on edgeful based on the hours you actually trade — with a timezone-aware table, a quick decision tree, and how to build a custom session when none of the built-ins fit. each built-in session runs in its own local timezone rather than Eastern; if you remember the older Eastern-anchored behaviour, the first section covers what changed.

edgeful runs on sessions. every report, every level, every IB and ORB window is anchored to one. the single biggest reason a report looks "empty" or "wrong" is that the session you've selected doesn't match the hours you're actually at your desk.

this article is a decision guide — pick a session whose window is still open during your trading hours, and your reports will line up with what you see on the chart.

if you haven't read the foundations yet, start with sessions overview — it covers what each session is, the reference close, day rollover, and the full timezone update. this article picks up from there.

the London and Asian sessions now run in their own local timezones (London 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM UK time, Asian 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Tokyo time) instead of being anchored to Eastern. NY and Daily are unchanged. on the few days a year when the US and Europe change their clocks on different dates, the old and new windows differ slightly. for the full breakdown, see time zones on edgeful in the sessions overview.

pick a session whose window overlaps the hours you're actually trading.

that's it. if you sit down at 9:00 AM local time and the session you've selected ended 4 hours ago, the IB report has nothing live to show you — the IB window for that session already closed, the levels are set, and you're looking at history.

you want a session that's in progress (or just about to start) when you're at the screen.

here's when each built-in session is live post-timezone-update, translated into common timezones. the source-of-truth column is in bold — that's the local timezone the session is actually anchored to on edgeful.

times shift by an hour around daylight saving transitions — and because the US and Europe shift on different dates, there's a short window each spring and fall where London's ET column will look an hour off. use the session as the anchor, not the clock time. Tokyo never shifts — Japan doesn't observe daylight saving, so JST is always UTC+9. Sydney does: it moves to AEDT (UTC+11) from October to April, which pushes the Sydney column an hour later than the AEST times shown here.

if you trade IB or ORB setups, the window you actually care about is smaller than the full session:

the IB or ORB window has to be open — or just about to open — when you're at your desk. if you're in Spain starting at 9:00 AM CET, London IB runs 9:00–10:00 AM CET. you're live. if you're targeting NY IB from Spain, that's 3:30–4:30 PM CET — your afternoon, not your morning.

use your local trading hours to pick a starting session. you can always change it per report later, and once you've settled on one, save it as your default session in manage account → default settings.

this is the most common ticket we see from traders outside Eastern time. the symptom: you open the IB report, everything looks normal on the data side, but the "in play" status is closed and the chart doesn't have a live IB window drawn.

the cause: the session you've selected already closed its IB window hours before you sat down.

example — you're in Madrid (CET), sit down to trade at 9:00 AM local, and the report is on the NY session. NY IB runs 9:30–10:30 AM ET, which is 3:30–4:30 PM CET. your morning is 6+ hours before NY IB even opens. the fix is to switch to the London session (with the timezone update, IB runs 9:00–10:00 AM CET) or build a custom session around your actual hours.

same pattern for ORB — if your ORB window says "closed" and you're staring at a chart that's clearly mid-session, your session is probably pointing at the wrong one for your timezone.

if the 4 built-ins don't match when you trade, you can build your own: open the session dropdown on any report page, choose + create custom session, pick a timezone, and enter your start and end times in that timezone. the full steps are in creating a custom session in the sessions overview.

one thing to get right: the end time is also your reference close, the level every report uses as "yesterday's close." moving your end time by 15 minutes moves that reference level.

a few practical custom sessions traders have built post-update:

some traders preferred the pre-update behavior, with every session in Eastern time. you can recreate the old London and Asian windows as custom sessions in the New York timezone. the exact times and steps are in reverting to the old Eastern-based sessions in the sessions overview.

once you've picked a session, set your TradingView indicators to the same timezone and session times as the session in edgeful, custom sessions included. if edgeful is on London local time and TradingView is still on Eastern, the plotted levels won't match, and the data will look broken when it's really just a timezone mismatch.

for the exact values to enter for each built-in session, see setting TradingView session times to match your edgeful reports (NY, London, Asia). for the standard vs. "by session" indicator versions, see sessions and your TradingView indicators in the sessions overview.