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Digital Clock with Candle Alert

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📊 Digital Clock with Candle Alert

A sleek, customizable digital clock for your trading charts that displays real-time with seconds and provides visual alerts before new candles form. Never miss a candle entry again!

✨ Key Features:
- Real-time Digital Clock - Shows hours, minutes, and seconds in your chosen timezone
- Visual Candle Alerts - Blinking notification before new candles form
- Multi-Timeframe Alerts - Get alerts for any timeframe regardless of your chart period
- Fully Customizable - Colors, size, position, and alert timing all configurable
- Half-Second Blinking - Eye-catching 2Hz blink rate for maximum visibility
- 6 Timezone Options - Exchange, UTC, New York, London, Tokyo, Sydney

🎯 Use Cases:
- Scalping - Know exactly when the next candle will form
- Entry Timing - Perfect for strategies that enter on new candles
- Multi-Timeframe Trading - Monitor higher timeframe candles while on lower timeframes
- General Awareness - Always know the current time in your trading timezone

⚙️ Settings:

Time Settings:
- Timezone selection (Exchange default or specific zones)

Display Options:
- Text and background colors for normal operation
- Alert colors for blinking state
- Text size (tiny to huge)
- Position (9 locations on chart)

Alert Configuration:
- Enable/disable blinking alerts
- Select timeframe to monitor
- Alert lead time (5 seconds to 1 hour)

📝 Important Notes:
- Clock updates depend on incoming price ticks
- During low-volume periods, updates may be less frequent
- Works best on liquid instruments during active market hours
- Alert timeframe is independent of your chart timeframe

💡 Tips:
- Use contrasting alert colors for maximum visibility
- Set lead time based on your reaction needs
- Position clock where it won't obstruct price action
- Try red background with white text for urgent alerts

🔄 Version 1.0 - Initial release

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