Tool version: O!kurra Capital Defense EA 2.00
16.1 What Trading Hours are
Trading Hours (TH) is the mechanism defining the time windows in which the EA may generate signals. Outside these windows new signals are blocked, regardless of the configuration of buttons, filters or zones.
It controls the EA’s availability to act. Unlike filters (which select specific signals), TH decides whether the EA is working at all right now. If TH disables trading at a given moment — no other layer has anything to filter, because no signal is created.
Philosophy: markets have “better” and “worse” hours — the London open, the peak after the Wall Street open, the dead evening with a widened spread. TH lets the EA work only in the chosen windows. The same applies to days of the week (Sunday evening tends to be thin on liquidity, Friday afternoon poor).
Parameters:
Enable trading hours filter (the main switch, disabled by default). When disabled, TH is completely inactive — the EA works 24/7 with no time restrictions, regardless of the day settings. The “disabled” default is the initial state — you enable TH deliberately.
Windows for each day of the week (Monday … Sunday, string, default “no trading”). The definition of the trading windows for each day (format — section 16.2).
Outside hours still allow BEa-mode buttons (enabled by default). An important exception: when enabled, a button currently in BEa mode (collecting positions into a basket supervised by Break Even Auto) may also act outside the hours — so that an armed basket can be brought to zero (closed out) even if the trading window has already closed. Without this exception, a basket armed just before the end of the window would be left “in limbo”. The remaining buttons (outside BEa mode) stay silent outside the hours.
T. on Server uses the same format. The schedule of the “T. on Server” mode (real SL/TP held by the broker’s server — chapter 9) uses an identical window format as Trading Hours (per day, “off”, multiple windows, across midnight, broker time). The difference is in the role: Trading Hours decides whether the EA generates signals, and the T. on Server schedule — whether the SL/TP are actually placed at the broker. These are two independent schedules.
Default “no trading” for all days. If you enable TH but leave all days at “no trading” (or an empty entry), the EA generates no signals at any moment — a state of complete lockout. This is a safeguard against the mistake “I enabled TH but did not configure the days”: if you enable TH, you must deliberately define at least one window.
Positioning of the tool. TH supports observing which time windows make sense for your strategy. What hours to adopt — that is your experiment on a demo. The default is “everything off”, because there is no single “correct” session.
16.2 Time window format
Each of the seven day entries is a string in one of the formats:
No trading — the entry "no trading" or an empty "". The EA also understands the equivalent tokens: "none", "off" and "closed" — each of them (case-insensitive) means a day without trading, without a warning in the log.
Saturday = "no trading" // EA off for the whole dayA single window — "HH:MM-HH:MM".
Monday = "08:00-22:00" // trading from 8:00 to 22:00The time format: two hour digits, a colon, two minute digits. Use a leading zero ("08:00").
Multiple windows — "HH:MM-HH:MM; HH:MM-HH:MM", separated by a semicolon (section 16.3).