ICT killzones: the hours, on your clock
The windows where institutional volume concentrates — the London and New York killzones, the London close, and both Silver Bullets — converted from New York time into your own zone, with the one open right now.
Killzones and Silver Bullet windows
21:32Europe/Paris
No window open right now. London killzone opens in 11h 27m
- London killzone09:00 – 11:00
The European open. Most of the morning’s liquidity sweeps form here.
New York time: 03:00 – 05:00 - New York killzone14:30 – 17:00
The US open, overlapping London: the heaviest volume of the day.
New York time: 08:30 – 11:00 - Silver Bullet (AM)16:00 – 17:00
The most-followed one-hour window: a sweep, an imbalance, an entry.
New York time: 10:00 – 11:00 - London close17:00 – 18:00
A close, not an open — look for reversals rather than continuations.
New York time: 11:00 – 12:00 - Silver Bullet (PM)20:00 – 21:00
The second Silver Bullet window, on the afternoon session.
New York time: 14:00 – 15:00
Windows are defined in New York time and converted to your zone. That is deliberate: the American and European clock changes do not fall in the same weeks, and twice a year a hand-copied schedule is wrong for a fortnight.
Why New York time, and not yours
Killzones are defined against the US session, so in New York time. That detail goes unnoticed eleven months out of twelve and costs you during the two weeks it matters: the United States changes clocks on the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November, Europe on the last Sunday of March and the last of October. In between, the usual six-hour gap becomes five.
A schedule copied once into a notebook is therefore wrong for a fortnight a year, twice a year — and it is exactly the open you miss. This tool converts the windows on every load, from the reference zone into yours, which settles the question without you having to think about it.
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A killzone is a filter, not a signal
The window does not tell you what to trade, it tells you when your setups have the best chance of working. A perfectly drawn order block, touched at four in the morning in the middle of the Asian session, is worth considerably less than the same level touched at the London open — not because the drawing differs, but because the volume behind it does.
The classic mistake is forcing a trade because the killzone is open. The window is a necessary condition, never a sufficient one. A killzone with no valid setup ends in zero trades, and that is a perfectly acceptable outcome.
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