Crypto Market Sessions (Institutional) by Ambrosia-Prime v1.2

Crypto Market Sessions (Institutional) by Ambrosia-Prime

Understand when liquidity matters – and when it doesn’t.

This indicator visualizes global crypto market sessions based on institutional liquidity, not retail exchange opening hours or local banking schedules.

It is designed to help traders identify high-impact trading windows, potential volatility expansions, and periods of reduced participation — directly on the chart, in a clean and reliable way.

What this indicator does

• Highlights the major institutional crypto liquidity sessions
• Displays local session times with automatic DST handling
• Marks Asia, Europe, EU–US overlap, USA and No-Market phases
• Treats weekends as structurally low-liquidity periods
• Issues holiday warnings when institutional participation is likely reduced

All session logic is UTC-based, making it stable and consistent across all symbols and timeframes.

Institutional session model (UTC)

• Asia: 00:00 – 08:00
• Europe: 07:00 – 13:30
• EU–US Overlap: 13:30 – 16:30
• USA: 16:30 – 21:00
• No Market: 21:00 – 00:00

During the Asia–Europe overlap (07:00–08:00 UTC), both sessions are active.
Europe is visually prioritized due to typically higher institutional volume.

Key features

• True institutional session logic (FX & derivatives driven)
• Automatic DST support via IANA timezones
• Optional manual timezone offset
• Session background highlighting
• Forward-projected session box
• Current-session label (no historical clutter)
• Compact session table with local times
• Algorithmic holiday warning engine (no web data):
– Easter-based holidays (EU / UK)
– Nth-weekday holidays (US / UK)
– Optional observed-day handling

Why this matters

Markets move with liquidity, not with office hours.

This tool helps you:
• avoid trading during structurally thin periods
• focus on high-participation windows
• add time-based context to any strategy
• align crypto trading with institutional market behavior

Designed for BTC, ETH, crypto indices, and any market where liquidity timing matters.

Disclaimer

This indicator is an informational market-context tool only.
It does not provide trading signals or financial advice.