Curious to know what you guys use for a clock on your computer. Do you use any special clock or alarm applications?

I've been using Qlock. Does anyone have others?

ClocX - Free analog clock for Windows desktop

If you are talking about actual timing, check out these threads:

Slow system clock when market is busy Has anyone experienced Ninjatrader slowing down their PC clock? Mine runs slow whenever the market is busy. I replaced the battery but that didn't help. This computer is only used for trading. I use a different one for charting. System: Gigabyte …

Keep your pc clock synchronized After suffering for months of having my trade markers be 1-2 bars off, I finally found the cause (thanks to Ninjatrader support who analyzed my log files). My PC clock runs slow. Very slow. Windows vista will update the clock once a day, that's …

Exchange Data Delay Test Hi All, I've coded up a Strategy that (in theory) checks the timestamps from the exchange and compares it to your PC time. If they are out of whack more then 3 seconds, you get an alert. This comes from some ideas I've been reading about regarding …

Mike

Depends what you want:


- decoration of your desktop to fill the last available space


- time conversion between different exchanges, because you are always confused by different daylight savings zones


- setting alarms for all news events


- watch synchronization between system clock and internet time, because you have a cheap data feed that comes without timestamps

Cory, looks good . I'll check it out. thanks

Fat Tails - mainly need to set alarms for news and market closing/openings. LOL - dont really need any more decoration.

I just need to make sure I go to lunch on time.

Jason11 

Cory, looks good . I'll check it out. thanks Fat Tails - mainly need to set alarms for news and market closing/openings. LOL - dont really need any more decoration.

Have a look at the news indicators of @roonius and @j0hnth0m. I think one of them has an alarm feature integrated.

Market open and close could be easily coded, if you use an appropriate session template. It takes less than five minutes to code an indicator, which catches the session breaks and alerts you some minutes earlier, so you won't miss them.

Ok, so this is what I settled on:

Good Timing
GrayJet - Good Timing
for scheduling audio files to be played at specific times.

I used the AT&T natural voices website to create the audio files that I want.
AT&T Labs Natural Voices Text-to-Speech Demo

and a time sync program called Dimension 4 to ensure time is correct. You can set it to sync as often as you want and choose the time server.
Thinking Man Software - Dimension 4 v5.0

This seems to be working well and does exactly what I want.

Hope this helps someone looking for the same thing.

Good Trading and follow your plan!

Its a web page with an accurate clock and actually tells you how accurate it is (ie, within 0.2 seconds)

The official U.S. time - clock