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The firs thing is to determine what time zone you want to use for your charts. Due to the differences in when Daylight Saving occurs in the U.S. versus the rest of the world, we recommend using the time zone of the exchange itself, but this is not absolutely necessary (you just have to accept that there will be an hour of odd data twice a year).

Once you know the time zone you want, then set this in the "Global Settings >> Time Zone" page. This sets the global time zone for your charts. You can change individual charts, but if you are only trading one exchange, then there is not much reason to do this.

Then set your session times relative to the selected time zone. The generally accepted start time for the CME Group regular trading hours in the Central US Time Zone is 08:30. The end time is 16:00 (15:59:59 is what you would enter for the Session Time End) when there is a one hour break. Then the evening session starts at 17:00.