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A few people asked about the TradingView layout I use from 07:30 to 10:00 London. It's deliberately simple.

Four charts in a 2 by 2 grid:

• EURUSD M1, with the Asian session high and low drawn by a session indicator, the previous day high and low, and the overnight midpoint. No oscillators.
• GBPUSD M1, same levels.
• EURUSD M15, to see where the morning sits in the bigger structure. The only indicator is a 20 period EMA, mostly to see slope.
• DXY M5, as a quick check on whether a move is a dollar move or a euro or sterling move.

Under the charts I keep a watchlist with EURGBP, USDJPY, the German two-year yield and the UK two-year yield.

What I removed over the years: RSI, MACD, volume on spot FX, and any indicator that repainted. They made the screen busier without changing my decisions.

I execute on the broker platform, not TradingView. The prices differ slightly, so I always check the level on the broker feed before placing an order.

What does your open layout look like? I'm interested in what others consider essential.

Mine is surprisingly close to yours, which makes me think most of us end up in the same place after a few years of deleting things. I run EURUSD and GBPUSD on M1 with the Asian range and yesterday's high and low, but instead of the M15 chart I keep a single H1 chart of EURUSD with the last five days showing, just so I know whether the morning is starting near the top or bottom of the week.

The one thing I added that I would not give up now is a small panel with the Bund and Gilt futures. More than once a sterling move that looked like it came out of nowhere was already visible in Gilts a minute earlier, and it stopped me fading something that had real flow behind it.

Same experience on the price feed too. My TradingView levels are often a few tenths off the broker, so I draw the levels on TradingView for planning but set the actual orders using the broker chart only.