VPS (Virtual Private Server) and Forex Robot Trading – The way
to go.
In many ventures, especially in online
trading the greatest concern is when your laptop or PC goes
down, hibernates, and crashes etc whilst in mid trade.
What can be done, the solution is simple.
Set up a VPS Host, effectively another computer to run your
program and trades on a 24/7 basis.
VPS (Virtual Private
Server) hosting allows the Forex traders to use the
virtual environment on the hosting company's servers to run the
Metatrader expert advisors non-stop 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week. The VPS is always on-line, it won't reboot during the
trading week, it's not affected by the power outages and you
don't need to worry about keeping your PC always on. If you want
to run your expert advisors continuously without the unplanned
interruptions then
Forex VPS hosting
for Metatrader critical.
How do you go about this? It is much
simpler than a lot of people would imagine.
There are numerous companies offering the
service, but I suggest going with the larger, more credentialed
companies. There are sufficient of these to suit all needs.
These companies will maintain quality and
continuity of uptime at extremely high levels, alleviating the
main concern of online traders.
They are in fact relatively cheap, a number
of those will already be set up for Metatrader and Forex, but
this is not entirely critical.
What is necessary though is to minimise the
distance from the VPS to your Forex Broker.
Latency is the
issue here; basically Latency is the delay in transmission.
Let’s elaborate, your Forex Robot program
gives a signal to buy or sell, there is a perceptible time delay
for that signal to arrive at the broker for execution.
Agreed, that is in the order of
milliseconds normally.
Those who live at a long distance from the
broker will understand that this almost imperceptible time delay
can result in a noticeable difference in the bid or ask price
transmitted and the price achieved.
Of course, closeness of the VPS Host to the
broker will not always give the optimum price, but it assists
and puts the odds in your favour.
It is highly
recommended that before any serious Forex Robot trading is
attempted that a VPS Hosting Server
is in place and running your programs.
