subject: Forex Robot Trading And Vps Hosting [print this page] 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. This gives the trader the ability to run the robot 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 is 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 us 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. This will assist greatly in the reduction of stress levels; it will lead to unemotional and ultimately more profitable trading.
Once the cycle of high stress, varying emotions dependent on the trade, then it is possible to concentrate on the maximising of trading profitability. With the Vps handling the trading you will find that your profitability will rise as you evaluate the robot program
