do i actually need a forex vps or is my home pc fine for one EA

[Hunter]

keep seeing everyone push vps but i run a single EA on swing timeframes, maybe 2-3 trades a week. my home pc is on most of the day anyway. is a vps genuinely necessary for me or is it just something people buy because everyone says to?

[dreamchaser]

for a swing EA placing a few trades a week, a vps is a convenience, not a necessity. the real questions are: does your pc ever sleep, reboot for updates, or lose internet, and would a missed entry during those moments hurt you. swing trades are forgiving of a few minutes downtime. a scalper needs a vps, you probably dont, yet.

[coldvision]

agreed. the one thing that bites home-pc users isnt latency, its windows deciding to reboot for an update overnight and the EA being offline for hours. if you disable forced reboots and your power and internet are stable, home pc is genuinely fine for swing automation.

[zacharyy]

the vps industry loves beginners who run one swing EA and think they need datacenter colocation. youre placing three trades a week. your laptop is overqualified.

[mattlive]

ran a swing EA on a home pc for two years with zero issues after i fixed the windows update behaviour and put the pc on a small ups for power blips. moved to a vps only when i added an intraday strategy that genuinely couldnt tolerate downtime. let the strategys time sensitivity decide, not the marketing.

[Michael]

how do i properly stop windows from rebooting on its own, ive tried pausing updates but it still happens eventually?

[nathanx]

set your active hours to cover the whole trading day, configure the metered connection trick to defer downloads, and disable automatic restart via the group policy or task scheduler reboot task. its a few steps and not perfectly permanent across big feature updates, which is honestly the strongest practical argument for a vps if downtime ever becomes costly for you.

[jeremyy]

the windows update fight never fully ends, thats the honest catch. for a swing trader its an annoyance. the day it becomes a real cost is the day a cheap vps pays for itself. until then dont overspend on a problem you dont have.

[lowkeysam]

swing on home pc is fine, fix the reboots.

[Trevor]

relieved to read this, was about to drop money on a vps purely out of fomo for a strategy that trades twice a week keeping the cash for now.