computer that runs 24 hours

hello guys,
i would like to know is it possible to keep computer on for 24 hours for 5 days for forex market. i am having a day job so i don't have the access for computer. i have installed one indicator which is gives me alerts at particular condition on my computer at home so can i keep it on so that i can receive alerts on my phone???

If your computer is new and undamaged it's actually better to let it run on for days on end rather than to keep turning it on and off. My advice is to fiddle with its sleep functions for power conservation purposes if you feel that need until you find a setting you like.

Hi thanks for the reply.
Actually i am planning to buy a new PC just for this purpose only so just wanted to ask whether it is possible or not.
I would like to ask what should be its spacifications like how much should be its RAM, Memory and all that??

Or you could just use a VPS

Good day. Why would u buy a pc for that? You can use vps. You are using push notifications i think. Set up a vps, install mt4 there that will run 24/7. From mobile you can check your computer mt4 charts & trade from there as well. There are paid vps low to high cost per month & free vps as well. Your choice. Google forex vps you will find lot. Good luck.

Regards.

My VPS for $35 per month with Windows 2008 Server R2 operates three parallel MT4 installations with EA's. 24/7, 2GB RAM and no restart since almost 3 months. I don't stop MT4 over the weekend. In fact I would almost forget about it if there where no account statements.

Just to give you an idea of what is possible with little money.

edit: just rechecked, only 1GB RAM. There are still 290MB unused RAM, that's enough for three more MT4 installations.

a good vps from mql5 comes for $10/month hire that

The specifications depend on the trading platform you wish to use. Google "trading platform name system requirements" (obviously substitute "trading platform name" with the name of your platform) and you'll get plenty of information. Most platforms require quite low system specifications, in my experience.

Do not fall for people who tell you MetaQuotes/mql5.com offer a cheaper/better VPS. MetaQuotes doesn't offer VPS's at all. Their offer is neither (P)rivate nor does it contain a (S)erver. What's left is (V)irtual, and that describes their offer quite well: in the sense of "in reality there's nothing". Avoid such scams like the devil the holy water. You have been warned.

I haven't tested, but I'd assume that you could also use a raspberry pi with wine and MT4...

Could you say more to describe why it's a scam?

On VPS: I run currently 11 accounts and I trade all pairs. Back a year ago, me and my programmer tried 5 different VPS services using one instant of MT4 and 2 charts. The first day or two, things went well and then the VPS in every instant slowed down to a snail's pace. I don't know the technicals but my programmer kept pinging the response time and it steadily went down to the point that my execution speed was so badly effected causing major slippage. My programmer was suggesting even more VPS to try but I opted out. According to him, the MQL5 VPS had the best ping response of all but I don't know how it will react to 28 or more charts open.

Another thing that happened with one of the VPS services we used-and it happened on a crucial first day of using it- was that the VPS shut down! It isn't supposed to happen. Right? After much scrambling by the VPS to fix the situation, some 2 or 3 hours later, they restored the service and their explanation was that their servers got hit by Microsoft updates and that's why they shut down! Can you believe that??? My programmer then said he added some code to prevent such thing ever happens again. IDK how he did such things but he offered me other solutions such as making codes to 'sniff' all parameters of the VPS services that revealed every little ability and restrictions and data flow bla bla about their services. Of course for a fee but I declined. He said the VPS services throttle down the capacity of the VPS after you start them. They all do it. Any opinions on that?

Finally I have settled down to running my MT4's from home on 2 average computers at home. I enjoy the instant access to my accounts and no freaking weightless suspended honey glazed movement of the cursor in the VPS environment. No monthly bills or continuous ads about how their VPS's are by those providers and no need to complicate my life more by setting up and managing a VPS and more accounts n logins and customer service etc.

Downside is that in one year, I have been hit by one power outage that lasted about 4 hours. It didn't effect me much because I'm set up to survive a day or two or a week of leaving my accounts alone without any activity. The only problem is that if MT4 is suddenly cut off like that, when you reboot it, it may or may not have saved the particular profile you were using. It might revert to default. Of course you can save the profile and reengage it but sometimes I have noticed the saved profile gets corrupted so I suggest saving the profile twice and under different names so you always have a back up to restore.

Another thing and this is a major pain is Windows updates. Yes you can supposedly schedule it but what if the notice for the update pops up when you are not at your computer? I don't remember now but you can't indefinitely postpone it. You have a window of time to react to postponing it and if you are not sitting at your computer, it will eventually update the computer. Having said that, even when I have been home, I have come to my computer and seen it updated out of the blue with no prior notification. The update timing doesn't even make sense. I have 2 computers running side by side with the same versions of Windows and one gets updated today and the other one a random week to three weeks later. When I search for updates for the computer not updated yet, it says there are no updates. Anyone has any suggestions on how to shut down Windows update unless ordered by the user at a specific time like when I say update, not when you the damn Windows start me a countdown?

My comps have 8G Ram each and I need to upgrade to 16G but I noticed there are used servers with 16G that are not much more expensive that the upgrade to 16G for my comps. I never understood the difference between a server and a regular home/office computer. Anyone can tell me if I can use a server just the same as my home computer without too mush fuss?

35 a month for that spec??I've been running for the last year on a much higher spec for a fraction of that price.. I don't want to post links.. but the company is spinvps, you can search them.. I've 2 MT4 installs running there and never had downtime.

It looks like you have to pay $16 per month in addition just for for DDoS protection.

I'm willing to pay $100/month for that spec if the provider garanties no unexpected shutdowns from his side, no issues with Windows updates, 99% network uptime, no latency/throttling issues.

With my provider I have those garanties. Do you for less?

Look at the problems the others face. Nobody needs 8GB RAM if one MT4 instance consumes less than 50MB. It's my opinion that one shouldn't trade if he can not afford 50 bucks for proper infrastructure services. That's similar to saying "I'm a trader but I have to save on my internet bills".

I leave my on 24hrs
Better be a noteboock
with at least 8 gb
and I leave my mt4 with my EA testing

Depends on what you really need and how good you are in configuring server...

I have tested a LOT of commercial VPS services, many of them especially for MT4 based on Windows Server operating system. What I have found is that if I did not pay crazy amount of money for the service (and high specifications) the service has troubles running more MT4 instances or more charts / more EAs, because just the system itself took big part of available power...
And of course many of provided services had troubles 'OutThere' mentioned in post above.

What I did to solve my situation is this -> I paid for classic VPS with good specs with pre-installed linux distro Debian 9 and I have configured it from scratch to the state where it is now - I am running there about 15 MT4 instances (platforms) with 6-8 charts in average on each and EAs running on every chart. This is what I use for software (EAs) testing.
Aside of that I have specific user under which I trade on my own.
Server is configured to be reachable via classic remote desktop, VNC and 3rd party AnyDesk software.
It was not so easy, but result is much better than anything I have tried before. All this costs me about 150 EUR / year.

Most providers actually guarantee 100% network up-time. What they can't guarantee is 100% hardware up-time. But maybe in the future this would be possible.