VPS for manual trading

Hi, I've got a number of MT5 accounts from different brokers and use a trade copier to trade from my master to slave accounts. The trade copier is an EA that runs in each MT5 terminal. I'm considering placing all this on a VPS because I've got relatively large pings i.e. 350-400ms. Also, I mostly scalp (small lot sizes) so I need to manually interact with the master account to execute trades.

I guess I'd need to be logged into the VPS via Remote Desktop, or some other RDP client, to manually set off trades via the MT5 master terminal. Or maybe I could connect to my master account via MT5 mobile (or a local install of MT5 on my home PC), but I'm not sure if trades would be copied to the slave account on the VPS if done this way i.e. trades are only copied if interacting wit the master MT5 terminal directly? I suppose one limiting factor would be any latency with my mouse click (trade executions) within the VPS RDP session; or between MT5 mobile (or local install of MT5 at home) to the VPS server (if this is possible).

Any insights would be fantastic.

A VPS located near the server will improve your execution, one thing to consider for your set-up is you are using different brokers, that's already a problem for your time-response, not to mention that every broker will have different prices, different liquidity providers and consequently different execution times. Not sure what are your delay expectations or set up implementation, but you need to know where your broker servers are located and set up the VPS accordingly. If you are sending Market Execution orders from the Master account, you will undoubtedly have different entries.

Depending on how narrow your scalping strategy is you can have a very ugly surprise during news or trading close to the roll-over periods. Trading from the mobile app with that setup is not even an option.

If you are managing those slave accounts for friends, family, clients, etc ... Depending on how much money you are trading, I will consider having a more professional set-up such as MAM/PAMM account. If that's out of your scope having all your slave accounts under the same broker and on the same server if possible with your VPS located near the broker's server will definitely improve any delay between your account and the broker's server.

Thanks so much for addressing the main issues with the configuration I've proposed. You made some very valid points.

The two broker servers are both located in London, with a 2ms delay to broker1 and 9ms to broker2. As you indicated, there are variations in entries, exists and spread, even between master and slave residing with the same broker.

I'll take a look at the MAM/PAMM accounts you mentioned and see how they could potentially fit into my trading style.

Again, thank you for your help with my query.

In terms of decent priced VPS or Dedicated setups Hetzner is really good, you can even install windows for free with a little bit of youtube guidance. I use their cloud system for remote trading via their console login from any pc, I also run 1 master account and 5 slave copy accounts with no issues.

Be sure to manage your auto update and restart settings though.