Will EA run after temporary loss of Internet connection?

Just getting into the realm of trying some EA's. Let's say I'm away from home with an EA running and I have an interruption of my Internet connection. Will this disable the EA at all?

Thanks,
Randy

No, it won't.
EA runs on every new tick. If there no ticks EA just sits there waiting for a tick. If connection is out for along time, circumstances may change substantially and EA will react or not react accordingly. For example if buying opportunity happened while connection was out and then it is not anymore EA might not act and miss the opportunity.

So when the connection re-establishes, the EA resumes it's normal mode? Meaning, at the worst, an entry signal might have been missed?

What about an open trade(s) at the time of disconnect? Would they be closed out?

I want to make sure there's no danger of position moving many pips against me while the computer is unattended and there should be some sort of power/signal interruption. Missed entries I can live with.

Am I correct in that no matter how many times or for how long there might be signal interruptions, as long as I keep the "Expert Advisors" button activated, the EA will resume running? Or does it need to be re-attached to a chart after each interruption.

Thanks,
Randy

EA doesn't need to be reattached after connection interruption. But position will move against you if it is not connected. The only way to ensure is to place some hard stops somewhere to cut the loss in case of losing connection.
Generally EA needs to be attended from time to time. Just like you can't guarantee that your computer will be on, say after power failure.
Also EA will come up after you shutdown your MT or computer but it will reinitialize itself so it needs to have a mechanism in the init() function to kind of restore itslef to a position it was in before interruption, i.e. restore maybe ticket numbers of active tickets or some other global variables essential to operation.
Expert can shutdown if you change a profile or account and you don't have appropriate options checked in Tools/Options/expert Advisors.
Finally your dealer can disable your expert from executing orders for whatever reason, not that they do it all the time, but could happen.

So you better check your expert often.

I'll be darned. Didn't know all that and I thank you for your help.

Fortunately I'm able to monitor my computer often and I'll definitely do that when I get an EA up and running.

Randy

I always de-activate the windows update utility on computers that run EAs. I got really tired of checking metatrader in the morning only to find that the computer had automatically re-started in the night because of an update.

Another good suggestion.....Thank You.

Randy

Excellent Point!

well, if you prefer, you can get a VPS. and download MT4 and the EA there. There's no worry for connection or power interruption.