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Comment on Choosing a budget VPS provider for hosting automated trading programs by Paul

Paul — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Hetzer and most other budget hosts are unmanaged. You need to take care of securing the servers yourself. But there is fundamentally nothing stopping you from doing that.

Comment on Choosing a budget VPS provider for hosting automated trading programs by Nick

Nick — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:42:08 +0000

Hello

Thanks for the info.

“Low price is the primary consideration here.”: would like to use Hetzner but not clear how fit for such a sensitive application (trading).

Would you be willing to discuss what it takes to make a Hetzner dedicated server thoroughly secure for trading?

http://aws.amazon.com/security/ discusses key points of a secure setup, from physical, network, etc.

My research shows that providers dedicated to trading take extensive special measures well beyond what regular hosting providers do.

I would appreciate a follow up.

Thanks
Nick

Comment on Ask not what accuracy your algorithm achieves but what value it can add by Paul

Paul — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:26:03 +0000

thank you for catching it!

Comment on Ask not what accuracy your algorithm achieves but what value it can add by aj

aj — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:44:09 +0000

You missed a word in the second para: “where y represents”

Comment on No micro-lot trading at Dukascopy Metatrader 4 accounts by fxfir

fxfir — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:11:43 +0000

heloo all
do yo have direct download MetaTrader 4 platform ?
thanks

Comment on Is a $5000 Questrade TFSA trading account cost effective? – Part 1 by NMc

NMc — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:42:00 +0000

While what you are saying is true (i.e. if you’re a heavy trader the costs will go up) it really depends on the type of trader you are.

If you are taking the long term approach (i.e. building a portfolio and tweaking it every so often) then the charges won’t necessarily be all that much because they will be part of a larger gain on each individual holding (i.e. one stock you buy could be up 40% before you sell it and then the 0.2% charge is minimal).

It really depends on your strategy.

I personally wouldn’t fair well as a day trader as it is high involvement and stress.