As a full time Forex trader, I use my laptop for 16-17 hours in everyday! On the other hand, I also active on mobile trading and tab trading feature! Usually, I am not interested on bad market! Then I open my previous monthly trading history to identify my trading problems! Whatever, Forex market is open for 24 hours, that doesn’t mean professional Forex traders don’t enjoy their time with their family and friends!
Certainly. It’s good to have downtime and to relax when you’re not trading. If anything that helps with being able to focus on actual trading with a rested mind and fresh eyes.
If our trading strategy allows us to run the computer maximum then we should do it but unnecessary running of computer 24 hours a day will be costly and I think we should avoid to do the trading all the time we should do trading in selected time.
For BT broadband customers in the UK with a home hub - always leave your home hub turned on.
A while back my broadband speed dropped to ridiculously low levels, 0.26Mbps download, 0.88Mbps upload. A BT engineer eventually came to the house and did tests, finding out that the line broadband capacity had been capped by the phone exchange software. This was due to me turning the router off at night, as it was on the same power supply as the PC. Apparently the exchange pings the line periodically to check broadband still required - sometimes if it gets no response because the router is off, it will assume the line is redundant and cap it. Its a common glitch and its BT’s fault, but easily avoided by leaving the router on, even if you do turn the PC off.
Trust me I leave my PC at work and laptop at home for a decade on average non stop.
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It seems you need to re-set the router every few months by turning it off for a few minutes and then on again, otherwise websites and content load more and more slowly to the PC.
Doh!
In that case I would also recommend regularly clearing out your temporary internet files. I do so at least once a week and I notice visible difference before and after.
Thats the problem with porn, haha
Couldn’t resist 
I understand (from a younger male acquaintance) that pornography is available on the internet. Of course, I cannot believe such a thing would be allowed.
This is what I do. It costs about $30 per month for my VPS which IMHO is well worth it.
The pain in the ass of running a computer 24/5 thats devoted to trading via expert advisor just isn’t worth it. You need to factor in power usage, dust removal maintenance, the initial cost of the computer plus any UPS hardware. Then theres the cost involved if a power spike kills the computer or a component in it. Or if a component such as power supply or hard drive dies just through excessive run time. Combine all that with the problems that can be caused with your expert advisor if the power or internet goes out.
A decent VPS will have a lot of redundancy built in that practically eliminates all these issues.
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Anyone that knows anything about electronics will tell you that turning your computer on and off is harsher on the componentry than leaving it running for large amounts of time…fact.
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Set Win 7,8,10 to not update automatically and do all updates outside market open ie: weekends…easy.
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Yes… installing a VPS and having a Laptop with 4G WiFi (with mirrored settings) close by is an insurance policy against failure…easy
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Invest in SSD’s for all your data storage with auto backup setup. Less moving parts to fail…easy.
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Set your monitor to power save when your away from the screen… by far the biggest power user on your desk and your chipset and graphics cards will run way cooler when the screen is asleep…easy
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Most IT companies will leave systems (Mac and PC) running for 24/5 for reasons above…check.
Only selected time trading can give us the benefit and we should not stick with computer 24 hour are day, we should make the planning and should trade according to the planning, trading all the time can be dangerous, so be careful.
you can use a vps server and place an EA in there.
Yes, Forex market is open for twenty-four hours, but that doesn’t mean, you may run your PC for twenty-four hours! Take a break and use pending order trading tool! It’s a mental game, so don’t make complicated environment here! If you don’t get any logical point according to your trading system, then go for Forex education, don’t use risky entry points!
At first of course you’ve got to spend a lot of time at the computer, in order to figure everything out, learn a lot, read, develop your own strategy. But when you’ve already acquired skill and experience, you won’t have to spend 24 hours at the computer, just set your stops, that’s all.
It is not positive approach that we should keep open our desktop 24 hours a day continuously for a week, dear no doubt forex market opens 24 hours in the whole week but we should work in selected time in order to avoid the risk, never stick with computer all the time.
It depends also in which country your staying. Like in India we cannot keep a computer running 24/7 due to many reason including electricity, fluctuations in electricity, and so n so.
But keeping it off the minimum is so far seen the best way to keep it healthy.
This is certainly what I’ve always been told and always read in computer magazines.
I leave mine on almost all the time, apart from occasional mandatory re-starts to activate downloaded updates.
I do turn it off if I’m away for a weekend or on vacation.
It’s 2017 - a far cry from the mid 1850’s when Charles Babbage made the first computer.
If turning on and off a PC at the start and end of a day causes problems then we have some real issues! The world will not end, you can turn them off 
@RISKonFX
It might…
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