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Gold trades from Sunday evening through Friday evening every week without pause. The Goldie Sniper EA PRO targets London and New York session openings — at 8:00am GMT and 1:30pm GMT respectively. Unless your computer runs continuously and your home internet never drops, you will miss sessions if you are running the EA on your personal machine. A VPS eliminates this dependency entirely.

The VPS hosts a Windows desktop in a professional data center with enterprise-grade internet connectivity, redundant power, and hardware monitored around the clock. Your MT5 instance runs on this remote machine, and you connect to it via Remote Desktop (RDP) when you need to check on it. When you close the RDP session, the VPS keeps running — MT5 keeps running — and the EA continues executing trades regardless of whether your home computer is on or off.

Location matters significantly for execution quality. Broker trade servers are typically located in New York (NY4/NY5 Equinix data centers) or London (LD4 Equinix). A VPS in the same building as your broker's trade server has a ping of 1–5ms; a VPS across the country has 50–100ms latency. For a scalping EA like Goldie Sniper executing on M1, this latency difference affects fill quality, particularly during fast-moving session open conditions. Ask your broker which data center their server is in before choosing a VPS provider.