QUESTION

What happens if my internet goes down while the bot is trading?

SHORT ANSWER

Open positions keep their server-side stop loss and take profit, so they close normally without you. What stops is everything else — no new entries, no modifications, and no exits that rely on the EA's own logic rather than resting orders.

This is the practical reason to insist on server-side protection. A stop loss attached to the position lives on the broker's servers and is honoured whether or not your terminal is running. A stop held in EA logic, where the program watches price and closes the trade itself, exists only while the program is running.

Some systems deliberately hold no server-side stop, usually to hide the true risk of the trade or to avoid the broker's stop level constraint. It is a fair and specific question to ask any vendor: are your exits server-side.

Our engine attaches a stop and target immediately after each fill, and if that modification fails it force-closes the position rather than running it unprotected. That behaviour is described in position opens without SL or TP.

Reducing the exposure

A VPS removes household connection risk entirely, which is its main value — the data-centre network is not what fails. What does still fail is the terminal itself, usually because Windows restarted for an update: see MT5 disconnected on the VPS.

Whatever the setup, test the failure rather than assuming. Deliberately disconnect for a few minutes with a position open and confirm the stop is still shown on the broker side.

Reducing the exposure

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