Every screen, in the order you will see it

Order the VPS first — it takes ten to fifteen minutes to be built, and you can read the rest of this page while you wait. If you do not already know which city your broker's trade server sits in, use the chat bubble in the corner and ask FXVM directly; they answer this question all day and they will tell you which of their datacentres is closest to your broker.

If this is your first VPS the page will be empty apart from the order button. Nothing here is specific to us — you are buying an ordinary Windows machine that happens to sit in a forex datacentre.

Two cores, 1.5 GB of RAM, 40 GB of disk. One MetaTrader terminal watching one gold chart is not a heavy workload, and paying for a bigger machine buys you nothing the strategy can use. What it cannot absorb is company: this plan is sized for one terminal running one EA, and that is exactly how it should be used.

Take the yearly term if you can. It is cheaper per month, but the real reason is that a monthly plan is twelve chances a year to miss a renewal — and an expired VPS switches off with your positions still open.

Three ways, best first. (1) Ask FXVM's chat and give them your broker's name — they keep measured latency tables to more than 150 brokers and answer this all day, so they will simply tell you which of their datacentres is closest. (2) Ask your own broker: "which datacentre is your MT5 trade server hosted in?" Their support knows, even if the answer takes a day. (3) Look at the server name in MetaTrader — something like VantageMarkets-Live 11 — and give that exact string to whichever of the two you ask; it identifies the server precisely.

Do not guess from where the broker's office is. A broker registered in one country routinely runs its trade servers in another — London, New York and Tokyo host most of them regardless of whose name is on the door.

This is the most important step on the page. Every entry, every trailing stop and every close is a round trip to your broker's server, and the distance between the two machines decides how long that takes. A modest VPS in the same city as your broker beats a far larger one on the other side of the world, every single time. If you are not certain where your broker is, stop here and ask FXVM's chat — do not guess.

FXVM emails you the IP address and port, a username — it is normally 'trader' — and a password. Provisioning takes roughly ten to fifteen minutes, so if the machine refuses your first connection attempt it is almost certainly not ready yet rather than broken. Change the password once you are in; the email explains how, and the account you were given is one somebody guessed the format of before you did.

You will be able to check whether you chose the right city once MetaTrader is running: the ping is in the bottom-right corner of the terminal. Under 5 ms means you chose well. If it is 50 ms or more, tell FXVM — they can move a VPS to another datacentre, and it is far easier to do that in the first week than to live with it.

Press the Windows key and type 'remote'. Remote Desktop Connection is the first result. On a Mac, install Microsoft Remote Desktop from the App Store instead — the fields are the same.

Put the IP and port from the email into Computer, exactly as it was written including the colon and the digits after it. Put the username underneath. Click Connect, accept the certificate warning, and enter the password. A Windows desktop opens — that is your VPS.

When you are finished, close the Remote Desktop window. Do not use Sign Out — signing out ends the Windows session, and MetaTrader closes with it. Closing the window leaves everything running.

Open the browser on the VPS and go to metatrader5.com — the official MetaQuotes site. Do not install MetaTrader from a download portal or a link somebody sent you; a trading terminal is the last piece of software on earth worth taking a chance on.

One button, about 1.3 MB. It is a small downloader that fetches the rest as it installs.

Run mt5setup.exe and accept the defaults. When MetaTrader opens, log in with the account you are going to connect — your broker's server name is in the email they sent when you opened the account. Then open a XAUUSD chart on the M1 timeframe. Check the price has two decimals, like 4150.65: the EA is built for 2-digit gold and will refuse a 3-digit feed rather than trade it badly.

On the VPS, log into your InfinityAIPro dashboard and download InfinityAiProEA.ex5. It is already compiled — you never see or need the source.

This opens the folder MetaTrader actually reads from, which lives deep inside AppData under a long random name. Never try to find it by hand — always use this menu item.

Inside the data folder, the MQL5 folder is the one that matters. Everything else is the terminal's own housekeeping.

MQL5 → Experts. This is where Expert Advisors live. Indicators and Scripts are separate folders and the EA will not be found in either.

Copy the file you downloaded into this folder. That is the whole installation — no installer, no registry, nothing to configure.

Open the Navigator panel, right-click Expert Advisors and choose Refresh. InfinityAiProEA appears in the list. If it does not, the file is in the wrong folder — go back to step 14.

With your XAUUSD M1 chart open, right-click InfinityAiProEA in the Navigator and choose Attach to Chart.

The dialog that opens has two tabs. On Common, tick Allow Algo Trading. Do not press OK yet — the next step needs something from the other tab.

Switch to Inputs. Near the top there is a row called 'Copy this URL' holding https://api.infinityaipro.com. Select it, right-click, Copy. Taking it from here rather than typing it removes the one way this step goes wrong — a mistyped address fails exactly like no address at all. Now press OK.

Open the terminal's own options. This permission belongs to MetaTrader, not to the EA, which is why it survives reinstalling the EA and has to be set once per terminal.

Tick Allow algorithmic trading. Tick Allow WebRequest for listed URL. Paste https://api.infinityaipro.com into the list. Press OK. Leave Allow DLL imports unticked — the EA does not use DLLs and nothing that asks for them should be trusted lightly.

Also check the Algo Trading button in the toolbar is switched on and green. It is a separate switch from the one in this dialog, and with it off the EA loads, draws its panel and never trades.

From the Overview, open Connected EAs. This is also where the account will appear once the EA reports for the first time.

Just the number — the EA reports your broker, your server and your account currency by itself on first connect. There is no key to copy and nothing to paste back into MetaTrader.

Tick the cent-account box if that is what you are running, confirm the account is funded to at least $1,000 on a cent account or $100,000 on a standard one with leverage of 1:1000 or better, and press Connect. On a demo, none of this applies and the button is teal rather than gold.

Close the Remote Desktop window — never Sign Out

Closing the window disconnects your screen and leaves Windows, MetaTrader and the EA running. Signing out ends the session and takes everything with it, including an open cycle.

Restart the VPS once a week, at the weekend

FXVM ask for this and they are right: a Windows machine that never reboots accumulates memory and pending updates. Do it when the market is closed, and make sure MetaTrader comes back up afterwards.

Set MetaTrader to start with Windows

So a reboot — planned or not — brings the terminal back without you. FXVM include instructions for this on the VPS desktop. Without it, one restart at 3am is an EA that is switched off until somebody notices.

Run nothing else on this machine

No second EA, no other terminal, no manual trades on the same account, no browser left open on twenty tabs. The plan is sized for one terminal doing one job, and everything else competes with it for the processor at exactly the moments that matter.

Leave auto-renew on, and keep a working card on it

An expired VPS is switched off mid-cycle with positions still in the market and nothing managing them. It is the same failure as a power cut, except the machine stays off until somebody logs in and pays.