Globex open · 23-hour session
Futures VPS built for NinjaTrader, Sierra Chart & Tradovate
Keep your platform online through the full CME Globex week, from Sunday 5pm CT to Friday 4pm CT. Rithmic and CQG-tuned nodes, dedicated cores through news releases, and a workspace that survives every quarterly contract rollover.
CME session clock
LIVEGlobex open
Sun 17:00 CT
RTH (equity index)
08:30 – 15:00 CT
Daily maintenance
16:00 – 17:00 CT
Week close
Fri 16:00 CT
# uptime
ES 03-25 · streaming 142,318 ticks/s
NQ 03-25 · DOM depth 25 levels
CL 04-25 · rollover in 14 days
// last disconnect: never
Why a dedicated instance
Home internet is a liability during the Globex week.
Futures don't stop for your router firmware update. A held position on ES or CL is exposed to gap risk any hour of the night, and residential ISPs pick the worst moments to drop packets. A dedicated remote instance keeps your platform running, your brackets active, and your workspace intact from bell to close.
Contract rollover without a scramble
ES, NQ, CL, GC all roll every quarter. Your VPS keeps the front-month + back-month charts loaded so you can migrate positions on the roll date without rebuilding workspaces from a laptop on a plane.
Margin calls at 3am don't wait
Overnight margin on futures is often 2–5× intraday. A power blip at home during Asian hours can leave a position exposed. Your instance stays online, so stops, brackets and ATMs keep working.
Globex covers 23 hours. Your rig shouldn't sleep
CME Globex runs Sunday 5pm CT to Friday 4pm CT with a one-hour daily maintenance break. A VPS is the only realistic way to hold a strategy active through the full weekly session.
Handles the open-outcry moments
8:30 CT economic releases (CPI, NFP, FOMC) push CL and ZB volume 20× in seconds. Dedicated cores mean your DOM keeps repainting while retail platforms freeze.
Platform matrix
Every serious futures platform, tuned.
Windows Server 2022 with .NET, JRE and C++ redistributables preinstalled, so you can install NinjaTrader or Sierra Chart in the first RDP session.
NinjaTrader 8
WindowsNinjaScript strategies, ATM, Order Flow +
Sierra Chart
WindowsACSIL studies, DTC/Denali feed, footprint
Tradovate
Windows / WebWeb + desktop, cloud-native, mobile pairing
TradeStation
WindowsEasyLanguage, RadarScreen scanning
MotiveWave
Windows / LinuxElliott wave, Gann, JVM-based
Jigsaw Daytradr
WindowsDOM ladder, order flow overlays
Data feed routing
Clean paths to Rithmic & CQG.
CME-adjacent Chicago node, no consumer NAT between you and the matching engine.
Rithmic
Chicago-native · CME direct · sub-ms tick
CQG
Continuum feed · institutional depth
TT (Trading Technologies)
Multi-exchange routing · algo hub
dxFeed
Consolidated + level 2 · TradeStation stack
Automation & scripting
NinjaScript, ACSIL, EasyLanguage: all compiled on-instance.
Strategy Analyzer backtests, walk-forward optimisation, custom indicators, and compiled DLL studies all run on dedicated cores. No shared-tenant CPU throttling during a 4-hour parameter sweep.
Dedicated
vCPU cores (no bursting)
< 1 ms
Chicago → CME Aurora
NVMe
For tick-database replay
99.99%
Session uptime SLA
Pricing
Choose Your Plan
All plans include DDoS protection, full admin access, and 24/7 support.
Basic
Entry-level remote desktop
Standard
Balanced performance
Pro
Most popular choice
Advanced
Heavy workloads
Trader FAQ
Futures-specific questions, answered.
All the major ones: NinjaTrader 8, Sierra Chart, Tradovate, TradeStation, MotiveWave, and Jigsaw. Sierra Chart is the lightest on RAM but hungry on single-core clock speed; NinjaTrader is the opposite. Session Pro and above are sized for either running simultaneously.
Yes. Our Chicago and NY4 nodes are provisioned with clean TCP paths to Rithmic (Aurora / Chicago) and CQG Continuum gateways. No consumer NAT, no ISP throttling on market-open bursts. Both feeds are officially supported by the platforms we host and we've tuned firewall rules so port 3010 (Rithmic) and CQG API traffic flow without dropped ticks.
Yes, when your platform supports it. Sierra Chart has continuous contracts (#F suffix) that auto-splice, and NinjaTrader lets ATM strategies migrate on rollover date. Because the VPS stays online 24/5, scheduled rollover actions actually fire, unlike a home PC that might be asleep at 6pm CT on rollover day.
The exchange is closed, not the server. Your VPS stays running, your platform stays open, and reconnection happens automatically when Globex reopens at 6pm CT. No manual restart needed on Sunday evening either.
Yes. Prop firms explicitly allow VPS execution and most of their traders use one to survive the drawdown rules. A stalled fill during a news spike is often what blows an evaluation. Session Pro is the most common tier for a single-account evaluation; Globex Elite for combined-account funded traders.
Windows Server 2022 by default: NinjaTrader, Sierra Chart, Tradovate desktop, and TradeStation are all Windows-native. Linux is available if you're running Python execution against a broker API (Interactive Brokers TWS gateway, Rithmic R|API+, or a custom TT SDK integration).
Stay in the market for the whole Globex week.
Deploy your futures platform on infrastructure that doesn't blink when CPI drops at 8:30 CT. NVMe, dedicated cores, and instant activation. Bitcoin, USDT and Monero accepted.
Instant activation · crypto accepted · no KYC