Trading foreign exchange is a risky business - even for the most educated of traders. However, when it comes to trading Forex autopilot systems, the risks are magnified even further.

Let's take a brief look at the things you need to keep in mind when trading with autopilot systems (and robot trading systems) so that you can ensure that you account balance is protected at all times.

Probably the most important consideration that you need to think about before trading or running a Forex autopilot system is how you are actually going to run it. Are you going to simply run it from your computer, or will you run it on a third-party server?

Hopefully, you have picked the latter option. The problem with running a Forex autopilot script or program from home is that home based internet connections are relatively unreliable. Just imagine what would happen if your internet connection failed at a pivotal moment when a trade was about to be placed?

Alternatively, think of an even worse scenario where you have an open trade on the market, the Fore autopilot system indicates that the trade should now be closed, but your internet connection is temporarily down!

As you can see, running a Forex autopilot or Forex system on your home computer is never a good idea. You should always look to a third party - which has a speciality in running such scripts, to ensure consistent reliability of the program.

Once you have found the right Forex autopilot system, you will now want to look for an appropriate server to run the script on. There are a number of options out there - but we would highly recommend that you speak to your Forex broker to discuss what server they believe would be best for the program. If you have a technologically advanced Forex broker, it might even be that they have their own server that you can run the program on.

Ultimately, this is the only risk to running a Forex autopilot system (other than the risk that the system presents on the whole).

Hence, you should take steps to mitigate this risk from the outset, so that you do not learn this lesson the hard way in the future.