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Just don't use a VPS. There are many affordable dedicated servers. A VPS hypervisor can freeze your instance for many reasons and this can have a huge impact in your trading.

way too boring for me.

It depends on the interest rate of your currency. Currently they will charge you for having more than 100K in EUR.

As a beginner, you can try Dukascopy. They provide JForex, a java development environment with cloud deployment. It is a CFD broker and provides lots of tick level data to backtest. After you get something that looks good there, you can move to IB.

JBookTrader was cool and did most of these practices. Still using book imbalance for trading?

Didn't know that my unlevered "trades" where not "trading".

A hedge is not a spread. A hedge is not arbitrage.