Optimize Scanz with Ultra-Low Latency VPS

A charting platform streams the handful of symbols you're watching. Scanz streams the market: every quote and trade across US exchanges feeds its scan engine, which re-evaluates your filter criteria continuously and rebuilds watchlists as conditions change. During the open, or a broad-market news moment, that message flow spikes hard — and a machine without CPU headroom shows it as lagging scans and delayed alerts, precisely when timeliness is the product.

Our Swing plan ($45/mo, 4 Ryzen 9950X cores, 10GB DDR5) runs a focused Scanz setup — a few scan windows, montage, news — with comfortable headroom. Momentum ($85/mo, 8 cores, 20GB) is the right call for heavy multi-scan layouts, Level 2 across many symbols, or Scanz running beside your execution platform, which is how most of our momentum traders set up.

Momentum trading's edge is often decided before most people's alarm goes off: overnight news, earnings gappers, and low-float movers surface in the pre-market scan. Because the VPS never sleeps, your Scanz session is already streaming when the 4:00 AM session opens — watchlists populated, alerts armed. Rolling out of bed and opening RDP on a phone shows a radar that has been working for hours.

The same continuity covers you during the day. Step away from the desk and alerts keep evaluating server-side; a news spike on a position hits your scanner whether or not your laptop is open. Traders tell us this is the feature they can't go back from — the scanner became infrastructure instead of an app.

US equity market data originates from exchanges clustered in the New Jersey/New York data-center corridor. Placing your Scanz machine in Equinix NY7 keeps the path from those sources to your scan engine short and — more importantly for a scanner — consistent, so bursts arrive as bursts rather than smeared through a congested residential link. Your home connection then only carries compressed RDP video, which survives hotel and mobile networks fine.

This is a data-freshness argument, not an order-execution one — Scanz finds the trade; your broker platform takes it. Run both on the same VPS and the alert-to-order workflow happens entirely on one low-latency machine.