If my computer’s time drifts a little, it’s no major issue. But if it becomes a few seconds out of line it can have an impact on trading, especially greening up. For me the greening period is important as trading can be quite frantic in the last minute or so before the off. And having a balanced book is part of my plan.

You can set Windows to keep time synced but this doesn’t appear to be very good in my experience. I’ve used an app to regularly keep my operating system time accurately synced. As mentioned in this post I’ve previously used Dimension4 by Thinking Man Software. However, after some googles I decided to try something different.

I’ve installed Meinberg NTP (see here) on my VPS. It works as soon as it’s installed but inreasing NTP pools is recommended, so I added a few extra European pools. There’s also a really useful guide here to help get started, but it really is straight forward to set up. It also seems light enough with no impact on processor when running. Both time.is and Gruss refresh chart show near perfect times, and I’ve not seen any drift, so all good.