IB's excuse is that its not something that IB caused. So, Stock baby, give urself a quick ass kick and move on.
lol, you have nothing better to do than make an ass of yourself publicly? I'll assist you in remedial reading. 1) AMEX had a system problem. 2) All the stocks/etfs continued to trade on all ECN's and NYSE. As expected. Not much point in having 5 routes if you halt trading internally when one of them , even the primary, goes down. 3) IB appeared to hit the halt button on many ETF's , halting the ability to trade ANY of them to open or close positions. Nothing was halted. 4) For one EFT I follow, it took an hour to fix this. So, kiwi, now that you have been sent packing, keep walking.