wtf IB?

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by stochastix, Dec 7, 2020.

  1. Their latest report specifies a 50% increase YoY in the number of clients. Covid has turned everyone and their mother to trading. Their infrastructure may not be too well adapted yet.
     
    #11     Dec 7, 2020
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  2. They probably are overwhelmed with bureaucracy and fired the programmers who built the system long ago, if they work like almost every other company
     
    #12     Dec 7, 2020
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  3. JSOP

    JSOP

    It says currently "System are returning to normal functionality" but still with a red status bar on their status webpage. And I am still not even able to log into TWS. Has any of you able to at least log in?

    It's ridiculous that it's out for 3+ hours at least since the first post by the OP.
     
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    #13     Dec 7, 2020
  4. I've been logged in for nearly 2 hours now
     
    #14     Dec 7, 2020
  5. Millionaire

    Millionaire

    If thats the case they have had at least six months to sort it.
     
    #15     Dec 7, 2020
  6. JamesJ

    JamesJ

    It's since 7 hours!
    Look at my post in ibkr outage
     
    #16     Dec 7, 2020
  7. Very inconvenient if you have some SPY options expiring today you would like to close.
     
    #17     Dec 7, 2020
  8. JSOP

    JSOP

    Yikes. Hope they are not ITM. I guess you are gonna have to call them to close them and pay the hefty commissions. :( Maybe this is why their phone lines are tied up all the time. I sent them a message in the message centre and it hasn't been looked at for 3 months.
     
    #18     Dec 7, 2020
  9. that would be a cool story to tell someone..,. so, how did you end up homeless? well, my broker was a piece of shit and couldn't accept my orders and then kept my money
     
    #19     Dec 7, 2020
  10. JSOP

    JSOP

    I am able to log in now. It's 2:20 PM EST.
     
    #20     Dec 7, 2020
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