ITZ,
Thank you for your good suggestion. I agree 100%, and full redundancies are my number one priority as I build up my account and get to a point where I can afford them. I fully accept and know from experience that outages are a fact of life, even on the most expensive trading floors in the world. Nonetheless, it's troubling to know that I could be stuck in a position when others are not, even in a situation as mundane as this one.
I would still prefer that a market leader like IB with a service as robust as TWS would be prepared for these eventualities.
Can I ask who you use as your backup broker, and were they up this whole time?
