IB Down

[giles117]

Quote from Benign:

Every broker has downtime but the problem is how much downtime they have.

It is not the first time IB is down like today. There are people reported IB has been down lately. So it's not just ad-hoc incident.

Aside from today, I havnt been DOWN courtesy of IB this year. The only other issue was the random pink outs back in April.... But nothing like today. at least I could track my positions even if I couldn't execute.

 

[boost123]

Quote from musicman:

Most brokers allow you to trade via phone when their servers go down. The problem is trying to get someone on the phone to place your trade. Glad to hear your other broker did not have issues today, that is why it is a good idea to have more then one. Trust me your other broker will have down time, they probably already have and you were not logged in to see it.
And this other broker that has never gone down in 11 years is ?? And the commission rates you pay are ??

" And this other broker that has never gone down in 11 years is ?? And the commission rates you pay are "

They are UK brokers and i pay more than double of IB fees.
If i give you more details than this i will get reported by Mr Atticus for breaching ET rules and this will result in a yellow card against me.

 

[boost123]

Quote from boost123:

" And this other broker that has never gone down in 11 years is ?? And the commission rates you pay are "

They are UK brokers and i pay more than double of IB fees.
If i give you more details than this i will get reported by Mr Atticus for breaching ET rules and this will result in a yellow card against me.

He is already accusing me of being a trouble maker.

He is also accusing me of being CYOF, ATEHT, Socco and Bulldozer.

Next month he might accuse me of being Sorros or Buffett

 

[boost123]

Quote from CONR:

What a way to run a business.

You pay peanuts commissions you get monkies IB.
You need to find a good UK broker my friend and forget all those with low commisions.

 

[musicman]

Quote from Benign:

Every broker has downtime but the problem is how much downtime they have.

It is not the first time IB is down like today. There are people reported IB has been down lately. So it's not just ad-hoc incident.

I know how often they are down and when , I trade with them .
Overall they are very reliable . I have used other brokers which I will not name that have had more down time and worse issues then what I saw today .

 

[musicman]

Quote from boost123:

You pay peanuts commissions you get monkies IB.
You need to find a good UK broker my friend and forget all those with low commisions.

Naa I will stick with the low commissions of that good old American Broker IB.

 

[bluedemon77]

Quote from musicman:

I know how often they are down and when , I trade with them .
Overall they are very reliable . I have used other brokers which I will not name that have had more down time and worse issues then what I saw today .

I agree. Aside from their sometimes surly representatives, I have found their service quite acceptable in the past 18 months. I am, however, still concerned about this issue and I am hoping that an IB representative will explain what happened. I've been toying with opening a Tradestation account to get their charting and data anyway, so this has given me incentive to do that so I can have a backup broker as well. From what I read in other threads here, Tradestation might be less reliable than IB, but the redundancy would be comforting.

 

[boost123]

Quote from musicman:

Naa I will stick with the low commissions of that good old American Broker IB.

Music.

I'm happy to hear that your happy!! Its MUSIC to my ears

Booster

 

[atticus]

Quote from boost123:

He is already accusing me of being a trouble maker.

He is also accusing me of being CYOF, ATEHT, Socco and Bulldozer.

Next month he might accuse me of being Sorros or Buffett

I've never referred to you as "Socco" or "Bulldozer"; therefore you've just outed yourself under those aliases as well.

 

[Shill]

Quote from boost123:

Music.

I'm happy to hear that your happy!! Its MUSIC to my ears

Booster

You clever little shill. Where is your sister shill, trader123abc.
No, dont tell me: she's probably off in a corner somewhere trying to figure out what comes after "c". :eek:

Shill Much