IB goes down for short periods from time to time. But what can you expect? ALL brokers have downtime, and I'm pretty certain IB is among the brokers with the least downtime. Look, even exchanges have downtime - so it's totally unrealistic to expect a broker to have 100% uptime. Anyone beyond basic understanding of IT and it's infrastructure would agree.
IB's message indicates some of the advanced stuff they do behind the scene to have as much uptime as possible - redundancy, copies of accounts and orders on separate systems that can kick in if their main system goes down - all in realtime.
The only way to properly deal with the risk of trading online is to have separate accounts with brokers. And of course, what you do is trade with BOTH accounts to avoid tying up money.
If you don't want go down the multiple account route you should stop complaining, because that's the least you should expect from a professional trader. All brokers have agreements stating that they might have technical issues and that they're not responsible for trading losses arising because of this.
Through the years I have traded with at least 10-15 brokers, and no broker is failure proof - it's the nature of the game. One has to plan for how to deal with it when it happens, and not just whine. Contingency planning is what it's called.
IB's message indicates some of the advanced stuff they do behind the scene to have as much uptime as possible - redundancy, copies of accounts and orders on separate systems that can kick in if their main system goes down - all in realtime.
The only way to properly deal with the risk of trading online is to have separate accounts with brokers. And of course, what you do is trade with BOTH accounts to avoid tying up money.
If you don't want go down the multiple account route you should stop complaining, because that's the least you should expect from a professional trader. All brokers have agreements stating that they might have technical issues and that they're not responsible for trading losses arising because of this.
Through the years I have traded with at least 10-15 brokers, and no broker is failure proof - it's the nature of the game. One has to plan for how to deal with it when it happens, and not just whine. Contingency planning is what it's called.