Problems trading futures in IRA accounts at IB?

I just spoke to IB support. The IRA/Futures issue was a short term, back end issue, that should be resolved early this week. It is not a permanent change. Blocks of accounts will be resolved as soon as today.
 
Hello... As of 6:45 AM Monday 3/9/2015, I called IB and was told futures trading in IRA's is no longer available. I hope you're right Robert and this is changed again but I hold little hope. Also the lack of any communication from IB is surprising and very disappointing.
 
As it stands now, I'm going to research alternatives, but keep my account at IB open for another week or so until the dust settles. If they haven't made any sort of announcement by the end of the week, then I will probably pull the trigger and open a new account at TOS.
 
I'm hoping to get some kind of update from IB in the next day or so. It would be a real shame to have to close accounts I've held for years because of this. Not to mention having to reprogram my automated trading systems. At that point I might just switch to using Multicharts. They don't offer all the IB markets but for futures openecry (now gain) offers most of them and has a good API. MB Trading doesn't offer quite as many. Not sure about TOS -- do they have an API?
 
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