This is unaceptable. I have wasted an evening of research and a morning of trading. RT should be a high end platform, with high end performance. If I can have a backup computer with RT installed, they can have backup servers. I will be expecting both an explaination and an action which will prevent this from happening again. Cybertrader is looking good.
Another update as of 12:41 eastern standard time. Servers are not fully connected. Level 1 quotes available only..charts are messed up and no Level 2. This is the official word from my broker. Yes I'm trading in NYC. Lucky for me I have back up systems with other brokers. This still is extremely unacceptable for the most expensive platform to have server problems like this agree with all of you.
I get the feeling this outage is going to take a while to fix. I just hope the systems will be back to normal by trading time tomorrow. I have had my RealTick service for several years and would not trade without it. The customer support people have always been top notch. But, this time it sure looks like a major problem on their end.