Tastyworks hard down today for at least 32 minutes

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sysdevel99

It's days like today where I value having multiple brokerage accounts.

Not sure what happened but for half an hour I couldn't open trades or close them, through the web UI, through the mobile interface or through the desktop client. I obviously wasn't alone although based on the limited number of messages on twitter I wonder if people just don't care or if there are not a lot of active traders on the platform to begin with.
https://twitter.com/search?q=tastyworks

Pretty sucky timing for an outage when the S&P moves 40some points.
 
Looks like their server was overwhelmed by the busy market. Today is like a live stress test for Tastyworks. Unfortunately its clients are the collateral damage as they obviously did not pass the test.
 
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JSOP said:
Looks like their server was overwhelmed by the busy market. Today is like a live stress test for Tastyworks. Unfortunately its clients are the collateral damage as they obviously did not pass the test.
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Testing should have been performed on simulated scenarios. If you're actually correct then Tastyworks is a joke.
 
entropytrading said:
that sometimes happens to IB too, which sucks balls
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Only to Forex trading and usually during extreme news events like NFP, Fed rate announcement but never for exchange-traded products like futures and options and etc. unless it was really due to a problem with the exchanges. What happened at Tastyworks is scary. And the fact that they didn't even acknowledge it as a system-wide problem and instead treated it as individual issues is even scarier.
 
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