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Interactive Brokers LLC is a U.S.-based brokerage firm. It operates the largest electronic trading platform in the U.S. by number of daily average revenue trades. The company brokers stocks, options, futures, EFPs, futures options, FOREX, bonds, and funds.
Problems in the last 24 hours
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Interactive Brokers users through our website.
- Login (70%)
- Trading platform (20%)
- Website (10%)
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The most recent Interactive Brokers outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Noida
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Login | 6 hours ago |
 Los Angeles
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Website | 7 days ago |
 London
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Login | 8 days ago |
 Melbourne
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Login | 13 days ago |
 Cape Town
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Login | 15 days ago |
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East Orange
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Login | 1 month ago |
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Interactive Brokers Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) reportedI'm going to vote that they add @IBKR support to @edgeful. 🦾 What other brokers would you want to see support for? 👇
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nullnoob (@nu11noo8) reported@unusual_whales closing my @Fidelity account - can’t trust a place that makes stupid i’ll-advised decisions that are clearly disguised to produce indirect layoffs hello @IBKR 👋 I’ll be making an account TODAY
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Mathėus Lonning_ (@RosaYan1019) reported@IBKR You found this out, I'm not in trouble
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SMH Trading (@MisticTrader) reportedIf you're tired of spam calls and you don't want to pay for a streaming music service, just call @IBKR and sit on hold. You can stay connected for a long time before they answer and you won't receive any spam calls. win/win.
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James Sun (@LSKMSun) reported@IBKR the speed for es quote is very slow!!!!!
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October Fund (@OctoberFund) reportedIs IBKR Paper Trader currently down? Why don’t I have permission to trade on the paper account anymore? @IBKR
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Pranesh Ganesh (@gpranesh) reported@IBKR I have trouble logging in as no SMS is being received. Is there an ongoing outage?
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JackAttack (@SychoShadows) reported@IBKR Gee I can’t imagine how this could be terrible.
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Boy Firdaus (@BoyFirdaus75) reported from Banda Aceh, Aceh@IBKR @boyfirdaus75, I Support GCV $315,159🇮🇩, but When will this Dream come true?
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Flesh & Bone VR (@mcdroidgame) reported@Akash17971 MRUTR looks like a money glitch, always wished IBKR has India. @IBKR Korea was awesome, India next puuhhhhlease?
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Maria Mednikova (@MednikovaM64181) reportedTried to use @IBKR app to buy some QQQ and it was such a bad experience. This is my first time investing so it was overwhelmingly complicated. I put in an application at @public but haven't heard anything back. Their app looks so much easier!
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Reuben Walker (@bwalkers212) reported@IBKR Locked out of account. Software & telephone of no help. Artificial Intelligence consulted. Nothing works.
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𝔢𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔢𝔢 (@iB3Bestpony1985) reported@IBKR if you think I'm going to shut up. If you ignore me you've got a whole different problem. I will not back down or shut up until some responses found and a resolve of this issue is met
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见微 (@DoryYinxuan) reported@IBKR That hidden FX fee thing is the worst! I had no idea how much I was losing until I switched to IBKR. Such a game-changer for my US stock trades. 😩
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SOBR (@SOBRBC) reported@IBKR Fix the desktop installer for linux please
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JT Gert (@the1Gert) reported@speculator20221 @IBKR Same issue, fixed it by going into settings->trading permissions ->edit and then switch permission on for something that wasn't previously selected. Solved it for me right away.
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Clausius investments (@MinhungShih) reported@IBKR please fix your stupid, ugly iOS app. Pathetic in the age of AI. Cc @vladtenev
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DC (@HalifaxDC) reported@speculator20221 @chessdunk @IBKR I think I know why it might have happened to me. There was some kind of form about API Authentication that I was supposed to sign when I logged into the Client Portal a couple of days ago. I was in a hurry, so I passed over it, figured I'd do it later. Apparently, that might have been enough. The worst thing is, for some reason, they cancelled my Stop Loss on the live trade that I was in, but didn't cancel the trade itself (let that one sink in). Luckily, the trade went in my direction a bit, so I was no worse for wear. I still stayed on the phone, on hold, after that, because I was going to give them an earful ... but at the 2.5 hour mark of being on hold, I threw in the towel and hung up.
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Tim (@Tim158930786227) reported@Desi_Trade It’s one of those things I thought would never happen to me… just got notified from IBKR that they are shutting down my account. It’s crazy that they @IBKR does this.
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sfrPILLED (@3nder555) reported@bclund @IBKR It could help you in a legitimate situation. I've had half my gdx liquidated on a down day b4
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Brian Lund (@bclund) reportedAfter being a customer for 20+ years at @IBKR, I’m seriously considering changing brokers. Earlier this week, I got a margin call notice, which made no sense because my account is fully funded. Turns out it was tied to an old secondary account I created years ago to sweep in some non-marketable securities — you know, those dregs we’ve all held onto that technically went to zero but still somehow show up in the account. (Don’t lie, you’ve done it too.) Anyway, this account has sat idle for years, and for some reason it incurred a $12 charge, which pushed the zero-balance account into a margin call. I’ve tried contacting @IBKR numerous times about this, but if you know anything about IB, customer service is not the reason you use them. I even wired funds into the account to clear it. They show they received it, but I can’t find any record of it being credited, and I suspect it may have been applied to the wrong account. There was a time when it made sense to use Interactive Brokers because they had aggressive commissions and access to hard-to-trade issues. But nowadays, that advantage is mostly gone. I’m seriously wondering why I would stay with them when such a minuscule issue has turned into such a major pain in the ***.
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The 'investor' (@Pikachu21M) reported@IBKR If I chose a timeframe on the chart, 1 month, 1 year, 5 years, I should see the percentage of progression during this period. Your stays fix on the daily percentage. It’s not a bug but your choice grok said
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アサミー (@krell_sophia) reported@IBKR damn, mine's stuck at 1.2%... time to switch?
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Agent Smith (@AiStockAgent) reported@BloomDemark @IBKR I tried. It says I don’t have trading permission. Customer service taking forever to pick up
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TopInvestor (@Matrix_B0SS) reportedI own six figures $SIVE on @IBKR and opened a new position on @Trading212 this week From swelling my account + high figures to down high five figures I have high conviction in $SIVE and this 20% drop this week, can not change any thing Last time it stayed in 30s it jumped to 60
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Empress Capital (@Empress_Cap) reported@bclund @IBKR Everyone has had these same thoughts multiple times with $IBKR for one issue or another. You'll be back. They're so much better
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DevilsFootnote (@devilsfootnote) reported@bclund @IBKR that's your fault.... STUPID!!!
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CT🪐 (@gercekci_V) reported@joemccann @IBKR @ibkr has a horrible user-interface, i decided to stop using it and pay premium extra cost elsewhere where user interface is much more friendly. call me stupid but I have seen zero improvement by ibkr in the last 7 years - they do not even try
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Stan (@xbc9stazj) reportedAfter around 1 year of investing I transferred all my positions from @DEGIRO to @IBKR for risk exposure I had gone from 81.5K€ to 160K€ but the inflation prints and the overall bearishness cycle slowly landed me around ~113K€ Around that time I decided to load up on $RKLB warrants because I loved the company so much (yes, there were $RKLB warrants at some point) These contracts - I didn’t know it at the time - had pretty simple but specific rules : If the stock traded higher than $10 for an extended period of time (~2 weeks I think) the company could redeem them, no matter what the current price was. And man did they redeem them The stock was trading at $8 when they did so, offering us the option to buy the stock at the warrant strike price, $11.5, making them basically worthless on a cash basis I got demolished. I freaked out so bad I didn’t where to hide, for the first time as a market participant, I wanted to cry When I discovered there was a cashless exercice option that gave ~0.3 share per warrant, I was actually relieved. But the damage to my portfolio was severe regardless, basically a 70% wipeout on that massive position I didn’t know it at the time but that event was the trigger for a highway to 14K€ When I said in my quoted tweet that it’s going to be hard, this is what I’m referring to
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Steve (@IlhadoSteve) reported@IBKR you have terrible cutomer service. If someone is denied a product and can't reapply for 30 days then how and when exactly are people supposed to get a chance to submit additional information for consideration? Your reps on the phone are so frustratingly stupid.