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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 (44%)
- Website (33%)
- Trading platform (22%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Interactive Brokers outage reports came from the following cities:
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Login | 4 days ago |
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Website | 11 days ago |
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Login | 24 days ago |
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Website | 28 days ago |
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Trading platform | 1 month ago |
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Website | 2 months ago |
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Interactive Brokers Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Richard • Investing & FI (@Therichardralph) reported@financewithjoe @IBKR Possibly on low value the Fx fees being higher Vs trade cost might not be so much of an issue.
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Saptarshi Das, CFA (@saptarshi_tweet) reported@IBKR @IBKR do you ever solve issues. Your customer service is -100 out of 10. You haven't been able to solve a critical problem for over 20 days now. Ticket #T877121. Are they sleeping on their beds. The issue has been escalated 4-5 times already. DO YOUR JOB!
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Kate Whittaker (@KateWhitta17313) reported@Therichardralph @IBKR I use Halifax isa Hargreaves’s Lansdowne isa Few trading accounts with different ones Halifax is decent tbh never problem executing trades or selling positions.
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EliteTrading (@EliteGainzTrade) reported@TT_stocks_ Right on! Looking to switch from @IBKR to @WebullGlobal How are you finding the change. IBKR is terrible these days.
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@Lionessxxxx (@Lionessxxxx1969) reported@IBKR Another load of bollox posted by google that has **** all to do with my UK timeline or interests. GOOGLE HAS REMOVED MY FACILITY TO REPORT SPAM/SCAM ADS BUT STILL BOMBARDS MY ACCOUNT & TIMELINE WITH **** ADS LIKE THIS. GOOGLE ARE THE BIGGEST SCAMMERS
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Rob Gray (@robmgray76) reported@Therichardralph @IBKR The FX fees are higher than T212 and the interest paid on cash is less but it works well. I pay £5.99 per month to bring the FX fees down a bit.
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Doug Campbell (@TradeandMoney) reported@IBKR @Polymarket The score is now: IBKR 1, Me 0. First I went to AI to resolve my problem, and then tech support. They sent me to read some article that i couldn't see. I was going to send support a screen shot of what I saw when i clicked on the article link, but there support chat had a bug and the upload didn't work! You can't make this stuff up. In the end support told me to come back tomorrow and try.
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covertsah (@coversah) reportedI have never had a such a bad experience setting up a new brokage account @IBKR I fund it I choose the light plan but they give them the Pro plan that include commissions. So all my test trades pulled commissions today. I tried to enable trading for leveraged etfs they denied me won't say why, so i get to wait another 30 days to try again. Man if i had any other choice i would just withdraw the money move on but i don't.
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男比熊大 (@bixiong_baisui) reported@IBKR What is your problem?
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andrew brett (@AndyJB4676) reported@Therichardralph @IBKR I’ve tried three times to create an account and log in with IBKR and have only ever got an ‘unknown error’. Not had that problem with T212 or other apps
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Count_Drewkoo (@NotYoungBuck) reported@WebullGlobal < @IBKR Trying to track real-time market structure or apply quantitative modeling is impossible when the platform holds the data hostage. Here is exactly what is happening under the hood. How Your Location Determines Routing: Your residential address dictates your backend routing. Because you aren't in New York, Webull actually routes your crypto execution and custody through Coinbase, not Bakkt.Bakkt (which holds a specific virtual currency license from the New York State Department of Financial Services) is used almost exclusively for residents of New York, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Your chart and watchlist discrepancies are being pulled directly from Coinbase's liquidity pool, not a New York firm. The 4-Hour Candle Bottleneck: You cannot properly scalp momentum if the chart refuses to paint the current price action.Webull's charting software is designed for retail bandwidth efficiency, not professional-grade tick data. On higher timeframes like the 4-hour, the platform often relies on server-side OHLC (Open, High, Low, Close) snapshots. Instead of pushing live, tick-by-tick data to build the active candle dynamically, the UI saves processing power by waiting until the 4-hour interval officially closes before rendering the final candle. It completely breaks any real-time structural analysis. Does IBKR Have This Issue? No. Interactive Brokers is built for direct market access, and their Trader Workstation (TWS) streams data differently.Dynamic Charting: TWS streams professional-grade tick data across all timeframes. Your 4-hour candle will build, wick, and fluctuate dynamically in real-time. Different Routing: IBKR does not use Coinbase or Bakkt. They route crypto execution through Paxos Trust Company and Zero Hash. Transparent Pricing: Instead of baking a wide spread into the price, IBKR charges a flat 0.12% to 0.18% commission with no hidden markups. Transitioning your active trading operations to a direct-access broker with an integrated data streaming hub will immediately solve these retail-level UI bottlenecks
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RoninTraders (@RoninInvestors) reported@Therichardralph @IBKR Hey, was thinking of opening an IBKR account for S&S ISA, do they support 24/5 trading like trading212? Searched online but getting mixed answers
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Huilinnnnn (@jude1law) reported@IBKR plz fix your connection problem, the app crashed during trading time is ridiculous and unacceptable
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Rod Farva (@large_farva34) reported@IBKR You are terrible. I have been trying to get money out of my account for 4 weeeks. I truly hate your company
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Joe Wyer (@joe365ppm) reported@IBKR Really need to work on the UI and also if the website is going to be so complicated you need to make accessing live support much less difficult
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Brandon (@D3GSolutions) reportedOn @IBKR buy an options contract nothing wild just a put on a 100 lot of ZS. Contract was trading at .01 for the bid and .27 for the ask. I put the midway .14 literally smack in the middle. Contract instantly fills. For .21 lol like wtf man.
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Carlos Dos Santos (@_charles289) reportedHas anyone else had issues with Trading Permissions for US penny stocks on @IBKR? Their customer support isn't the best either... way too slow.
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ann👾 (@21timestwo) reported@LidoFinance @IBKR hot damn lfg!
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Joe Wyer (@joe365ppm) reportedI think @IBKR is the worst website interface and support experience I have ever had. That includes the DMV, gov tax website, etc.
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Nate (@nathan96911) reported@IBKR I have not been able to contact a living person at customer support all week. Your phone system tells you to go to the website. No customer support.
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GingerNinja (@GingerNinjaZA) reported@cashflow_king94 @Trading212 @IBKR Man, ours charges us like 1.275% , like wtf 😭 Need to move to IBKR
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Atman (@Hermes10wisdom) reported@IBKR you customer service is useless, not once did they mention how failed transfer attempts cost £££ each time. your website ui is awful. Attempted transfer failed twice now and you have taken all most of my £100 is fees… you need to make it clear for new users.
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人称六叔 🔶BNB 🔶买美股上币安 (@Jasonwang1211) reported@IBKR Yeah this pump's transparent as **** no hidden fees just straight pressure. That's why barely any callback like I posted, Sol guys squeezing it clean. Chinese holders mostly jumped mid way though.
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Said Suleimanov (@suleimanov50905) reported@monad @IBKR Monad has so much bullish news, and I don't care about the price. I don't understand why. Mon is falling in price again. What's the problem, dear Monad, why so! Can't you raise the price of Mon
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Jesus (@CCrypto1001) reported@kyingda @IBKR I was about to withdraw $3464.85 in cash to transfer to my bank, and after waiting a month, they suddenly invented an issue to keep my money for a while. This is a scam.U25159972
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99.⨀ (@crexsol) reported@monad @IBKR wtf is ibkr seems huge welldone team
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Brad Kibel (@KibelBrad) reported@IBKR Sell the stupid ****
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🅰️LB🅰️ (@ALBACapMgmt) reportedIf a broker, @IBKR in this case, say you can only reduce risk (due to Kospi issues apparently, more likely they have run out of margin), but in actual fact they wont let you trade a product you have a position in at all, are they liable for any ensuing losses ?
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Jesus (@CCrypto1001) reported@kyingda @IBKR 1(877)4422757 This number and the other one are a FARCE, there is no contact, it is IMPOSSIBLE, thousands of issues without answers, the INCOMPETENCE and NEGLIGENCE of ibxr diminished customer service.U25159972
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Atman (@Hermes10wisdom) reported@IBKR @sumeet06 Waste of time, nobody over there get back to you customer service is dead.