On Friday afternoon, Interactive Brokers bragged on its Twitter account: “Not to brag, but @benzinga named us the Best Trading Technology of 2020 based on our cutting-edge, global trading platforms.” By early Monday morning, however, those platforms were having technical trouble, effectively locking individual investors out of their brokerage accounts. Leonardo Cruz, a 34-year-old purchasing manager from Ajax, Ontario decided this morning that he was closing his main account, which he has held for the past two years. He says he spent three hours trying to log into the platform but was unsuccessful. “I’m definitely ... (full story)