Demo Account Down Today...

I noticed that my demo accounts (5 out of 18) were down today with "no connection." I didn't have my two live accounts opened as I'm not trading them currently - just sitting idle.

I got on IM with IBFX and they said they were having server problems. That the servers were down for about 20 minutes and it did affect some large accounts.

I am ready to post some serious money with IBFX as I need MT4 to trade me EAs and now I'm worried.

Those of you who have live accounts with IBFX, have you noticed a lot of times when the servers are unreachable? How often does it happen and how long are they down?

I've been trading with them for 6 months and this is the first large scale downtime I've seen but I'm not looking at these charts 24/7 either.

Thanks for your input...

I've been with them for three months and I've never had the server go down for longer than three minutes. That happens once in a while around 6pm eastern. Not everyday but probarly once a week. I'm on a mini account though.

I think they said they reboot their demo server around 4 pm and will sometimes reboot a few of the live servers as well.

This was definitely more than a reboot. This was from about 9:00 until 10:00 MST a.m. where a handful of the demo servers weren't connected and when I contacted them they said servers were down, including some live accounts. Just trying to get a feel for how many people were affected. I'm mostly worried about live accounts.

It happened to me once when I had my platform from IBFX, even though they are rebooting their systems it's kind of bad when you are expecting a trade and you really need instant execution, and that's why I decided to go with some other broker.

i gotta say that i never happened to me so far, since i demo trade with tradeviewforex MT4 and the good looking eToro platform. They work for me great, and even the first have a trial version for 30 days, it is possible to register again and get it encore mes amis!

Kittykat

I downloaded the Ikon, and execution has been great.