Broker Response Time

Hello, guys, can you take a few seconds and post your broker response time.

Thank you

Any additional information is appreciated.

Do you mean response to trading inquiries? general customer service? phone trading when platform is offline?

Platform response time?

I was asking about PING to the broker's server.

i use vps in san diego, ca, usa. for gomarkets, 1ms or less. for ibfx au, appx 70 ms.

CNS has two tools. one is a prepared chart of historical test run every so often. another is a live tracer tool that you can test any IP address latency to their servers.

For manual trading, even 300ms could be considered acceptable. under 200ms is better. I doubt you would get anything above 200ms, unless they only have 1 live server location like ibfx and you are on the other half of the world. But for autotrading, I cannot stress enough importance of reliable vps solution, physically located as close to your broker as possible. The same link above explains why.

edit: no forced reboots, either. It needs to stay on 24/7.

Well, I have been still waiting for E*trade response...Let me check..ah yes, 2 years already passed...