DislikedIt sounds like the error wasn't the platform itself, but instead a date that they post to their actual interactivebrokers.com website calendar. Whoever put the date up, typed in the wrong date apparently. I highly doubt someone with that much money is not using a high end software program to trade through, rather than the interactive brokers free software. It is odd that he would only look at one place on their website for the date, instead of checking somewhere else for the same date to be sure when you have that much on the line. But their website...Ignored
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