Is Interactive Brokers down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Interactive Brokers right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Interactive Brokers continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are can't log in, can't connect, website / app down, API errors, orders or tracking, no response / timing out and slow or laggy. Those are the options the report button offers for Interactive Brokers, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Interactive Brokers specifically, Interactive Brokers routes trades through multiple execution venues and data centers, so connectivity issues to one market or regional gateway may block trading while other accounts or asset classes remain accessible. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Interactive Brokers, try logging into the web platform at login.interactivebrokers.com and placing a test order, or check if the Trader Workstation desktop app connects and pulls live quotes. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Interactive Brokers's side. Specifically: do not repeatedly submit the same order, as it may execute multiple times once the system recovers, and do not switch brokers mid-outage as your positions remain locked in Interactive Brokers' system. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Interactive Brokers does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe interactivebrokers.com directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what Interactive Brokers says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at ndcdyn.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/systemStatus.php, and it is linked further up this page. That is Interactive Brokers's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Interactive Brokers or interactivebrokers.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Interactive Brokers's own support, not us.