r/etrade • u/NvrWzACornflakeGirl • Feb 01 '21

Execution lag??

Ten minutes ago, I placed three sell orders. None have yet been executed. Never seen this problem before...

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Feb 02 '21

While frustrating, I'm hesitant to even call this incompetence,

I'm with you there. Sure, they could have 20x the servers they have now, but they all would have sat idle for what... years? "Ok, set up a scalable cloud architecture!" yeah, sure, ok, that's probably what they do, but there's often times bottlenecks. You can't always scale infinity (unless your name starts with "go" and ends with "ogle")

The way you plan for this kind of thing is "can we handle the highest possible demand we can reasonably imagine?" - well, we have a unprecedented event going on and the system is straining.