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Robinhood has been down for over 12 hours
26 points by webo on March 3, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
Support tickets have stopped going through as well.

Looking forward to the postmortem.

I personally had a few SPY calls expiring today and Wednesday that I couldn’t execute all day.

https://status.robinhood.com/



Rumor mill and Reddit comedians are having a field day that apparently this happened 4 years ago - their data feeds Abe order book can’t handle leap years and don’t fail gracefully. Take it with a grain of salt of course, but there are some alleged screenshots [1]

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fck1tu/if_y...


They forgot to code for the leap year.

[1]: https://i.redd.it/hmcf47ct2ck41.jpg



I'll be happily surprised if we get a postmortem. Pulling everything out as soon as I can.




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