# Auto trade going crazy?

**URL:** <https://forums.collective2.com/t/auto-trade-going-crazy/8956>\
**Category:** C2\
**Created:** [October 11, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/auto-trade-going-crazy/8956 "2016-10-11T16:00:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![MatthewKlein](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/matthewklein/32/21382_2.png) [@MatthewKlein](https://forums.collective2.com/u/MatthewKlein)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/auto-trade-going-crazy/8956/8 "2016-10-11T17:31:43Z")

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Here is a summary of what happened today:

> [@Status: AutoTrade Problem - 2016/10/11](https://forums.collective2.com/t/status-autotrade-problem-2016-10-11/8958):
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> At around noon Eastern USA time, we had a technical problem. Our AutoTrade servers lost their connections to our main database. This meant that for a few minutes, our AutoTrade servers believed that broker accounts should have no open positions. Thus C2’s AutoSync process closed many account positions. When the database connections were re-established, these positions were re-opened. I am very sorry that this happened. I know that it was deeply disturbing to our customers, and worse, that - in …

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