Hi Everyone,

Sorry about the trading issues that all of you had to deal with last week.  Basically, for months we have had stable trading because we upgraded our infrastructure to get data directly from the exchanges.  This was working well until Thursday when our servers were overwhelmed with massive and historic trading volume for that day.  On Thursday the market volume was 2.5 times the usual volume.  This volume was the highest in years and perhaps the highest in the entire history of the market.

Because of massive trading volumes, our server processed trades 2 hours behind schedule.  Earlier in the week, we actually saw this coming and ordered new servers on Tuesday to increase our capacity but we couldn’t get the servers up in time to process the trades for Thursday.  Luckily, we get the new servers on Thursday night and trades were processed normally on Friday.  The site should be back to normal from now on.

Phuc, Co-Founder and CTO