Does your platform freeze or lag for a few seconds when a major number is released? What have you seen?

Many scheduled releases land at an exact second. The September US jobs report was published at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on 2 October (12:30 UTC), when payrolls rose 29,000 and the 2-year Treasury yield closed the day at 4.83% (report). At moments like that, a flood of orders and price updates reaches brokers and liquidity providers at once, and some traders report that their platforms freeze, show stale prices, or take a few seconds to confirm an order.

Whether it happens depends on the broker, the platform, the instrument and your own connection, and the effects can be different: a delayed fill, a requote, a wider spread or a price that does not update. Bid, ask and slippage explained covers why a fill can differ from the price you saw.

We would like to hear what members have actually observed:

• Have you seen your platform freeze, lag or show stale prices around a major release? On which instruments, and for how long?
• Did you place an order during the lag, and what happened to it?
• How do you check, afterwards, whether your fill matched the market? Do you save screenshots or timestamps?
• Does it make you avoid trading in the seconds around a release?

Please describe what you observed rather than posting verdicts on a broker, and leave out account numbers and other personal details. Posts that promise returns or sell signals will be removed.