Fidelity app is DOWN: Clients blocked from trading stocks

Panic hit ordinary US investors this morning as a number of trading apps crashed.

Fidelity had problems after the stock market opened at 9:30 a.m. in New York with furious users saying they couldn’t log in.

Millions of Americans logged into their investment or trading accounts this morning as stocks soared to record highs on the back of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

On X, a user wrote: ‘Can’t log into Fidelity’, along with a screenshot of a message saying: ‘Sorry, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later.’

Fidelity users were hit with an error message today when logging in to trade shares

The Charles Schwab app also had some issues Wednesday morning

Robinhood is one of the biggest trading apps, but users did not report any problems

Another wrote at 10.30am: ‘The Fidelity app is useless right now. Worse than Coinbase.’

A third tweeted: ‘Your mobile app keeps crashing and costing me thousands!!!!!!’

The stock market rally meant big gains for investors of all stripes, including ordinary Americans with 401(k)s. The gains added billions of dollars to the value of American companies and boosted the wealth of everyone with stocks and shares.

There were also reports of problems with UBS and Morgan Stanley.

According to Downdetector – which monitors when websites and apps are down – thousands of customers reported problems logging in this morning.