A major power outage swept across parts of Spain, Portugal, and France yesterday, hitting not just daily life, but also the hidden backbone of the financial world.

While big names like Clearstream scrambled to extend settlement deadlines, retail traders and prop traders in affected areas faced a harsher reality:
If you lose power, you lose control.

Traders with open positions during the blackout were left in the dark — literally and figuratively — as they watched opportunities (and accounts) slip away, unable to access their platforms.

The incident raises uncomfortable but necessary questions:

• How many traders have true backup systems?
  
  
• How many prop firms even educate their clients about real-world risks like infrastructure failures?
  
  

The truth?

‍In today’s fast-moving, tech-dependent industry, a single power outage can wipe out hours of work — or entire accounts — in minutes.

No trading plan is complete without preparing for the unexpected.
Yesterday’s blackout proved it.

Stay tuned to Prop Insider — where we don’t just report the headlines, we dig into what really matters.

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