I keep reading in this thread that it's much faster. What is much faster? Much faster than before summer or after summer? According to https://status.kraken.com/ there still is lag > 1000ms and degraded performance.

I want to get back to Kraken as it's my favorite trading platform for the big coins, but I'm really hesitant as I've lost thousands of % (collateral in positions and opportunities) because of lag, unable to place orders and the absence of stop loss orders in only a few months. I still remember very recently when I tried to place for 3 days 4 hours non-stop xrp buy orders @ ~€0.19 and they didn't get through and few days later it mooned, while my newbie friend bought xrp from a retail website for €0.21 and he made over €50k in 1 week and cashed a portion of it out using the same website, you got my drift?

I need to consider my financial options if it's more profitable and less stressful to dedicate resources to crypto exchanges, forex brokers, investing in a portfolio and forget trading (as my newbie friend does) or in my company and continue my entrepreneurial journey. It looks like the newbies who buy and hold (investing) are reaping much more rewards without any stress vs the traders who are in constant uncertainty about the entire environment (functionality, safety, non existing insurance, risk/reward trades, a lot of dedicated time, etc.).

So, in summary, the questions I have are:
- How fast are orders placed in ms/seconds (not of your feelings or opinions)?
- No double order placements?
- Margin trading works?
- Downtime during trading?
- When are stop loss orders coming back?

Thanks in advance, I'm looking forward to use your service again and the experiences of clients.