title: How do I force Interactive Brokers to connect to their US based servers?
body: <p>My interactive brokers gateway runs in the cloud in the US. I am a european citizen, so IBKR seems to always connect me to their EU servers, even though my trading system runs in the USA and I am trading US equities.</p>
  <p>People say that if you use IBKR you should not worry about speed anyways, but accumulating two times the distance over the atlantic for every api call is just unnecessary.</p>