Direct Access Mac

Hi there,
Wondering if anyone could recommend a direct access broker that is mac compatible. Though I have the capability to run a windows based system I really prefer keeping it in OSX.
Thanks!

Mac platform

Did you ever come up with an answer to your question? I'm in the same position. The only broker I have come across so far that has a Mac compatible platform is IB. That said I never could get it to work (must have been doing something wrong) and i have since switched brokers.

pcar773 said:

Hi there,
Wondering if anyone could recommend a direct access broker that is mac compatible. Though I have the capability to run a windows based system I really prefer keeping it in OSX.
Thanks!

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"search forums" is your friend ... but to help you along: interactivebrokers & thinkorwsim to name a couple...

Nevertheless, if speed is of the essence I would recommend you still run in windows, no matter how awful that operating system is. These systems are so much better developed.

Some of the really high end stuff is X11 based and thus would presumably run on a mac without having to leave OS X...

Nevertheless, if speed is of the essence I would recommend you still run in windows, no matter how awful that operating system is. These systems are so much better developed.

Some of the really high end stuff is X11 based and thus would presumably run on a mac without having to leave OS X...

True dat..
in that case try this Run Windows on Mac and Mac Virtualization ? Parallels Desktop for Mac works perfectly running any windows specific app I've ever used, and they were all notoriously CPU intensive

Thanks Miyagi. Yes, I'm currently using Parallels on my main computer (MacPro) and VMWare Fusion 2 on my MacBook Pro. Both work fine though VMWare is probably the better of the two. Parallels works OK in a 1 or 2 monitor config but more than that and it is worthless. At the moment I use Investor/RT for charts running in Mac over 3 monitors and use the 4th monitor to display the trade platform running in Windows. Would be nice if more brokers joined the Mac revolution and offered fully mac compliant platforms.

MrMiyagi said:

True dat..
in that case try this Run Windows on Mac and Mac Virtualization ? Parallels Desktop for Mac works perfectly running any windows specific app I've ever used, and they were all notoriously CPU intensive

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Download VirtualBox from Sun MicroSystems. It allows me to run a win XP virtualization as a regular window. I've been running schwab's professional trading platform through this, and It shares the screen with my 20+ Safari windows with no problem. I can do this because the of version of XP I use only requires 100mbs of ram (you can get this version as a torrent, but make sure you own an original copy of the XP so that it's legit).

Essentially, I have a computer inside of a computer... running WinXP with 283mbs of ram on the virtualization, and I still have 1000mb of ram to do whatever else i want to do.

Think or swim have software for OS X