Trading FOREX on a Macintosh

[dawnwhistler]

Can anyone tell me which FOREX brokers and software can be used from a Macintosh?

 

[rawrschach]

oanda.com

if you buy vmware fusion or parallels and install xp you can use anything

 

[Trader333]

Interactive brokers use a Java platform.


Paul

 

[dawnwhistler]

oanda.com

if you buy vmware fusion or parallels and install xp you can use anything

Thanks, those are new to me. (I gather better than Virtual PC, which I guess is yesterday's news?) I'll look into them.

 

[dawnwhistler]

Interactive brokers use a Java platform.


Paul

Oh ouch, more Greek!
Sorry, I am pretty much right at the beginning. What's an interactive broker, and what's a Java platform? (Does Mac do it, or do I need parallels or the other for that?)
Shannon

 

[rawrschach]

Java is a runtime environment, will work on both PC and Mac.

Virtual PC is very much yesterday's news, but Fusion and Parallels only work with the newer intel based macs. You can run both windows and os x apps with little or no slowdown - this is how my computer is running all day every day...

 

[Trader333]

Interactive brokers is a brokerage which you an find here www.interactivebrokers.com They use a Java based platform to trade which can be used on any operating system including Mac.


Paul

 

[1Pipped]

Hi dawnwhistler,
You can also get `wine` on the mac, which allows running of windows software. Its free, I use it on linux to run Metatrader and it works great.
Regards.

 

[rawrschach]

I didn't know wine was available for os x yet - I would check that out first

 

[1Pipped]

I didn't know wine was available for os x yet - I would check that out first

Heres a quick page I just found about it MacOSX/Installing - The Official Wine Wiki
I have not used it on a mac myself, so I dont know what will and what wont run on it Im affraid !

 

[dawnwhistler]

Thanks all of you, this is all helpful (tho I've still got a lot of reading to do, sigh).
Can I ask what experiences you've (any and all) had with specific brokers? Reading on-line reviews, almost all of them have *some* negative reviews, and some of the ones on my "recommended" list have really terrible reviews. Interactive Brokers has some bad ones, also Forex.com and Oanda, tho Oanda's looked like the best of this bunch. (But I need to pick a second one too.) I would much appreciate any feedback--and again thank you so much!

 

[wtrader]

i use this setup, i have parallels running xp . the system charts faster than other laptops i have used running just xp. the best part is you can create snapshots and if you lose your xp machine you simple revert to a working snapshot in a couple of minutes.

i love this setup.. try it

 

[Inex]

Thanx for info! bthw Parralels not a good choice last couple days it doesnt want to work at all