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Originally Posted by enochbenjamin
VMWare is your best bet for running windoz on a mac - better than parrallels and it can use your existing bootcamp partition. I use it to trade emini's (ES, ER2, YM).
For all other trading, including forex I use the Mac end of things - just more intuitive and easier.
Broker: Interactive Brokers (runs on a Mac - no problem). Also they have the best spreads out there. I have run their platform side by side with several other Brokers (Market Makers) and IB consistantly has the best spreads. Also IB is an ECN.
Charting/Analysis Software: Investor/RT (LinnSoft) - (runs on a Mac - no problem) while IB offers charts, their offering is very basic (no candles), so I found it neccessary to use IRT for technical studies.
Automated Trading: AutoTrader - (runs on a Mac - no problem) allows you to get in and out of trades lickety split without getting emotional.
YOU CAN TRADE ON YOUR MAC. All three of the above work with no emulation.
Happy Pippin
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Thank you Enochbenjamin
In the absence of an earlier response I opted for Parallels Desktop for Mac, and WIN XP - both of which I found at about 30% of new price on eBay.
MSoft is about to release SP3 for WIN XP as well as SP1 for Vista - just a bit of trivia on the side.
However - it is working well enough in the early stages - still have to get the charting loaded again (that is - migrated across from the old PC) but the less I have to do with MSOFT the better. I am fed up with their monopolistic ways.
Eventually Mac will gain the upper hand because of - in my view - a superior product.
Hopefully the FX brokers who use the franchised MT4 platform will see this happening, and "be the first" to develop "MT4-for-Mac" or put pressure on the MT4 master-centre to provide one..
I find the web-based (java) charting and trading platforms absolutely useless for customising charting to suit my personal needs. I have yet to find a superior product to MT4.
Thanks for feedback EB - and I will keep the thread informed of progress.