Any Mac users?!
What trading system do yall use?!
Nope as the platforms for MAC are terrible. I have a MAC which I wanted to use but after looking at them, they are slow and unusable compared to the Windows platforms.
*Edit I maybe should have said, I assume you mean MAC OS as if you are running BootCamp et al then you could use any platform
I have a mac, I use VMWARE with windows 7 for my trading…
Like the guy above me said, VMWare + Windows. You could even bootcamp Windows and run it separately all together. Nothing amazing to be had that is mac native, though.
Is VMWARE better than parallels?
What’s the difference/pros/cons?
I use Parallels to run my Gft platform, and it works pretty fast, even faster and smoother than with a Pc.
I’m not a computers expert and I don’t know if a Java platform counts as native for Mac, but as far as I’m concerned, Dukascopy platform is really great for a mac user, as well as Oanda platform.
I don’t really think Java can be considered native for any OS, but I think that’s a discussion for another forum, haha.
I have never used Parallels, only VMWare, so I can’t say. However, I know people that use Parallels and they’re very happy with it. Either way, for just running a forex application, I don’t think you can go wrong.
I also just switched to Oanda recently. At first I really did not like their web client, but after a week or two of getting used to it and customizing little features here and there I’m quite happy with it. It isn’t quite MT4, but it is more than sufficient to trade with.
I can’t say, I just happened to try vmware first… I think they are both good.
you might also try Downloads - VirtualBox its an opensource alternative that seems to be good.
I’m a bit in the same boat as the thred starter! I’ll use bootcamp for the time being which is fairly ok! I have tried Dukascopy’s and Oanda’s platforms for iPad and iPhone, but I would consider them only as quick reference tools rather than trading platforms. They’re too limited for that. Guess we are stuck with Bill and his windows yet a little more (not that it’s the end of the world really).
I don’t see that changing anytime soon OS market share look at the overall market share Mac has less than 5%. The amount of time/money it would take to build a native Mac client for a 5% market that can already easily dual boot just doesn’t make allot of since.