Good Trading software for linux?

Actually I installed StrategyBuilder4 right after I post the question. Another issue - when you move custom FF Tunnel Chart v2 indicator - I cannot change risk model (actually I cannot change anything). Let me know if you have any problems like me (and you resolve them). Actually - I'm editing text files in Profiles/Default folder for each graph to change risk model.

Also, I see couple dll's that I didn't copied. Will try Monday (it is on my office workstation).
UPDATED. Copied dll's - didn't help with changing properties in FF Tunnel Chart v2 indicator.

Are you using SB4 under WINE in your trading? Or You did installation just for fan.

Thank you.

I haven't tried sbfx yet, I imagine it should be just the same as ibfx.

Hi, any recmendations for good charting software of mac.

or

does anyone want to give me some instructions on how to install virtual PC. it seems I have to install windows too, but am confused.

Thanks

Virtual PC should be installed by default I guess, now you'd have to install (own a registered copy of) windoze on top of it.

There is a project called darwine (google for it) for a wine port (You can run win apps without installing/buying/cracking win) to osx. I have no experience with it and it's quite a young project, but wine is working great these days, you might want to check it out.

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I am a very strong linux fan (and fought my battles for it), but I keep win on the pc I use for trading. Afterall I bought it (with the pc) and I don't feel so much of an idiosyncrasy as to completely throw it away when the apps I use are all Redmond branded...

BTW, I've installed Blackbox for windows (+orbit ) as my default shell and I'm loving it. Six months without an hassle, completely customizable (open source), multiple desktops, lightning fast.

Now, you penguinpurists, lapidate me !

So you can run an unstable system in a a stable enviroment. I don't really get it either. I would love to see a native linux trading app but I haven't found one yet either.

Looks like wine might be a go with MT4. I'll have to give it a shot. Might be time to fire up the ol' Suse and see where I am at. I haven't used that machine in a while. I think uptime on it right now is in the 500+ days range. I sure would be nice. I could get rid on one more machine around my desk.

LINUX!!!

Greetings All,
I want to make it clear that I do not want to open myself up to play tech support to everyone here, but thought it would be useful to explain the steps I use to make MT4 work in my linux setup. If you have issues compiling, etc. Please use Google.

If you want to cheat you can grab packages for your distro here: http://www.winehq.org/site/download
I will be guiding you through the compilation process manually as I find compiling applications generally ends up running better.

# Get Wine
This thread could get old, so you may want to look for the latest version here: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/
# wget http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/...-1.1.2.tar.bz2

Extract Package
# tar -jxvf wine-1.1.2.tar.bz2

Enter wine directory
# cd wine-1.1.2

Configure wine for compilation
# ../tools/wineinstall

At this point it will stop after scrolling a bunch of text for a minute or so and ask:

-------------------------------------------------------------
We need to install wine as root user, do you want us to build wine,
'su root' and install Wine? Enter 'no' to continue without installing
(yes/no)
-------------------------------------------------------------
At this point just type 'yes', it will continue and eventually prompt you for the root password.

If you had a reason to say no and manually install it as root yourself you would cd to the wine-1.2.2 directory as root and type:
# make install

NOTE: if you just typed 'yes' to the question above you should not have to run 'make install'

Unless you had compile issues, you should be good to go now.


However, we are not quite ready to install MetaTrader4 as the built in functionality that wine provides to emulate windows dll files
is not good enough to run MetaTrader4 as of yet. To get around this we use a handy script someone wrote to download the actual
dll files windows uses to make it work..

# Get the Wine Tricks Script
wget www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

# Make winetricks Executable
chmod 755 ./winetricks

# Run winetricks
./winetricks

# At this point a graphical window should open with a bunch of packages to choose from. Scroll down and choose:
# mfc42 and vcrun6 followed by the ok button. It will download and scroll some text for a few minutes and eventually it may prompt you to type 'yes' or 'ok'
# to whatever it is doing..

Now download MetaTrader4 from your broker, for simplicity we will call the installer MT4.exe. You will want to replace this name with
the file name of the one you downloaded from your broker.

Now simply run:
# wine ./MT4.exe
Pay attention to where it says it will install it. For example the broker I use is Interbankfx and it installed to:
c:\Program Files\Interbank FX Trader 4\

So we want to move to our .wine directory located inside of our home directory (if your username is bob it would be /home/bob/.wine <- note the dot ( . ) before the word wine
After that you'll want to cd to the drive_c directory which is the equivalent to the C:\ directory on a windows box. Remember wine replicates the windows file system so it can
install windows based applications.

To do this in one command run the following:

# cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Interbank\ FX\ Trader\ 4/
If you are confused what the ~ does, it is a shortcut to typing 'cd /home/bob' or whatever your username is.

Now run Meta Trader 4
# wine ./terminal.exe


NOTES: It actually runs pretty stable for me, there are a few things you can do to crash it, which you'll learn through trial and error. The biggest on is opening a help file followed
by closing it, this will cause the whole application to crash.

Hopefully this will be enough for you to get MetaTrader4 up and running on your linux box.

Thank you Johnny Danger for your help. I am just learning linux and would love to get mt4 running on linux since it is such a great operating system,,,and i really despise what microsoft does.

HH

The best execution platform in my opinion is Interactive Brokers TWS (BookTrader) or Currenex. Both work natively on Linux (through java).

Oanda and GFT are also good if one's strategy is compatible with an MM.

ProRealTime is the best native (java) charting app;
Netdania works also fine.

Through wine it is no problem to run MT4, Amibroker and Quotetracker. It is not the easiest to install them properly, but once installed the correct way all 3 work flawlessly on Linux.

There is no real need for WMWare or other virtual machines with Windows IMO.

I'm using a cracked version of bloody Windows vista for two years now and it works great baby! no "Crazy reboots;Halt;blue screen;Fatal error "or such a thing.. i suggest using window cause its more flexible and there are much more Amazing softwares based on Windows Os.

Nice if you found something you like.
regards
pescador

Howdy, even the thread is kinda old, I just like to say Im using linux on one of my computers, I have an acount with Dukascopy and I found that the platform runs with so much more ease on linux, I use it on a kinda oldish computer, it's a pentium4 with 1024 ddram , supricingly, it handle Jforex with allmost no drain in cpu or mem compared to my other computer i7 with 4gb ddr3, I can sometimes note a lag in the i7 but in linux no lag,
I think they developed Java under linux and that might be why? MT4 also work fine under wine now, Im currently searching for a software I could use for technical analysis, if anyone knows something about that please let me know.

I am using mt4 on both local machine and VPS on linux. I have been doing this for 3 years now. can assure that the experience is better than windows and I have done MQL4/MQL5 development and testing. also running them without any problem on Linux/wine.

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