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Linux Friendly Online Brokerages?

Posted by Cliff on from the daytrading-for-penguins dept.

freelunch asks: "I need to switch online brokers and, not wanting a dedicated Windows box just to trade, would like to find one that has Linux friendly Level 2 tools. Many of the Java trading platforms are unreliable/incompatible/unsupported under Linux (Scottrader is very unreliable and not L2). Any help?"

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  1. Catering to the minority within the minority? by payamchee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, we've got someone who runs Linux exclusively and is a capitalist?

  2. Re:Ameritrade. by MarkusQ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oddly, they say that they require IE (or did, the last time I noticed), even though it works fine cross-browser.

    I once wrote them about the fact that they were requiring the use (or at least claimed to be) of the products of one of the companies that were traded through their service in a way that might seem to be an endorsement. I also pointed out this was ironic in view of the fact that the company in question was a convicted monopolist with a history of just this sort of positioning. I also pointed out that, as far as I could tell, their site was reasonably cross-browser, which must have taken some work--so why weren't they admiting it?

    I don't think I ever heard back, but I still use them.

    --MarkusQ