I use unix machines and firefox. I currently use optionsxpress and ameritrade, but need to do strategy based trading. IB doesn't seem to have a firefox based client(they only support IE) any good brokers outthere you'd recommend? thx
Where did you see this? It's a Java based application, and it shouldn't be browser dependent. I didn't find any information about this on the site either.
Here's the minimum requirement for IB workstation http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/requirements.php?ib_entity=llc And here's for web trader http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/requirementsWebtrader.php?ib_entity=llc I tried the link below (click on login) using using firefox, but it asks me to download IE http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/webtraderLogin.php?ib_entity=llc I sucks! firefox is one of the widely used browsers!
I think they have a browser based AND a stand alone trading platform. I use the latter, but in the past, I have used the IE web-based version at a remote location, such as Kinko's
I tried this link in Mozilla 1.7.7, and it works fine. Maybe there is something wrong with your copy of Firefox.
did you click on the "web trader login "? thx http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/webtraderLogin.php?ib_entity=llc
O.K., I see what you're doing. I agree that Webtrader does not work with Firefox. IB's primary trading client is TWS, not Webtrader, and TWS runs both standalone and under Firefox. As I understand it, the main difference between Webtrader and TWS is that TWS requires a Java Virtual Machine, whereas Webtrader will run from any computer with Windows/IE6. I recommend trying TWS either standalone or with Firefox. I prefer standalone.
I understand. Sorry, I thought you were using TWS, but you are actually talking about WebTrader. I agree, it's not very nice. I assume they need some fancy DHTML feature that only IE has. If you don't have a JVM to run TWS you should indeed look somewhere else
We just released a beta-version of WebTrader that supports Firefox. Take a look at https://wt1.interactivebrokers.com/webtraderbeta/servlet/login It also has better support for option trading.
awesome! thx it works in firefox but I wonder if it has all the good functionalities one would expect how to test drive this? dont need any real data, but checking functionalities would be good