Mac-friendly Online Broker

April 20, 2006 6:26 AM

I'm searching for a Mac-friendly online trade broker. Something with great tools that I can use for up-to-the-soonaspossible statistics and whatnot. Any recommendations?

I used e*trade a long time ago and they had a win32 app that you could download that had graphs, stats, and everything. When I think about having really good stats on all my trades and movements up on dual monitors on the G5 or at the airport on my MacBook I get really excited.

Advanced web apps are ok too, as long as they will work on Macs. Also, the normal recommendation variables (price, time, etc.) still apply.

posted by travis vocino to computers & internet (4 comments total)

You might take a look at e-trade again - the web-based tools are pretty good, and they work great from Firefox on my mac (and on a PC.)
posted by drobot at 6:52 AM on April 20, 2006

Interactive Brokers. It's a java application. I like it.
posted by sfenders at 10:02 AM on April 20, 2006

Ameritrade (formerly Datek) has always been web- and mac-friendly. IB is great if you are a frequent trader and know exactly what you want, or if you need API access. They aren't the world's most friendly broker but their feature set is unrivaled for small investors.
posted by b1tr0t at 11:34 AM on April 20, 2006

Schwab works great on my mac.
posted by echo0720 at 2:54 PM on April 20, 2006