For a long time, I was adamantly against buying a Mac because there were certain important programs that would only run on a PC. Most of those programs were trading programs, of course.
I actually learned how to use a computer on an Apple IIe:

Later, I used to hang out at my friend’s house and play on his Macintosh Classic. Apple was always ahead of their time in terms of user friendliness and advanced technology. But they were never accepted by mainstream corporate America and thus never really got any traction.
Fast forward to the current day. Upon using my “Dell MacMini” and my girlfirend’s MacBook Pro, I have realized that Macs have finally gotten to the point where there is NO good reason not to buy one, even if you are a trader.
This is just my opinion of course, but if you love Macs, but don’t think you can trade on them, this post is for you. I’m going to go through what you need to get up and trading on a Mac and never deal with a crappy Windows computer again.
Some programs just require Windows
It is a sad fact, but the majority of trading programs and broker trading platforms only work with Windows. So what is a Mac-loving trader to do? There are several solutions out there, but the program that I use and really like is VMWare Fusion.
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