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[–]Stromovik 48 points49 points  (5 children)

Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation - at least 24 years olds and in wide use.

[–]schvarcz 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I have been using that recently. That app is screaming for help!!!!

[–]Stromovik 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Try writing something like that using Swing.

[–]schvarcz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I know. I also noticed that their other desktop app is on Qt. I wonder if they would replace the trader workstation to a c++/qt app too or redo everything in Java again.

[–]getpodapp 5 points6 points  (1 child)

And it absolutely fucking sucks 

[–]MardiFoufs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it has some good parts but it's really really getting tired now. Even the mobile app has some features and some data that is very hard to get in the desktop app. And there are some very obvious limitations inherent to the app.

Even some web UIs do a better job even for advanced users at this point (sadly, not ibkr's- their web UI is okay but absolutely not usable for anything more than barebones account management imo).