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hehe nice one Sven, Thanks Bro - seriously, I really appreciate the readiness to help. Yep, problem solved - the platform is now humming on my little old laptop.

Wow, Jack, it is now working! Thank you VERY much! VERY much. That was the problem, and a 1 line command in the terminal fixed it - wow. Thank you, thank you. You have blessed me Bro. Is there any way I can properly thank you? Will try to find a "donate" button on the homepage when this is...

oops, charged off with the "hidden" stuff will do the Java install or reinstall now

aha ... thank you for that so I have turned on "show hidden" and found the directory in question, the contents of which are: desktop-launcher-fxTrade.png (PNG image) fxTrade (shell script) Does this mean, the installer did work and that the program is installed, just not hooked up...

Thanks again Jack, here is the terminal activity: tom@tom-eM350:~$ tom@tom-eM350:~$ tom@tom-eM350:~$ java -jar -Xmx512m -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false /home/tom/.oanda/jar/fxTrade/fxTrade The program 'java' can be found in the following packages: * default-jre * gcj-5-jre-headless *...

Thanks Jack, this is notepad contents for the shortcut: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=fxTrade Exec=java -jar -Xmx512m -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false /home/tom/.oanda/jar/fxTrade/fxTrade Terminal=false Icon=/home/tom/.oanda/jar/fxTrade/desktop-launcher-fxTrade.png I think there is a...

Hiya Sven, I confess I haven't looked at it a lot. I took a brief peek recently and it looked like it has many of the features of the desktop platform, but in a different layout/format. The big put off though was it seemed to lack the min/max graphing option. However, if I can't the desktop...

True Bro, but I wonder if they have analysed the trade volume by the same demographics? The young ones will be more abundant, but the account sizes are likely smaller. It peeved me that not only did they shift their technical focus toward the mobile platforms but they took away some of the...

Hi folks, I am Tom, Retired from a career in education. Australian, but now living in New Zealand. Been trading via OANDA desktop platform since 2003. Commenced way too big, with the equivalent of a year's salary. Lost most of it within two years, and now trying to claw my way back to evens...

Hello Jack, and all, Thanks for the quick reply to my post about 40 mins ago. I just assumed you were in North America and would not be able to respond for 12 hours or more because of time diffs, and even then if you could spare the time. I found your thread by a google search, and maybe I...