Most retail trading applications are not designed to run on a Linux system. We need a special software called an emulator to run the app on a different device, such as to run Android apps on PC. One of the most popular applications for trading forex and CFDs is Metatrader, also called MT4. This program is built to run only on a Windows system, by default it is not Linux software. I have used this technique a few times to trade with different brokers like FXOpen and forexyard.
Winetricks
Wine enables you to install multiple Windows-based software on your Ubuntu Linux machine. Most of the configured applications have partial or complete functionality. It relies on how you establish and run it. There are tons of applications that allow you to control the configuration of Wine and the applications that run on it. I’ll only mention the ones I understand and have used. First, let’s install Wine. If you’re using Ubuntu 15.04 like me, Winetricks will be installed in no time. If it’s not installed because you’re working with another Linux distro, you can call it from the outside: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks. The MetaTrader ribbon will most likely seem…