Hello,
I wanted to share a techie tip with you guys. If you want to access your broker's desktop trading software securely but without having to setup a VPN, there is a way to route only the trading software's traffic through a secure SOCKS tunnel. With this setup, you can force both Interactive Broker's Trader Workstation and Ameritrade's ThinkOrSwim to always route the application's traffic through an encrypted SSH tunnel. I find this alternative more practical than having to start a VPN each time I need to trade.
Here is how to do it:
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Rent a cheap virtual server from Linode or DigitalOcean.
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Setup your SOCKS tunnel by following these instructions.
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Add the following instructions at the end of your trading software's vmoptions file:
-DsocksProxyHost=127.0.0.1 -DsocksProxyPort=8123 -DproxySet=true -DsocksVersion=5
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If you are using ThinkOrSwim, the vmoption file is located under $INSTALL_DIR/thinkorswim/thinkorswim.vmoptions
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If you are using TWS, the vmoption file is located under $HOME/Jts/tws.vmoptions
Submitted September 13, 2017 at 11:40AM by vicarious_shame http://ift.tt/2vTpqEf
