New Macbook Pro User

I just bought a new 15" macbook pro and so far love it.

My Question...I trade in the Forex market and thought I could use the laptop for trading, but the online trading platform is inferior to the one I'm used to using. The Trading Station I use is a windows only based platform. What would be the best plan to be able to use this on my mac? Thanks!

You can install Windows on your MBP either using the Boot Camp Assistant or Virtual Machine software. For your use, I recommend installing the free Virtual Box VM software from Sun. Download from here. You'll also need a licensed copy of Windows to use.

1. You could use bootcamp and start-up windows like a regular pc. or 2. You could use parallels 5 and run windows as a virtual machine on the mac HD. The second option is not quite as fast as the first because the computer resources are divided up between two OS's.

For the OP's purposes, I second chscag's suggestion of VirtualBox.