A futures trading platform for Mac, native on Apple silicon

What runs on a Mac today

You download the Mac version from your licence area, with the same licence as on Windows. On first launch, macOS asks for your permission once, and the licence area shows the exact steps. Intel Macs aren’t supported.

On the market side it’s the same platform: a native Rithmic feed at the order level, 166 futures instruments on CME, CBOT, Eurex, NYMEX, COMEX and CFE depending on your account’s permissions, and orders routed through Rithmic only. Binance and Hyperliquid crypto perpetuals can be read; no order is routed there.

What lags behind on a Mac

The Mac ships on its own schedule. Today Windows is on 0.4.9 and the Mac on 0.4.2: features released in between aren’t on the Mac yet. Every update ships with release notes. If one feature matters to you, check that it exists in the Mac version before you buy, or ask support.

If you also have a PC, the licence covers one active machine at a time: install TurningTrade on the other computer, activate it with the same key, and the old one signs out on its own. On Linux there’s a 0.4.6 preview as a .deb or an AppImage (Ubuntu 24.04 or later, Debian 13), unsigned and without automatic updates.

Other futures platforms on a Mac

Here is what the platforms futures traders compare most often publish about the Mac, from their own pages, read on October 18, 2026. The table doesn’t rank anyone: it only says what runs on a Mac, and how. To weigh them on the other criteria too (data feed, order flow, cost, prop firm), read our guide to choosing a futures trading platform.

Parallels or native: what it changes during the session

With Parallels, Windows runs inside macOS. Both systems share the memory, and the Rithmic connection goes through the virtual machine’s network card. For 5-minute candles, that holds. At the 9:30 New York open, when the heatmap redraws the book on every MBO update and the DOM is scrolling, shared memory and CPU become the issue.

For TurningTrade, the measured floor is 4 cores, 16 GB of memory and an SSD; the Help Center publishes the full table and the machine every figure was measured on. Running natively, those resources go to the platform, with no Windows running alongside.

One detail that costs people a morning: two applications connected to the same Rithmic feed at the same time disconnect the first one¹⁰. If you keep a virtual machine running with another platform connected, close it before you connect, or the other way round. The Rithmic side is covered on our Rithmic trading platform page.

What you read on screen

The heatmap shows book liquidity at the order level: the walls that hold, and the ones pulled just before price gets there. Two detectors ship on it, Stop-run and Sweep, off by default; they add context and guarantee nothing.

The footprint splits each bar into volume bought and sold at each price (bid × ask), with large trades and the bar’s Δ max / Δ min. You see where market sellers hit the bid without pushing price one more tick lower.

ALFRED, the platform’s AI assistant, reads what your modules display and answers with those numbers. Circle a zone with the AI Brush and he returns the zone’s volume by price, POC, value area, buy and sell delta, high, low and VWAP. Live order sending is the only one of his rights that’s off at install. Details on the ALFRED page. What AI does during a session, and what it leaves to you, is in our AI trading platform guide.