thinkorswim™ Linux Container

Disclaimer: thinkorswim is a proprietary trading platform created and operated by TD Ameritrade.

This repository contains scripts to create a container environment that the thinkorswim product can run inside safely. It extracts a Zulu OpenJDK image to a local directory and sets it up a container environment with the extracted image as its root. A desktop file is installed so that it will appear in the application list for the desktop environment.

Requirements

• Linux 🐧
• buildkit
• ansible
• bubblewrap

Procedure

1. start buildkitd

   rootlesskit --net=slirp4netns --copy-up=/etc --disable-host-loopback buildkitd

2. run the ansible playbook

   • take a look at ansible/playbook.yaml to see what it is going to do
   • pay special attention to the vars section
   • the playbook will pause at a certain point to wait for installation to complete
     • this is a manual action
     • proceed to step 3 and execute that command
   • set your local time zone by adding -e timezone=TIMEZONE to the invocation (defaults to UTC)

   ansible-playbook ansible/playbook.yaml -e timezone=America/Chicago

3. run the thinkorswim installer

   • the /home/thinkorswim/... path in inside the container, do not change it
   • if everything is properly configured, an installer window will pop up
   • choose the option to install for the current user, not system-wide
   • continue the ansible playbook once installation is complete

   ${HOME}/.local/share/thinkorswim/container.sh /home/thinkorswim/thinkorswim_installer.sh

4. (optional) stop buildkitd

   • if you manually started it before

5. launch thinkorswim

   • at this point it should be available in your applications list in you desktop environment

   • to launch from the terminal, you can run the following

     gtk-launch thinkorswim