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thinkorswim Desktop and Mobile App Download Instructions

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Windows users

  1. This installation requires Windows 10 or later. Click "Install thinkorswim" above to automatically select the installer appropriate for your operating system and click 'Run'. The download may take anywhere from a couple of minutes to half an hour depending upon the speed of your Internet connection.
    Note: Depending on your security settings, you may be presented with dialogs asking for permission to continue. Confirm you want to proceed with the installation.
  2. Once the download has completed, the installation wizard should start automatically. Follow the instructions when prompted. Only advanced users should change any of the options from the defaults selected by the wizard
  3. Once you have clicked Done, the installation process is completed. You will now have an icon labelled thinkorswim that displays the thinkorswim logo on your desktop. If this is visible, the installation was completed successfully.

Note: You do not need to install any other software. A Java virtual machine is included with this download. No manual intervention is required.

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Mac users

  1. This installation required OS X 10.11 or later. To ensure you are running it, click the Apple Menu and select 'About this Mac'.
  2. Click 'Install thinkorswim' to download the thinkorswim installer. Once downloaded, open the .dmg file to start the application installation.
    Note: Depending on your security settings, you may be presented with dialogs asking for permission to continue. Confirm you want to proceed with the installation.
  3. Once complete, you will have an icon labelled thinkorswim that displays the thinkorswim logo on your desktop. If this is visible, the installation was completed successfully.

If you experience problems installing thinkorswim, please contact technical support at (866) 839-1100.

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Linux users

thinkorswim requires Zulu OpenJDK 11 to run, general installation instructions can be found on the Zulu website.

Once Zulu OpenJDK 11 is installed, ensure it is set as the default Java VM using the steps specific to your Linux Distribution. After ensuring Zulu OpenJDK 11 is the default with the “java –version” command in a shell/terminal, continue with the installation instructions below:

  1. Click "Install thinkorswim" to download the thinkorswim installer to a directory on your PC.
  2. After downloading open a shell and CD to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
  3. At the prompt type: sh ./thinkorswim_installer.sh

A more in-depth guide for the Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian distributions is available on The Learning Center.

Note: Clients intending to run thinkorswim on Linux, Solaris or other Unix variants, manual updates and tuning may be required, we have no official support for configuring these operating systems.

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All other users

For Unix or Unix-like operating systems:

  1. Ensure that Java 11 (Azul’s Zulu OpenJDK 11 is preferable) is installed and accessible, from your shell of choice, type: java -jar launcher.jar
  2. If that does not work, try java -classpath [path to] classes.zip:launcher.jar install
  3. If that does not work either, on sh-like shells, try cd [to directory where launcher.jar is located] CLASSPATH=launcher.jar export CLASSPATH java install
  4. Or for csh-like shells, try cd [to directory where launcher.jar is located] setenv CLASSPATH launcher.jar java install

Instructions (for other platforms)

  1. Be sure you have Java 11 installed (Azul’s Zulu OpenJDK 11 is preferable). You can download Java from Azul’s site.
  2. In a console window, change to the directory where you downloaded launcher.jar to before running the installer.
  3. Your operating system may invoke Java in a different way. To start the installer, add launcher.jar to your CLASSPATH, then start the main class of the installer named install.

Note: Clients intending to run thinkorswim on Linux, Solaris or other Unix variants, manual updates and tuning may be required, we have no official support for configuring these operating systems.

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