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DAS Trader Pro – A universal entry hotkey with static risk
Imagine being able to handle trade entries without worrying about whether you’re going long or short, trading during regular hours or extended sessions, or even the exact price of the stock. All you do is define your risk and hit…
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Basic set of hotkeys for DAS Trader pro
Now that we have our DAS Trader Pro application prepared for advanced scripting, let’s use it for some automated calculations and placing orders. Entry hotkeys For simplicity, the following hotkeys use rounding to 2 decimals, which means that they are…
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DAS Trader Pro – how to save the stop loss price value for later
Everybody has experienced it. You enter a trade having automated stop loss or update the stop loss to the value you like, but then you mis-click in the orders window and lose the stop loss. Now you are pressured to…
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Utilizing a Trading Simulator to Test Your Strategies in a Trading Desk Environment
Being part of a trading desk team demands a high level of understanding, quick decision-making ability and refined trading strategies. The financial market can often be unpredictable, with sudden fluctuations making it challenging for traders to consistently make profitable trades.…
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How to prepare your DAS Trader Pro for advanced hotkeys scripting
DAS Trader Pro is a trading platform in constant development, while the documentation of the new features is often lagging behind, the new features exist and can make traders lives much easier. There are many reasons to chose DAS Trader…
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DAS Trader Pro Stop loss orders
In the previous post, I showed how an automatic stop loss is placed after an entry. There are other situations when you might need to update the current stop loss, and there are different stop loss types too. Stop types…
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DAS Trader Pro – symbol notes
Often we need to put some notes on the symbols, being either warnings, whole trade plans, or just any other note. 3 types of notes There are 3 types of notes as of today, if I do not count any…
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DAS Trader Pro – Where to run the scripts code
The stock market is a dynamic and constantly changing environment, and sometimes we might need to act differently in different situations and set some variable to a user defined value. This is where the input() function comes into play. To…
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DAS Trader Pro – how to read the symbol properties
Symbol properties Sometimes we need to use a different approach for symbols that are on SSR or that are hard to borrow. For this purpose, the getquoteobj() function will retrieve all the information about the symbol. Note: The properties are…
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DAS Trader Pro – universal exit hotkey function for all market hours
This hotkey is useful for anyone exiting positions manually or just to have it at hand when things are going south or for advanced scripting when calling an Exit is needed at a specific situation or a specific price. The…
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DAS Trader Pro – How to prompt for user input
The stock market is a dynamic and constantly changing environment, and sometimes we might need to act differently in different situations and set some variable to a user defined value. This is where the input() function comes into play. To…
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DAS Trader Pro – How to create alerts with hotkeys
Adding a price alert quickly If you need to add a price alert from the chart, the most efficient way is to do it with a script like this. $MYSYMB=$MONTAGE.SYMB; $MYALERT=NewAlertObj(); $MYALERT.name=”Price Reached”; if($MONTAGE.PRICE<$MONTAGE.LAST) { $MYALERT.AddItem(“Last Sale”,”<“,$MONTAGE.PRICE); } else {…
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DAS Trader Pro Autolocate with hotkeys
Since a few versions back, we have the possibility to use hotkey scripts to autolocate shares and submit the located shares to the orders. In this post, I will try to explain some of the techniques on how to make…
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DAS Trader Pro – How to scan through watchlist
Objective Let’s say you have 108 symbols in your watchlist and want to find out if a certain condition is met on the 5-minute chart. Instead of clicking 108 rows (or using hotkeys to move up and down) and waiting…
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DAS Trader Pro – Entry hotkey with multiple profit targets for all trading hours
Many traders scale-in and scale-out of their positions. Here are some scripting techniques on how to achieve multiple targets. Just split the orders This is the simplest solution. Place 2 range orders (because stop-loss orders are good to have) instead…
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DAS Trader Pro – A simple green light for entries
I used to struggle with forgetting some of the rules for my entries. I was able to get around it with the help of a simple solution – a green light button for entries. It is working in a few…
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DAS Trader Pro – how to backup and transfer the configuration
Sometimes your PC crashes, maybe you bought a new PC, or perhaps you did a mistake and need to revert back to the old settings. There are multiple ways of how to backup the configuration in DAS Trader Pro. Use…
