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Import trades from DAS Trader Pro

DAS exports do not contain the trade date, so VEXA asks you for it. Set up the export window first and the rest is straightforward.

Same on every platform Updated

What this does

Brings DAS Trader Pro trades into VEXA from the Trades Window export.

The date problem, first

DAS exports do not reliably contain the date the trades happened. The file has times but often no dates, and the filename does not carry one either.

So VEXA asks you. The upload form shows a required trade date picker, on every surface, with the note that DAS exports do not include the trade date. Pick the day those trades were executed. It cannot be in the future.

That also means one export equals one trading day. Export a week in one go and every trade in it will be stamped with the single date you chose.

Before you start

  • Automatic sync shows a Coming soon banner. File import is the route today.
  • Check the export window before exporting, because DAS does not put the date in the filename and it is easy to export the wrong day twice.
  • Options traders: right-click the option chain window, open Config, and enable the long symbol option so the export carries full contract details. Without it, options rows are ambiguous. See How options trades are imported.
  • Times are Eastern.

Steps

Same on every platform

  1. Launch DAS Trader Pro.
  2. Open the Trades Window.
  3. Make sure these fields are visible: Time, Symbol, Side, Price, Qty, Route, Broker, Account, Type and Cloid. Add EcnFees too, because VEXA uses it for accurate commission.
  4. Set the date range deliberately. One trading day at a time.
  5. Right-click inside the Trades Window and choose Export, then CSV.
  6. Upload it to VEXA.
  7. On the upload form, set the Trade Date to the day those trades were executed.

EcnFees

Add the fee field before exporting. Without it VEXA has no fee data for DAS trades and your profit figures come out gross, which reads as a small consistent overstatement across every trade.

Limits and gotchas

  • One day per export. The date you pick applies to the whole file.
  • Rows whose order id reads AUTO take the date from their sibling rows, and if the siblings disagree the import stops rather than guessing at a date.
  • Re-exporting the wrong day is easy because nothing in the filename tells you which day it is. Rename the file yourself as you download it.

What you should see

A result panel naming the DAS Trader format, with counts for the single day you exported. The trades appear on the date you chose in the picker, so check one in the journal before uploading a month of files.

If it doesn’t work

  • Every trade landed on the wrong day. The date picker was set to the wrong day. Delete those trades and re-import with the right date.
  • The import stopped and said the dates disagree. The file spans more than one day. Export one day at a time.
  • Profit is consistently a little high. The fee field was not in the export.
  • Options rows look wrong. The long symbol option was not enabled in DAS.

Related

Upload a statement or CSV Where the upload area is on each device, which file types VEXA accepts, and what happens while the import is running. Import trades from Lightspeed Lightspeed exports a Blotter from its website, one year at a time, with all the exchange and clearing fees included. Understand your import results What every line of the import result panel means, including the two success messages that read like failures.

Still stuck? Email support@vexatrade.ai.