You spent months mastering DAS Trader hotkeys. Spend a few minutes understanding what they earned you.

DAS Trader Pro is not a platform you stumble into. Nobody downloads it because of a sleek marketing campaign or a free stock promotion. You find DAS because you are serious about day trading and you need tools that match your intensity. Direct market access to nearly 20 routing destinations including ARCA, BATS, EDGX, NYSE, and NASDAQ. Level II quotes showing full market depth. Customizable hotkeys that let you fire orders in milliseconds. Integrated short locate sources for borrowing hard-to-find shares.

The platform is available through brokers built for active traders, including CenterPoint Securities, Cobra Trading, Lightspeed, and others. These are not beginner-friendly discount brokers. They are firms that cater to traders who measure their edge in cents per share and seconds per execution.

If you trade on DAS, you probably take dozens of trades per day. You probably have a setup playbook. You probably know your hotkeys better than your phone number. But here is the question that separates traders who plateau from traders who keep improving: do you know which of your setups actually make money over a statistically meaningful sample?

Your dastrader trading journal in TradeBB answers that question with data, not gut feeling.

DAS Trader Pro stores every order and execution during your session. There are a few ways to get that data into a file.

Right-click export from the Trades window

This is the fastest method for most traders:

1. Open your Trades window in DAS Trader Pro
2. Make sure the columns you need are visible (Symbol, Side, Qty, Price, Time, Route, etc.)
3. Right-click anywhere in the window
4. Select Export
5. Save the file in spreadsheet format

The exported file captures every field visible in the window, giving you a clean record of all executions.

Trade Report from the menu bar

For a more comprehensive export:

1. Click Trade in the top menu bar
2. Select Report
3. Choose the report type: Orders, Executions, or Tickets
4. Set your date range
5. Export the report as a text file

This method is especially useful when you need historical data across multiple sessions.

What the exported file contains

A typical DAS Trader export includes: symbol, side (Buy, Sell, Short, Cover), quantity, price, execution time, route used, order type, and account ID. Every field you need for meaningful trade analysis.

Upload either file type to TradeBB. The system recognizes DAS Trader export formats and maps your columns automatically.

Day trading generates a lot of data very quickly. Fifty trades a day, five days a week, and within a month you have over a thousand data points. That is too much to review manually but more than enough for TradeBB to find patterns you cannot see on your own.

Setup and strategy tagging

This is where your dastrader trading journal becomes a real edge. Tag your trades by setup type: VWAP reclaim, opening range breakout, ABCD pattern, red-to-green move, short into resistance. TradeBB calculates win rate, average R-multiple, expectancy, and total P&L for each setup independently. You will know exactly which setups deserve more size and which ones you should stop trading.

Long vs. short performance

DAS Trader Pro is popular with short sellers because of its integrated locate sources and fast execution. But many traders assume they are equally good on both sides of the market when the data tells a different story. TradeBB splits your performance by long and short trades so you can see the truth. Some traders are natural short sellers. Others give back their long profits every time they flip short. The numbers do not lie.

Route and execution analysis

DAS gives you the power to choose your execution route for every order.  TradeBB tracks which routes you use and how your fills compare across them. Over hundreds of trades, you might discover that one route consistently gives you better fills on small caps while another works better for large caps. This kind of micro-optimization is invisible in real time but compounds significantly over weeks and months.

Time of day performance

Most day traders know that the first 30 minutes and the last hour tend to offer the best opportunities. But your personal data might tell a different story. TradeBB breaks your P&L down by time of day so you can see exactly when you trade best. If your afternoon trades are consistently losing money, that is a signal worth paying attention to.

Holding period analysis

Are you cutting winners too early? Holding losers too long? TradeBB tracks your average holding period for winning trades vs. losing trades. For day traders, even a few seconds of difference in hold time can reveal a behavioral pattern worth correcting.

You short overextended runners? See your short-side win rate, average gain, and max drawdown in isolation. Know whether shorting is truly part of your edge or just a habit.

You route orders to specific ECNs? TradeBB shows fill quality by route over time. Find out which routing decisions are saving you money and which ones are costing you.

You trade through a prop firm? TradeBB works with DAS exports from any compatible broker, whether you are trading through CenterPoint, Cobra, Lightspeed, or another firm. Your data, your analysis, regardless of which broker clears your trades.

You take 50+ trades a day? Good. The more data you feed TradeBB, the more reliable the patterns become. High-frequency day traders get the most value from statistical analysis because the sample sizes are large enough to be meaningful.