How to export your DAS Trader Pro trade log (and journal it)

DAS Trader Pro is fast to trade on and awkward to review on. The platform shows you the day’s executions, but turning them into a journal you can learn from, with round trips, win rate, R-multiples and the patterns behind them, is up to you. The first step is getting the fills out of DAS. Here’s how, and what to do with the file afterwards.

Step 1: Export the trade log from DAS

  1. In DAS Trader Pro, open Trade › Trade Log.
  2. Right-click anywhere inside the Trade Log window.
  3. Choose Export and save the file as a .csv.

Make it a habit to export after the close each day. The file is small, and one file per session keeps your journal current.

Step 2: Know what’s in the file

The trade log is a list of individual executions, not trades. If you scale into a short with three orders and cover in four pieces, that’s seven rows. A few things are worth knowing before you import it anywhere:

  • Times, but no date. Each fill has a time of day and no date, so whatever reads the file has to be told which session it came from.
  • The platform’s clock. Times are written in the clock your DAS installation shows. For most traders that’s New York time, even on a computer set to another time zone.
  • No commissions. The export carries fills, not your broker’s fees, so costs have to be added separately.
  • Order events as well as fills. Rows that aren’t executions need to be left out, or the numbers will be wrong.

Step 3: Turn the fills into a journal

You can paste the rows into a spreadsheet and pair them up by hand, but that gets slow and error-prone as soon as you scale in or out. A trading journal that understands DAS does it for you. In SpiceLog:

  1. Drop the CSV on the Imports page. SpiceLog recognizes a DAS export on its own, with no column mapping.
  2. Check the Trading date. It starts as today. If the file name contains a different date, SpiceLog asks which one you mean before anything is saved.
  3. If your DAS clock isn’t New York time, pick its time zone under Times in this file are in. You can save it for the account so you’re not asked again.
  4. Click Import. The whole file goes in, or none of it does.

Each position is tracked per account and symbol, and a round trip closes when you’re flat. Entry and exit are priced at the average of your actual fills. If you export again later the same day, fills that are already in are recognized and skipped, so nothing comes in twice. Set your commission rate once, per share or per trade, in Settings › Commissions, and it’s applied to your DAS trades.

Step 4: Add your risk, and read your trades in R

Dollar P&L hides whether you’re trading well, because size changes from trade to trade. Record each trade’s initial risk, the dollars you stood to lose at your stop, and SpiceLog shows the result as an R-multiple: net P&L divided by that risk. A $300 winner on $100 of risk is +3R; a $300 loser on the same risk is −3R, and a sign that a stop wasn’t respected. Across a month, your average R and how it splits by setup, time of day and tag say far more about your edge than the account balance does.

Already on Tradervue?

You can bring your history across in one upload and keep adding DAS logs after it. When a DAS trade matches one from your Tradervue export, SpiceLog keeps a single copy. See how to import from Tradervue.

For education only, not investment advice. DAS Trader Pro is a trademark of DAS Inc., and Tradervue of its owner; SpiceLog is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by either.