David Duncan's Personal Blog

Every morning, a short Python script prices each game-plan stock’s weekly and monthly expected move from its options, then draws those edges on my DAS Trader charts as named, color-coded, global lines — without touching a chart by hand. Here’s the straddle math, the CMD API scripting, the palette, and the gotchas.

DAS Trader Pro produces its end-of-day reports by clicking through two windows. Here is how I automated that export from WSL: a script command over the DAS API to open the account report, and Win32 calls plus the Windows Script Host COM object to drive the Export buttons, the Save As dialog and the Trade Report dialog, scheduled with Task Scheduler.