What to use instead of DAS Trader Pro

The product

DAS Trader Pro is the desktop platform of DAS Inc., a Las Vegas company — the name stands for Direct Access Software — that sells order-routing and market-data infrastructure to brokers and puts this front end on top of it. Its home page, read on 9 October 2026, describes Level 1 for US equities on Nasdaq, NYSE and OTC markets, options and select futures and indices; Level 2 for Nasdaq TotalView, ArcaBook, IEX DEEP, OTC markets and OPRA; and "order routing to over 100+ destinations". The buyer is a US stock day trader who wants a montage, a Level 2 window, a time and sales print and hotkeys that send a sized order to a chosen venue in one keystroke. DAS says the desktop build is intended and fully tested for Windows.

It reaches traders two ways. Many brokers carry it and arrange the account, the routing and the fee themselves. DAS also sells it direct, and its own subscription page offers three paths only: a real-time simulator that cannot be tied to a live account, a live Interactive Brokers link, which requires an IBKR Pro account rather than Lite, and a live Charles Schwab link.

On those direct pages, read on 9 October 2026, the non-professional packages are Basic at 100 dollars a month, Standard 120, Deluxe 150 with TotalView or a Level 2 add, Elite 175 and Premium Elite 200 with every book, imbalance data and FX. Add-ons price the rest one line at a time — ARCA book 15, OPRA Level 2 50, OTC Level 2 50, E-mini 55, an extra IB account 50, overnight books on Blue Ocean, MOON and Bruce from 5 to 25. Professionals start at 300 a month. Purchases are final and data is not refunded. The DAS API is a separate subscription, 100 to 1,500 dollars a month, approved by DAS case by case and carrying no depth-of-book data at all.

That is the reason for this page: a trader paying 150 to 200 dollars a month for the platform before commissions is entitled to ask what else reads the same book.

What to use instead

Nothing in this catalogue is DAS Trader Pro. The platforms in trading platforms were built by and for futures traders, and their stock support comes through the same broker connections they use for everything else. What follows is which piece of DAS each one covers. Brokers themselves — Interactive Brokers, Schwab, the direct-access houses that distribute DAS — are outside this catalogue; it lists software, and the account you trade from is a separate decision this page does not make.

The book and the ladder, on the account you already have. If your DAS runs against an Interactive Brokers account, most of the picks connect to the same account. Sierra Chart is the cheapest full replacement on paper: Package 10 or 11 at 36 or 46 dollars connects to Interactive Brokers, and Sierra Chart's own Denali feed sells Nasdaq TotalView for 17 dollars and the US consolidated tape for 10, at non-professional rates with a funded account. Quantower trades stocks through Interactive Brokers, Alpaca, Tradier and LYNX, and its free version places live orders on one connection. MotiveWave is the one pick whose card lists Schwab as well as Interactive Brokers among its connections, and with Bookmap the only one that also runs on macOS and Linux.

The depth itself. If what you watched in DAS was the TotalView window, the order-flow platforms render the same book in their own way. Bookmap draws it as a heatmap over time, with Nasdaq TotalView at 59 dollars from its own data service and stock orders through Interactive Brokers or TradeStation on Global Plus. ATAS starts from executed volume — footprint charts, a Smart DOM and a Smart Tape — with TotalView with NBBO at 74 dollars through dxFeed. Jigsaw daytradr is the ladder-and-tape reading; it attaches directly to Interactive Brokers TWS, and version 7 added the new TWS API. The three are set against each other in Bookmap vs Jigsaw vs ATAS.

The scan that finds the stock. Part of what people buy around DAS is a separate scanner. TC2000 is that piece on its own: real-time EasyScan across US and Canadian stocks on Premium at 49.99, with Nasdaq Basic included. It is not an order-entry replacement — chart trading goes only to TC2000 Brokerage, an affiliated broker-dealer.

If the trading is moving to futures. NinjaTrader is on the list for that reader and no other: on stocks it needs the 99-dollar Multi-Broker add-on and an outside broker. How it, Sierra Chart and MultiCharts price a year of futures trading is in NinjaTrader vs Sierra Chart vs MultiCharts.

What you give up

A platform designed around shares. DAS's montage, hotkey scripts and order types are built for one job: entering and leaving a stock position in shares, fast, on a book you can see. Every pick is a futures-first design that also carries stocks. The DOM works the same way on both, but expect contract-shaped defaults, and check on a simulator that stock sizing, short entry and odd-lot handling behave the way your hotkeys did before you trade live.

Choosing the venue. DAS advertises routing to more than 100 destinations, which is how a DAS trader sends an order to a particular ECN, exchange or dark pool. None of the cards on this page documents per-order venue selection on stocks; through a broker connection the platform hands the order to the broker and the broker routes it. If directed routing is part of how you trade, ask the vendor and the broker before switching rather than assuming it.

Data in the package. DAS sells the platform and the book together at one monthly figure. On every pick the exchange data is a second line, bought from the platform's own feed, from a vendor such as dxFeed or IQFeed, or through the broker, with its own professional test. The total can still come out lower — Sierra Chart's 46-dollar package plus 17 for TotalView is well under DAS Deluxe at 150 — but it is two bills, and occasionally three.

Locates. Short-locate inventory belongs to the broker, not the platform, and brokers that carry DAS document a locate window inside it. None of the picks lists a locate tool on its card. A short-selling day trader should expect to request locates in the broker's own software.

Migration notes

Hotkey scripts do not port. DAS scripts are written in DAS's own script language. Sierra Chart's automation is C++, Quantower and ATAS use C#, MotiveWave and Bookmap Java, and Jigsaw has no scripting at all. Write down what each hotkey does — size, price offset, order type, route — and rebuild it as a keyboard shortcut or a DOM button on the new platform.

Keep the trade history in a journal before you cancel. Several trade journals read DAS directly. Tradervue marks DAS Trader Pro as an automated import, and Chartlog ships a Windows importer that watches the DAS log and uploads fills as they happen. The journal outlives the platform, and it is the baseline for checking whether the new setup fills you the same way.

Data you paid for runs to the end of the period. DAS's pages say purchases are final and that subscribers keep access until the end of the period paid for, so time the switch to a billing date. The professional test does not change with the platform: if you were a professional subscriber at DAS, the same definition applies at the exchange on the new feed.

Price the feed before the platform. Sierra Chart's cheap exchange rates need a funded account it can verify; Bookmap's and ATAS's data is sold per application and does not follow you to another platform; Quantower and MotiveWave ship no data at all. The platform fee is the half that is easy to compare.