# What to use instead of DAS Trader Pro

DAS Trader Pro is 100 to 200 dollars a month with data. What covers its Level 2, its ladder and its broker link, and what a stock day trader gives up.

*https://stockmarketstack.com/alternatives/das-trader-pro*

## The subject

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Product | DAS Trader Pro |
| Status | live |
| Website | https://dastrader.com |
| Category | Desktop Trading Platforms & Order Flow |

The Windows direct-access platform US stock day traders use for Level 2, hotkey order entry and routing to chosen venues, sold through brokers or by DAS itself for 100 to 200 dollars a month.

## Replacements

*Ordered by how much of the original’s job each one covers, closest first. Paid placement does not affect this order.*

1. [Sierra Chart](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/sierra-chart.md) — DOM and chart trading on US stocks through Interactive Brokers, with Nasdaq TotalView at 17 dollars on its own Denali feed, from 36 dollars a month.
2. [Quantower](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/quantower.md) — DOM and chart trading on stocks through Interactive Brokers, Alpaca, Tradier or LYNX, free for one connection; depth is whatever feed you connect.
3. [MotiveWave](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/motivewave.md) — Keeps a Schwab or Interactive Brokers account, the two DAS sells direct links to, on Windows, macOS or Linux; live orders from the 24-dollar Standard edition.
4. [ATAS](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/atas.md) — Footprint, Smart DOM and tape on NYSE and Nasdaq stocks through Interactive Brokers or dxFeed, from 69.95 euros, with TotalView bought separately at 74 dollars.
5. [Bookmap](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/bookmap.md) — Nasdaq TotalView drawn as a heatmap over time, with stock orders through Interactive Brokers or TradeStation on the 99-dollar Global Plus plan.
6. [Jigsaw daytradr](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/jigsaw-trading.md) — A depth-and-sales ladder that attaches to an Interactive Brokers TWS account, 579 dollars once plus 50 a month to trade live. Built for futures first.
7. [TC2000](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/tc2000.md) — The scan rather than the order ticket — real-time EasyScan on US stocks from 49.99 with Nasdaq Basic included; orders go only through its affiliated broker.
8. [NinjaTrader](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/ninjatrader.md) — Stocks only through a 99-dollar add-on and an outside broker. Listed for the trader moving to futures, where its own brokerage needs no platform fee.

## 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](https://stockmarketstack.com/categories/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](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/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](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/quantower) trades stocks through Interactive Brokers,
Alpaca, Tradier and LYNX, and its free version places live orders on one connection.
[MotiveWave](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/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](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/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](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/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](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/jigsaw-trading) 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](https://stockmarketstack.com/compare/bookmap-vs-jigsaw-vs-atas).

**The scan that finds the stock.** Part of what people buy around DAS is a separate scanner.
[TC2000](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/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](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/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](https://stockmarketstack.com/compare/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](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/tradervue) marks DAS Trader Pro as an automated import, and
[Chartlog](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/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.

## FAQ

### How much does DAS Trader Pro cost?

On DAS's own subscription pages, read on 9 October 2026, a non-professional pays 100 dollars a month for Basic with Level 1 US equities, 120 for Standard, 150 for Deluxe with Nasdaq TotalView or OPRA or OTC Level 2, 175 for Elite and 200 for Premium Elite with all books. Professional packages run 300 to 550 a month. Brokers that distribute DAS set their own fee, and we did not verify any of them.

### Does the DAS price include market data?

Each package names the data it carries, from Level 1 on Basic to all the books on Premium Elite, and add-ons price the rest — ARCA book 15 dollars, OPRA Level 2 50, OTC Level 2 50, the overnight BOATS book 25, all non-professional. Most of the picks here bill the platform and the exchange data separately, so compare the two totals rather than the platform fees.

### Can I use DAS Trader Pro with any broker?

No. DAS sells packages directly only for Interactive Brokers, where an IBKR Pro account is required and IBKR Lite is not accepted, for Charles Schwab, and for its own simulator. Other brokers carry DAS under their own arrangements, and DAS's API page says those brokers bill API subscriptions themselves. Brokers are outside this catalogue, which lists the platforms only.

### Is there a free trial of DAS Trader Pro?

A 14-day trial for first-time users only. Purchases are final — DAS's subscription pages state that it offers no refunds on data subscriptions or add-ons, and that access runs to the end of the period paid for.

### Does DAS Trader Pro run on a Mac?

DAS says the desktop platform is intended and fully tested for Windows. Its browser product, ActiveWeb, runs 50 to 100 dollars a month on the simulator price list, and there are iOS and Android apps. Of the picks, MotiveWave and Bookmap ship Mac builds and ATAS has a macOS beta; Sierra Chart, Quantower and Jigsaw are Windows only.