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Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Hi Guys,

I hope this is not a silly question. I user Pro Trader Plat.. and people talk about stop close or stop trade....

Example..

I buy share xyz at 0.92c and when it gets to 0.50c it sells it.... How can I set this up in pro trader ?

I guess the reason I would like this is I'm going away monday tuesday and I wanted to make sure I can get out if needed.

I have seen Short sell orders but I think this is something different...

Sorry still new to pro trader...

Thank you for your feedback....
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Joe Blow said:
ASF is currently not able to provide this kind of information but anyone can feel free to start a new thread if they wish to contribute to it and encourage others to contribute to it.

Thats what ASF is here for.
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I would like to make contact with people (in an "offline" sense) who are users of Pro Trader and can commit to collecting and emailing end-of-day data every trading day. What I anticipate is a group of people that are on each other's group mailing list and will send to the group the results of the Market Watch feature of Pro Trader (MenuBar: Prices > Market Activity > Market Watch).

The primary reason behind this is so that in the event that any members of the group were unable to collect the end-of-day data then others will have collected it and emailed it to all other members of the group.

End-of-day data is important to me and if it is important to others, then this "agreement" will ensure that we can get up to date data.

Without going into further detail now about what data to collect and how to format it and how to store it and how to send it, I would welcome a private reply from anyone who is interested in pursuing this. From there we can start exchanging email addresses and other details.

Cheers
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Portrader2 WOES... this morning...

Is anyone else having troubles logging in after username/password entered.

Error "Application failed to Initilase"

Helpdesk suggest problem caused by server upgrade, and problem should be fixed after restart, which done multiple times.

Even uninstalled, reinstalled app with no success... :mad::(

Thanks
SevenFX
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Hi guys,

Can someone please give me the link to download Pro Trader 1


Thanks in advance
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Some of you may already know this but for those who don't !!

I have always found the small numbers hard to read on PT, after exploring I have found that in Tools tab you can make the numbers BOLD, this is much easier for us old bugg**s to read :D

Try it, you will like it :)
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

macca said:
Some of you may already know this but for those who don't !!

I have always found the small numbers hard to read on PT, after exploring I have found that in Tools tab you can make the numbers BOLD, this is much easier for us old bugg**s to read :D

Try it, you will like it :)
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Hello,
Is that on PT 1 or PT 2?
Thanks for the info,
Peter
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Hi Pete,

Apparently on PT1 you can make the font larger and bold.

On PT2 you can only make it bold, still better than usual setting though.
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

hey everyone i recently signed up for protrader and am really pleased with the program (definitely better then clicking refresh every second:D).

now i wanted to see if anyone could help me run it on my university network. as im a full time student i would like to be able to access the software on the network at my uni (monash) but it doesn't let me and shows a series of failures/errors.

if anyone has been able to get this to work before could they please help me, thanks :)
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

macca said:
Hi Pete

I have found a link to Protrader One that still works, I prefer it to PT2.

You can have both on your PC and use the same passwords to enter.


http://images.comsec.com.au/downloads/prot...erinstall32.exe

(you may have to type this link in, or PM if you can't get it to run)
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I use both PT1 and PT2 for the following reasons.
I work from home and at work and with PT1 I can set up all the views I want on the monitor and then save it as a desktop and when ever I open PT1 I get the views back as I left them. Great as I can set up home and work to suit the different monitors.
also the colours and screen displays are much better on PT1 to keep track of changes and easy on the eyes. PT1 however seems to want to restart now and again for no reason I can see, but generally if you start it fresh each morning it seems to go through the day OK.
With PT2 is seems to store the setup differently so that when I log in it puts the screens where ever it feels like and I cannot seem to get them to restore to the way I left the program and changing the layout at home also changes it at work so it take time to reset it up each time.

I do find the charting is better on PT2 with a longer daily view and indicators which PT1 does not have. also the market movers is limited to 20 in PT1 and no real control over what it displays. PT1 shows [ Vol/$/%+/%- ].
at the end of the day its what you like that counts and both are good in their own way, I still run both depending on where I am working on the trades.:)
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Hey guys,
I have a problem with deleting my worksheets, they seem to be corrupt. Does anyone know where the worksheet information is stored. I have tried to go to "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Commsec" and delete the files there. Then i reinstalled pro trader. I still cant seem to get rid of the old work sheets.
Thanks.
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Hi potato,

Not sure what operating system you are using(XP?), but it looks like there might be some remnant registry entries left behind with the uninstall.

You could try to create new worksheets and just don't use the old ones.

HTH,:)
ezy.
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Thanks for the reply ezytrader,
I seemed to have fixed the worksheet problem. But i still have a problem with my charting. When i open a daily BHP chart with candle sticks, the candles are disfigured and sometimes show the wrong information. Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone know where the information for the charts are stored? Ive tried comsec over the past few weeks but they havnt given me a solution.
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Hi potato,

I would check to see if the chart appears correct using bar chart display instead of candlesticks.
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

Yeh the bar normal bar chart seems to show the correct info. I think the chart just picks up the wrong open info and shows that on the chart when u use candlesticks. Does anyone else have this problem? I emailed comsec and they dont seem to have a solution.
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

YOUNG_TRADER said:
Oops

Just searched the thread and found the link,

Here it is incase anyone else needs it


http://images.comsec.com.au/download...derinstall.exe


Very slack of me to ask without searching, but I guess that's what a holiday does to you, now to install Pro Trader on this computer he he he ;)
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Hey YT, If you downloaded PT1, have you found they are forcing you to upgrade today??

I can't load PT1 anymore ..... bugga ...... everyone else getting the same message?? ..... Cheers.
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

i'm still trying to get PT2 up at the moment. I'll try to upgrade P1 after market.
 
Re: Commsec ProTrader - FAQ and Tips

I upgraded P1 over the weekend. Changes seem mostly cosmetic. Haven't noticed any significant differences yet.
 

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