DAS Trade / CMEG commissions routing

[Adam Lewis 64]

Hello! 

I'm using the BBT promo code with CMEG to access the cheaper commissions, absolutely critical to me at this point as I'm only just starting out and low commissions means I can trade small size cost effectively. However I logged on today to find that my trading for Friday last week had been charged at the full $3.99 fee per ticket, turning a small green day into a big red one 😞

I've contacted CMEG who tell me the BBT code is only usable on the LAMPOST/PDQ route, which explains why the trades Friday were charged higher. Thus I'll need to fix my hotkeys to send the orders through the LAMPOST/PDQ route. However the issue I'm having now when I look at my montage, I don't know which of these routes is the LAMPOST/PDQ route, and these are the only routes I have available, it seems (see the photo). Can anyone help point me in the right direction? Thanks!

[Bryan W 50]

On 12/15/2020 at 1:30 AM, Bailey Nevener said:

Well I am currently not using CMEG, but you could make a hot key that explicitly has the ROUTE = LAMPOST; and see if that gets you anywhere.

If you put that in a script, DAS won't know how to handle it, so it will be ignored and revert back to whatever is in the drop down route menu. Hotkey scrips must match exactly to what appears in the drop down.

[Bryan W 50]

On 12/14/2020 at 5:39 PM, Adam Lewis said:

Hello! 

I'm using the BBT promo code with CMEG to access the cheaper commissions, absolutely critical to me at this point as I'm only just starting out and low commissions means I can trade small size cost effectively. However I logged on today to find that my trading for Friday last week had been charged at the full $3.99 fee per ticket, turning a small green day into a big red one 😞

I've contacted CMEG who tell me the BBT code is only usable on the LAMPOST/PDQ route, which explains why the trades Friday were charged higher. Thus I'll need to fix my hotkeys to send the orders through the LAMPOST/PDQ route. However the issue I'm having now when I look at my montage, I don't know which of these routes is the LAMPOST/PDQ route, and these are the only routes I have available, it seems (see the photo). Can anyone help point me in the right direction? Thanks!

I would suggest using LIMIT and/or MARKET with CMEG. This is what I tell people every day in the chatroom as a conversion for CMEG. I believe that you still also need to use DAY and not DAY+ in for normal market hours to get the discount, and the discount only works during normal hours. Try an order with LIMIT and DAY, then log onto CMEG to make sure you're receiving the discount before making a bunch of trades. You can also try refreshing your route list, to make sure you're seeing all of them that you should. File menu, setup, trading settings, "refresh route list". 

 

 

[Charles Clark 0]

CMEG can not seem to tell me how to rewrite my hot button script to utilize the Lamppost / pdq route. The LampPost PDQ route is required I believe in order to get the promo rates. 

Can anyone tell me how to rewrite my scripts?

This is a sample script.

ROUTE=SMRTL; Share=50; Price=Ask+0.10;TIF=DAY+;BUY=Send;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:MARKET StopPrice:AvgCost-.20 ACT:SELL QTY:POS TIF:DAY+