DAS Trader Pro Advanced Hotkeys part 32

Automated trades posting to a discord channel

If you want to go full transparency with your fellow traders, this post will show you how to post all your trades to a discord channel.

The objective

• post all trades to a discord channel

• post the direction of the trades

Requirements

• a Discord server

• a Discord channel with a webhook

• DAS Trader Pro 3.8.0.x

• named chart window (MY1MIN in my case)

• named montage window (MONTAGE1 in my case)

If you are going to post to your own discord server, you can retrieve the webhook URL of the channel yourself, otherwise ask the server administrator to provide you with the webhook URL from the Integrations section of the channel where you are allowed to post the trades.

Logical Steps

• prepare the external script to post to the Discord channel

• read the current position

• determine if we are opening or closing the position

• assemble the trade data to a variable

• post the variable to an external script as a parameter

The external script

I am using PowerShell as it is an integral part of any windows operating system.

# Define a parameter block
param (
    [string]$Tradeparams
)

# Output the parameter value (for testing/debugging)
#Write-Host "Tradeparams: $Tradeparams"

# Example use of the parameter
$webhookUrl = "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1373328296/wJSz6U12gf2tNpv4gavYS-2o26PGrnQSqKF3Yh222M4sPLxsWnC545RG0uSwbV5MZcD"
$headers = @{ "Content-Type" = "application/json" }
$body = '{"content":"Peter: '+$Tradeparams +'"}'

$body | Out-File -FilePath "C:\temp\Output.txt" -Append

try {
  Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $webhookUrl -Method Post -Headers $headers -Body $body
} catch {
    Write-Host "Failed to send the message: $($_.Exception.Message)" -ForegroundColor Red | Out-File -FilePath "C:\temp\Output.txt" -Append

    exit 1
}

edit the name in the file - replace Peter: with anything you like and save the file in C:\temp\discord2.ps1

edit the webhookUrl and change it for your own URL

If you want another path for storing the thing, you need to edit the path both in the powershell script above and the hotkey below

The hotkey

the hotkey will be called in an alert, so you need to create the montage object variable. I do it in a chart update script in my 1-min chart window like this together with other variables

$MYMONTAGE=GetWindowObj("MONTAGE1");
$MY1MINWINDOW=GetWindowObj("MY1MIN");
$MYSYMB=$MY1MINWINDOW.SYMBOL; $MYPOS=GetAccountObj($MYACCOUNT).getposition($MYSYMB).share;   

$MYACCOUNT is the account name you trade.

Save the below hotkey and name it discrodpost.