https://autoscantrade.com/2026-10-101.0 https://autoscantrade.com/videos/2026-10-100.9 https://autoscantrade.com/docs/2026-10-100.9 https://autoscantrade.com/requirements/2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/risk/2026-10-100.5 https://autoscantrade.com/lite/2026-10-100.9 https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/docs/getting-started.html2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/docs/scanner.html2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/docs/trading-panel.html2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/docs/ladder-and-chart.html2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/docs/automation.html2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/docs/exits-and-risk.html2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/docs/journal.html2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/docs/settings.html2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/docs/lite.html2026-10-100.8 https://autoscantrade.com/videos/autoscantrade-overview/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/autoscantrade-overview.jpgAutoScanTrade - the trading desk in two minutesA two-minute tour of AutoScanTrade, a trading desk for Windows built for fast-moving small caps. It covers the live scanner, trading from the panel and the ladder, the chart and its signals, the automation, the fleet and the journal, all on the real program in paper mode.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/autoscantrade-overview.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/how-autoscantrade-works/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/how-autoscantrade-works.jpgHow AutoScanTrade fits together - scan, arm, trade, exit, reviewAutoScanTrade works as one loop in five steps: the scanner finds the movers, you arm a symbol, you trade it or the desk does, the exits manage the position, and every trade is recorded. Once you know the loop, every window on the desk makes sense.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/how-autoscantrade-works.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/lite-and-full-desk/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/lite-and-full-desk.jpgAutoScanTrade Lite and the full desk - two versions, one programAutoScanTrade comes in two versions: Lite, and the full desk. Lite is the desk with the automation taken out. You get the scanner, with every filter, session set, column and alert type, the gappers, watchlist, new highs and news windows, and the whole trading panel: buy, short, sell, cover, flatten and cancel, with every hotkey.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/lite-and-full-desk.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/getting-started/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/getting-started.jpgGetting started with AutoScanTrade - first start, keys and paper modeBefore the desk opens for the first time, the risks and disclaimers window appears. Read it, tick the box confirming your stops are software stops, and agree. You can read it again at any time, with the RISKS button in the header.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/getting-started.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/paper-and-live-trading/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/paper-and-live-trading.jpgPaper mode, going live and the SYSTEM switchWith PAPER: ON, which is the default, every order fills inside the software. Fills come from the live prices, and are paid from a virtual wallet with six times buying power. While paper is on, click the equity label to load a different test balance.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/paper-and-live-trading.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/software-stops/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/software-stops.jpgSoftware stops - what to know before trading liveThe take profit, stop loss, trailing stop, hard stop, volume-fade exit and LULD escape are software stops. They live in the program, on your computer. They are not resting stop orders at your broker. Nothing protects a position while the program is closed, while the computer sleeps, while the network is down, or while market data stops arriving.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/software-stops.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/scanner-filters/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/scanner-filters.jpgScanner filters - price, gap, volume and relative volumeThe filters row sits just under the header. It decides which stocks reach the scanner and the top gappers list, and every automatic entry must come from a stock that passed it. Window is the stretch of time the scanner measures volume, relative volume and the price run over.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/scanner-filters.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/session-sets/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/session-sets.jpgSession sets - PRE, MKT, AH and autoPremarket, market hours and after hours each keep their own filter values. Why? Because a stock that looks interesting at seven in the morning, on thin premarket volume, looks very different at eleven, with the whole market trading.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/session-sets.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/scanner-board/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/scanner-board.jpgThe scanner board - every alert, its own rowThe scanner is a history board. Every alert is its own row, with the newest on top, and rows stay where they are: nothing is overwritten. So you can see what fired, and when, through the whole session.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/scanner-board.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/scanner-alert-types/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/scanner-alert-types.jpgScanner alert types - what each Strategy meansThe Strategy column tells you which alert put a stock on the board. There are only a handful, and each one means something precise, from a plain scanner hit on your filters to a squeeze, a new high of the day or a jump in relative volume.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/scanner-alert-types.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/scanner-row-colours/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/scanner-row-colours.jpgScanner row colours - what green, purple, red and yellow meanThe colour of a scanner row tells you something before you read a single number: a big gap, fresh news, locates in hand, a halt, a stock near its limit band, or a price that has gone stale. This video goes through each colour.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/scanner-row-colours.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/halted-stocks/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/halted-stocks.jpgHalted stocks - how the desk shows a haltSmall caps halt. When one does, the desk changes how it shows that stock. The row turns yellow, and a HALTED alert is added to the board. Halts are always shown, whatever your filters say, because a halt on a stock you hold matters, even if it no longer passes your filters.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/halted-stocks.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/float-and-filing-country/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/float-and-filing-country.jpgFloat with its age, and where a stock files fromFloat is how many shares are actually available to trade. On a fast small cap, it is often the number that explains why a stock moves the way it does. No market-data feed publishes it, so AutoScanTrade works it out from recent public SEC filings: shares outstanding, less the shares held by insiders.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/float-and-filing-country.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/top-gappers/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/top-gappers.jpgTop gappers - the biggest gappers that pass your filtersThe GAPPERS window lists the biggest gappers that pass the same filters as the scanner, sorted by gap, with the biggest first. It opens from the WINDOWS row, in its own resizable window, so you can put it on a second monitor.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/top-gappers.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/watchlist-and-new-highs/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/watchlist-and-new-highs.jpgWatchlist and new highsThe WATCH window tracks stocks you choose, whatever the scanner filters say. It is where a stock you are interested in stays, after it drops off the board, or before it has done enough to reach it. +ADD ARMED adds the stock you have armed.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/watchlist-and-new-highs.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/news-and-sec-filings/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/news-and-sec-filings.jpgNews and SEC filings for the stocks you watchThe NEWS window shows the latest headlines for the stock you have armed: the time, how old it is, the source, and the headline. Double-click a headline to open the article in your browser. Fresh items stand out, so you can tell at once what just arrived.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/news-and-sec-filings.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/header-and-button-rows/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/header-and-button-rows.jpgThe header and button rows - a tour of the top of the deskThe header and the two button rows under it hold the whole desk together. On the left: equity and buying power. Live, that is your broker account; in paper, it is the virtual wallet. REALIZED NET is today's closed profit or loss, after costs, for the mode you are in, with the gross, the costs and today's trade count beside it.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/header-and-button-rows.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/arm-buttons-and-status-strip/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/arm-buttons-and-status-strip.jpgArm buttons and the status strip - 1m volume, LULD and slippageAt the top of the trading panel are AUTO - LONG and SHORT. They arm and disarm the automatic long and short engines, each on its own. Green means armed. Red means that side will not open a position by itself.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/arm-buttons-and-status-strip.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/order-size/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/order-size.jpgOrder size - shares, dollars or percent of buying powerThe order size row decides how much every BUY and SHORT sends. The preset buttons put their number in the size box with one click, and Manual is the size BUY and SHORT actually send. Type any number you like there.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/order-size.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/limit-or-market-orders/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/limit-or-market-orders.jpgLimit or market - LMT and MKT orders, every sessionEvery BUY and SHORT goes as a limit order or a market order, and the LMT and MKT tick decides which. Most of the time, the answer is LMT. LMT, the standard, sends a limit order priced through the market by your entry offset.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/limit-or-market-orders.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/resting-rail/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/resting-rail.jpgThe resting rail - a limit entry you drag into placeSometimes you do not want to cross the market. You want to wait at a price. That is what the resting rail is for. Tick RESTING, and a rail appears on the ladder and the chart, at the live price. It is one tick, and the rail is then yours to drag.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/resting-rail.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/buy-and-short/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/buy-and-short.jpgBUY and SHORT - one click, no confirmation boxBUY and SHORT are faded until a stock is armed. Then they read BUY and SHORT with its symbol, so you always see what you are trading. They send the size from the order size row, as a limit or market order, as the tick says.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/buy-and-short.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/eight-order-buttons/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/eight-order-buttons.jpgThe eight buttons - sell, cover, flatten, liquidate and cancelUnder BUY and SHORT sit eight more buttons. Out of the box, they are the exits and the emergency controls you need most. They work on the armed stock or on the whole account, as each one says. SELL LMT sells your whole long position in the armed stock, with a limit priced through the market.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/eight-order-buttons.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/order-confirmation-and-refusals/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/order-confirmation-and-refusals.jpgAsk before sending, double-click, and when an order is refusedUnder the risk row sit two ticks that change how the desk asks before acting. Both are saved with your profile. Ask before sending shows a yes or no box before you close or cancel: closing a position, FLATTEN ALL, LIQUIDATE ALL, cancelling orders, and a double-click send.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/order-confirmation-and-refusals.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/hotkeys/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/hotkeys.jpgHotkeys - two-key shortcuts for every orderEvery order action on the desk has a hotkey, and every hotkey takes at least two keys: a modifier such as shift, control or alt, plus a key. A single key is refused, because these keys send live orders.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/hotkeys.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/hotkeys-window/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/hotkeys-window.jpgThe HOTKEYS window - set your keys and your eight buttonsThe HOTKEYS window is where you change every order shortcut. While it is open, your shortcuts are suspended: nothing fires an order until you close it. Press SET beside an action, then press the key combination you want.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/hotkeys-window.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/short-selling-and-locates/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/short-selling-and-locates.jpgShort selling and locatesTo short a hard-to-borrow stock, your broker must first find shares for you to borrow: a locate. Easy-to-borrow stocks need no locate. What the desk can do depends on your broker; a broker without a locate service in the desk says so here.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/short-selling-and-locates.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/manual-trading-window/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/manual-trading-window.jpgThe MANUAL TRADING window - every setting a manual trade usesThe MANUAL TRADING window holds every setting a manual BUY or SHORT uses: the exits, the trail and how the order is placed, long on the left and short on the right. They are the same settings the AUTO/BOT window carries, without the automatic entry rules, and a change applies to the next order.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/manual-trading-window.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/trade-ladder/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/trade-ladder.jpgThe trade ladder - one trade on one price railPress LADDER and the trade ladder opens for the armed stock. It shows one trade as a price rail: where you got in, where the stop and target sit, and what each level is worth, with the order size and trading buttons beside it so you can act on what you see.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/trade-ladder.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/ladder-levels/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/ladder-levels.jpgLadder levels - take profit, stop loss, peak, and dragging themEach level on the ladder is a labelled line, with its dollar value in the column on the right: the profit or loss at that price, before costs. So you never have to work out what a stop will cost you. TAKE PROFIT: where the take-profit exit sits.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/ladder-levels.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/ladder-trailing-stop/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/ladder-trailing-stop.jpgThe trailing stop on the ladder - waiting, then runningSwitch Trailing TP/SL on, and the ladder shows the trail in whichever of its two states it is in. Until the trade reaches Trail after, nothing is trailing. The threshold is drawn as a dashed TRAIL AFTER rail, between the peak so far and the take profit.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/ladder-trailing-stop.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/live-chart/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/live-chart.jpgThe chart - candles, your levels and the live resultPress CHART and a chart for the armed stock opens in a browser window, drawn with TradingView's Lightweight Charts. It shows the ladder's own levels, so the two always agree, and because it runs in the browser, the trading engine never waits for it.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/live-chart.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/chart-indicators/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/chart-indicators.jpgChart indicators - overlays, oscillators and volume profileINDICATORS opens the picker. Tick an indicator to draw it, and click its colour square to pick a colour. Everything is calculated in the browser, from the bars the desk already sends, so the trading engine does no extra work at all.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/chart-indicators.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/chart-signals/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/chart-signals.jpgChart signals - trend flip, structure break, VWAP reclaim and exhaustionThe fourth group in the indicator picker is Signals: buy and sell arrows, drawn on closed candles only, so an arrow never changes once it is drawn. There are four of them, and you can show any combination.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/chart-signals.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/how-the-automation-decides/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/how-the-automation-decides.jpgHow the automation decides - every condition, in orderAn automatic entry only happens when six things are true at once: SYSTEM is on, the side is armed, the stock is on your scanner, an entry rule fires, every gate you ticked agrees, and the risk limits allow it. This video takes them in order.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/how-the-automation-decides.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/arming-the-automation/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/arming-the-automation.jpgArming and disarming the automationArm a side with AUTO - LONG or SHORT on the trading panel, or with ARM LONG AUTO TRADING and ARM SHORT AUTO TRADING in the AUTO/BOT window. Each side has its own settings, its own arm switch, and its own profile.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/arming-the-automation.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/auto-bot-window/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/auto-bot-window.jpgThe AUTO/BOT window - every automation setting in one placeAUTO/BOT, on the WINDOWS row, opens every automation setting. Long side on the left, short side on the right, in the same order on both sides, and each one decides that side only. Every field and caption has hover help in the program.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/auto-bot-window.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/order-handling/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/order-handling.jpgOrder handling - offsets, fill or kill, track, free entry and cooldownThe top of each side decides how an automatic order is placed, and how often. Get these right, and the entries you want actually fill. Each side has its own order settings, so set both sides deliberately.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/order-handling.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/breakout-engine/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/breakout-engine.jpgThe breakout engine - breakout %, volume surge, price run and max stepThe breakout engine is the classic long rule: enter when price clears the high of the day by Breakout percent. Breakout percent is how far through the high price must go to count as a break. Three more boxes decide whether a break is worth taking.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/breakout-engine.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/scanner-hit-entries/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/scanner-hit-entries.jpgScanner-hit entries - buy on scanner hit, first hit, PRE onlyBuy on scanner hit, or Short on scanner hit, takes the first scanner hit on a stock, once per session. The scanner filters themselves are the entry rule. It pairs well with Confirm after, to sit out the first shakeout.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/scanner-hit-entries.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/more-entry-rules/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/more-entry-rules.jpgMore entry rules - trail entry, near session high, top gappersTRAIL ENTRY buys a lift of Lift off low percent off the day's running low. Arm after pullback makes it wait until that low is far enough under the day's high. The stop loss goes in with the entry. On the short side, it shorts a drop off the running high instead.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/more-entry-rules.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/fade-and-retest-rules/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/fade-and-retest-rules.jpgFade and retest rules - trading a failure at a levelThe TRIGGER group trades a failure at a level. The classic short fades a failed break of the high, and the long side can buy a failed breakdown. Failed breakdown fade is long only: the mirror of the short fade.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/fade-and-retest-rules.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/entry-gates/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/entry-gates.jpgEntry gates - candle, pullback, VWAP, EMA9 and volume candleGates do not start a trade. They refuse one that does not look right. Each one is a tick box, saved with the profile, and each side has its own. Candle gate: the current sixty-second candle is green, for a long, with a solid body and little wick against the trade.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/entry-gates.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/tape-confirm-and-vetoes/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/tape-confirm-and-vetoes.jpgTape confirm and the volume, gap and band vetoesTick Tape confirm, and the live tape must agree before any automatic entry fires. Both of its tests must pass. Vol x: volume in your window is at least this multiple of normal for that time of day. Move percent: price has moved at least this far the trade's way, over the last five minutes.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/tape-confirm-and-vetoes.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/trading-chart-signals/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/trading-chart-signals.jpgTrade chart signals - BUY ON CHART SIGNAL with Early %BUY ON CHART SIGNAL and SHORT ON CHART SIGNAL turn the chart's arrows into entries. Tick the row, and pick which signal this side trades: Trend flip, Structure break, VWAP reclaim or loss, or Exhaustion nine.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/trading-chart-signals.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/profiles/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/profiles.jpgProfiles - save, load and compare whole sets of settingsA profile is a named set of settings: rules, gates, exits and sizes. Build one for each way you trade, and switch between them in a click. They live at the bottom of the AUTO/BOT window. A profile is a complete set of settings, not a few favourite boxes.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/profiles.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/profile-fleet/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/profile-fleet.jpgThe profile fleet - up to 20 profiles, side by sideThe fleet runs up to twenty profiles side by side, on the same live market, each in its own slot, so you can compare settings on the same day's stocks. Open it with FLEET in the header. Pick the profile each slot trades.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/profile-fleet.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/fleet-signal-strategies/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/fleet-signal-strategies.jpgChart-signal slots and the four signal strategies in the fleetA profile with BUY or SHORT ON CHART SIGNAL ticked trades that arrow in its own fleet slot, at the candle's close, or at its own Early percent, with its own exits. The signal row is saved in its profile, so the slot keeps the setting.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/fleet-signal-strategies.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/paper-schedule/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/paper-schedule.jpgThe paper schedule - start paper and the fleet on the clockThe paper schedule starts a paper session by itself, while the program is open. Right-click SCHED in the header to open it; a left-click turns it on or off. It starts paper only, so no broker account or live code is involved.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/paper-schedule.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/auto-exit-and-units/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/auto-exit-and-units.jpgAuto exit and units - percent or dollarsAuto exit, one for each side, switches that side's software exits on or off. On: take profit, stop loss, trailing and step lock, volume fade, the candle exits, the hard stop, scale-out and the LULD escape all manage that side's positions, manual trades included.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/auto-exit-and-units.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/take-profit-and-stop-loss/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/take-profit-and-stop-loss.jpgTake profit and stop lossTP is the take profit, in the side's units. When price reaches it, the whole position closes. Zero switches it off, so only the stop loss and the trailing exits close the trade. SL is the stop loss from the entry, in the same units.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/take-profit-and-stop-loss.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/trailing-stop/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/trailing-stop.jpgThe trailing stop - trail after and trail widthTick Trailing TP/SL, and once the trade is Trail after in profit, the stop follows the best price, and only ever moves in your favour. Before that, the fixed take profit and stop loss rule alone. Trail width is the classic trail.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/trailing-stop.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/step-lock/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/step-lock.jpgThe step lock - a stop that ratchets in stepsStep percent turns the trail into a step lock. Instead of following the price smoothly, the stop moves in fixed steps. It is a different way of thinking about protecting a winner. On a long, the stop only ever climbs, one step at a time.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/step-lock.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/advanced-trailing-stops/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/advanced-trailing-stops.jpgAdvanced trails - ATR chandelier, widening, Parabolic SAR and SupertrendBeyond the classic trail width and the step lock, the TRAIL group has four more ways for a stop to follow price: an ATR chandelier, a trail that widens or tightens as the move extends, Parabolic SAR and Supertrend. The ladder's TRAIL row always says which one is in charge.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/advanced-trailing-stops.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/other-exits/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/other-exits.jpgOther exits - volume fade, candle exits and the hard stopVol fade exit gets you out when the momentum is over. With the take profit not yet reached, it exits when a completed one-minute candle's volume falls to Fade percent, or less, of the biggest minute since entry.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/other-exits.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/adding-and-scaling/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/adding-and-scaling.jpgAdding and scaling - add-ons, scale cycles and the re-add floorAuto add-on adds to a position that is working, up to a set number of times, and re-bases the trailing stop when it does. Scale cycle sells part of a position into a pullback and buys it back over the high. The re-add floor stops a re-add from filling below your original entry, so it never averages down.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/adding-and-scaling.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/how-exit-orders-are-sent/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/how-exit-orders-are-sent.jpgHow exit orders are sent - exit offset, exit chase and the bandExits are sent as limit orders, priced through the market by your Exit offset. So they work in every session: premarket, market hours and after hours. The exit offset is usually deeper than the entry offset, because getting out is the order that must fill.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/how-exit-orders-are-sent.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/halt-rules-and-limit-bands/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/halt-rules-and-limit-bands.jpgHalt rules and limit bands - LULD escape, resume stop and band guardTick Halt rules on a side, and three rules protect that side's positions and entries. Small caps halt often, and these rules decide what the desk does about it. Until you tick Halt rules, none of the three applies to that side.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/halt-rules-and-limit-bands.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/risk-discipline/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/risk-discipline.jpgRisk discipline - daily loss, trade caps, losing streaks and sizingThe risk discipline row, under the filters, is the entry gate. It is checked before every entry, manual or automatic, when the desk is live. It never blocks an exit, and in paper mode, it is not applied.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/risk-discipline.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/per-stock-brakes/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/per-stock-brakes.jpgPer-stock brakes - limits on one stock per sessionPer-stock brakes stop a single stock from taking over your session. A stock that keeps triggering your rules, and keeps failing, is exactly what they catch. Sym max per session is the most automatic entries on one stock per session.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/per-stock-brakes.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/day-target/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/day-target.jpgThe DAY TARGET - stop for the day at your numberThe DAY TARGET window, beside CHART on the top row, sets a target for the day. When the day's net in the mode you are in, closed trades plus the open positions, reaches the target, every open position is closed, the fleet stops, and no automated entry opens again until the next trading day.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/day-target.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/realized-net-and-trades/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/realized-net-and-trades.jpgRealized net, open trades and closed tradesREALIZED NET in the header is today's closed profit or loss, after costs, for the mode the desk is in: paper while paper trading is on, live when orders go to your broker. Under it: the gross result, the costs, and today's trade count.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/realized-net-and-trades.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/order-log-and-executions/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/order-log-and-executions.jpgThe order log and executions - every order and every replyThe order log, on the left, shows what happens to your money, newest on top: every order sent, every fill, every refusal and cancel, exits, halts, locates, risk, arming, and paper or live. News for your symbols appears here too.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/order-log-and-executions.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/order-execution-timing/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/order-execution-timing.jpgHow long an order actually took - EXEC TIMINGHow long did an order actually take? The order log answers it in a few lines: the order as it left the desk, the broker's acknowledgement, the fill, an EXEC TIMING line with each leg measured in milliseconds, and how late the entry was against the move. This video reads one real example.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/order-execution-timing.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/journal-window/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/journal-window.jpgThe JOURNAL window - your trades on a calendarPress JOURNAL, and your closed trades appear by day, on a month calendar, with a summary, the chosen day's trades, a per-profile table, and your notes. The arrows step through the months, and TODAY comes back to now.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/journal-window.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/analyse/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/analyse.jpgANALYSE - every profile ranked by what it actually didPress ANALYSE and every profile is ranked by its results, from every journal at once: real, paper, the fleet and any journal you add, kept apart by mode so paper and real never mix. Filters narrow it by date, mode, profile, session, side, symbol, outcome and size.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/analyse.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/trade-reports/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/trade-reports.jpgTrade reports - where it was executedREPORT, in ANALYSE, writes a single self-contained web page of what is on screen, with charts, beside your data, and opens it in your browser, to keep or share. With one trade selected, it writes that trade instead.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/trade-reports.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/sync-broker-and-export/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/sync-broker-and-export.jpgSYNC BROKER, EXPORT, and paper kept apart from liveSYNC BROKER carries your broker's name. It imports trades you placed directly in your broker's own platform into the real journal. The desk's own fills are already recorded, and are skipped, so syncing again never duplicates a trade.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/sync-broker-and-export.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/broker-and-commissions/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/broker-and-commissions.jpgThe BROKER window and your commission scheduleBROKER, at the right end of the WINDOWS row, sets which broker the desk sends orders to, what that broker can do, and its commission schedule. Each broker in the dropdown shows its status. EXECUTES means the desk sends orders to it: TradeZero and Alpaca, in this build.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/broker-and-commissions.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/credentials/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/credentials.jpgCredentials - your data key and broker keys stay on your PCOpen CREDENTIALS from the BROKER window. It holds two separate sets of keys: one for market data, and one for your broker. The trading key is always kept separate from the data key. The EXECUTION fields change with the broker you chose.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/credentials.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/sounds/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/sounds.jpgSounds - a voice for every eventWhen you are watching several screens, sound tells you what happened before you look. Every important event on the desk can have its own sound, or none. Set the events you need, and leave the rest silent.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/sounds.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/layouts-and-text-size/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/layouts-and-text-size.jpgLayouts and text size - fit the desk to your screensThe desk was designed for a wide screen, or more than one monitor. So everything about its layout can be changed, and saved. Start by setting the text size, then arrange the windows. A minus and A plus, in the header, make all text smaller or larger, everywhere on the desk.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/layouts-and-text-size.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/videos/self-check-risks-and-clock/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/p/self-check-risks-and-clock.jpgCHECK, the risks window, and the clockCHECK runs the desk's self-check, and lists each check as OK, or with the reason it failed. The settings map and its bounds, whether the journal can be written, the locate ledger, the risk governor's day, the data feed thread, that paper and replay are not both on, your shortcuts, and the error log.https://autoscantrade.com/media/v/self-check-risks-and-clock.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/lite-overview/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/lite-overview.jpgAutoScanTrade Lite - the manual trading desk in two minutesA two-minute tour of AutoScanTrade Lite, the manual trading version of AutoScanTrade for Windows. It covers the live scanner, trading from the panel and the ladder, the MANUAL TRADING window, the chart, the risk row and the record of your trades, all on the real program in paper mode.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/lite-overview.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/how-lite-works/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/how-lite-works.jpgHow AutoScanTrade Lite fits together - scan, pick, trade, exit, reviewAutoScanTrade Lite works as one loop in five steps: the scanner finds the movers, you arm a symbol, you trade it, your exits manage the position, and every trade is recorded. Once you know the loop, every window in Lite makes sense.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/how-lite-works.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/lite-and-full-desk/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/lite-and-full-desk.jpgAutoScanTrade Lite and the full desk - what is the same, what the full desk addsAutoScanTrade comes in two versions: Lite, and the full desk. Lite is the desk with the automation taken out. You get the scanner, with every filter, session set, column and alert type, the gappers, watchlist, new highs and news windows, and the whole trading panel: buy, short, sell, cover, flatten and cancel, with every hotkey.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/lite-and-full-desk.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/getting-started/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/getting-started.jpgGetting started with AutoScanTrade Lite - first start, keys and paper modeBefore the desk opens for the first time, the risks and disclaimers window appears. Read it, tick the box confirming your stops are software stops, and agree. You can read it again at any time, with the RISKS button in the header.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/getting-started.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/paper-live-and-system/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/paper-live-and-system.jpgPaper mode, going live, and what SYSTEM means in LiteWith PAPER: ON, which is the default, every order fills inside the software. Fills come from the live prices, and are paid from a virtual wallet with six times buying power. While paper is on, click the equity label to load a different test balance.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/paper-live-and-system.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/software-stops/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/software-stops.jpgSoftware stops - what to know before trading live with LiteYour take profit, stop loss, trailing stop and step lock are software stops. They live in the program, on your computer. They are not resting stop orders at your broker. Nothing protects a position while the program is closed, while the computer sleeps, while the network is down, or while market data stops arriving.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/software-stops.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/scanner-filters/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/scanner-filters.jpgScanner filters - price, gap, volume and relative volumeThe filters row sits just under the header. It decides which stocks reach the scanner and the top gappers list, and so which ones you see, and can trade. Window is the stretch of time the scanner measures volume, relative volume and the price run over.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/scanner-filters.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/session-sets/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/session-sets.jpgSession sets - PRE, MKT, AH and autoPremarket, market hours and after hours each keep their own filter values. Why? Because a stock that looks interesting at seven in the morning, on thin premarket volume, looks very different at eleven, with the whole market trading.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/session-sets.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/scanner-board/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/scanner-board.jpgThe scanner board - every alert, its own rowThe scanner is a history board. Every alert is its own row, with the newest on top, and rows stay where they are: nothing is overwritten. So you can see what fired, and when, through the whole session.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/scanner-board.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/scanner-alert-types/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/scanner-alert-types.jpgScanner alert types - what each Strategy meansThe Strategy column tells you which alert put a stock on the board. There are only a handful, and each one means something precise, from a plain scanner hit on your filters to a squeeze, a new high of the day or a jump in relative volume.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/scanner-alert-types.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/scanner-row-colours/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/scanner-row-colours.jpgScanner row colours - what green, purple, red and yellow meanThe colour of a scanner row tells you something before you read a single number: a big gap, fresh news, locates in hand, a halt, a stock near its limit band, or a price that has gone stale. This video goes through each colour.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/scanner-row-colours.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/halted-stocks/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/halted-stocks.jpgHalted stocks - how the desk shows a haltSmall caps halt. When one does, the desk changes how it shows that stock. The row turns yellow, and a HALTED alert is added to the board. Halts are always shown, whatever your filters say, because a halt on a stock you hold matters, even if it no longer passes your filters.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/halted-stocks.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/float-and-filing-country/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/float-and-filing-country.jpgFloat with its age, and where a stock files fromFloat is how many shares are actually available to trade. On a fast small cap, it is often the number that explains why a stock moves the way it does. No market-data feed publishes it, so AutoScanTrade works it out from recent public SEC filings: shares outstanding, less the shares held by insiders.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/float-and-filing-country.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/top-gappers/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/top-gappers.jpgTop gappers - the biggest gappers that pass your filtersThe GAPPERS window lists the biggest gappers that pass the same filters as the scanner, sorted by gap, with the biggest first. It opens from the WINDOWS row, in its own resizable window, so you can put it on a second monitor.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/top-gappers.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/watchlist-and-new-highs/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/watchlist-and-new-highs.jpgWatchlist and new highsThe WATCH window tracks stocks you choose, whatever the scanner filters say. It is where a stock you are interested in stays, after it drops off the board, or before it has done enough to reach it. +ADD ARMED adds the stock you have armed.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/watchlist-and-new-highs.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/news-and-sec-filings/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/news-and-sec-filings.jpgNews and SEC filings for the stocks you watchThe NEWS window shows the latest headlines for the stock you have armed: the time, how old it is, the source, and the headline. Double-click a headline to open the article in your browser. Fresh items stand out, so you can tell at once what just arrived.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/news-and-sec-filings.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/header-and-button-rows/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/header-and-button-rows.jpgThe header and button rows - a tour of the top of the Lite deskThe header and the two button rows under it hold the whole desk together. On the left: equity and buying power. Live, that is your broker account; in paper, it is the virtual wallet. REALIZED NET is today's closed profit or loss, after costs, for the mode you are in, with the gross, the costs and today's trade count beside it.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/header-and-button-rows.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/trading-panel-status-strip/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/trading-panel-status-strip.jpgThe top of the trading panel - open counts, 1m volume, LULD and slippageThe line under AUTO - LONG and SHORT shows the armed stock and what just happened to it, with its one-minute volume, the limit-up limit-down band in market hours, and SLIPPAGE, the live spread. In Lite the two AUTO buttons stay red: no side ever opens a position by itself.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/trading-panel-status-strip.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/order-size/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/order-size.jpgOrder size - shares, dollars or percent of buying powerThe order size row decides how much every BUY and SHORT sends. The preset buttons put their number in the size box with one click, and Manual is the size BUY and SHORT actually send. Type any number you like there.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/order-size.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/limit-or-market-orders/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/limit-or-market-orders.jpgLimit or market - LMT and MKT orders, every sessionEvery BUY and SHORT goes as a limit order or a market order, and the LMT and MKT tick decides which. Most of the time, the answer is LMT. LMT, the standard, sends a limit order priced through the market by your entry offset.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/limit-or-market-orders.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/resting-rail/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/resting-rail.jpgThe resting rail - a limit entry you drag into placeSometimes you do not want to cross the market. You want to wait at a price. That is what the resting rail is for. Tick RESTING, and a rail appears on the ladder and the chart, at the live price. It is one tick, and the rail is then yours to drag.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/resting-rail.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/buy-and-short/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/buy-and-short.jpgBUY and SHORT - one click, no confirmation boxBUY and SHORT are faded until a stock is armed. Then they read BUY and SHORT with its symbol, so you always see what you are trading. They send the size from the order size row, as a limit or market order, as the tick says.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/buy-and-short.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/eight-order-buttons/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/eight-order-buttons.jpgThe eight buttons - sell, cover, flatten, liquidate and cancelUnder BUY and SHORT sit eight more buttons. Out of the box, they are the exits and the emergency controls you need most. They work on the armed stock or on the whole account, as each one says. SELL LMT sells your whole long position in the armed stock, with a limit priced through the market.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/eight-order-buttons.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/order-confirmation-and-refusals/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/order-confirmation-and-refusals.jpgAsk before sending, double-click, and when an order is refusedUnder the risk row sit two ticks that change how the desk asks before acting. Both are saved with your settings. Ask before sending shows a yes or no box before you close or cancel: closing a position, FLATTEN ALL, LIQUIDATE ALL, cancelling orders, and a double-click send.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/order-confirmation-and-refusals.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/hotkeys/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/hotkeys.jpgHotkeys - two-key shortcuts for every orderEvery order action on the desk has a hotkey, and every hotkey takes at least two keys: a modifier such as shift, control or alt, plus a key. A single key is refused, because these keys send live orders.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/hotkeys.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/hotkeys-window/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/hotkeys-window.jpgThe HOTKEYS window - set your keys and your eight buttonsThe HOTKEYS window is where you change every order shortcut. While it is open, your shortcuts are suspended: nothing fires an order until you close it. Press SET beside an action, then press the key combination you want.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/hotkeys-window.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/short-selling-and-locates/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/short-selling-and-locates.jpgShort selling and locatesTo short a hard-to-borrow stock, your broker must first find shares for you to borrow: a locate. Easy-to-borrow stocks need no locate. What the desk can do depends on your broker; a broker without a locate service in the desk says so here.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/short-selling-and-locates.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/manual-trading-window/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/manual-trading-window.jpgThe MANUAL TRADING window - every setting a manual trade usesThe MANUAL TRADING window holds every setting a manual BUY or SHORT uses: take profit and stop loss with their units, the auto exit, the trailing stop and step lock, and how each order is placed, long on the left and short on the right. In Lite it is where your trading is tuned, and a change applies to the next order.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/manual-trading-window.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/trade-ladder/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/trade-ladder.jpgThe trade ladder - one trade on one price railPress LADDER and the trade ladder opens for the armed stock. It shows one trade as a price rail: where you got in, where the stop and target sit, and what each level is worth, with the order size and trading buttons beside it so you can act on what you see.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/trade-ladder.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/ladder-levels/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/ladder-levels.jpgLadder levels - take profit, stop loss, peak, and dragging themEach level on the ladder is a labelled line, with its dollar value in the column on the right: the profit or loss at that price, before costs. So you never have to work out what a stop will cost you. TAKE PROFIT: where the take-profit exit sits.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/ladder-levels.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/ladder-trailing-stop/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/ladder-trailing-stop.jpgThe trailing stop on the ladder - waiting, then runningSwitch Trailing TP/SL on, and the ladder shows the trail in whichever of its two states it is in. Until the trade reaches Trail after, nothing is trailing. The threshold is drawn as a dashed TRAIL AFTER rail, between the peak so far and the take profit.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/ladder-trailing-stop.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/live-chart/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/live-chart.jpgThe chart - candles, your levels and the live resultPress CHART and a chart for the armed stock opens in a browser window, drawn with TradingView's Lightweight Charts. It shows the ladder's own levels, so the two always agree, and because it runs in the browser, the trading engine never waits for it.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/live-chart.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/chart-indicators/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/chart-indicators.jpgChart indicators - overlays, oscillators and volume profileINDICATORS opens the picker. Tick an indicator to draw it, and click its colour square to pick a colour. Everything is calculated in the browser, from the bars the desk already sends, so the trading engine does no extra work at all.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/chart-indicators.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/chart-signals/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/chart-signals.jpgChart signals - trend flip, structure break, VWAP reclaim and exhaustionThe fourth group in the indicator picker is Signals: buy and sell arrows, drawn on closed candles only, so an arrow never changes once it is drawn. There are four of them, and you can show any combination.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/chart-signals.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/auto-exit-and-units/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/auto-exit-and-units.jpgAuto exit and units - percent or dollarsAuto exit, one for each side, switches that side's software exits on or off. On: take profit, stop loss, the trailing stop and the step lock all manage that side's positions. Off: none of them run for that side, and only you can close those trades.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/auto-exit-and-units.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/take-profit-and-stop-loss/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/take-profit-and-stop-loss.jpgTake profit and stop lossTP is the take profit, in the side's units. When price reaches it, the whole position closes. Zero switches it off, so only the stop loss and the trailing exits close the trade. SL is the stop loss from the entry, in the same units.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/take-profit-and-stop-loss.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/trailing-stop/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/trailing-stop.jpgThe trailing stop - trail after and trail widthTick Trailing TP/SL, and once the trade is Trail after in profit, the stop follows the best price, and only ever moves in your favour. Before that, the fixed take profit and stop loss rule alone. Trail width is the classic trail.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/trailing-stop.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/step-lock/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/step-lock.jpgThe step lock - a stop that ratchets in stepsStep percent turns the trail into a step lock. Instead of following the price smoothly, the stop moves in fixed steps. It is a different way of thinking about protecting a winner. On a long, the stop only ever climbs, one step at a time.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/step-lock.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/risk-discipline/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/risk-discipline.jpgRisk discipline - daily loss, trade caps and losing streaksThe risk discipline row, under the filters, is the entry gate. It is checked before every entry you make, when the desk is live. It never blocks an exit, and in paper mode, it is not applied. The gate reads the same counts that the day and net boxes show.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/risk-discipline.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/realized-net-and-trades/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/realized-net-and-trades.jpgRealized net, open trades and closed tradesREALIZED NET in the header is today's closed profit or loss, after costs, for the mode the desk is in: paper while paper trading is on, live when orders go to your broker. Under it: the gross result, the costs, and today's trade count.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/realized-net-and-trades.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/order-log-and-executions/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/order-log-and-executions.jpgThe order log and executions - every order and every replyThe order log, on the left, shows what happens to your money, newest on top: every order sent, every fill, every refusal and cancel, exits, halts, locates, risk, arming, and paper or live. News for your symbols appears here too.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/order-log-and-executions.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/sync-broker-and-export/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/sync-broker-and-export.jpgSYNC BROKER, EXPORT, and paper kept apart from liveSYNC BROKER carries your broker's name. It imports trades you placed directly in your broker's own platform into the desk's live records. The desk's own fills are already recorded, and are skipped, so syncing again never duplicates a trade.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/sync-broker-and-export.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/broker-and-commissions/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/broker-and-commissions.jpgThe BROKER window and your commission scheduleBROKER, at the right end of the WINDOWS row, sets which broker the desk sends orders to, what that broker can do, and its commission schedule. Each broker in the dropdown shows its status. EXECUTES means the desk sends orders to it: TradeZero and Alpaca, in this build.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/broker-and-commissions.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/credentials/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/credentials.jpgCredentials - your data key and broker keys stay on your PCOpen CREDENTIALS from the BROKER window. It holds two separate sets of keys: one for market data, and one for your broker. The trading key is always kept separate from the data key. The EXECUTION fields change with the broker you chose.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/credentials.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/sounds/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/sounds.jpgSounds - a voice for every eventWhen you are watching several screens, sound tells you what happened before you look. Every important event on the desk can have its own sound, or none. Set the events you need, and leave the rest silent.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/sounds.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/layouts-and-text-size/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/layouts-and-text-size.jpgLayouts and text size - fit the desk to your screensThe desk was designed for a wide screen, or more than one monitor. So everything about its layout can be changed, and saved. Start by setting the text size, then arrange the windows. A minus and A plus, in the header, make all text smaller or larger, everywhere on the desk.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/layouts-and-text-size.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes https://autoscantrade.com/lite/videos/self-check-risks-and-clock/2026-10-100.7 https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/p/self-check-risks-and-clock.jpgCHECK, the risks window, and the clockCHECK runs the desk's self-check, and lists each check as OK, or with the reason it failed. The settings map and its bounds, whether trade records can be written, the locate ledger, the risk governor's day, the data feed thread, that paper and replay are not both on, your shortcuts, and the error log.https://autoscantrade.com/media/lite/v/self-check-risks-and-clock.mp41202026-10-10T09:00:00+01:00yes