Desktop Apps Documentation

These pages are for the Bluechip Algos desktop application — the one you install on your computer, not the website.

The desktop app carries two tools: Trade Scalper for fast entries and exits, and Trade Disc for adjusting a position that is already open. Each has its own chapter below.

If you trade from the browser instead, the web platform has its own documentation — the link sits at the bottom of this list.

Read them in this order if you are new.

• Getting Started — installing the app, signing in, and what the two tools are for.
• Forward Testing, books and logs — what both tools share: practising without money, whose trades you see, stops parked at the broker, the Orders, Positions and Analytics pages, and the day's log.
• Brokers — connecting your broker account so orders can be placed.
• Trade Scalper — five pages: the screen and a first trade, placing orders, stop loss and trailing, the day-wide controls, and the option chain with the TradeBook.
• Trade Disc — six pages: the screen and a first trade, the option chain and Entries, Adjustments and strike shifts, Live Positions and the day-wide controls, the Strategy Builder, and Automation.

You sign in to the desktop app with the same account you use on the website. The subscription, the broker connection and the records are the same.

What differs is where you place the trade from. Nothing needs to be set up twice.