How to Use

This is a step-by-step guide on how to use our bots in conjunction with the Inferno Trading platform.

Setup for TraderWorkstation

In order to utilize our bots, your Trader Workstation must be configured to specific settings.

Step 1: Open Trader Workstation and click on the little gear icon in the top-right corner, then click on settings.

Step 2: Copy all the settings you see in the following images. The captions indicate where in the settings menu you can find each sub-menu.

API -> Settings

API -> Precautions

Presets -> Stocks

Presets -> Stocks (continued)

Configuration -> Lock and Exit

Setup for Inferno Trading Platform (GUI)

Inferno Trading Gui is a straightforward application to navigate through, here are steps that you can take to have an experience that is easy to use

Step 1: Locate the directory of the inferno trading platform, and then double click to open it. Once opened the application should look as follows:

Image of the Inferno Trading Platform

Step 2: Locate the directory of your bot executables, this can be done as follows: Go to file->Choose Location-> In your file directory click the location of where the bot executable is. It should be in the same folder as the Inferno trading platform by default. -> Once you click select the folder, as shown in the diagram below, the combo box will be populated with all the bots you purchased. This can be shown in the image below.

File Menu -> Choose Location

File Directory

Combo Box

Step 3: The start button will simply start the bot which is the combo box. The stop button will simply terminate the bot process. The reset button will only be available once a bot has been started and stopped, and it can be used to reset the required text files of the bot. The open config button can be used to edit the stocks chosen and the market that you are trading in (please ensure that you have, sufficient market data subscription, for the stocks chosen). Hit the start indicator button to start the Black Scholes-Merton Indicator, see details below.

Tool Bar of Inferno Trading Platform

Config File Button

Step 4: Ensure bot connectivity, once the start bot button has been clicked, the status about the bot will be populated in the console window, PLEASE ensure that the bot has connected properly to the trader workstation platform, this can be verified from the command lines and through the status indicator at the top of the screen, see image below:

Command lines which indicates bot has connected

Status Indicator on the right

Step 5: Black Scholes-Merton Indicator, once you press the start indicator button, it will take about 10 seconds to load up, it will run 100 Black Scholes-Merton simulations over 1 year from the current date. The indicator averages all the final prices of the simulations, and then compares them to the original price, based on that it will give you a suggestion on which bot to use. This can be shown in the figure below:

Image of the Indicator