Centerpoint Securities Trading Journal - Auto Import

Centerpoint Securities traders can import their full trade history into JournalPlus using a CSV export from DAS Trader Pro, Centerpoint’s primary execution platform. The integration captures every field needed for complete cost accounting — including the locate fees on hard-to-borrow shorts that most journals never surface. For active short sellers running 15–50 trades per day on low-float momentum names, this is where the difference between gross P&L and actual profitability becomes visible.

Key Features

DAS Trader Pro CSV Import

JournalPlus recognizes the standard DAS Trader Pro export format used by all Centerpoint accounts. The import maps Date, Time, Symbol, Side, Quantity, Price, Commission, and Net P&L columns automatically — no manual field matching required. Traders running the same DAS Trader Pro setup through a Cobra Trading integration or Lightspeed integration will find the same import flow applies across all three brokers.

Locate Fee Cost Accounting

The most valuable use of a Centerpoint trading journal is separating locate costs from execution costs. DAS Trader Pro’s export typically consolidates commissions into a single field, but locate fees on hard-to-borrow names can dwarf the per-share commission. At 300% annualized on a $6 stock, a 1,000-share same-day hold costs roughly $49 in borrow — before commissions. JournalPlus lets you add locate fees as a discrete cost field per trade, so your P&L breakdown shows gross gain, locate drag, commission drag, and true net in one view.

Long vs. Short Segmentation

Once your Centerpoint trades are imported, JournalPlus splits performance by trade direction. This single filter often reveals that a trader’s long-side and short-side results are completely different businesses. Short trades on HTB names carry a cost structure that routine longs do not, and the analytics will not be meaningful until that separation is made explicit.

Multi-Broker Performance Comparison

Many active short sellers run Centerpoint as a secondary account, using it specifically when CSV upload from their primary broker shows zero locate availability. Importing both accounts into JournalPlus lets you tag trades by source and measure which broker’s fills and cost structure produce better net results over time.

Time-of-Day Profitability

DAS Trader Pro exports include execution timestamps to the second. JournalPlus uses these to build session-window analytics, bucketing your results by time of day. For day traders working low-float momentum plays, this typically shows that profitability concentrates in the first 30–60 minutes of the session — and that afternoon attempts on the same setups generate negative net returns once locate fees are counted.

How to Connect Centerpoint Securities

Step 1: Log In to DAS Trader Pro

Open DAS Trader Pro connected to your Centerpoint Securities account. Trade history and export tools live inside the platform — the Centerpoint web portal does not provide a standalone trade export function.

Step 2: Open the Trade Log

Navigate to the Trade Log panel using Trade > Trade Log from the top menu, or via your configured keyboard shortcut. Set the date range to cover the period you want to import — weekly exports keep file sizes manageable and match JournalPlus’s review workflow.

Step 3: Export to CSV

Right-click anywhere in the Trade Log grid and select Export, or use File > Export from the menu bar. Save the file as CSV to a location you can easily retrieve, such as your Desktop or a dedicated trade data folder.

Step 4: Upload to JournalPlus

In JournalPlus, navigate to Import > Broker CSV. Select “DAS Trader Pro” as the format, then upload the CSV file. JournalPlus will display a field-mapping preview before finalizing the import — confirm the columns look correct, then click Import.

Step 5: Add Locate Fees

After import, open any short trade and check the cost breakdown. If locate fees were charged on that borrow, add them in the Locate Fee field. For routine shorts on easy-to-borrow names the locate cost is zero or negligible; for scarce HTB names it may be the largest single cost on the trade.

What Gets Imported

Data Field	Description
Trade Date	Execution date from DAS Trader Pro log
Execution Time	Timestamp to the second for session analytics
Symbol	Ticker for each trade leg
Side	Buy (B), Sell (S), Short Sell (SS), Buy to Cover (BC)
Quantity	Number of shares per execution
Price	Fill price per share
Commission	Broker commission as exported by DAS Trader Pro
Net P&L	Per-trade net as calculated by DAS Trader Pro

Locate fees, trade rationale, setup tags, and emotional state require manual entry after import. These fields are the most analytically valuable additions a short seller can make — locate fees especially, since they do not appear as a separate line in the standard DAS Trader Pro export.

Analytics & Insights

After importing a week of Centerpoint trades, the first useful filter is direction: separate all SS/BC pairs from B/S pairs and look at net P&L for each group. For most active momentum traders, the short-side gross looks strong but net margin compresses significantly once locate costs are applied. A trader running $12,000 in gross short gains over a week may find that $2,500–$3,500 of that was absorbed by locate fees on five to ten HTB names — a cost center that was invisible in the raw DAS Trader Pro P&L column.

The example scenario that illustrates this most clearly: a Centerpoint trader shorts 3,000 shares of XBIO at $8.20 after a 180% gap-up on an FDA catalyst — a locate that Cobra and Lightspeed both showed as unavailable. The 150% annualized borrow rate puts the locate cost at $0.034 per share for a same-day hold, or $102 total. With a cover at $6.50, gross gain is $5,100, commissions add $30, and true net P&L is $4,968. That is a high-conviction trade where the locate cost is a small fraction of the gain. But when that same trader imports an entire week and segments by setup quality, JournalPlus reveals that 3 high-conviction HTB trades generated $11,200 gross with $1,840 in locate costs, while 5 routine short setups generated only $800 gross combined. The edge is entirely concentrated in the scarce-borrow, high-locate-fee trades — not the routine shorts that look similar on execution reports.

Time-of-day analytics add a second layer of clarity. For penny stock and low-float traders, the data consistently shows that the open-to-45-minute window produces the majority of profitable short setups. Afternoon entries on the same names tend to generate smaller gross gains against equal or higher locate costs, since borrow fees accumulate through the day regardless of trade outcome. Barber and Odean’s finding that active traders underperform by roughly 6.5% per year due to transaction costs applies with particular force to short sellers — locate fees are the most overlooked component of that drag, and they only become measurable once they are tracked systematically.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does JournalPlus support Centerpoint Securities trade imports?

Yes. Centerpoint uses DAS Trader Pro as its primary platform, and JournalPlus supports DAS Trader Pro CSV exports. Export your trade log from DAS Trader Pro and upload it using the DAS Trader Pro import option in JournalPlus.

How do I export trades from Centerpoint Securities?

Trades are exported through DAS Trader Pro, not the Centerpoint web portal. Open the Trade Log panel in DAS Trader Pro, set your date range, right-click and select Export, then save as CSV.

Does JournalPlus track hard-to-borrow locate fees for short trades?

JournalPlus captures commission data from the DAS Trader Pro export and allows you to add locate fees as a separate cost field per trade, giving you a true net P&L that accounts for both borrow costs and commissions.

Can I compare performance across Centerpoint and other brokers in JournalPlus?

Yes. You can import trade history from multiple brokers — including Cobra Trading and Lightspeed — and JournalPlus will tag each trade by source, allowing direct performance comparison across accounts.

What data fields does the Centerpoint DAS Trader Pro CSV include?

The standard DAS Trader Pro CSV export includes Date, Time, Symbol, Side (B/S/SS/BC), Quantity, Price, Commission, and Net P&L — all of which JournalPlus maps automatically during import.