Trader's Home Task

The most popular tool to link stock trading platforms.

Trader's Home Task (THT) helps you preparing for a working day on the U.S. stock market. It can link Advanced Get/ESignal, Thinkorswim, MBT Desktop Pro, Arche Pro, Takion, Graybox, Laser and other trading platforms together (see HOWTO), manage a list of tickers, take screenshots, hide in the system tray, show sector & industry information, add tickers directly from Finviz, and has a wide list of hotkeys.

YouTube tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/user/thtng.

Author: Dmitry Baryshev

Features overview

• Indirectly links Advanced Get/ESignal, Arche Pro, Graybox, Laser Trade, ROX, Sterling Trader Pro, Takion, Thinkorswim and other platforms
• External linking with certain applications including Thinkorswim and Excel
• Selects tickers from a specific sector or industry
• Adds tickers directly from Finviz (Elite account is required)
• Tool to take screenshots, draw arrows and text comments on them
• System tray support
• Up to 8 ticker lists with priorities
• Styles

Finviz notice

Finviz requires having an Elite account in order to give access to filters (new highs and lows etc.) and tickers. You can enter your Elite account credentials in Top toolbars -> Add tickers -> Add from Finviz -> Customize -> Access.

Outdated features

THT is no longer actively developed. Pull requests to fix any issues are highly welcomed. The following features no longer work correctly:

• Dropbox support
• Briefing Stock Splits plugin
• Stocks In Play plugin

YouTube tutorials

• How to link Advanced Get and Graybox windows
• How to link Thinkorswim charts
• How to use external linking with Microsoft Excel
• How to link Thinkorswim and ROX externally (in Russian)
• How to link Thinkorswim and Aurora externally
• See more here

Build requirements

• Windows 7 or later
• MinGW-based Qt 4.8.7 from here
• 32-bit MinGW 4.8.2 DWARF in PATH from here

Licensing notes

• GNU GPLv3+ (see LICENSE.txt)
• Qxt parts are under GNU LGPL 2.1 (see LICENSE-LGPL-2.1.txt) or CPL 1.0
• THT-lib is under GNU LGPL 2.1 (see LICENSE-LGPL-2.1.txt)
• QtDropbox is under GNU LGPL v3 (see LICENSE-LGPL-3.txt)
• QXMPP is under GNU LGPL v2.1+ (see LICENSE-LGPL-2.1.txt)
• All UI files are licensed in the same manner as the project where they are included

Other licensing notes

• "Chart" icons are taken from here

  • Author: Visual Pharm
  • License: Commercial Use Allowed, Back Link Required
  • http://www.visualpharm.com/finance_icon_set/

• "Locked" icon is taken from here

  • Author: Iconshock
  • License: Free for non-commercial use

• "Ok" icon is taken from here

  • Author: Oxygen Team
  • License: GNU Lesser General Public License

• "Target" icon is taken from here

  • Author: Gentleface.com
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)

• "Stock" icon for TickersDb is taken from here

  • Author: Visual Pharm
  • License: Commercial Use Allowed, Back Link Required

• "Wait" icon in "About" dialog is generated at http://ajaxload.info/

  • License: Free for use

• "Transparent" icon in "About" dialog is generated with QImage

  • License: Free for use

• "Finviz" icon is created with GIMP

  • Author: Dmitry Baryshev
  • License: Free for use

• "Briefing" icon is created with GIMP

  • Author: Dmitry Baryshev
  • License: Free for use

• "Buy" and "Sale" icons are based on the icons from Splashy theme

  • http://findicons.com/pack/1689/splashy
  • Author: Dat Nguyen
  • License: Free for use

• "Ellipse" icon is taken from GNOME icon theme

  • http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/21556/16/
  • Author: GNOME Project
  • License: GNU GPL

• "Chat" icon is taken from here

  • Author: Burak OZTURK
  • License: Free

• "Status" icons are taken from Sunken Gems theme

  • http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=3632
  • Author: Dan

• Interface layout is based on the original idea by Krupachev Konstantin and his project "Clicker"

• "StockInPlay" icon is taken from Silk theme

  • http://findicons.com/icon/159904/money_dollar?id=372987
  • Author: Mark James
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution (by)

• Country flags are taken from

  • http://icondrawer.com/free.php
  • License: Free

• Other icons are taken from Fugue Icons theme

  • http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/
  • Author: Yusuke Kamiyamane
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

• GDI drawing functions are based on Spy

  • http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1698/MS-Spy-style-Window-Finder
  • Author: Lim Bio Liong
  • License: CPOL

• FindBestChildProc, FindBestChild, RealWindowFromPoint

  • http://www.codeforge.cn/read/167975/WindowFromPointEx.c__html
  • Author: J Brown
  • License: Freeware