ATAS: Honest Review

Trading a highly competitive business. To survive in it, you need an advantage, and finding one keeps getting harder.

Order Flow trading is one of the ways to improve trading performance. In this article, TU reviews the pros and cons of ATAS, a professional platform for trading stocks, futures, and cryptocurrencies, which makes the most of Order Flow.

What is a professional trading platform?

A professional trading platform is complex software designed for experienced traders and institutional investors. It offers not only “buy” and “sell” buttons and standard candlestick charts, but also advanced features, such as:

• the most accurate and flexibly customizable charts with various modes and time frames

• real-time processing of market data

• technical analysis tools, including many more indicators than the RSI, MACD, and moving averages

• algorithmic trading

• account management, and a lot more

ATAS is one of such platforms, and you can download it right now for free. If you are seriously aiming for success in stock, cryptocurrency, and futures trading, you must use world class tools.

While ATAS delivers advanced Order Flow analytics and professional-level charting tools, its real effectiveness depends on the broker or exchange you connect it to. Execution speed, liquidity depth, regulatory framework, and trading costs all directly influence how efficiently you can use tools like Footprint charts, Smart DOM, and Market Replay.

Because ATAS supports connections to multiple brokers and exchanges, selecting the right trading partner becomes just as important as choosing the platform itself.

To help you evaluate your options, we’ve outlined several brokers that traders commonly use with professional trading software.

How to install and start ATAS

This is easy. Register on the ATAS website and sign in to your user account. Credit card details are not required for registration.

How to download ATAS for free

Next:

1. Go to “Download ATAS”

2. Download the installation file

When the installation file is downloaded, install and start ATAS.

Enter your login and password in the welcome window and click OK. That’s it.

Note the Learn section, which includes educational content on using ATAS, as well as Order Flow analysis, Profiles, Level II, and other tutorials.

The Learn section on ATAS

It is obvious that ATAS’ team tries to make it easier for users to master this complicated product. And human support is just one of the platform’s advantages.

ATAS advantages

Let’s briefly look at each advantage before mentioning the downsides.

Custom time frames

ATAS provides advanced features for working with time frames. Besides the standard types, such as 15-minute or 1-hour charts, users can select Range, Tick, Reversal, Volume, and other chart types as shown by number 1 below. The downside is that Point and Figure, Heikin Ashi, Kagi, and some other chart types are not available. However, they are little-known.

Chart types on ATAS

Number 2 shows the features for loading history. For example, you can see down to the second the consequences of the coronavirus panic in spring 2020.

Number 3 shows the button for creating your own unique time frames.

Footprint charts

To switch a chart to the footprint mode, press Shift+K or stretch the time scale left and right with the mouse.

Footprint mode settings will open on the left as shown by number 1 below. For more settings, press Ctrl+S or click the sign shown by number 3.

Footprint charts on ATAS

Number 2 shows how useful the footprints can be. Note that the large volume level on the 20:40 candlestick serves as a resistance level for the next few candlesticks, which can be used to open short positions.

400+ indicators

To open the indicator manager, press Ctrl+I or use the context menu by clicking the mouse’s right button on the chart.

An example of some indicators on ATAS

The following indicators were added to the ES (E-mini S&P-500) futures chart:

• Big Trades. The green circles represent the buys and the red ones represent the sells

• Market Profile - the blue histogram

• Stacked Imbalances - the red and green lines

Indicators can be set once and saved as a template.

Market Replay

This great simulator enables you to learn to use Order Flow, footprints, Level II, and other professional tools for stock, crypto, and futures trading. With Market Replay, you do not risk your capital and learn faster.

To start the simulator, click the Replay button (1), activate the replay mode (2), set the parameters (3), and click Play (4).

Market Replay at work

The screenshot demonstrates how the Market Replay simulator works. The setup from this example can be used to learn intraday scalping with the application of the DOM Levels indicator and the DOM Trader panel that makes trading more convenient.

Convenient trading

One of the main features is the Chart Trader panel.

Chart Trader panel

In the crypto market, it allows you to:

• select an account, volume, and margin type

• set an automatic stop loss, take profit, and trailing stop

• set up hotkeys, etc

Smart Tape and Smart DOM

The screenshot below shows the Smart DOM and Smart Tape modules.

ATAS’ Smart Tape and Smart DOM modules

Smart Tape is a Time and Sales print feed (order flow) that has several useful features:

• trade size filter

• trade aggregation

• feed speed indicator

Smart DOM is an order book that helps you trade, track the number of trades at each price level, and more.

Regular updates and API

Finally, it’s worth noting that:

• The platform is regularly updated. Approximately twice a week, beta versions with improvements and corrections are released

• Developers interact with users. Users can offer improvements for the platform’s features or vote for the already made changes

• You can connect your solutions via the API. These can be your own indicators or trading bots written in C#

ATAS disadvantages

Of course, this review would be unfair if it did not mention the platform’s downsides:

• Complexity. It takes more than a month to master the platform

• Paid features. The first 14 days of using ATAS are free of charge, after which limits apply. However, compared to competitors, ATAS offers more features for less money

• The platform often freezes, which can be a problem for open positions

• Design. The interface and drawing tools may seem unaesthetic, although this is not crucially important for trading

Also, take into account that to receive real-time chart updates, you must be connected to quote providers.

I always caution traders to be realistic about their goals

Andrey Mastykin Head of Company Reviews and Ratings

From my perspective, ATAS is not a platform you choose casually – it’s a platform you commit to. I would recommend it primarily to traders who are serious about understanding market microstructure rather than simply reacting to standard price charts. If you are willing to invest time into learning how liquidity, volume imbalances, and order flow truly drive price movement, ATAS can significantly deepen your analytical edge.

However, I always caution traders to be realistic about their goals. If you are a beginner still mastering risk management or basic technical analysis, the complexity may slow you down rather than accelerate your progress. ATAS rewards discipline and structured thinking, but it demands patience in return.

In my view, the best way to approach ATAS is to start with the demo and simulator, test it alongside your current setup, and evaluate whether the additional data genuinely improves your decision-making. Tools alone do not create profitability – but when used properly, advanced analytics platforms like ATAS can refine execution quality and confidence.

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