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i have been looking at this platform, it seems comparable to sierracharts if you buy the 6 month pkg (sierra wants you to buy their sierra chart exchange data feed for $35 for reconstructed tape) making it $68/month for package 5, ATAS is $55 per month for the 6 month payment, $45 per month for the year, and you are able to buy it outright for $2k, sierra is like 60 / 6 mo and 57 / year with sc exchange data fee included with no option to purchase. the above ATAS quotes are without datafeed but standard lowcost datafeed appears sufficient for their SmartTape indicator which seems a reconstructed tape metric. they have a speed of tape chart indicator as well which i cannot find on the sierra forum, and sc has not seemed to roll out their reconstructed tape yet according to the last posts i could find.
im slightly afraid to pull the trigger and buy because its Russian but that may be outdated thinking i don't know. But i am tempted because as an above poster mentioned they seem to have ripped the best tools from jigsaw and marketdelta so as an all in one package it seems a good deal. i'm a big fan of jigsaw and mr. davies but i have to cut costs till i get profitable.
can anyone with experience with both packages weigh in on the cost/benefit between the two?
This platform is good for analyze the volume. That's it. it is very weak for other types of trading techniques such as Automatic trading systems. I'm very very disappointed about the post customer service... My fault? I bought 1 year licence and now I have to eat it.
There are a BIG problem with the VWAP, Volumes profiles and POC. if you work with them then this is not your software. Tehese indicator doesn't work them. I reported to the sales agent and he said that he can't do it nothing for me.
I repeat if you don't work with VWAP, Volumes profiles and POC maybe this is your tool for volume.
the problem is the time: the vwap, VP, POC, etc.. its starting always at 00.00h so the VWAP VP and poc values are unreal.
I find ATAS to be a very intuitive platform, especially with the Footprint. However it has some serious disadvatages for day traders, such as not being able to merge or split TPO profiles, and not being able to switch rapidly from RTH and ETH sessions. Sierra Chart takes a lot more time to learn but has better functionality.
Your observations match what experienced order flow traders say consistently. The ATAS trading platform review community tends to agree -- ATAS is genuinely best-in-class for footprint work, but the TPO and session switching limitations are real friction points that push serious traders toward Sierra Chart for a more complete toolkit.
Where ATAS leads:
Footprint charts -- the depth of cluster variations (BidxAsk, Delta, Volume) and visual clarity are hard to match
Smart Tape for spotting larger institutional orders in the flow
Volume Profile tools are solid even if TPO handling falls short
Where Sierra Chart pulls ahead:
TPO market profile -- merge/split functionality is much more solid
RTH/ETH session switching is cleaner workflow
More raw configurability once you're past the learning curve
Since you're already running Sierra Chart for ES and SI, you've actually cleared the hardest hurdle. ATAS offers a free tier if you ever want to run them side-by-side to compare the footprint experience directly -- many traders end up using both for different purposes rather than choosing one permanently.
One thing worth keeping in mind for order flow analysis specifically: feed quality matters a lot. A clean, low-latency data feed makes footprint and DOM data significantly more reliable for reading real-time order flow -- something to consider as your setup evolves.
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