Classic indicators show what has already happened. ATAS indicators show what’s happening right now.
ATAS works with real-time tick data and answers questions that standard technical analysis leaves open:
Why did the price stop at this level? — Depth of Market (DOM) indicators show where a large limit order is genuinely resting, and where a level isn’t backed by real volume.
False breakout or the start of a trend? — Delta and imbalances help you gauge the real strength of buyers or sellers right at the moment of the breakout.
Who holds the initiative right now? — Order flow indicators highlight the imbalance between aggressive buyers and sellers on every tick.
Where do you look for a large player’s footprint? — Cluster Search highlights clusters with abnormal volume, helping you find zones worth deeper analysis faster — instead of acting on assumptions.
What’s real aggression and what’s just noise? — The Big Trades indicator filters out market noise and highlights only large, aggressive trades.
Moving averages, RSI, MACD — these tools are built on a candle's finished parameters: open, close, high, low, and the weighted average. Technical indicators can't “see” what happened inside the candle: who was driving the aggression, where volume actually concentrated, and why the price reversed at that exact point. That means their readings lag — they only form once the move has already happened.
ATAS indicators bring classic technical analysis and advanced volume-analysis tools together in one ecosystem — the market becomes more transparent, and your decisions more grounded in data instead of intuition.
ATAS indicators don’t work with pre-formed OHLC candle parameters — they work with the “live” exchange data feed: the price, volume, and direction of every tick.
Data is processed instantly and recalculated with every new trade, with virtually no delay, lag, or loss of precision on any timeframe.
What this gives you in practice:
One tick data stream — dozens of indicators calculating their metrics in parallel, in real time.
A standard candlestick chart only shows the result of a price move — what has already happened. It’s like trying to understand how a football match played out by looking only at the final score on the board: the outcome is clear, but all the drama, tactics, and effort behind it stay off-screen.
ATAS’s volume and order flow indicators show the actual cause of the price move — the real-time battle between buyers and sellers. Instead of static candles, you see the dynamics: who’s aggressively hitting the market right now, at which levels large players have placed passive defense (limit orders), and the exact moment one side runs out of strength.
Below are the tools that help you read the market from the inside — from pinpoint microstructure analysis to the overall daily volume distribution.
A standard order book (Level 2) only shows the total size of orders at each price level. It’s like looking at a crowd from a distance: you see a dense mass of people but can’t make out individual faces.
MBO (Market-by-Order) is ultra-high-resolution exchange data. It lets you ‘break down’ the overall mass of limit orders into individual orders. You see the ID of every single order, its size, its exact place in the queue, and any actions taken on it in real time. This is the data that MBO Bundle indicators process — they visualize the actions of individual large orders that are invisible in a standard order book.
⚠️ Important: MBO data is currently only available for the Rithmic connector. dxFeed support is in development.
Limit orders with hidden volume
To avoid spooking the market, large participants often use “icebergs” — limit orders where only a small part of the volume is visible. As soon as the visible part is filled, the exchange automatically loads a new one from the hidden pool (refill). Each refill causes the order to lose its time priority and move to the back of the queue.
Where other traders' stop-losses were triggered
Stop orders (SL) sit on the exchange server and stay invisible in the order book until the price touches them. Once triggered, they cascade into regular market orders. Market lore holds that large players sometimes push price into zones where stops cluster, to close or open their own large positions there.
Aggressive liquidity absorption
When a large player needs to enter the market fast, they send a huge market order that instantly “vacuums” the order book, sweeping up limit orders across several price levels in a row. This is called a sweep. On a standard tape, this impulse gets fragmented into dozens of small prints and lost in the noise.
Beginner traders often draw levels on the chart “by eye,” or simply mark old highs and lows. But the market doesn’t care about lines on a screen — price reacts to the balance of supply and demand, and to real trading volume.
ATAS indicators surface real levels, not imagined ones. They show you the zones where large limit orders are actually resting right now, and where the biggest market-trade volumes are passing through. You see a strong price barrier before the price even gets there.
Below are the tools that help you see these zones — invisible to classic technical analysis:
API and Custom Indicators
You also have access to indicators built by ATAS partners and community members. These analytical tools are grounded in hands-on experience with volume, market structure, and participant behavior.
If the standard toolkit isn’t enough, you can always extend the analytics platform’s capabilities to fit your needs.
Most classic indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages — work purely off a bar’s closing price. They don’t see what happened inside the candle: who was more aggressive, where volume was concentrated, how orders were split between buyers and sellers.
ATAS indicators are built on the exchange’s raw tick data. For example, Big Trades shows you real large trades as they happen, Stacked Imbalance highlights the bid/ask imbalance within a single candle, and Volume Profile shows exactly where the market spent the most time over the selected period.
Classic technical indicators are also available in ATAS and work alongside the volume tools on the same chart.
For intraday traders, the key criterion for choosing an indicator is response speed and how closely it’s tied to real market activity, rather than to calculated values from past periods. In ATAS, traders most often use Delta and CVD to see the current balance of initiative between buyers and sellers, DOM Levels to understand where real liquidity sits in the order book, and VWAP as a dynamic fair-value reference for the session.
Tape Patterns and Speed of Tape also help you track how intense the trade flow is — abnormal speed or repeating tape patterns that traders often watch as a possible sign of an accelerating move. All of this is available in real time, recalculated on every tick.
Yes. ATAS connects to tick data streams from crypto exchanges, including Binance Futures, Bybit, OKX, and others. Volume and Order Flow indicators work on any market where real trade data is available. That means you can analyze stocks, index futures, commodities, and cryptocurrencies.
The only requirement is that the instrument has sufficient liquidity and provides a tick stream broken down by bid/ask. On illiquid pairs with a low trade count, volume-indicator readings lose reliability, regardless of the analytics platform.
Yes, and that’s one of ATAS’s key features. You can add several indicators to a chart at once, layered over the price chart — from 3 on the free Start plan up to an unlimited number on Ultra. For example, you could add Volume Profile to gauge the fair-value zone, Stacked Imbalance to spot imbalances, and Delta for an instant read on whether buyers or sellers have the upper hand.
Yes. You can use all of ATAS’s core indicators for free, with no time limit, on the Start plan. No credit card required.
Once you’re ready to try the advanced features, activate a 14-day free trial of the plan you’re interested in by linking a card or PayPal. When the trial ends, your subscription automatically continues at the paid rate for that plan — you can cancel anytime from your account.
The trial period or a paid plan lets you analyze more assets at once, layer more indicators on a chart, and unlocks professional market-analysis features, including Replay: it replays a historical trading session tick by tick in real time, letting you practice on real past data without financial risk.
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