What is Delta? Delta is the net difference between the BID and ASK at any price (footprint delta), the respective bar (bar delta) or the whole day (cumulative delta). Delta is calculated by subtracting the BID volume from the ASK volume. ATAS can use internal calculations to illustrate whether or not sellers or buyers are acting aggressively. A positive or negative delta will show you whether you are trading aggressively in the BID or ASK. Calculation: Ask Volume (minus) Bid Volume = Delta. The components required to calculate the delta are: bid price (BID), bid price (ASK), last trading pri ..read more

Unfinished auction is not a very popular term. You cannot find much about it in the Forex textbooks for beginners. Traders develop and learn about the unfinished auction only after gaining some experience and knowledge on a real exchange. This article will tell you about the theory and practice of the unfinished market auction. We will start with basics and finish with the ideas of how to make money. Read in this article: Introduction into the auction theory; Auction in clusters; Unfinished auction indicator; How to use the indicator. Examples. Introduction into the market auction theory Ea ..read more

While traders think more about vacation than charts, order flow trading programmers are working hard to make ATAS even better. We have tried to significantly improve our platform. the new ATAS beta is because don’t miss this update! What has gotten better: Architecture and Optimization Design Operations with work spaces Instrument Manager Map settings window Tape and All Prices Let’s take a closer look at each point. The New ATAS Architecture This change is not very obvious, but virtually all major modules have been optimized – Charts, Smart DOM and Tape. We have also optimized the server ..read more

Institutional traders: Although it is very much in demand, it is not always necessary to know what individual institutional traders are doing or what strategies they are pursuing. An appropriate interpretation of the behaviour of the majority or “the herd” can also be a good method for assessing the tendency of institutional traders. This interpretation of how “the mass” works can be found in many trading books and trainings, in which the guidelines of stop-loss setting are taught as soon as a trade is opened on the market. When a long is opened, the stop loss is placed below the last local lo ..read more

The pyramidization of trading on the financial markets, which we would like to discuss in this article, can significantly increase the chances of a trader getting a stable income. This strategy can literally increase revenue from a transaction two or even three times. Pyramidization can be highly profitable, but it can also be dangerous if it is abused. We would like to break down this strategy in this article using the example of the foreign exchange market for you, so that you can double your profit potential in trading. However, you can apply it to both the futures market and the stock mark ..read more

The Ticker Band Ticker tapes were invented in 1867 by Edward A. Calahan, an employee of the American Telegraph Company. Two years later, Thomas Edison developed the first practical stock ticker that helped the market become more efficient. These machines were soon installed in all major brokerage houses and banks as a primary means of price and volume analysis. Many famous traders made a name for themselves through Tape Reading, including Jesse Livermore, who pioneered Momentum trading. Terms such as ticker symbol, stock ticker and phrases such as “don’t fight the tape” (i.e. do not act agai ..read more

ORDER FLOW BASICS: When it comes to order flow, many traders think of volume or time bars and sales and purchase signals. In reality, however, the order flow is much more than that – it helps you to understand the market much better. Logically, it doesn’t offer you an immediate trading strategy to make money, but if you take a deeper look at the candles, it gives you better confidence and understanding of the markets. Whatever you trade – stocks, currencies or cryptos, etc. – all financial products have one thing in common: traders are thinking about what will happen in the future (either in ..read more

The volume: What is the volume anyway? Without volume, the price would not move, because there would be no trading. The volume is the number of contracts traded in a given period, or at a certain price. The plant fee is usually divided into 3 different application areas: the volume on the timeline (volume bars), the volume on the price axis (volume profile) and the tick volume (footprint chart). First of all, a general misinterpretation must be pointed out here: the volume is NOT an indicator, it is like the price an integral part of trade and, unlike indicators, does not have to be calculat ..read more

BID x ASK Imbalance: The fact that hardly any free information in German can be found on this topic shows that the content of this BLOGS represents a real added value. We hope you benefit from the information, learn new things and become part of the ATAS community. As shown in the screenshot, ATAS offers the possibility to display the carried out trading volume in a special way: BID x ASK Imbalance. What is Imbalance? In the literal sense, imbalance means imbalance. BIDxASK Imbalance is not a trading system, but a way to read the volume in ATAS. It allows to measure the difference of executed ..read more

What is the VWAP? VWAP is an abbreviation for Volume Weighted Average Price – you may already know that. What does this mean? It is basically the average or median price of the daily trading margin based on the volume. This average price now acts as a magnet in sideways phases and as support or resistance in a trend movement – and can therefore be the basis of a volume strategy. Examples Let’s take a look at an example of the oil price for each case: VWAP as a magnet in sideways markets In the graphic we see that the  VWAP acts as a magnet. Each time the price deviates too far from ..read more