ATAS has a lot of settings, the one you need is often buried deep in a menu, and the help article describes the general case.
Ask the agent. It looks at your chart first and answers with your settings in mind. Often the feature is already on and something else is in the way.
How do I make diagonal imbalances visible on the footprint in ATAS? Look at the settings of my ES 5m chart on the "Work" tab, explain step by step where this is in the interface, and offer to do it for me. Don't change anything yet.
What happens
The agent reads the settings of that chart and looks for the answer in the ATAS help if it has internet access.
How do I make diagonal imbalances visible on the footprint in ATAS? Look at the settings of my ES 5m chart on the "Work" tab, explain step by step where this is in the interface, and offer to do it for me. Don't change anything yet.
I looked at ES 5m on the "Work" tab specifically. Diagonal imbalances are already on, but the chart is currently shown as candles (Candles), so the footprint numbers are not visible.
Current settings: content Bid × Ask, imbalance threshold 150%, Bid red, Ask green; bold highlighting is off.
To see them:
- On the ES 5m chart, switch the display type from candles to clusters / Footprint. In the Bid × Ask options menu you can pick Bid × Ask Imbalance.
- Click the chart settings gear → Footprint settings.
- In the Content field, check that it is Bid × Ask.
- In the Bid/Ask Imbalance section, leave it Enabled. The threshold is set with Imbalance Rate, and you already have 150%. For stricter filtering you can set, for example, 300%.
- If you like, turn on Bold Text and zoom in on the chart so the numbers inside the clusters are readable.
You don't need a separate "diagonal" switch: this compares the Bid of one level with the Ask of the level above. That is the standard Bid/Ask Imbalance algorithm in ATAS.
I didn't change anything. I can do it for you: turn on the footprint on this ES 5m, keep the current 150% and colors, and pick a readable zoom level.
The agent uses menu item names in your interface language.
Let the agent do it
You don't have to follow the explanation by hand. At the end of its answer the agent offers to make the change for you, and all you need is to reply in the same chat:
Yes, do it on my chart and tell me what you changed.
The agent changes the settings itself and lists what it changed. You can do this with any answer to a "how do I" question: first find out where it is in the interface, then hand it to the agent. If you don't like the result, write "put it back" (how it works).
What you need
- For answers from the help, the agent needs web search. ATAS itself has no knowledge base for the agent.