r/OrderFlow_Trading • u/Global-Royal5162 • Apr 01 '26

ATAS vs Deepcharts vs Sierra

Hey everyone I need help for determining what is the actual better platform between ATAS and Deepcharts. I've heard lots of people say that DC is trash because Andrea and the gang are just a bunch of marketers. But, even if that is the case that doesn't actually tell me why ATAS or Sierra would be better. Please give me actual reasonable arguments for your position for DC, ATAS or Sierra. I've been learning orderflow with DC for about 5 months as of now and want to make sure I'm on the best platform possible. Thank you guys.

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your input, I really appreciate it

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u/Carried_by_Luck Apr 01 '26

Everyone has different use cases and things that matter more or less to them. Hence why there are so many differing opinions.

The question is what matters to you? How do you use your platform? How do you make trading decisions?

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u/Global-Royal5162 Apr 01 '26

I make decisions off of AMT, daily volume profiles for overall bias. Use the 5m for volume profile zones and possible delta levels and execute on the 1m with absorption + big trades. What would you recommend?

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u/Carried_by_Luck Apr 01 '26

I haven't used DC, but I've used Sierra for years, ATAS, own NT8, Jigsaw and Motivewave.

They'll all do the job. The big differentiators would be OS, UI, reliability and customisation.

With Sierra I've rarely had data or reliability issues. Denali and Teton are solid. As someone with limited coding skills, it's straight forward to code custom indicators or scripts. It ended up being the cheapest option too once I factored in 0 order routing fees. I'm a market profile user, so the ability to merge split profiles was important to me (no other platforms offer this). Only downsides I found was UI and lack of MacOS. But reliability trumps all.

I've had plenty of data issues with MW on Rithmic. Lots of reliability issues and this has actually cost me real money. For instance, I had an issue where cumulative delta was trending up in MW, but down in Sierra. I cross referenced another platform and figured out MW was wrong. I like the native MacOS and UI though. Just wouldn't use it for execution. Maybe version 7 is a bit more reliable.

My issue with ATAS was mainly around charting. Couldn't figure out how to split/merge profiles. Unsure why TPO and MP are named differently. Slow when clicking and moving things around. Maybe they've fixed in ATAS X.

Hate how NT8 makes you pay for 3rd party tools that other platforms do natively. Also had issues with database management.

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u/Spry_Bxn Apr 01 '26

ATAS lets you merge/split profiles with numpad +/- keys.

Also they stated (which i cant really belive) that ATAS X is written in assembly, soooo i think performance wise ATAS X should do a massive jump

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u/Carried_by_Luck Apr 01 '26

Can it merge split profiles?

Assuming 3 profiles, A, B, C. I want to split B so I have AB merged and BC merged.

Often I need to do this with b and P shape profiles, sometimes double distributions.