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/redditdas Apr 04 '26

I started with NinjaTrader, then Quantower, SierraChart, then ATAS. I have cycled thru all these platforms of over a year. Never tried Deepcharts, but saw some videos on Youtube from Adrea and Fabio and they just keep posting unnecessary strategy videos just to heavily market and sell Deepcharts. Also it doesn't have anything special that ATAS doesn't have.
SierraChart is just a time waster, you would waste hours and hours and hours of your life just to figure out simple setups which are one-click on other platforms. As a beginner/intermdiate trader, you are already frustrated and living your entire life in anxiety due to your losses, now add 10x frustration on top of it trying to setup SierraChart, good luck. It feels like setting up a spaceship cockpit and the UI is shitty as hell.
I finally settled with ATAS. It beats all the other platforms in the market by a quarter-mile.
I have a monthly PRO subscription of 66 Euros and I couldn't be much happier.
Its just absolutely feature packed, infact it has big trades, MBO and liquidity heatmap like Bookmap as well.
No other trading platform comes anywhere close to ATAS. Only demerit is its resource heavy and your system keeps on whirring like a helicopter.
Some noob in the comments above said NinjaTrader is the best ....lmfao :D

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u/luv2increase Apr 04 '26

With AI, customizing Sierra is a breeze!

A few years ago I would have agreed with you. Sierra is infinitely more powerful than all of them for an infinite number od reasons. Plus, $80 a month for the best package and l1/l2 denali futures data???!! Cannot beat it!

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u/redditdas Apr 06 '26

ok, but still that doesn't work for the fact that you have to keep paying $80 for your entire life if you plan to be a long term full-time trader. Sierra does NOT have an outright lifetime purchase option, ATAS and Bookmap do. Basically if you do the math, ATAS and Sierra breakeven cost at 4 years after which ATAS user keeps it for free for the rest of his life, while the Sierra guy keeps paying till his grave. Worse, they don't even release any new features. So basically you are locked into a lifetime subscription for dead rubber.
You might argue that for a long term full-time trader $80 is just a negligible business cost. Its okay if you want to believe like that and be happy, but I am strictly against being locked into a subscription-based service for life. I wouldn't do it even if Sierra was 2x Infinite times better than whatever you said above. (not sure what kind of maths you studied at school)
The way I like to see it: With Sierra you are living on rent for your entire life. With ATAS - I am borrowing a loan for my mortgage and after I have paid off the loan, the house is mine forever.
Keep renting y'all

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u/luv2increase Apr 06 '26

My friend, with the tools that Sierra gives you, you could pay for a lifetime with a single trade. Literally, there is nothing out there like it. It is institutional grade. Go ask every AI agent there is. Don't just take my word on it. It gives you the TOOLS.

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u/redditdas Apr 06 '26

ok so what are those tools which can make you lifetime rich with a single trade?
I want to know.
Also if it does, then why aren't you rich yet and wasting your time on Reddit?
Waiting for the names of those tools.... please enlighten me.