Mastering the Trend: 6 Practical ATAS Strategies

In the practical marathon “Mastering the Trend: 6 Practical ATAS Strategies”, you systematically build your knowledge – from alternative charts and Volume Profile to Footprint and Level 2 data.

Each lesson teaches a specific tool in the ATAS platform and shows how to identify trends early, correctly assess market phases, and plan precise entries.

Step 1. Non-Time Charts & Smart Money: Reliably Identifying Trends

• How Range and Renko charts eliminate market noise
• How alternative charts display price structure more precisely
• What Order Blocks and BoS/ChoCh mean
• How to identify trends early using Smart Money
• How to find clean entries in the direction of the trend

Step 2. Multi-Timeframe Volume Profile: Understanding the Market Context

• How Volume Profile works across multiple timeframes
• How to identify key support and resistance zones
• How to combine weekly, daily, and intraday context
• How volume nodes impact entry decisions

Step 3. VWAP Strategies: Sideways Markets VS Trend Continuation

• What the VWAP shows and why it is so effective
• How to use VWAP to filter trend and sideways phases
• How to identify overbought/oversold zones
• 4 concrete strategies for different market phases
• How to combine VWAP with other tools

Step 4. Market Profile: Tracking Trends in Real-Time

• What the Market Profile (TPO) indicates
• How to analyze price distribution over time
• How to use Value Areas
• How the profile changes during trending phases
• How to identify intraday trends using TPO

Step 5. Level 2 Data: Confirming and Utilizing Trends

• How to visualize liquidity using Heatmap and Smart DOM
• What absorption is and how it affects the price
• How institutional vs. retail players become visible in the DOM
• How to use this data to confirm trends
• Which zones you should monitor for entries or exits

Step 6. Footprint Analysis: Spotting Trend Reversals in Time

• How Footprint charts reveal internal market activity
• How to use Delta, Imbalance, and volume in the cluster
• How to spot exhaustion and trend reversals early
• How to evaluate absorption and reactions to liquidity
• How ATAS indicators help you with entry decisions

Step 7. Ask your questions directly to the expert in the Q&A

• Open Q&A session with Pavel
• Deepening of core topics
• Clarification of individual trading questions
• Practical tips for strategy implementation

 

👍 The marathon is for everyone who:

• already has basic knowledge of order flow & volume analysis;
• wants to further develop or refine their system;
• is looking for practical tools and setups rather than theory;
• wants to not just follow trends, but trade them strategically.

The marathon host Pavel Horák is an ATAS expert and specialist in volume analysis. He is a NASDAQ day trader with 8 years of experience and also an indicator developer.

 

P.S. 

This is the second ATAS marathon — a continuation of our first foundational course, where we covered the basics of order flow, volume analysis, and working with the ATAS platform. If you are not yet familiar with these concepts, we recommend starting there to get the most out of the advanced content in Level 2.