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by Christopher Creamer | Orderflow Trader · 3,002 words · 399 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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0:00What's up? It's Thrax. I'm going to be
0:02going over a quick video on just how to
0:04set up your ATS or how I set up my ATOSS
0:07and my cluster settings to get it to
0:09look like this. In my last video that I
0:12created in regards to my footprint
0:14charts and my footprint setups that I
0:16use to trade, I was getting a handful of
0:19comments just asking how to set it up.
0:22So, I'll go over it in this video for
0:24you guys. And just to make it easy, I am
0:26going to include the actual CTS template
0:28file for TOSS down in the description
0:31below. So you can download it. And after
0:33you do download it, to make it really
0:36simple, you can just go to settings,
0:38templates, import, and then you would
0:41select the thrax cluster settings, and
0:43then you can import it, and your chart
0:45will then automatically look like this.
0:47But I will be going over the settings a
0:50little bit more in depth just so that
0:52you know what to change or you know how
0:54you can change it just to get it to show
0:57what you're actually looking for. And
0:59I'll go over the indicators I use on A
1:01toss itself when I'm trading on this
1:04platform. So to get to the actual
1:06settings if you didn't know, you would
1:09just rightclick, you go to settings, and
1:11you have a couple different settings
1:13here. You have visual settings, cluster
1:15settings, your trading settings, and
1:18then templates. So, visual settings are
1:20just things like uh the background and
1:23um showing current price and colors and
1:27things like that. You can mess around
1:28with that on your own. I'm not really
1:30going to go over that in this video. Um
1:32what I am going to go over is what you
1:35guys were requesting, which is the
1:37cluster settings. So specifically for
1:40the cluster settings that I use, you
1:42have two main things here. You have
1:44content and you have mode. In the
1:46content, what I'm always looking at is
1:49I'm looking bid times ask. And so
1:51essentially what bid times ask is going
1:53to show us is when you do zoom in,
1:56that's when it's going to show the bid
1:58on the left side, the ask on the right
2:00side. And you're reading it the same way
2:02that I went over in the last video. So
2:04you're reading it diagonally, not
2:06horizontally. if you are reading the
2:08numbers. So, bid times ask is going to
2:11be the content that we want inside of
2:13the candles. And then there's a couple
2:16different things you can actually do
2:17here for the mode. So, in the previous
2:19video, I did have people asking me how I
2:23got the PC to only show up on the bid or
2:25on the ask. If you wanted to do that,
2:28the mode that you need to be on is bid
2:30ask ladder. So, if you see when I
2:33changed to bid ask ladder, now you have
2:35the PC only on one side of the candle,
2:39whether it's the ask or the bid. I
2:41actually don't use this anymore. I
2:44recently have been using the volume
2:45profile. The reason why I use the volume
2:48profile, just so you know, is because
2:50when you see these shaded areas or these
2:52clouds, this is where the most amount of
2:55volume obviously was traded in the
2:56candle. It's just easier to visualize in
2:59my opinion with the volume proportion
3:02rather than using the bid ask ladder and
3:06I can still look at delta and look at
3:08the numbers themselves to understand
3:11where more of that volume was happening
3:13whether it was on the bid or it was on
3:15the ask. So recently I've just been
3:17using it this way um where instead of it
3:20being on only one side it's showing just
3:22the actual level where the PC was for
3:24the candle itself. You can do it with
3:26the bit ask ladder if you want to.
3:29That's how I had it in the other video,
3:31but I no longer do that. I do it now
3:33where it's on the same level. So, in the
3:36color scheme, this is what's going to be
3:38showing up inside the actual candle.
3:40What I typically keep it on is volume
3:42proportion because I'm trying to
3:44understand within the candle where
3:46majority of the volume was actually
3:48traded in the candle. So, in my case, I
3:51am using volume proportion with the
3:53volume profile. If you wanted to use
3:55something else, you absolutely could.
3:57For example, if you want to use the bid
3:59ask ladder and you wanted to see whether
4:02you know the most amount of volume or
4:04the PC was on the bid or the ask and
4:07instead of looking at volume, you wanted
4:09to look at delta. Um, you can do that
4:13and it will shade in the candles
4:16differently. This is how I had it on the
4:19video where you guys watched last time
4:22in regards to my reversal setup that I
4:25look for in footprint. Like I said, I
4:28did change it. So, you know, I'm looking
4:30at volume profile and I'm not looking at
4:31delta because I have delta down here
4:34that I can pay attention to. I don't
4:36need to look at it within the actual
4:38candle itself for the specific type of
4:40trading that I'm doing. So I just keep
4:42it on volume proportion just so that I
4:44can see these clouds even when I'm kind
4:46of zoomed out. So after that essentially
4:49what you're doing now is you're just
4:50changing the colors of what's inside the
4:52candle. So now for you know volume
4:55proportion if you're on this the main
4:57color being blue that's when the cloud
4:59of volume here is blue. If you want it
5:01to be a different color you can change
5:03it. And then down here maximum level
5:07this is how you actually get the PC on
5:09your chart. So you would choose volume
5:12because the point of control is
5:14volumebased. We're looking at volume. If
5:17you wanted to look at something else
5:18like let's say you had this as negative
5:20delta, this is not the P. This is
5:24something completely different. So if
5:26you want to look at the PC, you're going
5:28to be using volume. Now it's going to
5:31show you where the most amount of volume
5:32was traded within that specific candle.
5:35Doesn't matter what time frame it is.
5:37This charts on a 3minut time frame. This
5:39chart's on the five minute and I also
5:41have a 15minute and a hourly candle on
5:45another chart that's on a different
5:47screen. After that, what I do is I
5:50enable bid ask imbalance settings. So
5:54essentially what this is is when there
5:58is a certain amount of
6:00buyers then sellers or sellers then
6:03buyers, we're looking for imbalances
6:05within the candle itself so that we can
6:07get an idea of who's in control and
6:10where direction is going. And the way
6:12that I do that or the way that you would
6:14do it is you would essentially enable
6:16it. And when you enable it, you can
6:18select the colors because I have a
6:21darker background. Um, I keep it white.
6:24And so essentially what that looks like
6:26is when you have more sellers, see here,
6:29there were more sellers aggressively
6:30hitting the bid than buyers hitting the
6:33ask because there was an imbalance here.
6:36They bas I basically have it showing up
6:38in a bold font. And that bold font, I
6:42want it to be white. If you have a
6:45different background, maybe you want it
6:47to be a different color. And if that's
6:49the case, then you're going to change it
6:51here. So you would change it in this
6:54area. The imbalance rate is important
6:57because this is essentially a
6:58percentage. You can keep it to 300 or
7:02400 or even 500. Personally, I keep it
7:06at 400%. So I'm looking for 400%
7:10imbalances on either side of the bid in
7:12the ask. So that means like if there
7:15were four times as many buyers and
7:17sellers, it's going to show up in bold.
7:19If there's four times as many sellers
7:20than buyers, it's going to show up in
7:22bold. And then I do have a volume filter
7:25here. So I don't want to have like a
7:27super low volume candle that only has a
7:30couple contracts traded at each level
7:32and then is then showing a bunch of
7:35imbalances because those don't really
7:36matter. What I am looking for is I'm
7:40looking for when there is volume in the
7:42candle that essentially the imbalances
7:46that are four times the other side of
7:49the bid in the ask I am looking for
7:52imbalances then. So for example when we
7:55have it filtering out 10 so it needs at
7:58least 10 contracts to count towards a
8:01imbalance and then it needs to be four
8:04times the amount. So if we look at it
8:06like let's say in this candle. So you
8:09see how we have 126 to 0 122 to 10 36 to
8:141 35 to 1 32 to 0 42 to 0 18 to 0. This
8:20is what's showing up imbalances on my
8:23screen.
8:25And I use these as sometimes areas of
8:29support and resistance depending on if
8:31it was sellers or buyers. And I actually
8:33have an indicator for that which I'll go
8:35over in a second. But that is really
8:37about it for the cluster settings. It's
8:40pretty simple. Although I know it's it's
8:44easier if I do make a video on it so
8:46that you guys can just set it up really
8:47quick. So just a quick recap. The
8:49cluster settings, the content I have it
8:51bid times ask. Volume profile is the
8:54mode that I'm on currently that you're
8:56looking at on my screen. If you want it
8:58to have the PC only on either the bid or
9:00only on the ask, then you're going to
9:02use the bid ask ladder and then the
9:05color scheme below. I keep it on volume.
9:08If you don't want to look at volume for
9:10whatever reason and you wanted to look
9:12at delta or heat map by trades or
9:17whatever, then go ahead go ahead and
9:19change it right there. And then again
9:21down here, you want to make sure your
9:23maximum level is volume. And that's how
9:24you're going to get the PC.
9:27You can change it to whatever color you
9:28want. I currently have it as yellow
9:31because I have a darker background. And
9:33then I just enable the imbalances. And I
9:36make sure that it's a 400% or 400 Yeah,
9:40400% imbalance rate. So that's four
9:43times as many buyers or sellers, four
9:45times as many sellers than buyers. Now,
9:48the last thing I'll go over is I will go
9:50over just the indicators that I have. So
9:54the first one that I have is the stacked
9:56imbalance. So if you go into a toss and
10:00you wanted to add an indicator, you
10:02would essentially just right click on
10:05the chart, go to indicators, you can
10:07search up here, stacked imbalance, you
10:11would select it. Now once you are in
10:13stacked imbalance, this is where I put
10:16the same settings. 400 for the imbalance
10:19ratio, 10 for the needed volume, and
10:22then I change the colors. And line till
10:25touch means that this is essentially
10:28going to stay here until price runs
10:30through it. And then it's no longer
10:32going to continue through the rest of
10:33the chart just to keep the charts clean.
10:36Cuz I only use these once. Once price
10:38runs through them, I don't typically use
10:39them again. But if you want it to go all
10:42the way across the chart, you would just
10:43uncheck this box. So then what happens
10:45is every single time that there is an
10:47imbalance created on either side, it
10:50then creates these boxes. So if it's
10:52sellers, then it's going to be red. If
10:55it's buyers, then it's going to be blue.
10:57And you can see them here on my charts,
11:02how they are now. And then you can
11:04change the colors or you can change the
11:06opacity of them or whatever you want to
11:08do. And then something else I look at is
11:10I have a bar timer here. is very simple
11:13and self-explanatory. It's just how much
11:16time is left in this actual three minute
11:18candle or if I'm on a different chart
11:20like a 15minute, it's how much time is
11:23left on that candle. I always pay
11:25attention to it just because time is
11:27important when it comes to trades. I
11:30just like to pay attention to it. You
11:32don't need it here, but I have it here.
11:34If you download my uh template, you're
11:36going to have it, too. But you can
11:37always delete it if you want. And then
11:39you would just change the colors and
11:40whatnot inside of the settings. And then
11:43the last one that I have, which is
11:45important, which a lot of you probably
11:48were asking about, is down here at the
11:51bottom where I'm showing delta and
11:53volume per candle. The way that you
11:55would do that is again you would go into
11:58the indicators and you would search up
12:00something called cluster statistic.
12:03When you open up cluster statistic,
12:06you're going to have rows. So, if you
12:08really wanted to, you can show how many
12:11bid, how many ask, you know, the trade
12:13count, the session volume, the volume
12:15per second, whatever. Um, I only have
12:18two of these checked because it's the
12:20only ones I care about looking at. And
12:22it's delta and volume for the candle.
12:25And then when you come down to
12:27visualization,
12:29this is essentially how you're going to
12:31be looking at the colors. So, you if you
12:35wanted to make uh like let's say your
12:37candlesticks aren't blue and red like
12:39mine and they're green and red, then you
12:41you could just change the ass color to
12:43green. Keep the bid color as red. And
12:46then your chart essentially down here
12:50when there's more buyers, it's going to
12:51be a more vibrant color or more sellers,
12:55it's going to be a more vibrant color.
12:56If it's more neutral or kind of balanced
12:59within the candle where there's not a
13:01huge delta difference, then it's going
13:03to be kind of low opacity. Um, so like
13:07as you can see when down here we were at
13:11- 735 for delta, it's a brighter color.
13:15Minus 1,000 brighter color. When we're
13:17over here at zero, it's essentially
13:20blank. It's like uh low opacity. It's
13:23dark. It's not very vibrant. And then
13:26again when we come up in numbers to -552
13:29on the delta for this 3minut candle then
13:32it's going to become more vibrant so
13:34it's easier to see. And the same goes
13:36for volume. So volume is the second
13:40statistic I'm looking at. I have it as
13:43gray. You can change it to whatever
13:44color you want. But the more volume
13:47there is, the brighter the gray is going
13:50to be. The less volume there is, the
13:53less gray there's going to be. It's just
13:55another way to kind of visualize what's
13:59happening without having to read all
14:00these numbers. Choosing the colors is
14:04important because you don't always have
14:05to read every individual number as it
14:08can become a lot when you're trying to
14:11trade day trade intraday. Especially if
14:14you're like scalping or something or
14:16taking quick moves like 15, 20, 25 point
14:19moves. You don't want to be reading a
14:22bunch of numbers and like trying to over
14:24complicate things. So I use a lot of
14:26this stuff just as like colors, right?
14:29So if I'm looking at this, I can easily
14:32see the PC. I can easily see where there
14:34were sellers. I could see where buyers
14:36started to step in. I don't really have
14:38to read the numbers. I can see the
14:40clouds where the volume was at. I don't
14:42have to read the numbers. If I do care
14:44to read the numbers and start looking at
14:46the imbalances and how much volume there
14:48actually was or how many trades there
14:50were, I can do that if I really want to,
14:52but I don't need to. So yeah, I mean
14:56that's essentially it. So we're
14:58currently just looking at the bid and
14:59ask. We're looking at volume. We're
15:01looking at the PC of the candle. And
15:03then we're looking at delta and volume
15:05down here below. Couple indicators.
15:07Pretty quick video. I just kept getting
15:10comments on that last video asking for
15:13me to make a video about the settings.
15:15So, here it is. It's pretty simple. You
15:18can learn more about it if you actually
15:19go to Atas's YouTube channel. They're
15:22great. They have a lot of educational
15:24content on how to actually use their
15:26platform. Um, but in case you don't want
15:27to do that, you can just copy my
15:30template. You can download it in the
15:32description below and then just upload
15:34it into the templates here in your TOSS
15:36platform. And again, if you don't have a
15:39toss, you can go ahead and click the
15:41link in the description below and you
15:43can get a 14-day free trial just to mess
15:45around with this. They have a great
15:47replay mode. Um, probably the best that
15:50I've ever seen. It's real time and you
15:53can see all the orders coming in and you
15:55can even see previous DOM levels if you
15:58trade looking at the DOM. They allow
16:00level two playback as well. If you guys
16:02have any questions, feel free to ask me
16:04in the comment section below. Hopefully
16:06this video helped you, especially if you
16:08were asking me for my settings in a
16:11toss. Here it is. And I will catch you
16:14guys next time I make a video. Peace.

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