[thrunner]

There is now a capable and free charting software that will do MP using IB or DTN feed, written and generously provided by jimbo320 at www.atrader.org

Well, let's not call it MP because of the copyright problems with CBOT so instead call it DP for distribution profiling.

Advanced Distribution Profiling

Atrader offers the MOST comprenhensive subset of market distribution features available in a complete off the shelf charting package, comparable to many custom add ons costing 20 times the price. Atrader is also offers historical profiling using free market data. Real Time intraday profiling is also offered as standard. Distribution profiling includes the values areas, LVA, UVA, the point of Control POC, the Opening Range, the Open and the Close. Distributions include Time/Price and Tick Price. Tick Distributions are available using brackets customisable by the user, typically 5,10, and 20 brackets.

You can request a copy here: http://www.atrader.org/register.htm
As indicated by jimbo320 in another forum, this DP feature is now free, although it is not clear if this is a trial version and if it is time limited, but for now it seems to work fine with IB. Use the keyboard shortcuts (see Help) to resize the chart to see the whole profile. It is possible to seek multiple day and weekly profiles. This software package is a good alternative to running Tradestation (TS), MC or NT if you don't have a good DP indicator for those platforms and it also free up some resources from those platforms to do other studies.

I have no association with jimbo320 or his website.

[thrunner]

This is a competent package and it appears to be more than just a time limited demo. The memory footprint is also fairly good at ~32MB so you can run it in the background without too much trouble (in fact java/tws takes up 5 or 6x the memory).

Got a update from james/Atrader Support:

New version of ATRADER is available for download.

NOTE for a limited time many ATRADER features are free including Profiles, so all older time limited demo users can download a new free version. If you are upgrading please uninstall the old version first and delete your cprogram files\atrader directory, before installation.

VERSION 2.0.1.14.

Download

The Documenation is installed with your product. It can also be found at

Documentation

There is also a new support forum.

ATRADER • Index page

Attached the Atrader documentation converted from the original Word doc to PDF.

[BlowFish]

Could you re-post the .pdf version of he documentation? The link above is saying thread removed.

[thrunner]

Originally Posted by BlowFish »

Could you re-post the .pdf version of he documentation? The link above is saying thread removed.

Sure. I think forum attachments made during an editing may not stay permanent. Here is another copy.

[qewcool]

Seems nice
will try it out although I already got the fin-alg stuff for NT just a couple of months ago.

Is this just released this month ? why did we never heard about it. They could have made a bit of advance advertising on forums. It would have delayed my fin-alg purchase until I try atrader out and they could have had an additional customer

[omni2006]

Originally Posted by qewcool »

Is this just released this month ? why did we never heard about it. They could have made a bit of advance advertising on forums. It would have delayed my fin-alg purchase until I try atrader out and they could have had an additional customer

actually, the atrader guy (Jimbo) started an announcement type thread on ET on April 10th of this year. since it's on a different forum, i won't post the link here, but you can search for "live tpo profile" and should get the thread if you are interested.

hope this helps.

Take care -

Derek

[thrunner]

Originally Posted by qewcool »

Seems nice will try it out although I already got the fin-alg stuff for NT just a couple of months ago.
Is this just released this month ? why did we never heard about it. They could have made a bit of advance advertising on forums. It would have delayed my fin-alg purchase until I try atrader out and they could have had an additional customer

fin-alg is a fine package and it runs under NT and you shouldn't have any regrets about buying it. Atrader announced that the profile would be free just recently, on 05-30-09 11:45 AM. Previously, only the charting portion was free on a limited basis.

FYI, Atrader will do a server authentication in order for it to run. It is possible that this is just a trial run to iron out the bugs and that some time in the future, the profile would no longer be free - just a guess. Meanwhile, it could be a useful tool.

[qewcool]

the ES chart looks ok
the YM chart looks really weird .... not usable at all.

Im using IB data.

The same data for YM looks fine on the fin-alg version of MP as any other chart like ZB or a forex USD/CAD chart.

I read the manual but nothing seems to help fix the atrader YM chart

another thing is the atrader version only does Vol based POC and not TPO based POC.
the Fin-alg version has the option to switch between the 2.