OFS AegisZones

1. Create or sign in to your OrderFlowSmith account with the same e-mail address used by your ATAS account. When access to OFS AegisZones is activated and the e-mails match, ATAS delivers the indicator automatically; do not install a DLL manually.
2. Open or fully restart ATAS so the automatically delivered indicator becomes available in the indicator catalogue. Whenever an update is released through ATAS, fully restart the platform; ATAS downloads and loads the new version automatically.
3. If your ATAS account uses a different e-mail address than your OrderFlowSmith account, write to us at orderflowsmith.com/contact - we move the license to your ATAS e-mail and ATAS delivers the indicator automatically.
4. Add the indicator to a chart that carries cluster (footprint) data. Any tick, volume or time chart works as long as the data feed delivers bid and ask per price.
5. Open the settings, group 01 - License, and paste the license key from your orderflowsmith.com account. Until the key is valid the indicator draws nothing but the license message.
6. In the control panel at the top of the chart switch on the horizons you want to see: MICRO, SESSION, COMP - everything is off by default. Optional: PANEL shows the state in words, and the Diagnostic Log in 20 - Log writes every zone state change to a CSV file in %LOCALAPPDATA%\OrderFlowSmith\diag.
7. The everyday groups are 06 - Mode and Inputs, 14 - Zone Display, 15 - Labels, 16 - Panel and 17 - Control Panel. The internal calibration of the engine is hidden and ships at tested defaults.

1.4.4 - THE DOT ON THE HIDDEN BUTTON SHOWS ONLY WHAT IS REALLY ON.

- The dot counts what is really drawn: BROKEN only with a zone set (MICRO, SESSION, COMP) switched on.

1.4.3 - NOTICES OFF BY DEFAULT AND BELOW EACH OTHER; A DOT ON THE HIDDEN BUTTON.

- The waiting and error notices are off by default, also on saved charts - switch them on with Show Notices. A missing or invalid licence is always shown.

- Notices start 50 px from the top, below the row of hidden panel buttons (Notice Offset Y), and the notices of several OFS indicators stack below each other by themselves - they never cover a control panel or a hidden panel button.

- The hidden panel button shows a dot before the name: green when anything on the control panel is switched on, an empty grey ring when everything is off - you see at once which indicator draws on the chart.

1.4.2 - LOG: ONE SWITCH, ITS OWN FOLDER.

- New in 20 · Log: Log (on / off, off by default) and Log Folder. Switched on, the indicator writes everything it does into its own log - its settings and every change of them, the chart, the calculation, every zone transition, touch and approach, every rebuild in the background, its alerts and errors and what the panel shows. Keys, tokens and IDs are never written.
- The files go into the folder of the indicator inside Log Folder, for example D:\logs\OFS AegisZones - one file per chart and day, with the computer and the platform in the file name.
- Diagnostic Log (Off / Events / Verbose) is replaced by this one switch - a saved chart with Diagnostic Log on has Log on. The CSV of all zone transitions is written next to the log while Log is on (until 1.4.1 in %LOCALAPPDATA%\OrderFlowSmith\diag).

1.4.1 - CONTROL PANEL.

- New one-line control panel at the top of the chart, the same as in the other OFS indicators: MIN SCORE - 60 + sets from which score a zone counts as confirmed and is drawn (in steps of 5; the zones are rebuilt in the background); MICRO, SESSION and COMP show the zones of each horizon - on their own or several at once; BROKEN the broken zones in grey; LABELS the labels; PANEL the status panel. HIDE folds it into a small name button. Settings in the new group 17 - Control Panel; Alerts, Telegram and Log moved to 18, 19 and 20 - saved values stay.
- Everything in the control panel is off by default, as in every OFS indicator: after the update switch on MICRO, SESSION or COMP to see the zones. Show Zones is replaced by Show Micro Zones, Show Session Zones and Show Composite Zones (14 - Zone Display); Show Labels is off on new charts.
- Alerts come only for zones of the horizons switched on - a horizon that is off is neither drawn nor heard.
- The panel line Hidden no longer lists broken zones and conflict areas that are shown.
- The panel and the notices move below an open control panel instead of behind it.

1.4.0 - THE ZONES NEXT TO PRICE, ONE BOX PER PLACE, LABELS THAT STAY READABLE.

- Maximum Active Zones now counts only the zones in the visible part of the chart. Until now zones hundreds of points away with a higher score could take all twelve places, and the zones next to price were left out (on a 1-minute chart there was usually one zone on screen, and none 28 % of the time).
- The composite profile always has its finished sessions: it takes them from before the calculation window as well. On a 250-tick chart it used to have none.
- Zones of the same side from different horizons that overlap are drawn as one, with the evidence of all of them - no more boxes and labels on top of each other.
- Labels stand just past the live candle on a dark box, so candles no longer cover them; with little free space on the right they show side and score only. One structure code instead of all pivots at once. New settings: Extend Right (px), Label Offset Y (px) and Label Background; Label Offset X now moves the labels both ways.
- A flipped zone is drawn from the flip on, no longer across the time it was the opposite side.
- Composite zones created at the start of the calculation get the right thickness, and every zone box covers its full price range.
- The internal calibration of the engine is hidden in the settings; saved values stay. The everyday settings remain.

1.3.13 - A CHART LEFT RUNNING SHOWS WHAT A RELOADED CHART SHOWS.

- Maximum History (bars) counted back from the candle at which the chart loaded and then stayed there - a chart open overnight computed from another candle than the same chart loaded again and could show other zones. The window now starts at the start of the session that holds its first bar, and every new session moves it on: the indicator rebuilds itself in the background, the chart keeps showing the old picture until the new one is ready.

1.3.12 - RED PANEL FRAME WHEN THE CONNECTION OR THE DATA DROPS; LOG FOLDER.

- New: the indicator watches the connection and the market data - the account connection (for example Rithmic) lost for more than 15 s, no market data for 15 s while CME is trading, or the data more than 5 s late. While that lasts, the panel gets a thick red frame; the indicator keeps working, and the frame returns to normal after 30 s of healthy data. No alert and no sound. Setting Panel Outage Frame (on by default) in the panel group.

- New: Log Folder (in the Log group) - the folder for the diagnostic CSV files, for example D:\logs; the files go into a subfolder named after the computer, so two computers can share one synchronised folder. Empty = %LOCALAPPDATA%\OrderFlowSmith\diag as until now.

1.3.11 - ALERTS: SOUND ONLY, NO POPUP WINDOW.

- When an alert fires, the indicator only plays its sound - no popup window appears on the chart.

1.3.10 - THE NEW-VERSION CARD POINTS TO ATAS; SHORTER CHANGELOG.

- The new-version card now says that ATAS delivers the new version to your platform automatically (until 1.3.9 it pointed to a download in your account on orderflowsmith.com, which is no longer offered).
- Versions 0.1.0 to 1.2.2 keep their headline only, so the product card shows the whole history.
- Nothing else changed.

1.3.9 - PRODUCT NAME IN TELEGRAM, "AND" INSTEAD OF "&" IN SETTINGS.

- Telegram messages start with the product name [OFS AegisZones] instead of a short internal code.
- Settings groups 06 · Mode and Inputs and 08 · Footprint and Imbalance are written with "and": ATAS X showed the "&" sign doubled (for example "Session && Time") and the classic ATAS hid it.
- Only names changed. Saved settings and chart templates keep all their values.

1.3.8 - THE NEW-VERSION CARD HAS ONLY THE CLOSE BUTTON.

The card announcing a new version no longer has a cross in its top corner - the Close button at the bottom is the only way to close it, the same in every OFS indicator. Closing it still remembers that version, so the card does not come back until the next release. Nothing else changed.

1.3.7 - DRAW ABOVE CANDLES IN THE WHOLE FAMILY; NOTHING OVER THE PANELS OF OTHER INDICATORS.

New setting Draw Above Candles (14 · Zone Display), off by default: the zones sit behind the candles; on puts it above the candles. ATAS applies this order to the whole price panel - while ANY indicator on the panel has it on, everything on the panel is drawn above the candles - so the whole OFS family now has the same switch with the same default. Whatever the setting, nothing AegisZones draws on the chart covers the panels and windows of other indicators; only its own panel stays on top. 1.3.6 had put the zones above the candles; they are back behind them by default, as the rule has been since 2 August 2026 - a zone must not hide the reaction it explains.

Fixed: while the price panel is drawn above the candles (this or any other indicator with the switch on) and the chart is scrolled back so that the last bar is off screen, ATAS does not draw the live chart layer at all - the zones disappeared until the last bar was back in view. In that case the content now goes to the main chart layer, so it is always there.

1.3.6 - ZONES ABOVE THE CANDLES, BELOW THE PANELS OF OTHER INDICATORS.

The zones were drawn in the top layer of the chart, which lies above everything - also above the control panels and windows of every other indicator, so a zone showed through them. The zones are now in the chart layer: still above the candles and still refreshed with every tick and at once after a settings change, but below the panels of other indicators. The AegisZones panel, notices and the new-version card stay on top.

1.3.5 - MAXIMUM ACTIVE ZONES AND VERY STRONG ZONE SCORE SHOW AT ONCE.

Maximum Active Zones and Very Strong Zone Score now repaint the chart the moment you change them, also on a weekend chart or a chart scrolled into the past. Until now they asked for an ordinary redraw, which does not repaint the layer with the zones, so the change appeared only with the next candle.

Nothing else changed: the zones, the scores and saved charts stay as they were.

1.3.4 - CHECK FOR UPDATES CHECKS AT ONCE; THE NEW-VERSION CARD ALWAYS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CHART.

Unticking Check For Updates in the settings and ticking it again now asks orderflowsmith.com for the latest version straight away and, when a newer version exists, shows the card at once - also on a weekend or in a quiet market with no new ticks. Until now the check started only if the chart happened to redraw between the two clicks, so without ticks nothing happened, and the answer waited for the next redraw. Ticking it again also brings back a card you closed earlier.

The new-version card always opens in the middle of the chart, whatever the position of the control panel or the notices of the indicator. Nothing else changed: the calculation, the settings and saved charts stay as they were.

1.3.3 - SETTINGS IN THE COMMON OFS ORDER; CHECK FOR UPDATES ON DEMAND.

The settings window follows the same layout in every OFS indicator: 01 License first (product, key, website, version, Check For Updates), then Session and Time where it applies, the indicator's own groups, and at the end Panel, Alerts, Telegram and Log. The last group, which holds the diagnostic switches, is now called Log. Saved charts keep all their values - only the group name changed.

Check For Updates now also works on demand: untick it and tick it again and the indicator asks orderflowsmith.com straight away - a new-version card you closed earlier comes back as well. Until now the switch promised this but the check waited for its daily turn.

1.3.2 - ALERTS ON LONGER BARS, PANEL INSIDE THE WINDOW, INSTANT DISPLAY CHANGES.

Alerts on bars longer than five minutes: the live gate read the time the bar opened, so on a 15-minute, range or slow tick chart every zone alert was dropped as history. It now reads the time of the bar's last trade - the alert arrives the moment the bar closes.

The panel, the notices and the new-version card are placed inside the price chart itself. On classic ATAS the old drawing area reached under the price scale, so a panel on the right side could stick out past the edge of the window.

Display settings (colours, opacity, borders, labels, panel and notices) now redraw the chart at once, even when the chart is scrolled back into history.

Pasting the licence key no longer recalculates the whole chart - the zones do not depend on the licence, so the chart only redraws. Opening a saved chart no longer runs one needless background rebuild of the zones. The alert queue is now safe between the calculation and the drawing thread, and the empty-chart notice names the right settings groups (06 · Mode and Inputs, 07 · Volume Profile, 14 · Zone Display).

Zones, scores and the lifecycle are identical to 1.3.1; the 325 checks pass.

1.3.1 - SETTINGS FOLLOW THE OFS TEMPLATE: THE VERSION IS IN THE LICENCE GROUP AND NO SETTING HAS AN UPPER LIMIT.

The licence group now shows the product name, the website and the version number next to the licence key and the update check, the same header every OFS indicator has. The groups follow the shared order: calculation first, then drawing, then Panel, Alerts, Telegram and Diagnostics as the very last group - the diagnostic log moved there from Outputs, a group this indicator never needed. The panel group got the shared panel background colour with transparency, nine positions for the panel and separate notices with their own position and offset; a switched-on panel is always drawn and explains an empty chart itself. The alert sound sits right under Enable Alerts. Every upper limit on the settings is gone - each setting only keeps its logical minimum. Calculations and drawing of the zones are unchanged from 1.3.0.

1.3.0 - DEEP AUDIT: EVERY PIECE OF EVIDENCE MUST HAPPEN AT THE ZONE, AND A SETTINGS CHANGE NO LONGER FREEZES THE PLATFORM.

A full audit against the specification found evidence that a zone could collect without price ever touching it. Absorption was credited to a support 8 ticks below the bar that did the absorbing. Two closes above a support counted as a market reaction although price never came back to the zone - which also handed the zone a whole evidence family for free, so the rule of two independent evidence groups could be met by one. Delta without movement, the delta profile and the footprint POC had the same hole. Now all of them need price at the zone: absorption, delta without movement and the delta profile need the bar to reach the zone, the two closes count only after a real test, and the POC point is the footprint POC of the bar leaving the zone, as the specification says, not the POC of the 150-bar profile. The first retest that held now scores only for the side that actually held it.

The lifecycle now runs to the end. A flipped zone keeps 70 % of its original score plus the new order flow and reaction evidence - until now the flip score fell apart on the very next bar. A flipped zone that price breaks in its new direction is closed instead of staying on the chart as a valid level. Full invalidation from section 18 of the specification actually happens now; before, it could never trigger. Merging can no longer swallow a live zone into one that was already merged, a broken zone no longer takes part in merging, confluence or tests, and role reversal counts only for the side it belongs to - a broken high for support, a broken low for resistance. A freshly confirmed higher high or lower low no longer creates a candidate on its own; the specification lists only higher lows and lower highs. The label names the real pivot behind the structure evidence - HL, LH, HH or LL - instead of always HL or LH.

A change to any calculation setting used to recalculate the whole chart inside the platform, which stops every tick of the instrument for a fraction of a second on 5,000 bars and for several seconds on a long history. The zones are now rebuilt in the background and swapped in when ready; the chart keeps the previous picture until then.

What you will notice: fewer zones are confirmed the moment they appear. A zone earns its order flow and reaction points only when price comes back to it, so a fresh node below price stays a candidate (hidden by default) until the market tests it.

325 deterministic checks, 46 of them new.

1.2.7 - THE 'NEW VERSION' CARD CLOSES INSTANTLY. A click now forces the chart layers to be rebuilt at once. Until now it asked for an ordinary redraw, which only tells the platform to pour the finished layers again on its own render cycle (Max Render FPS), so the answer to a click arrived whenever that cycle got round to it. Same fix as OFS F4 WaveFade (7 September) and OFS F2 FiboFade (9 September). Nothing else changed - calculations and drawing are identical to 1.2.6.

1.2.6 - A FLIPPED ZONE IS NOW MARKED, AND THE PANEL FITS.

A zone that broke and then turned into the opposite side looked exactly like an ordinary market-confirmed zone: nothing on the chart said that this red resistance used to be a support the market broke and retested from below. The label now carries FLIP for a completed flip and FLIP? while the retest is still running, in the same short-code style the specification uses for the other evidence.

The panel keeps a fixed width, so the breakdown of hidden zones moved to a line of its own and uses short words. Zones now reads the counts, Hidden reads what was left out.

279 deterministic checks.

1.2.5 - THE ZONE-FLIP BRANCH OF THE SPECIFICATION WAS UNREACHABLE.

A behavioural pass was built that drives price through a zone the way a market does: accumulation, departure, contact with absorption, reaction, repeated retests, a break, a return from the other side and a flip. It then measures which of the eleven lifecycle states can be reached at all. The answer was that Broken, Flip Candidate and Flipped could not.

The cause: a worn zone was fully invalidated on the first close beyond it, one close before the break was complete, so it never became Broken and the whole flip chapter of the specification never ran in the product. Full invalidation is the slow death of a zone the market left behind without a reaction; while price is still closing through the zone, that judgement cannot be made yet. It now waits, the break takes precedence, and a broken zone can be retested from the other side and flip, exactly as the specification describes.

The behavioural pass is part of the test suite and fails if any of those states becomes unreachable again. 279 deterministic checks.

1.2.4 - THE ZONE LIMIT NOW COUNTS WHAT IS ON THE CHART.

Maximum Active Zones was applied before the display filters, so a zone that was going to be hidden anyway still used up a slot. With the limit at twelve, a chart holding sixty-four live zones could end up drawing nine, while four zones that were perfectly fine to show stayed behind the fence. The filters now run first and the limit counts only zones that actually reach the chart.

267 deterministic checks.

1.2.3 - THE PANEL NAMES EVERY ZONE IT DOES NOT DRAW.

1.2.2 - A CONTACT IS ONE TEST, AND SETTINGS TAKE EFFECT AT ONCE.

1.2.1 - A ZONE WITH NO EVIDENCE LEFT IS NO LONGER DRAWN.

1.2.0 - DEEP AUDIT AGAINST THE MANUAL: SEVEN FIXES IN DETECTION, SCORING AND LABELS.

1.1.13 - THE UPDATE CARD NOW TELLS YOU WHAT IS NEW.

1.1.12 - ALERTS ACTUALLY FIRE NOW, THEY LEAVE WITH THE CALCULATION, AND THE UI SITS ABOVE THE CANDLES.

1.1.11 - NEW UPDATE CARD, CENTRED AND WITH DIRECT LINKS.

1.1.10 - ZONES SIT EXACTLY ON THEIR PRICES.

1.1.9 - ALERT SOUND IS A LIST WITH A PLAY BUTTON.

1.1.7 - THE UPDATE CARD'S CLOSE BUTTON IS A REAL BUTTON - a framed, highlighted square instead of a faint cross, comfortably clickable.

1.1.6 - THE PANEL FOOTER NO LONGER SHOWS YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS.

1.1.5 - A NEW VERSION NOTICE.

1.1.4 - LICENCE GATE ON NOTIFICATIONS.

0.1.10 - the chart is never blank while the platform recalculates.

0.1.9 - the automatic history extension for the composite profile is now a separate switch, off by default.

0.1.8 - the indicator now speaks up before the level, not after it.

0.1.7 - settings now apply the moment you change them, in every case.

0.1.6 - the settings no longer expect you to read all 150 of them.

0.1.5 - the whole zone lifecycle is now actually reachable.

0.1.1 - a zone now has to sit below price to be support and above it to be resistance, exactly as the specification requires.

0.1.0 - first release.