OFS StructureMapper

1. Create or sign in to your OrderFlowSmith account with the same e-mail address used by your ATAS account. When access to OFS StructureMapper 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. Only if the OrderFlowSmith and ATAS e-mails are different, download OFS.StructureMapper.dll from your OrderFlowSmith account and install it manually: %APPDATA%\ATAS\Indicators for classic ATAS or %APPDATA%\ATAS X\Indicators for ATAS X. After every update, download and replace the DLL manually, then fully restart ATAS. If Windows blocked the file, open DLL Properties and select Unblock.
4. Add OFS StructureMapper to a chart.
5. Open indicator settings → 01 · License → paste the license key from your OrderFlowSmith account (it is also sent by e-mail).
6. The settings show the licensed account; the panel footer shows the version and license status, and structure appears as soon as enough bars have been scanned.

First settings worth a look: 06 · Mode & Inputs → Preset if you trade NQ, ES, BTC or EUR/USD, and Sensitivity on AUTO for anything else; 14 · Panel → Panel Mode, switched to Detailed while you calibrate, so you can see pivot density and rejection reasons; 11 · Scoring & Ranking → Minimum Display Score if the chart is busier or emptier than you want. Every setting has a tooltip explaining what it does and why it exists.

1.3.2 - MANUAL UPDATE CHECK.

Check For Updates: unticking it and ticking it again now runs the version check immediately and shows the new-version card again, even if you had closed it for that version. Nothing else changed.

1.3.1 - PRODUCT ROW SHOWS THE NAME ONLY.

The Product row in 01 - License now shows the product name only. No internal code is displayed anywhere in the settings. Nothing else changed.

1.3.0 - SETTINGS TEMPLATE: LICENSE HEADER, PANEL BACKGROUND AND NOTICES, TELEGRAM IN ONE FORM. STRUCTURE LOGIC UNCHANGED.

14 - Panel gained Panel Background (transparency in the colour) and Show Notices with its own position and offsets: the licence notice now shows even while the panel is hidden, and it no longer prints the licence holder's e-mail. In 16 - Alerts the Alert Sound sits right under Enable Alerts. Group 01 - License now reads Product, License Key, Website, Version and Check For Updates - the same header in every OFS indicator. The five Telegram rows (Enable Telegram, Bot Token, Chat ID, Get Chat ID Now, Send Test Message) carry the same names, order and help everywhere. Pivots, trendlines, zones, scoring and drawing are unchanged.

1.2.12 - NO CUSTOMER LIMITS: WHOLE-CHART SCAN, LEVELS THAT NEVER EXPIRE, TRANSPARENCY IN THE COLOR.

Maximum Historical Scan accepts 0 = the whole loaded chart (a long chart just takes longer to open). Confirmed Lifetime and Confirmed Zone Lifetime accept 0 = never expires by time, so a confirmed line or zone stays until it breaks; Context Zone Lifetime has a new Never option. The four Opacity settings are gone: transparency now lives in the color pickers only - Support Zone Fill and Resistance Zone Fill are new colors whose alpha channel is the fill transparency, and the specification's state dimming (candidate 35 %, confirmed 70 %, primary 100 % of the color's alpha) is applied automatically. Diagnostic Mode and Diagnostic Log moved to a new last group, 18 - Diagnostics, so the everyday settings are not mixed with calibration tools. Structure calculations are unchanged.

1.2.11 - PANEL LAYOUT AND VISIBILITY CONTROLS.

Compact, detailed and status panel variants now share all nine chart positions, including horizontal and vertical centering, and remain clamped inside the chart. The panel defaults to Off; when enabled it defaults to Top Right with 20 px offsets. Check for Updates remains enabled by default. Structure calculations and signal logic are unchanged.

1.2.10 - VISIBLE STRUCTURE NOW HONOURS ITS LIMITS.

Broken and Balance trendlines no longer add extra lines outside Lines Shown Per Layer; they compete with active structure for the same slot. Context, Broken and Balance zones now consume Maximum Zones Per Side as well, while explicitly enabled context remains protected in ranking. The engine still tracks every object internally; the change only removes chart clutter.

Regression evidence: 70 deterministic StructureMapper checks pass. Static build and encrypted release gates do not replace live ATAS visual and parity acceptance.

1.2.9 - DEEP SPECIFICATION HARDENING: HONEST LIFECYCLES, DETERMINISTIC PARITY AND ONE ATOMIC CHART FRAME.

A broken line or zone can now flip only after price approaches it from the genuinely broken side and rejects there. Zone identity and its independent-test clock begin at the source pivot rather than the later creation bar; Confirmed zones use the confirmed lifetime; Broken remnants cannot inflate confluence or outrank active Confirmed structure; Candidate and Broken styling stays dashed; and the configured second role change locks the object as non-directional Balance.

Session handling and identity are now deterministic at the boundaries that matter: NQ/ES Custom Hours use New York daylight-saving rules per bar, BTC resets at exactly 00:00 UTC, tick-chart IDs retain all seven fractional-second digits, alert strings are valid escaped JSON, prices are invariant and tick-rounded, and timestamps carry the selected time-zone offset without moving the structure itself.

The renderer and intrabar preview now consume and publish one immutable generation. A stale preview is rejected instead of being attached to a newer completed-bar frame, and tolerance geometry is captured with that frame. Diagnostics write a BarFrame heartbeat for every completed candle; the parity checker fails closed on duplicate keys, missing heartbeats, unequal final coverage and every required object/state/score/visibility difference.

Evidence before packaging: 67/67 deterministic StructureMapper checks, 6/6 parity-tool self-tests and 171/171 shared OFS checks. These are static and fixture-based gates, not a claim that ATAS runtime parity, visuals or performance have already passed; those remain mandatory in PREBIERKA before the encrypted release is called fully verified.

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

The centred new-version card - product name, your version and the new one, a Close button - now also shows a short description of what each release brings. Identical in every OFS indicator.

1.2.7 - SMALL AUDIT FIXES: EXACT CONFLUENCE, A STEADIER SECOND LINE, AND A DIAGNOSTIC LOG THAT KEEPS UP.

Confluence between a trendline and other objects is now measured on the exact bar being processed - during a fast catch-up it could read the line's projection one bar behind.

With Lines Shown Per Layer above one, the second line could swap on ties; within the score tie margin the line already drawn now keeps its place, the same anti-flicker rule zones and the primary line already follow.

The diagnostic log flushes to disk at least once a second, so a platform crash no longer loses the last quarter-megabyte of rows.

1.2.6 - ALERTS ACTUALLY FIRE NOW, AND TIMES ARE PICKED, NOT TYPED.

All seven alerts (candidate created, touch, third-touch confirmation, break, retest flip, expiry and approach) were silently dead: the guard that keeps alerts from replaying history was off by one bar, so it also swallowed every live event. It now uses the correct boundary and the alerts fire again - still only on the live market, never from a reload or a settings change.

Regular Hours Start and Regular Hours End use the platform's own time picker instead of a typed HH:mm text. Values are still shown in your selected Time Zone and anchored to the exchange clock underneath, so switching the zone never moves a session cut. If you had custom hours saved from an older version, set them once again - the old text values cannot carry over into the new editors.

1.2.5 - ZONES AT THEIR TRUE COLOUR, AND DRAW ABOVE CANDLES FINALLY WORKS.

The chart content was drawn in two layers on top of each other, which made every semi-transparent zone twice as dark as the colour you picked. It is drawn once now. As part of the same fix, the Draw Above Candles switch actually does something: content is composed in the one pass where the platform decides above-or-below the candles, so turning it off really puts the structure behind the price.

The new-version card also shows on its own now - it used to be tied to the panel and never appeared while the panel was hidden.

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

The card that appears when a newer version is available has been redesigned, identically for every OFS indicator. It now sits exactly in the centre of the chart, shows each product with its current and new version, recommends updating, and carries clearly visible buttons: an Info button that opens the product's page on orderflowsmith.com directly, a Close button at the bottom and the familiar cross in the corner. When several OFS indicators on one chart have updates at once, they all share the single card - one line and one Info button each.

1.2.3 - DOTS SIT EXACTLY ON THE WICK.

The dots above and below wicks - pivot markers and touch points - were drawn one to two pixels to the side of the wick, and at odd bar widths the offset even changed as you scrolled, so the dots seemed to jump sideways. The cause: the coordinate the code asked the platform for is not the same coordinate the platform itself uses to draw the wick. The markers, the preview boxes and the endpoints of structure lines are now anchored with the exact same formula the chart uses for the wick, so they sit on it to the pixel at every zoom.

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

The alert sound used to be a text field with "alert1" typed into it. If you did not already know what the sound files are called, there was no way to find out from inside the indicator, and a typo produced silence rather than an error. It is now the platform's own sound picker: a drop-down of the installed sounds with a small play button beside it, so you can hear a sound before you settle on it. It is the same control ATAS uses in its own indicators.

Because the list comes from the platform rather than from us, it also shows sounds you added yourself - drop a .wav into the platform's Sounds folder and it appears.

A sound you had chosen before is kept.


1.2.0 - TIME ZONE AND SESSIONS, WITHOUT MOVING YOUR STRUCTURE. A new settings group, 05 Session & Time, decides how times are shown and where the trading day is cut.

The important part is what does NOT happen: the structure stays anchored to the exchange clock, so switching the display zone never moves a session boundary and nothing on the chart jumps. Times arrive from the platform in UTC and UTC stays the default; the list is ordered by UTC offset, and Manual gives you a fixed offset with no daylight-saving switching.

Session Template follows the platform by default - it already handles daylight saving, which hard-coded logic must never try to do. Custom Hours lets you state regular trading hours yourself, entered in whichever zone you selected.

Also fixed: touch dots and preview boxes now sit exactly above and below the wick they mark. They were drawn a fraction off centre, which is the kind of detail you notice without being able to name it.

The settings groups are renumbered to match every other OFS indicator, so the window looks the same wherever you are — Mode & Inputs, Structure Display, Labels & Markers, Outputs and Alerts all moved down the list, and Context Panel is now simply Panel. If an older entry below names a group by its old number, this is why.

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. It read Licensed to: your@address - expires <date>, so anyone you sent a screenshot to could read who the license belongs to. It now reads v1.1.6 - license OK: version first, then the state of the license and nothing else, the same in every OFS indicator. Who the license belongs to stays in the settings, where only you see it.

1.1.5 - A NEW VERSION NOTICE. Once a day the indicator asks orderflowsmith.com whether a newer version has been released and, if so, shows a small card on the chart with what the new version brings you.

It sends nothing at all - no license key, no product name, not a single parameter - so the request cannot tell anyone what you use, and one request covers every OFS indicator on the chart. The answer is signed with the same key as your license, so nothing else can put text on your chart. It never blocks anything and it stays silent when there is no connection.

There is one card per chart, not one per indicator, and it lists every product that has an update. Close it and it will not come back until the next release. It can be switched off in Settings under 01 License.

1.1.4 - LICENCE GATE ON NOTIFICATIONS. Platform alerts and Telegram messages now require a valid key, exactly like the drawing on the chart does. The gate sits in the place where a notification is actually sent, not at the caller, so it cannot be bypassed by a new call site. Any queued notifications are discarded while the key is missing, so they do not pile up and all fire at once the moment a key is entered.

EARLIER RELEASES - the short version. Everything below happened before 1.0 and is kept here because it says how the indicator got its rules. Note that the settings groups were renumbered in 1.2.0, so older entries name them by their old position.

0.3.15 - The context panel now starts hidden, so adding the indicator leaves the chart clean. Every alert was already off by default: nothing here makes a sound until you ask it to.

0.3.14 - FLIP and BALANCE tags off by default. The object is already drawn in the colour of its new role, so the tag only repeated what the colour said.

0.3.13 - A level no longer switches itself on and off as price drifts past it. An object already on the chart now leaves on a distinctly looser threshold than the one it arrived on - the same separate-enter-and-exit rule that governs object states, applied to the decision to show them.

0.3.12 - Sensitivity can calibrate itself. Every distance in this indicator already adapts to any market, because they are all measured in volatility units - but pivot strength is counted in BARS, and three bars either side means three minutes on a minute chart and about a second on a fast tick chart. That is why values tuned on one chart type are wrong on another. AUTO measures the indicator's own pivot density and moves the dial until it lands in the target band, deciding only from bars already behind it.

0.3.11 - The sensitivity dial became a named list instead of a signed number. A numeric editor that will not accept a minus sign swallows the value silently, and there is no way to tell it never arrived - which is exactly what had been happening. A dropdown cannot fail to register.

0.3.10 - The drawn line stopped changing several times a second. Which line to draw was being decided from scratch on every bar, and on a tick chart several bars close each second, so two closely scored lines kept swapping while the market itself had not moved. The line on the chart now keeps its place until a rival beats it by more than the tie margin AND holds that lead for the new Primary Hold setting. Zones follow the same principle.

0.3.9 - Everything drawn per bar was half a candle to the right. The platform's GetXByBar already returns the MIDDLE of a bar and the code added half a bar width on top. On a line that is invisible; on a touch dot it is the difference between marking a wick and sitting beside it.

0.3.8 - Touch dots and pivot markers moved outside the candle. A dot drawn at the price of the touch sits at the same height as the wick that made it, so it appeared beside the wick instead of marking it. They now sit clear of the candle, below the low or above the high.

0.3.7 - Trendlines stopped dying three bars after they were confirmed. The band that means price is still respecting a line and the threshold that means it broke overlapped, so the same bar could satisfy both. Measured on a real session, 67 percent of confirmed trendlines broke within five bars of confirmation, median three bars - so a line never lasted long enough to be useful. A break threshold can no longer fall below the contact band, whatever it is set to. Found in the diagnostic log; it was not visible by reading the code, because each threshold looked reasonable on its own and only their relationship was wrong.

0.3.6 - Turning the sensitivity down could empty the chart. The dial was cutting structure twice: fewer objects were found AND the score they had to clear was raised at the same time. It now controls how much structure is FOUND; what is worth showing stays your decision in Scoring & Ranking. The panel shows the sensitivity next to the preset whenever it is not zero - a dial that moves several thresholds at once has to be visible, otherwise the chart changes and nothing says why.

0.3.5 - The prior-session high stopped disappearing. Context levels were being treated as obstacles that could be broken, so once price traded through yesterday's high the level was removed - while the low stayed. A context level is a reference, not an obstacle: yesterday's high is worth watching all day precisely AFTER price has crossed it. Context levels can now be touched, but they no longer break or flip.

0.3.4 - An object can no longer flip roles forever. The log showed 815 objects flipping at least once, 249 of them four times or more, and one seventeen times. An object that flips seventeen times is not describing structure, it is describing price oscillating around a level. After the second role change an object is now locked as a BALANCE area: it keeps its place on the chart, but stops changing role, stops being reported as nearest support or resistance - it is neither - and no longer counts as an obstacle when space is measured.

0.3.3 - The panel and label offsets are no longer capped at a number with no reason behind it, which ran out on a large or high-resolution chart.

0.3.2 - Five fixes found by reading two charts three minutes apart. The panel and the chart could disagree about the same object, because nearest support and resistance were chosen by which side of price a zone sat on rather than by its role. The panel counted objects it had not actually drawn. A level was marked QUALIFIES on quality alone, when the bounce framework requires quality AND enough room to the next opposing object - so the Space row now says TOO TIGHT, in the warning colour, when there is not.

0.3.1 - The test instrument. Behaviour unchanged; this release only added the ability to observe it. Outputs -> Diagnostic Log records every transition - pivot confirmed, object created, touched, rejected, confirmed, broken, retested, flipped, expired - each with the reason it happened and the reason it left, keyed by candle TIME rather than bar index, because indices shift when a reload brings a different amount of history and times do not. The forming bar is never logged: only what the indicator declares as settled is recorded.

0.3.0 - A readable chart, and a settings window you can use. The per-layer limit had only decided which line was EMPHASIZED, not how many were drawn, so every line above the display score was on the chart at once. It now decides what is drawn: one rising and one falling line per layer by default, and every other line waits in the engine until it ranks first. Objects projected far from price are no longer drawn at all - a trendline well below the market is not information, it is a line into the corner of the screen. New: Sensitivity, one dial instead of four expert groups; and Show Advanced Settings, off by default, so the window opens on the handful of controls you normally touch.

0.2.2 and 0.2.1 - Structure is drawn beneath the candles, and the drawing order became yours to choose. A zone rectangle painted over the bars hides the very reaction the zone exists to explain. It is deliberately one switch for the whole indicator: the platform gives an indicator a single drawing order for everything it draws, so structure and panel cannot sit on opposite sides of the candles.

0.2.0 - A full cross-check against the design document, section by section, and everything it found. Forty fixes, of which the ones worth naming: three lifetime settings had no effect at all; a flipped trendline was frozen and could be closed through repeatedly with no break and no alert; a candidate that price accepted through could become BROKEN and then flip, presenting structure that had never earned a second test; on a tick chart some trendlines were never created, because object identity used a timestamp accurate to one second and several bars a second are routine; only one line was built per new swing point however many were valid, which is why raising the lines-per-layer setting never showed more; overnight high and low were created and expired on the same bar; reaction strength was effectively a yes/no flag, so a level that produced a large thrust scored the same as one that barely rejected; and presets leaked into eac