Volume Profile Lab is an independent documentation desk that writes about the configuration surface of order-flow analysis software. It publishes reference pages, not services, and it is not connected to any platform vendor.
01 What this desk does
The desk documents configuration behaviour: which parameter governs which visible element, which values survive a profile reset, and which combinations produce results that cannot be reproduced from a screenshot. The material is written for readers who already operate these interfaces and need a written record of the settings layer rather than an introduction to the instruments themselves.
Three editorial rules shape everything published here. Parameters are named as the interface names them. Where behaviour depends on a value, the value is stated numerically rather than described. Where a claim cannot be checked against a reproducible configuration, it is not published.
02 Independence and scope
This reference is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to ATAS or OrderFlow Trading, nor with any other platform named on this site. Product names appear only to identify the interface being described. No software is hosted here, no service is offered here, and no evaluation of commercial terms appears anywhere on the site — there is no plans page, no rates page and no request form for anything other than editorial correspondence.
The scope is documentation of data visualisation and configuration. Nothing on this site constitutes advice about markets, instruments, or the suitability of any tool for any purpose; the material describes how settings behave, not what to do with them.
03 How a page is prepared
- Observation. A configuration is set on a clean profile with stated instrument, bar rule and session template.
- Isolation. One parameter is changed at a time so that the observable difference is attributable.
- Reproduction. The configuration is replayed over recorded data and compared with the original observation on a distinctive bar.
- Writing. The parameter is described with its value, its layer and its side effects, including the ones that are inconvenient.
- Review. A second reader follows the page and reports where it is ambiguous. Those passages are rewritten rather than explained.
04 Revision practice
Pages are revised in place and carry the revision tag shown in the site header. A rewrite of a section changes the tag; a typographical correction does not. When a parameter is renamed by the interface, the page uses the new name and notes the former one, because readers arrive with screenshots that use both.
The five channels of the site follow the configuration stack rather than a marketing narrative: Configure for the drawing surfaces, Indicators for the derived layers, Workspace for geometry, data and cost, Reference for comparison and vocabulary, and this channel for the desk itself.
05 Corrections and correspondence
Corrections are welcome and are the main input to the revision schedule. The most useful reports quote the page, the sentence and the configuration that contradicts it, including the instrument, the bar rule and the session template. Reports that state a preference without a configuration are noted but cannot be verified, and therefore cannot be published.
Postal address, telephone number and the editorial email address are listed on the contact page. The terms under which material may be quoted are set out in the terms of use.