NinjaTrader Automated Trading

Why AFT?

• Get started 100% FREE: Use AFT Freemium for an unlimited period and upgrade only when you decide that you need more functionality
• Professional manual trading: Place and manage discretionary trades using professional indicators, trading signals, bar tools and workspaces
• Dynamic market analysis: Use self-optimizing market-structure indicators and adaptive bars designed to remain aligned with changing market behaviour
• Multiple account pathways: Trade on supported demo, simulation, replay, prop-firm evaluation, funded and personal live accounts
• Human control with machine execution: Progress from manual trading to automated trade management, Hybrid Algo entry and controlled automation
• Purpose-built for futures: Designed for Micro and E-Mini futures day trading, prop-firm trading and swing trading
• Turnkey but customizable: Start with supplied workspaces and system baselines, then adapt them to your instruments, capital, risk and trading style
• Built by real traders: Professional futures-trading technology from the original pioneers of hybrid automated retail trading for NinjaTrader

Discover why AFT is regarded as one of the best automated trading systems for NinjaTrader.

Get Started 100% FREE until you decide

AFT provides a progressive range of plans for traders who want to begin with professional manual trading and add more advanced capabilities as their requirements develop.

• AFT Freemium: Unlimited access to professional indicators, adaptive bars, systematic signals, manual trade entry and discretionary trading tools
• AFT Essentials: Professional manual trading with automated trade and exit management
• AFT Premium: Advanced Hybrid Algo and automated trading for Micro futures
• AFT Ultimate: Maximum AFT functionality across Micro, E-Mini and other supported futures instruments
• ATS Trading Package: The complete trading ecosystem integrating AFT, AlphaWebTrader, turnkey workspaces, the Trade Zone and AI Copilot

Eligible traders can also request an available full-feature trial directly from their personal Trader Launchpad.

Use Turnkey Hybrid Trading Systems or Configure Your Own

AFT users can trade with supplied systematic signal systems and turnkey workspace baselines or create custom NinjaTrader scripts and inject their signals directly into the AFT trade-execution engine.

Depending on the selected AFT plan, qualified signals can use AFT’s order management, trade management, position management, risk controls, hybrid controls and automated exit technology.

Learn more about how to create your own NinjaTrader trading rules and connect them to AFT.

Developed by the Original Pioneers of Hybrid Automated Trading for NinjaTrader

We develop, test and trade with our own proprietary futures-trading systems. AFT was created from real trading experience to combine the speed, discipline and consistency of automation with the judgment, flexibility and risk awareness of the trader.

Begin with AFT Freemium and practise using NinjaTrader simulation or market replay. You can then progress at your own pace toward a prop-firm evaluation, funded account or personal live account.

Turnkey workspaces, trading-system baselines, structured education, market intelligence, trading groups and AI Copilot support help traders develop the knowledge, routine and control required to use the technology responsibly.

Learn more on our About page or read why traders choose AlgoFuturesTrader.

What Is AlgoFuturesTrader?

AlgoFuturesTrader is a specialist NinjaTrader 8 futures-trading suite supporting manual discretionary trading and multiple systematic and algorithmic models. These include trend following, pullback continuation, session and opening-range breakouts, OCO breakouts, news-trading workflows, momentum trading and custom user-developed signals.

AFT supports a progressive pathway from Freemium manual trading to Hybrid Algo and fully automated trade entry, together with automatic order, position, trade, risk, money-management and exit controls available within the applicable paid plans.

• Professional indicators: Analyze trend, momentum, structure, signals and changing market conditions
• Adaptive bar systems: Use dynamic bars designed to adjust to market activity and price behaviour
• Multi-algorithm trading: Enable one or multiple systematic signal models during a trading session
• Multi-timeframe analysis: Aggregate multiple timeframes for trend alignment, confirmation and correlation filtering
• Flexible trade entry: Progress from manual entry to semi-automatic, interactive and fully automated execution modes
• Automated trade management: Manage stops, targets, break-even rules, trailing logic, positions, risk and session objectives
• Interactive NinjaBuddy controls: Adjust and manage trades in real time while remaining in control
• Custom signal integration: Build your own NinjaTrader rules and send qualified signals to the AFT execution engine

What Is Hybrid Automated Trading?

AFT is a manual, hybrid semi-automated and fully automated futures-trading system for the NinjaTrader 8 platform.

Hybrid trading means that the trader remains in control while using automation wherever it adds speed, consistency, discipline and efficiency. You can place trades manually, authorize the next algorithmic setup, interact with an active position or allow predefined automation to manage execution until your risk, profit, loss or session limits are reached.

This trader-and-machine approach is designed to reduce repetitive work and emotional interference without removing the trader’s responsibility for market conditions, system selection, risk and account management.

AFT was conceived and developed by hybrid-trading pioneer, professional algorithmic trader and quantitative software developer Tom Leeson of MicroTrends and Algo Trading Systems.

More Than a NinjaTrader Strategy

AFT is not simply a single algorithm or a switch-on-and-forget trading robot. It is a professional futures-trading suite providing manual trading tools, systematic signals, adaptive indicators, trader controls, automated risk management, Hybrid Algo technology and turnkey workspaces.

Start with AFT Freemium and use it for as long as you choose. Upgrade to Essentials, Premium or Ultimate when you need more powerful trade management, automation, instruments and system capabilities.

For the complete ATS trading edge, the ATS Trading Package integrates:

• AlgoFuturesTrader (AFT): NinjaTrader indicators, signals, Hybrid Algo systems, trade execution and risk management
• AlphaWebTrader (AWT): Multi-market intelligence, higher-timeframe analysis and web-based trading tools
• Trade Zone: Live-market trading-group resources and structured workspace support
• AI Copilot: AI-assisted market analysis, system guidance and trading workflow support

Use ATS in simulation, prepare for prop-firm evaluations, manage funded accounts or trade personal live capital. Progress responsibly, measure your results, and move forward only when your performance and risk control demonstrate that you are ready.