NinjaTrader Automated Trading

Why AFT?

• Get started 100% FREE: Use AFT Freemium for unlimited higher-time-frame charting and technical analysis
• Higher-time-frame market analysis: Analyze supported instruments using Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly charts and indicators
• Swing and position-trading analysis: Study longer-term trends, momentum and market structure using supported simulation, demo or live accounts
• Progress to intraday trading: Upgrade to AFT Essentials or above for supported intraday technical workspaces, trading systems and advanced trade management
• Human control with machine execution: Paid AFT plans provide progressively more powerful automated trade management, Hybrid Algo entry and controlled automation
• Purpose-built for futures: Progress to Micro, Nano and E-Mini futures day trading, prop-firm trading and swing trading with an applicable paid plan
• Turnkey but customizable: Paid plans provide supplied workspaces and system baselines that can be adapted 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. Begin with free higher-time-frame analysis, then upgrade when you require intraday trading systems, automated trade management or Hybrid Algo capabilities.

• AFT Freemium: Unlimited higher-time-frame Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly charting, indicators and technical analysis across supported instruments—without intraday bars, signals, technical workspaces or automated trade management
• AFT Essentials: The minimum paid AFT plan for supported intraday simulation, prop-firm and live trading, including professional manual trading and automated trade and exit management
• AFT Premium: Advanced Hybrid Algo and automated trading for supported Micro futures
• AFT Ultimate: Maximum AFT functionality across supported Nano, Micro, E-Mini and other 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 Launch Pad.

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 to study higher-time-frame market structure and technical indicators on Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly charts. When you require intraday workspaces, trading signals and automated trade management, upgrade to AFT Essentials or above and practise in NinjaTrader simulation before progressing 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 higher-time-frame analysis to paid intraday manual trading, automated trade management, Hybrid Algo and fully automated trade entry. Automatic order, position, trade, risk, money-management and exit controls are available only within the applicable paid plans.

Plan availability: The features below describe the wider AlgoFuturesTrader product range. Intraday bars, signals, technical workspaces, trade execution and automation are not included with AFT Freemium.

• 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

Start with AFT Freemium and use its higher-time-frame Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly analysis tools for as long as you choose. Upgrade to AFT Essentials, Premium or Ultimate when you require intraday bars, signals, technical workspaces, trade management, Hybrid Algo or automated-trading 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.