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Archives for April 2021

What’s next with the AFT8 update?

April 23, 2021 by AFT

USAR WSFG swing trade fully automated no manual trading interaction ES

With regret as the sole creator and developer of AFT8 i have to inform you that I was out for the count for 2 weeks with a fever and throaty cough and i’m not sure if it was COVID or flu so I made no progress at all on the AFT8 update sine the last version mid March – however i am glad to say i am pretty much recovered except for lingering lethargy and have been coding again.

AFT8 is still in a beta and has a long way to go before all the planned features are released.
It will be worth the wait, it needs to be its going to be my main retail account trader.

Ok so there will be updates of the AFT8 system from next week –
fixing of bug to save settings on the main signals indicator, ease of use feature for configuration
and some inclusions of swing trading/ weekly fib grid trading features in the turnkey workspaces. Here’s why.

AFT retail day trading version of software came from a much larger swing trading multi server, client/server n tier, SOA, cloud based system with NT8 at its core providing the awesome technicals, execution and trade management. AFT as such contains a small subset of the functionality but exactly enough for the algo premise and capability for day trading and some swing trading but with user interactivity for many of the tasks. The hedge funds system will cost you 50KUSD plus fees and data server overheads per annum to use. AFT retail starts at free…. The following will give you some idea about the 2 versions.

So during that time of my absentee the CPC/AFT Hedge fund systems continued to work even though the developer algo trader was not in attendance. The servers restarted each weekend via windows task scheduler and update themselves, NT8 is then started and historical data is downloaded each for the last week and replicated out from a main server to other servers to negate the need to download again.

With the full hedge fund version – there is no need for a user at all -except for rollovers and in emergencies or system selection – it is 100% fully automated trading in the real sense and i am not allowed even if i want to intervene. Not allowed to enter or close a trade, move a target, trail a stop… so we get a pure dataset of stats. Sometimes it means there were trades i would not have done but some it does incredible trades that were far better than me, over time it works and that is the goal.

A hedge fund performance has to be measurable to something tangible and risk control also so removing all humans is the way to do it ideally as a human is hard to backtest and benchmark. They get sick too or move jobs… so when i’m talking fully automated its big trade accounts and no fiddling or making it up as you go.. all the systems that make it to live from the 1000s that don’t go through system selection, board approval and compliance for annual auditing – no pressure 🙂

AFT retail traders benefits from a hybrid feature set to allow fully as well as manual/semi automated trading which is really very important for retail day trading as it is less forgiving than swing trading. AFT benefits from many years and many 100KS USD of research and development and real trading of the systems professionally in automated swing trading and they end up as much as possible as turnkey for day trading with minimal tweaking required.

CPC /AFT algos  for the hedge fund start on a Sunday, the week begins, the windows task scheduler process with start NT8 in time to trade the CME open for indices, connecting to various datafeeds in turn for each exchange and feed -then loads the workspaces and loads the algos and starts them a mix of sim and live. For each system each algo will inspects orders and removes any anomalies within NinjaTrader and then processes the positions and orders, risk and technical context and continues trading where it left off adapting to any changes and implement fault tolerance and safety.

Technically the CPC /AFT algos are part of a a greater system – a signals framework, execution management system (EMS), order management system (OMS), position and trade management, rollover liquidation, data acquisition , automated web stats collation and reporting system and automatic trade safety system and more besides- evolved in NinjaTrader and .net, .net core, asp.net core, MSSQL and Azure service bus, created over a 4 year period.

It is quite incredible what we have achieved with the technology directly due to the amazing work of the NinjaTrader development team to allow us access to all areas to create what we want limited by imagination and skill only. So in short even though the developer was away and useless the system continued onwards fully automated regardless so no trades were missed an no one goofed things up with under par irrational decision making.

In my absence then here is a pretty good trade example of the CPC/AFT Weekly Swing trading algo took up to the high last week 2021-April-16. Now reversed and closed into a small short this week- 10K per lot was the MFE trading Emini S&P – just with a 4 lot trade of about 5K to $7500 Risk on that volatility. It could have been a lot more based on the past and recent times but its still a respect worthty demonstration of what we can achieve with the tool set.
USAR WSFG swing trade fully automated no manual trading interaction ES
We will provide this WSFG weekly setup as part of AFT8 turnkey settings for micro indices and Emini so that traders can use it as a guide for intraday or indeed take the weekly SFG Signals.

As you can see yes this is a live trade note that chart trader is black and the account does not being with Sim…we really do trade and we really do use these tools – The AFT day trading system is a version built for small account trading based on the professional hedge fund trading for which it was originally created. So the day trading version is basically a daily session breakout instead of weekly for swing trading. You can also see the power of the risk reward in action on this type of system and the staying in trend following method.

AFT8 is available in the shop as free product AFT8 Free Trading System or available from the AFT download page
Articles and videos will follow on installation but should be very simple if you can use a mouse and pc and get around any AV warnings etc. – please visit the support and help desk

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for day trading futures

Simply Install, Connect. Learn and practice with ready to use turnkey settings and workspaces for Session Open Breakout trading and Trend Trading reversal and pullback continuation trading. Start NinjaTrader, connect to a futures data feed & open an AFT Turnkey workspace, the trading systems will appear on chart and are ready for simulator trading micro equity Index futures.
  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT
 

Filed Under: AFT8, Algo Futures Trader, NinjaTrader 8 Tagged With: AFT8, AFT8 update, NinjaTrader 8

AFT day trading room for futures trading the NYSE open

April 23, 2021 by AFT

Session Breakout Trading Micro Futures Turnkey Workspaces pre election

AFT is delighted to have John Matteson on board – the missing element for AFT demonstration was in fact a real deal trader in the team (other than the developer trader swing trader), John is someone who really does day trade live future with the tools and techniques provided by the AFT systems and is able to present that knowledge and coach traders.

Live market sim demonstration is one thing but actually knowing how to trade with real money and make it work is a different domain. So we are super excited to announce that John will be hosting some day trading webinars with AFT to show how he does it.

John is the real deal, he has many years of experience of day trading the futures markets and also providing trade coaching with live market real money. Virtues of patience and skills of a live trading track record means we look forward to viable demonstrations to present and communicate how to use the AFT day trading systems for real market live real money trading within the style of John’s approach with the AFT systems. The goal is this will enable beginners and veterans to get to grips with how to day trade the micro indices with AFT.

Details will follow very soon for interested traders to signup for free registration and webinars for the AFT with AFT Trader John. We plan to use zoom with scheduled events with free registration we will mail, out blog it and put notices on the website to register.

We are also considering a daily morning trade room with all you need to day trade the US futures markets – announcements to follow depending on interest etc.

AFT is 100% free for sim, demo, replay trading micro futures, including micro EMini equity index Futures,  micro currencies, micro metals!   No need to pay to use- only for live trading account. Free for evaluation trading to get funded with Trade2Earn, OneUpTrader, Top Step trader and Lee Loo Trading.

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for day trading futures

Simply Install, Connect. Learn and practice with ready to use turnkey settings and workspaces for Session Open Breakout trading and Trend Trading reversal and pullback continuation trading. Start NinjaTrader, connect to a futures data feed & open an AFT Turnkey workspace, the trading systems will appear on chart and are ready for simulator trading micro equity Index futures.

  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT

 

Filed Under: Algo Futures Trader Tagged With: day trading futures, day trading room, micro indices futures, ninjaTrader, trade coaching

Earn to trade gauntlet mini 50K account

April 22, 2021 by AFT

Earn 2 trade get funded to trade

AFT is 100% free to get funded with EarnToTrade simply download NinjaTrader and AFT and get started today.

Let your futures trading career get off the ground with the Gauntlet Mini™ $50,000 account! Right now we’re offering a 40% discount for the first month of your subscription. Use the discount code “aprilsky21” start your evaluation now for $99. The deal is only available until the end of April, don’t miss it!

“Earn2Trade’s Gauntlet Mini is a subscription-based, intraday futures trading evaluation program that matches skilled traders with proprietary trading firms willing to fund them when they pass.

This simple, one-stage test is widely acknowledged for having a fair and transparent ruleset, as well as impeccable customer service.

Visit them here to find out more about it and launch your professional trading career with a 20% discount off your first Gauntlet using this link

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for day trading futures

Simply Install, Connect. Learn and practice with ready to use turnkey settings and workspaces for Session Open Breakout trading and Trend Trading reversal and pullback continuation trading. Start NinjaTrader, connect to a futures data feed & open an AFT Turnkey workspace, the trading systems will appear on chart and are ready for simulator trading micro equity Index futures.

  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT

 

Filed Under: Algo Futures Trader Tagged With: get funded to trade, trade from home for a living, trading capital provider

Day trade micro FDAX and micro bitcoin with AFT and NinjaTrader

April 22, 2021 by AFT

micro bitcoin futures

NinjaTrader supports Micro Indices, Currencies, Metals and now micro bitcoin for free sim, demo, backtest and replay – live for premium and ultimate licenses for auto trading.

AFT version 2021.4.21.1 supports Micro FDAX since 21st April and Micro Bitcoin – ready for May 3rd.

Micro FDAX – FDXS
Eurex announced on 19th April FDXS micro FDAX is now live and AFT now has support for this instrument
FDAX offers some 150 ticks range and has 2 distinct sessions eurex and us open – where by you will often find a good run making FDAX one of the most tradeable instruments but very big with a gap each day. So Micro FDAX will alos provide a near mirror of the full contract and mini. Chart settings would be the same as MES,ES as currently those has the same range as FDAX.

Eurex Micro-DAX® Futures (FDXS) info

Micro Bitcoin
This is exciting news – BTC and ETH – have a daily range of some 500 ticks – only Micro Nasdaq as of time of writing has a bigger daily profit opportunity. The full size contracts are < 10K volume per day and represent a very big danger for swing traders – day trading you would need to open and close and manage the risk and market exposure. Therefore micro bitcoin will offer some very good volatility trading and should be day traded – closed out and not left overnight or over weekend. Workspaces chart settings would be similar to NQ MNQ Nasdaq chart sizes but no smaller than RTY/M2K

CME Info on Micro Bitcoin

The micro contracts will provide a low risk trading opportunity allowing session breakout trading, trend arbitrage and general day trading volatility – trend scalping momentum trading styles of trading. Due to gaps on micro FDAX and bitcoin volatility day trading is the safest approach – entering positions and closing out trades within the regular trading hours.

AFT is 100% free for sim, demo, replay trading micro futures, including micro EMini equity index Futures,  micro currencies, micro metals!   No need to pay to use- only for live trading account. Free for evaluation trading to get funded with Trade2Earn, OneUpTrader, Top Step trader and Lee Loo Trading.

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for day trading futures

Simply Install, Connect. Learn and practice with ready to use turnkey settings and workspaces for Session Open Breakout trading and Trend Trading reversal and pullback continuation trading. Start NinjaTrader, connect to a futures data feed & open an AFT Turnkey workspace, the trading systems will appear on chart and are ready for simulator trading micro equity Index futures.

  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT

 

Filed Under: Algo Futures Trader Tagged With: day trading bitcoin, micro bitcoin

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