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AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Video Episode 11 – Session Gap Trading Filter

July 25, 2021 by AFT

https://youtu.be/e1azq1IeU5g?list=PLvUiP1yA7zZzmItBvuLnY07cJlbSJtobW

In this week’s Algo Futures Trader Weekly Market Roundup, AFT Trader John reviews the entire week of trades in the MYM. Discover why you want to be long if the market is above its opening price and short if it is below. See how AFT7 and AFT8 capitalize on this premise using a simple opening range breakout trade. The AFT onboarding page and AFT Trading Group Discord server links are detailed below:

  • AFT onboarding page
  • AFT Trading Group
  • Algo Futures Trader Discord Server

AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Roundup Info. Each week, AFT Trader John will present a summary of trades, futures trading systems, and methods with the Algo Futures Trader automated breakout strategy on the live market using the NinjaTrader Platform. Expect more depth and coverage each week as this new series evolves.

Trade for Free Forever on Sim, Demo, Test & Practice Accounts Risk-Free!

  • AFT is 100% free forever for sim, demo, replay, backtesting, forward testing for all futures.
  • AFT is 100% free forever for evaluation trading.
  • Prop Firms Trading Capital Providers.
  • Practice on the sim/demo until you are making a weekly/monthly profit.
  • Use Risk Capital to Trade or Get Funded by a Prop Firm such as:
    • Trade2Earn
    • OneUpTrader
    • Top Step Trader
    • Lee Loo Trading
    • Apex Trader Funding
  • Trade part-time or full-time from home or the office, trade for a living, or supplement your salary.
  • AFT License required when NinjaTrader is connected to a real money live account with Global Simulation Mode: Off – Live Trading
    • AFT comes with a free 30-day live trading license AFT Ultimate providing access to all AFT Features for AFT7 and AFT8.

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for Day Trading Futures

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

Filed Under: AFT Trading Videos, Algo Futures Trader Tagged With: Gap Trading, Micro Futures, session breakout


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The fast route to start day trading micro futures

July 24, 2021 by AFT

Whether you are a free or premium user, you still need to read the guides, blogs, and videos and attend the room to understand, become conversant, and make the most of any coaching or self-learning. All the topics are covered in the guides, blog, and videos. If not, send us a question.

Start here to find the relevant information and get oriented

https://algofuturestrader.com/support/aft-quick-start-guidance/

AFT: Where to start, what to learn?

NYSE Session Breakout
Start out and focus on the session breakout system workspace. It is a perfect match for US indices futures trading 1 to 3 hours per day.

Do less, achieve more—actually learn how to trade and leverage technology like a trader and hybrid algo/Pilot and Plane relationship.

  • Learn good habits
  • Understand the price cycles and news cycles
  • Apply good risk management
  • Make a trade plan
  • Do not overtrade.
  • Select 1 to 2 instruments to trade
  • Use other instruments for correlations
  • Attend the AFT Trade Group daily for trading tips and examples with AFT Trader John

Turnkey Workspaces

  • Session Breakout rules are explained—take signals above or below the NTZ within the trade zone.
  • Trend Trading/Scalping—take signals wherever they occur, long or short, at any time your rules apply.
  • Session breakout is focused on—all other system workspaces are not supported for free and newcomers, so we will not be answering or providing guidance for them for traders in the early phases. These are only for traders who understand what they are, are proficient, and can self-assist and use them—Trend Trader/Trend Scalper, etc. Once you have mastered the basics of the AFT7 system and one methodology, you can consider the other methods and use the trading group channels to see how people are using them, etc.

Step by Step

  • Learn how to trade and learn how to leverage the different levels of automation
  • Learn when to use the system or not and to what degree of automation on which instruments.
  • Get a routine and make it a habit—retrospect, plan, execute, and evaluate

The 5-Step Basic Day Trading Approach for NYSE Session Breakout

1) Get to the desk before the open… 9 am EST or so—check news
2) Check the 4 main indices and see what happened prior… look to see what gaps are forming
3) Armed with that, if the gaps are all different or all the same, for example… GapBias
4) Look at the AlphaBias… etc. Understand the strength of the instruments going into the open to make a selection of what to trade
5) Trading 9:30 EST to around 11:30 EST, 1 to 3 signals per day—Signal + filters

Trade Entry

  • Multiple algo signals and filters—manual, semi-auto, fully auto

Trade Exits

  • Trade Man Settings
  • All settings are adaptive—use the guide to alter if desired

Testing

  • Test in replay or walk forwards real-time
  • 100% free, unlimited, risk-free on the sim or evaluation accounts

AFT8

  • Work in progress and not supported as yet

AFT7 Online Help Guides 24/7:

  • NinjaTrader 7 AFT7 Day Trading Futures System Overview of Components
  • AFT7 Session Open Breakout Trading Basics
  • AFT7 TrendOmeter Basics
  • AFT7 Stop Loss and Risk Setup
  • AFT7 How to View, Change Account, Settings and Save Your Own Templates and Workspaces
  • AFT7 How to Change the Position Lot Size
  • AFT7 Trade Management Examples

Videos:

  • https://algofuturestrader.com/algo-futures-trader-videos/

Check the Blog for Articles:

  • https://algofuturestrader.com/blog/
  • https://algofuturestrader.com/how-to-place-stop-loss-and-targets-for-day-trading-futures-with-ninjatrader-8-and-aft8/
  • https://algofuturestrader.com/automated-futures-day-trader-trend-scalper-turnkey-workspace-for-aft7/

Use the AFT Trading Group:

AFT Intro:

Please Note the AFT Support Model

  • As a free user, you will need to use the self-assisted help guides
  • As a premium user, you have a different support level

For more details, view the AFT Support Model

ATS/AFT Trading Group – for additional resources

  • Note: All users, free and premium, are welcome to the Online Trading Community Trading Group where you will also have support and education resources as well as live market trading systems, trade signals, news, and fundamentals.
  • Simply visit us here at our ATS/AFT Discord Group during NYSE trading hours.

Premium 1 to 1 Assistance
If you are struggling with the self-assisted support model, that’s fine. We offer premium packages.
For example, if you want live 1 to 1 assistance as a free user NT & Setup, then we offer these packages:
https://algofuturestrader.com/product/remote-assistance-support/
https://algofuturestrader.com/product/aft-get-started-trading/

Filed Under: Algo Futures Trader, ATS Trading Community, NinjaTrader 7, NinjaTrader 8 Tagged With: AFT, day trading micro futures


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AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Video Episode 10 – Trading Dow Micro Futures

July 19, 2021 by AFT

https://youtu.be/e1azq1IeU5g?list=PLvUiP1yA7zZzmItBvuLnY07cJlbSJtobW

In this week’s Algo Futures Trader Weekly Market Roundup, AFT Trader John looks at the entire week of trades in the MYM. You will see why you want to be long if the market is above its opening price and why you want to be short if the market is below its opening price. See how AFT7 and AFT8 are able to take advantage of this premise by utilizing a simple opening range breakout trade. The AFT onboarding page and AFT Trading Group – Discord server, links details below:

  • AFT onboarding page
  • AFT Trading Group
  • Algo Futures Trader Discord Server

AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Roundup Info. Each week, AFT Trader John will be showing a summary of the trades, futures trading systems, and methods with Algo Futures Trader automated breakout strategy on the live market using the NinjaTrader Platform. More depth and coverage each week as this new series starts to take shape.

Trade for Free Forever on Sim, Demo, Test & Practice Accounts Risk-Free!

  • AFT is 100% free forever for sim, demo, replay, back testing, forward testing for all futures
  • AFT is 100% free forever for evaluation trading
  • Prop Firms Trading Capital Providers
  • Practice on the sim/demo until you are making a weekly/monthly profit
  • Use Risk Capital to Trade or Get funded by a Prop Firm such as:
    • Trade2Earn
    • OneUpTrader
    • Top Step Trader
    • Lee Loo Trading
    • Apex Trader Funding
  • Trade part-time or full-time from home or the office, trade for a living or supplement your salary.
  • AFT License required when NinjaTrader is connected to a real money live account with Global Simulation Mode: Off – Live Trading
    • AFT comes with a free 30-day live trading license AFT Ultimate providing access to all AFT Features for AFT7 and AFT8

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 Automated Breakout strategy and Trend Trading reversal and pullback continuation trading. Start NinjaTrader, connect to a futures data feed, and open an AFT Turnkey workspace. The trading systems will appear on the chart and are ready for simulator trading micro equity index futures.

Filed Under: AFT Trading Videos, Algo Futures Trader Tagged With: day trading micro futures, Micro Futures, Session Open Breakout, trading dow micro futures


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AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Video Episode 9 – Trade Manager Scale out or all in all out

July 12, 2021 by AFT

https://youtu.be/e1azq1IeU5g?list=PLvUiP1yA7zZzmItBvuLnY07cJlbSJtobW

In this week’s video, AFT Trader John takes a look at Friday’s open using the Algo Futures Trader live automated breakout strategy and shows how one can use the Alpha Bias in the Discord Server to weed out inferior trades. The AFT onboarding page and AFT Trading Group – Discord server links are detailed below:

  • AFT onboarding page
  • AFT Trading Group
  • Algo Futures Trader Discord Server

AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Roundup Info. Each week, AFT Trader John will be showing a summary of the trades, futures trading systems, and methods with the Algo Futures Trader automated breakout strategy on the live market using the NinjaTrader Platform. Expect more depth and coverage each week as this new series starts to take shape.

Trade for Free Forever on Sim, Demo, Test & Practice Accounts Risk-Free!

  • AFT is 100% free forever for sim, demo, replay, back testing, forward testing for all futures.
  • AFT is 100% free forever for evaluation trading.

Prop Firms Trading Capital Providers

  1. Practice on the sim/demo until you are making a weekly/monthly profit.
  2. Use Risk Capital to Trade or Get funded by a Prop Firm such as:
    • Trade2Earn
    • OneUpTrader
    • Top Step Trader
    • Lee Loo Trading
    • Apex Trader Funding
  3. Trade part-time or full-time from home or the office, trade for a living, or supplement your salary.
  • AFT License required when NinjaTrader is connected to a real money live account with Global Simulation Mode: Off – Live Trading
    • AFT comes with a free 30-day live trading license AFT Ultimate providing access to all AFT Features for AFT7 and AFT8.

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 Automated Breakout strategy and Trend Trading reversal and pullback continuation trading. Start NinjaTrader, connect to a futures data feed, and open an AFT Turnkey workspace. The trading systems will appear on the chart and are ready for simulator trading micro equity index futures.

Filed Under: AFT Trading Videos, Algo Futures Trader Tagged With: day trading micro futures, Micro Futures, Session Open Breakout, trade management


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Take our Futures Trader Poll to help shape the AFT Trading community

July 12, 2021 by AFT

Have your say and help us shape the community with this poll. It takes just 1 to 2 minutes.
Please take this quick poll so we can evolve the community to fit your needs and those of other members. We will better focus on the content, products, and services you want. Participate in the Poll

Filed Under: Algo Futures Trader, ATS Trading Community Tagged With: trading poll


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Micro WTI Crude Oil futures

July 8, 2021 by AFT

Globex code MCL available July 12, 2021. Micro WTI Crude Oil futures will give traders of all sizes a smaller, more precise instrument for managing crude oil price exposure. At 1/10 the size of the benchmark WTI futures contract, Micro WTI Crude Oil futures offer the same robust transparency and price discovery of larger WTI futures with smaller margin requirements.

1. When will the Micro WTI Crude Oil futures product be listed for trading?

Starting trade date July 12, 2021, Micro WTI Crude Oil futures will be available for trading on CME Globex and for submission of clearing via CME ClearPort, pending regulatory review.

2. Why is CME Group choosing to launch this product?

The introduction of Micro WTI Crude Oil futures responds directly to customer demand for a smaller, more precise instrument for managing crude oil price exposure. At one-tenth the size of the benchmark WTI contract, the Micro WTI futures product offers more granularity and smaller margin requirements with the same robust transparency and price discovery of the larger WTI futures contract.

3. What are the contract specifications, and how is it different from the currently listed standard-sized WTI futures?

Compare the contract to the standard-sized contract below:

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONSMICRO WTI CRUDE OIL FUTURESWTI CRUDE OIL FUTURES
PRODUCT CODEMCLCL
CONTRACT SIZE100 barrels1,000 barrels
RATIO TO THE STANDARD1/10Standard
MINIMUM TICK INCREMENT$0.01 per barrel$0.01 per barrel
DOLLAR VALUE OF A TICK INCREMENT$1 per contract$10 per contract
SETTLEMENT TYPEFinancialPhysical
EXPIRATION SCHEDULE1 day prior to the expiration of WTI Crude Oil futuresStandard
LISTING EXCHANGENYMEX

4. How many contracts will be listed at a given time?

There will be 12 serial contract months listed for Micro WTI Crude Oil futures at any given time. The first listed month will be August 2021.

5. What are the trading hours on CME Globex and submission hours on ClearPort?

Sunday – Friday 6:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET with a trading halt from 5:00 p.m. ET – 6:00 p.m. ET. Please refer to this link.

6. Are these futures contracts eligible for block trading?

Yes, pending all relevant CFTC regulatory review periods, Micro WTI Crude Oil futures will be eligible for block trading. The minimum block threshold will be 500 contracts.

7. Are these futures contracts eligible for TAS trading?

No, Micro WTI Crude Oil futures will not be eligible for TAS trading.

8. What are the margin requirements for Micro WTI Crude Oil futures?

PRODUCT NAMEPRODUCT CODECONTRACT SIZEINITIAL MARGINMAINTENANCE MARGIN
WTI Crude Oil futuresCL1,000 barrels$5,830$5,300
Micro WTI Crude Oil futuresMCL100 barrels$583$530

*Accurate as of May 10, 2021.

View more info here for micro oil futures.

Filed Under: Algo Futures Trader Tagged With: micro oil futures


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