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Free Get Started Zoom Meeting product demo install get ready to trade

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Quality, not quantity, folks. Futures have limited liquidity. True, we have billions of permutations in our dozens of algorithms and combinations, but support, training, and maintaining a high level of expertise in the community is the name of the game. With the advent of AFT8, demand is overwhelming, so as of Sunday, 11th June, please note the following:

  • We have removed all downloads, automatic free trials, and Discord group access on the websites.
  • Access is now provided to traders via a 100% Free Get Started Zoom Meeting
    • Assisted software download and installation
    • ATS Account, licenses & free trials activation
    • Overview tour & demo of trading systems
    • Introduction to help, Discord & live trading chat
    • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Open to new traders who want to get installed and get started

Give a man a fish or teach him to fish?
We want traders who are committed to this and want to learn the craft and art of trading. Through the process of absorbing the approach and developing the right habits and routines, the system—any system—will integrate, and success will come. Happiness won’t be the amateur state of mind “happy at a win” or “sad at a loss.” It will come from the realization that the trader is being a professional, doing it the right way, and the rewards will follow.

To best achieve our goals, we need traders to get started and oriented in the fastest, best way. This is best done through a quick 1-to-1 free induction phase for getting started—a free concierge service to get installed, oriented, set up with a product tour and overview, and access to a tour of the Discord trading group for trade-along and education—ready to trade with the turnkey workspaces.

Book your free Get Started 15 Min Zoom Meeting here

ATS retail trading systems what makes it really rewarding?

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  • Seeing traders trail a win from start to finish is gratifying, as 80% lose and 95% of them scalp. Witnessing the evolution of someone’s trading goals become tangible and making a difference is rewarding.
  • Engage in the Discord group live trade chat and learn from their trading experiences, nuances, and journeys. You can view and join here: Trade Along Chat.
  • Read recent reviews from traders about trading with AFT here: AlgoFuturesTrader reviews on Trustpilot. These traders truly invested effort and time, showing commitment and deserving success.

$5250 After First Full Week

Steven has been great to work with and helpful, as has Thomas. I have traded this system in SIM for a total of ten days: 2 days in the first week, 3 days in the second week, and 5 days in the third week. I trade the MES, MYM, M2K, and MNQ with the breakout setup. I trade all four instruments from the open and finish when I close all trades; I do not continue trading. This past week, I had 3 winning days and 2 losing days, which is about what I expect. On Wednesday, I lost $200, and on Thursday, I lost $2300, but I ended the week today, Friday, June 9th, 2023, with a daily profit of $2300 and a weekly profit after all commissions of $5250. After another 3 weeks in SIM, I will move to Micros and eventually to E-minis. I will try to provide another review in a year.

Finally! A System That Is What I Have Been Looking For…

After thoroughly evaluating Algo Futures Trader for a full month, I would like to present my review of the platform. As someone involved in stock trading for the past three years, I can attest to the myriad challenges and obstacles encountered along this journey. Despite numerous subscriptions to different trading communities and the application of various stock trading algorithms, I consistently faced roadblocks in achieving sustainable success.
A significant factor hindering my progress was managing my emotions, which, if unchecked, can create upheavals in any trading account, irrespective of its magnitude. It prompted me to question what differentiated Algo Futures Trader from other platforms. The answer unraveled itself in two enlightening interactions with Steve, the company’s representative.
Steve was notably unique in his approach—absent were the overbearing sales tactics often found in this industry. Instead, he elucidated the intricacies of the system, ensuring I had a clear understanding of the expectations. Furthermore, he emphasized the importance of assessing whether there was a synergistic match between a potential client and Algo Futures Trader. This approach, showcasing their primary concern to be the quality rather than quantity of their traders, was immensely refreshing.
An additional facet of Algo Futures Trader that I was privileged to interact with was Tom. Apart from his role as a consummate professional and an endless reservoir of knowledge regarding the trading system, Tom also brings a unique edge to the table. He is the skilled coder behind the system, responsible for crafting the intricate algorithms that drive the platform’s success. His ability to answer complex technical questions with ease and his deep comprehension of the current market trends showcase his multi-faceted expertise in this field.
However, as remarkable as Steve and Tom are, the true star of my experience has been the Algo Futures Trader platform itself. Although it demands an initial investment of time to understand its operation, the payoff is substantial. In my inaugural month, I achieved my longest and most profitable green streak!
The dismal and bleak landscape of my trading career has transformed into one of enthusiasm and optimism. If you are seeking an effective trading system, supported by a team of professional, knowledgeable, and responsive individuals—one of whom is the very creator of the system’s code—I wholeheartedly recommend Algo Futures Trader. Rest assured, you will not regret this choice!

Both of these traders attended meetings and were onboarded to ensure they received a good degree of orientation. You can do the same here: get started trading 100% Free.
Book your free Get Started 15 Min Zoom Meeting here

AFT8 Hybrid Algo Trading System official release

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Algo Trading System AFT8 automated day trading and swing trading server
Algo Trading System AFT8 automated day trading and swing trading server

The NinjaTrader Best Trading System is Now Officially Released

The AFT8 hybrid automated trading system’s official public release is out, with more updates and features to come. For now, this is the minimum feature set for fully automated, hybrid semi-automated, and manual entry modes with fault-tolerant adaptive trade management, algo entry controller, algo trade manager controller, and multiple algo systems with baseline turnkey workspaces.

  • 100% Free for simulation, replay, backtesting, and prop firm evaluation trading
  • AFT8 will display an update message for the new version.
  • Download and get started with AFT8 for free

New Improved Algo Controllers Default Starting View

AFT Algo Entry Controller Default View
AFT Algo Entry Controller Default View
AFT Algo Trade Manager Controller Default View
AFT Algo Trade Manager Controller Default View
AFT Algo Controller Templates Module
Templates Module for settings for algo entry and exit defaults or for each system instrument asset stream

New Baseline Turnkey Workspace

  • AFT8-SFG Breakout Trader-0000C-Mix
  • Includes indices, oil, FDAX, gold, etc.

What Will Happen to the AFT8 Beta Version and Licenses

  • Licenses will expire in 5 days.
  • All prior versions of AFT8 Beta will cease to function.
  • Simply upgrade to the new version and use it.
  • Temporary full-feature live trading licenses will be granted.
  • Over the next 2 weeks, licenses will start to lock down features.

Why Should I Upgrade from AFT8 Beta to the AFT8 Official Release?

Trader Education Training and ATS Trading Discord Group

  • More features are to come, so all focus will go into coding and rolling out the updates.
  • Videos, articles, and educational material will be worked on after the dust settles.
  • For interactive support from 6 AM CT to 12 PM CT, join us in the ATS Discord Group.

Introducing the ATS.AlgoFuturesTrader.Desktop App

ATS.AlgoFuturesTrader.Desktop
ATS.AlgoFuturesTrader.Desktop for license sync, remote trading, and more

This should ideally be installed before AFT8RC1 is installed. AFT8 will attempt to install and require your permission to install. Install from here: https://algotradingsystems.s3.amazonaws.com/aft-desktop/Publish.html. The following prerequisites are required: .NET Desktop Runtime 7.0.2 (x64). Direct link here: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/7.0

AFT Licenses for Live Trading Modes

The AFT8 live licensing is being enforced tentatively as we don’t want to disrupt evaluations and live trading. The system will appraise how NT8 is being used, e.g., in Sim mode or live mode/eval mode, and then check your ATS licenses. If it can’t reconcile a license to allow live account trading or eval trading, it will display a message that can be saved and sent to support to work out a plan. This approach will disable features after a timeout period, allowing time for organization. Please join us in the ATS Trading Discord Group for interactive support and Q&A.

AFT8 the best and most advanced automated trading system for NinjaTrader

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Some claim! Yes, you heard it all before, and you should be skeptical. Use evidence-based decision-making, not emotion. Let us substantiate the facts below.

  1. Firstly, get a pedigree of who we are. View About Algo Trading Systems. This is about real traders with real systems designed, invented, and developed in-house using decades of professional trading and institutional-grade quantitative development and knowledge.
  2. Secondly, this is not a one-trick pony. It has many algorithms and billions of permutations for all different styles of trading: real swing, intermediate position trading, and day trading. Fully auto, semi-auto, and manual with automated exits, fault-tolerant, and even better, this is brought to retail so you may try them out free forever and decide if it’s for you or not.
  3. Thirdly, let’s look at the technical specs and understand why NinjaTrader’s open architecture allows us to create the best and most advanced system for retail trading. Check out the developer, our sister company MicroTrends Ltd across the pond – the pioneer and inventor of hybrid trading with a quick history of NinjaTrader algorithmic trading systems. See how they put the other vendors in top place with their white-label systems, but this one is only available direct from the source!

10 Quick Points of the Best Trading System Features

AFT8 resolves all the challenges for automated trading, fully and semi-auto hybrid, which the other systems in retail cannot do.
AFT8 Proprietary Trade Engine Features

  1. Manual, semi, or fully automated trading system
  2. Interactive real-time controls to set algorithms
    1. On/Off
    2. Long/Short set bias
    3. Semi-auto one trade and stop
    4. Fully auto trade as per configured rules
    5. Trader override and guidance and interaction with algo/trade management controller UI
  3. Stop and start NT – the system will auto-start when the workspace is opened and data is connected.
    1. Can start waiting for the trader to put on for auto
    2. Can start in fully auto mode
  4. Allows position compounding – adding to the same position or taking off. The system will adjust the stops and targets as required.
  5. Allows trader to close positions and cancel orders without stopping the system
  6. Allows restart of the NT system – will continue and work with orders and positions
  7. Fault tolerance allows the system to detangle orders and positions on a restart or in a fast market. If all orders are canceled, it will put the order back on, not leaving an unguarded position.
  8. True day trading, swing, and intermediate swing trading over the weekend for up to 3 months of a position. No matter how long you stop and start it, AFT8 will wake up and know what to do and continue onwards with your trading as long as there is a valid connection.
  9. Memory-persisted state between stops and starts so that the system can keep track of trades per day, per session, and money management goals. This is a vital element which other systems do not do, meaning you could blow your trade plan rules. AFT8 won’t let you. You can bypass the fail-safes and reset the memory – transparent data folder access or controls.
  10. Automatic data lag control will detect when the market is too fast and NT8 is lagging behind real-time data and prevent trading signals and executions of signal entries to prevent loss on slippage – news times, distance latency, and so on. Data lagging will be flagged visually in the market analyzers and can be set to 0.25s to 30s sensitivity. This is a vital element to stop trading during price shocks, news releases, and other scenarios which would enter with bad slippage and could blow your account. AFT8 safeguards trading against slippage and price shocks.

Plug and Play Turnkey Workspaces for Day Trading and Swing Trading

  • Turnkey baseline systems are made available for install, connect, and trading on sim
  • Designed for hybrid trading modes, man and machine, for real-time interaction
  • Baselines can be traded in fully automated mode to test and tweak to suit a trader
    • Session Breakout/Day trading/Swing
    • Trend Trading/Scalping
    • Range Trading/Mean Reversion
  • Off-Piste, a trader can use their imagination and experiment and build their own rules using the algo building blocks inside the system and even code their own in too!

Unrivaled Trading Flexibility

  • Multi-Time Frame, Multi-Algo
  • Multiple algorithms on the same account
  • Multiple Advanced Trade Managers on the same account
  • Asymmetrical bars for entry and exits
  • Can combine or pause and enable with real-time controls to suit the conditions on the day

Cloud Multi-Time Frame Filter System – AlphaWebTrader Trendometer API

  • Futures, Stocks, ETF aggregated amalgamated horizontal and vertical trend correlations
  • Cloud API Non-Lagging for CPU, disk, and data. NT8 will not go down and data lag/render delay
  • Aggregated data is read by AFT8 from the AWT.Desktop in real-time with no lagging or overhead
  • Vertical trend correlation up to 24 time frames per instrument
  • Horizontal trend correlation futures, Stock, ETF for bias
  • Group strength and weakness
  • Order flow by market ATR speed, volume, and trend efficiency
  • Signal Flow – order flow is good, but signal flow is a step above history and real-time
  • HTF Structure, gaps, levels, and more.
  • See AlphaWebTrader for more details

Battle-Tested Trading Systems on Real Money with a Real Fund

AFT8 Desktop comes from real live money trading of a $5 million hedge fund account from 2017 onwards to 2022 on trade sizes up to 1% or $50K USD stop loss risk. Clear Point Capital. In 2023, due to a lack of time and development obligations to the fund, we decided to release it to retail and cut it down from swing to day trade and make a desktop version of it for NT8, to allow the most advanced system for NT8 ever. We chose that route instead of migrating AFT7, but AFT7 parts and components are being added in over time.

Not a One-Trick Pony

  1. Time-Testing Approaches – Evolved
    1. Session Breakout – daily, weekly, monthly – custom breakout
    2. Trend Trading – USAR/Dynamic trend
    3. Range Trading – Mean Reversion fibGrid Bands
    4. News Trader – pending needs AWT API
    5. Multi-Time Frame Trend systems – AWT API Trendo etc.
  2. Many programmable systems available or even can add own code rules and compile into the system and use your rules and algo with the full off-the-shelf features

Build Your Own – Bring Your Own Algo
ATS & NT8 allows you to build your own and test for strategies and also for integration into AFT8 algos and leverage all the off-the-shelf features.

AFT8 Versus Traditional NT8 Strategies

NT Strategies do not provide this level of interaction and flexibility and cannot swing trade or self-recover. They require manual resolution of positions and orders to make safer before starting. AFT can start and resolve it all itself. NT Strategies don’t allow a trader to close positions and cancel orders without halting the strategy. AFT will also ship in the future with a strategy for backtesting, optimizing, and if preferred for trading, the most advanced ever built for NinjaTrader 8 Powered by ATS QuadroBase. This will be open source in the strategy to allow you to combine third-party and create your own algos combined with AFT8 sealed indicator components, with script development support in the Discord Trading Group.

Money Management – Challenges

Static or fixed fractional position sizing based on volatility stop-loss – fixed fractional or professional mode fund of funds position sizing and money management.

  • Off a user’s defined amount
  • Off the account
  • Or weighted balanced per asset stream – different values

Systematic Trading Systems – Trade Signal Generation & Execution

The system does all you need for manual, semi, or fully automated signal execution

  • Entry signal types
  • Exits
  • Stops and targets

Web Algo Trading Remote Control

  • On/Off of algorithms
  • Long/Short bias
  • Monitor and interact

There’s a lot more to come, and we don’t want to give it all away before we roll it out.
Note: Unlike our other white-label technologies used by well-known vendors in the ecosystem, we don’t license this to anyone else to resell!

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