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ATS and AFT8 videos – Zero to hero

April 8, 2024 by AFT

ATS is pleased to announce the ongoing creation and release of videos for onboarding and getting started with AFT8 and the Zero to Hero phases, featuring turnkey workspaces:

AFT8 Video Guides

  • AFT8 Video Guides
  • YouTube Video Guides
  • YouTube Trading Videos
  • AFT Website Video Page
  • Help Desk Video Page

Now that we have passed phase 2 of building AFT8, we can start to release educational and general trading videos. The aim is to produce at least one video per week for a market round-up using AFT and ATS tools, as well as instructional videos on the features in a video guide format.

Zero to Hero

These videos are listed in the Discord trading group in the “Zero to Hero Videos” section and will be updated regularly. Traders can request topics to be covered.

  1. Get Started Onboarding
  2. Get Installed with ATS Desktop Apps
  3. NT8 Multi-Provider Mode
  4. Stage 1 – Turnkey Workspace – Intro
  5. Stage 1 – Turnkey Workspace – Quick Trade Demo
  6. Stage 2 – Turnkey Workspace – Intro
  7. Stage 2 – Turnkey Workspace – Quick Trade Demo
  8. More to come!

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  • 30-day Free Trial Ultimate universal license
  • Self Assist or Get Assisted download & installation
  • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Free Discord Trading Group Zero to Hero
  • VIP Trading Groups with AI Co-Pilot
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Filed Under: AFT8, Algo Futures Trader, NinjaTrader 8 Tagged With: AFT8, videos


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A Note on renewals for AFT8 lifetime

April 8, 2024 by AFT

One-Time/Lifetime License & Renewals

Some traders elected a one-time payment or pay plan, and these will be maturing and completed over the coming weeks and months for those who bought back in time. Just as a reminder, the details are here for optional annual renewals to keep the lights on for cloud services, such as AWT, trading groups, and consumable ongoing overheads. Additionally, to provide upgrade assurance, support, and development services, and very cost-effective ways to cut costs for traders, it is necessary to implement annual maintenance.

  • AFT8 will notify traders of pending renewals on the AFT desktop and via popup. This is only related to live trading/live prop firm performance account usage.
  • AFT8 licenses not renewed will allow live trading uses but will not provide the full gamut of premium/ultimate features. Access to trading groups will also downgrade to free only, and no priority support or VIP level perks will be available.
  • Upgrade Assurance Traders will not be protected from the upgrade for AFT9 when NT9 rolls out, ETA 2025, if not the first edition sooner. Upgrades without assurance are around 50% of the full ticket.
  • AWT will cease to work in premium/ultimate mode after 1 year if it was bought as part of the ATS Ultimate/Premium combo, but it will be covered by the annual renewal.
  • The annual renewal covers all current and future product access within the subscription period it was purchased, e.g., 1 year.
  • There is no deadline to purchase an annual renewal, and traders can elect when and if to do this in their own time via their licensing or pricing page.

Optional Annual Renewal

  • Renewal dates are from 1 year after the license start date.
  • For pay plans with less than a 1-year period ending on the 12th month, the renewal is the same as a one-time purchase.
  • For any pay plans that were longer than 12 months, the date is 2 months after the end of the pay plan.
  • By popular demand, annual renewals can be purchased in subscriptions:
    • Annual subscription
    • 6-month subscription
    • 3-month subscription

For more details, visit pricing – Optional Annual Renewal


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  • 30-day Free Trial Ultimate universal license
  • Self Assist or Get Assisted download & installation
  • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Free Discord Trading Group Zero to Hero
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AFT8 current state and future state prior current and future road map

April 8, 2024 by AFT

Brief History of AFT8 Releases and Features

AFT8 Phase 1 – November 2023

Core proprietary indicators released with intelligent trade management
  • Early Bird release in November 2023
  • Official Release June 4, 2023

AFT8 Phase 2 – March 2024

100% full automation and hybrid interactive control & features such as:
  • Hybrid real-time interactive controllers for entry and exits
  • Inline templates for asset/streams/instrument/account
  • Fixed fractional position sizing – fund of funds or % of NAV
  • Signal execution control, max signals winners and losers
  • Trade Plan goals, % and/or $Profit Loss per session/s
  • Proprietary integrated order flow and volume profile-real-time market-generated technicals used for signals and filters:
    • DSFG VWAP
    • WSFG VWAP
    • MSFG VWAP
    • YSFG VWAP
    • DSFG Vol Profile
    • WSFG Vol Profile
    • MSFG Vol Profile
    • YSFG Vol Profile
  • Build your own Algos and plugin to the AFT8 framework
  • + more.

AFT8 Phase 3 – ETA Q2/Q3 2024

Turbocharge trading control or cut down costs, cancel superfluous server overheads with features such as:
  1. NinjaBuddy GUI
  2. Web Remote Trader control
    1. Save $100s per month on servers!
    2. Run from your desktop/home/office
    3. Access from anywhere
    4. View/control algos and hybrid trading
    5. Remote app desktop/web/mobile access
  3. Auto Startup & Connection monitoring
  4. + More TBA

Current State Support and Educational Resources

For the current period, AFT8 development has been frozen pending time to create video and support guidance, polish the web, help desk, and workspace/settings, and make the whole product more user-friendly and accessible for more traders. We are changing from “Intermediate to Veteran” only access, implemented due to time and resources, and stability of the product. Pending support and education resources during the building phase 1 and 2 of AFT8, now this is completed we can lower the bar and open the door to fully committed traders, who have started on their journey and realized they need a proper toolset and framework to give them an edge:

  1. VIP Members:
    1. VIP group technicals, market commentary, news & signals, etc.
    2. Automated trading baseline settings and workspaces
    3. Advanced methods playbook
    4. Advanced video trading methods – TBA
  2. All Members
    1. ATS Group access
    2. AST Group access
    3. AFT8 Access
    4. AWT Access
    5. Video guidance
    6. Help articles/resources
    7. Interactive group support
    8. Turnkey workspaces
    9. News/updates access
    10. Trading summary videos – TBA
  3. News, Updates, and Releases
    1. Get Connected
    2. Updates Notes
  4. Videos – creation phase underway
    1. Video Guides
    2. Market Trading

Onboarding and Getting Started

  • The website “Get Started” onboarding process has been simplified and streamlined to allow mobile or desktop users to onboard easily and quickly
  • Help access and format
  • Help Desk Sections & Online Guides
  • ATS Account shortcuts and layout improvements
  • Help/Video guides & easy access

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Get your 100% FREE day trading futures hybrid automated trade system, attend the discord-free trading group, and learn at your own pace, oriented, ready to trade with all the information & resources you need & and the right system to suit you.
  • 30-day Free Trial Ultimate universal license
  • Self Assist or Get Assisted download & installation
  • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Free Discord Trading Group Zero to Hero
  • VIP Trading Groups with AI Co-Pilot
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Filed Under: AFT Trading Videos, AFT8, Algo Futures Trader, NinjaTrader 8


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Turnkey settings and workspaces for hybrid trading and automated trading

April 1, 2024 by AFT

AFT Workspace settings sync -turnkey workspaces and VIP automated trading system baselinesAFT Workspace settings sync - turnkey workspaces and VIP automated trading system baselines Workspace and Settings Sync

For traders logged into AFT Desktop, workspaces will download to the PC automatically with any changes or rolled-over contracts, including:

  1. Turnkey Workspaces
    1. Any downloaded workspace is refreshed.
    2. Existing Workspaces for each stage of Zero to Hero.
  2. VIP Workspaces
    1. New and existing VIP settings.
    2. Downloaded and available.
    3. Details in the Discord VIP sections.
Hybrid Trading Turnkey Workspaces

ATS provides and supports turnkey workspaces for hybrid trading. Traders elect the level of automation in attendance on the day to suit their trade plan and approach. Traders use the workspaces released in the “Zero to Hero” stages within Discord to learn and use features progressively over time, avoiding information overload.

Baseline Automated Workspaces

VIP members get access to workspaces used to run baseline tests to show different premises and features and the natural phase of market winning and drawdown. These take all trades and are not optimized for trading. Baselines are to compare back to for your variants/settings or to guide hybrid trading. A trader could optimize and tweak the supplied settings to suit their trading preference of style and risk.

Flexible Levels of Automation

The AFT system can suit day, swing, and intermediate trading over one day or many months, maintaining context and control even after a reboot and restart, with 100% unattended execution and trade management. However, the vast majority of traders use the system from 50% to 80% automation. Note: In fund trading with a $5 million account, 100% fully automated trading was engaged for a client CPC with the forerunner of the AFT system today. Even that was controlled for news and rollovers, so 90% automation was feasible/sensible. This is also a statistic used by Ray Dalio for their Alpha trading systems.

Classic Automated Trading Systems versus AFT Hybrid Trading Systems

The reason 95% fail at automated trading is they do not have any control over the system—100% classic full automation—switch on or switch off. The majority of systems worked that way until ATS developers pioneered hybrid automated trading in 2009 for NinjaTrader. Old school strategies are like sitting in the back of a rally car with no controls, steering, or brakes, no driver going over the Alps in snow and shine. The sensible majority exit the vehicle at the first series of bumps, or the bold stay in the whole way and take a full drawdown and then run out of capital. If the market phase was suitable for the system, then the remaining few percent might make it through for a quarter or a year. All systems will draw down at some point as the market phases change—the question is when the wall is hit and how long it lasts.

AFT Hybrid trading lets you control and steer past this without total switch off or on. It allows super fine control in the live market, avoidance of price risks and the doldrums, and continuation for the high probability of winning runs after the losing runs. AFT provides full control and transparency of the system, allowing the trader to use it in the way that is best for them.

What are the best settings?

This is a guessing game or a gamble. Never take it for granted that someone’s subjective best settings work for you. Only by hands-on experience and thousands of hours of chart time, stats, testing, and practice will the “best settings” and trade plan be revealed for each trader, custom-fitted to suit them. Turnkey workspaces and baseline settings make this task easier and are a base to start from and to measure back to. Some traders run with the settings provided in the turnkey workspaces and do okay, some even say great! But note that hybrid mode interaction is employed over the top to suit the trader—not something that is qualitatively repeatable by a pure robot. We cannot say if that will be the case for you.


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Get your 100% FREE day trading futures hybrid automated trade system, attend the discord-free trading group, and learn at your own pace, oriented, ready to trade with all the information & resources you need & and the right system to suit you.
  • 30-day Free Trial Ultimate universal license
  • Self Assist or Get Assisted download & installation
  • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Free Discord Trading Group Zero to Hero
  • VIP Trading Groups with AI Co-Pilot
  • Get Funded Accelerator!

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