Quick Summary

We’re excited to announce a major AFT8 update, bringing new Freemium Workspaces, re-tuned settings for tighter and more responsive turnkey trails, and several under-the-hood improvements that push NinjaTrader performance to new levels. This release continues our mission: making advanced, professional-grade futures trading accessible to all traders.

What’s New

• Freemium Workspaces: New setups that highlight tighter trading nuances, with T1/T2 trails (variants B and C) designed to show more precise stop behavior. Other workspaces give trades room to breathe, allowing traders to see both tight and loose trail management in action.
• Trail Offsets Reworked: Default distances have been tightened, moving away from swing-trading artifacts and aligning instead with prop/day-trading defaults.
• Bidirectional Entry/Exit Orchestration: Round-robin, fine-grain locks coordinate both directions — Trade Manager ↔ Algo Entry — so the active side finishes first. This works in 1:1 and many:many topologies across multiple algos and exit managers, preventing jams, thread-pool starvation, and tick-churn/render delay.
• Asymmetric Threading Model: Our long-running thread design avoids clogging NT8’s thread pool, keeping NinjaTrader responsive under heavy load – something 99.9% of vendor systems cannot claim.
• Reploshed Bars & Tick Aggregation: A new adaptive bars engine removes the need for tick purging on NT lag/render delays. Instead, we aggregate ticks in parallel with up to 5× compression, preserving all price/time information while keeping NT8 smooth during news events, market opens, and heavy volume sessions. Another original MicroTrends Ltd invention.
• NT8 Maintenance Modes: Built-in recovery tools to free stuck orders and improve fault tolerance. OCO entry mode now uses a 5% margin up/down (10% total) by default.
• Multi-Shot Entry & Exits: Available for AFT8 Lifetime (year 1) users or traders who have renewed their maintenance or lease plans.
• IntelliStop Migration: The AFT7 invention has been fully integrated into AFT8. IntelliStop is a trailing stop that adapts based on profit as a % of the expected Fib Grid range, with linear and parabolic modes.
  • For example, in a day-trading breakout with a typical 100% range, IntelliStop begins trailing at 50% profit and will close out at 100%.
  • Traders can cap the maximum tightening (e.g., 80%), leaving a final 20% buffer to let winners run.

Innovation Credits

This release includes several proprietary inventions and IP owned by ATS, including: the Fib Grid, USAR methods, Apaptive Bars, and the Intelli-Stop system – both designed to help traders manage risk and profits more intelligently under real-world trading conditions.

Get Started

AFT8 will automatically announce this update via a popup on your next usage.
You can also download the update directly from your ATS account:
ATS User Account › Downloads.

Freemium workspaces are available now. Existing AFT8 Lifetime and maintenance/lease users can access Multi-Shot and IntelliStop features immediately. Update today and experience the new responsive trails, smarter stops, and improved NT8 performance under load.

Quick Summary

• Freemium Workspaces: New turnkey trails (T1/T2 B & C) show tighter trading nuances, while other workspaces allow trades more breathing room.
• Trail Offsets: Defaults adjusted from swing-style to prop/day-trading responsive settings.
• Entry/Exit Orchestration: Round-robin, fine-grain locks coordinate Trade Manager ↔ Algo Entry (1:1 or many:many), preventing jams, thread-pool starvation, and tick-churn/render delay.
• Performance Boost: Adaptive bars with parallel tick aggregation (up to 5× compression) keep NT8 smooth during news/opens and heavy volume.
• Maintenance & Recovery: New modes to free stuck orders; OCO entry margins adjusted.
• Multi-Shot & IntelliStop: Available to AFT8 Lifetime (year 1) and renewed users; IntelliStop provides linear & parabolic adaptive trailing stops based on Fib Grid range.

How to Update: AFT8 will announce the update via popup on next usage. You can also download it from your ATS account here:
ATS User Account › Downloads.

Note

These updates include proprietary innovations AFT8 methods and technology including: hybrid automation trade engine, Adaptive bars, Fib Grids, USAR, MultiShot trade copier, Intelli-Stop trail system + more.