Non Farms Payroll OCO Breakout Trading micro futures with AFT7
Non Farms Payroll OCO Breakout Trading Micro Futures in semi automated trading mode.
You can install and open any workspace provided that suits you. Simply wait until you are a minute or so away from the pending news release. Click the OCO Button and then make sure the entry long and short are in the technical position as you like.
Now wait for the market trend momentum and price to fill one of the entry orders. The One Cancels Other (OCO) means the other order will be cancelled. The AFT7 automatic trade management module will then place the trade exit orders and automatically scale out and trail the stop loss.
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.
AFT7 to AFT8 Upgrade for NinjaTrader 8 – Pricing details
AFT8 is due for 1st quarter of 2021 we hope but it’s still a way off as of time of writing due to the trading and development obligations of the developer of the AFT systems namely Automated Systems NinjaTrader Developer and Hedge Fund Trader Tom Leeson of MicroTrends ltd
How much will the AFT8 cost?
The news we can give you now is that for traders who lease there is no upgrade fee with lease plans you get it all for your lease period.
For Traders who bought a lifetime AFT7 license more than one year prior to the release of AFT8 there is an upgrade fee. For Traders who bought the AFT7 Lifetime license and bought the AFT7 legacy annual renew there is no upgrade fee providing it is not expired and provided it was purchased within 3 months of the first year.
Please visit the AFT Upgrade AFT7 to AFT8 product for more details or consider a lease if you prefer it.
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.
US Equities Session Open Micro Futures Day Trading System Basics
System Premise
The Trend is your friend until the end, let winners run and cut your losers.
Note: You trade out from the session open – and do not take reversal trades back to the open from the high or low etc. – you let it run and trail.
Get in a trade as early as possible and avoid chop and false signals, but get an entry price near the session open price, so that there is a high probability of a run leading to a profit. As opposed to getting in later at the high and trend exhaustion or requiring a larger stop loss to weather pullback continuations or chop and noise.
To get started with this system please use the workspace “AFT SFG Breakout Trader-0000A-Generic-Micros” view the following guidance for AFT Day Trading Micros Session Open Breakout
With this system you enter with the trend momentum and direction of the market from the session open when there is statistically momentum and direction caused by the NYSE open. So you would be looking to get in a trade from 9.30EST to 11AM as a guide.
AFT System Details

Using the Daily Session Fib Grid signals indicator as the system base, signals are taken above or below the Daily Session Fib Grid – “No Trade Zone” NTZ within a % above and below that area – called the trading zone, the area is set by the “SFG Proximity Filter % ”
The SFG Fib Grid provides a map of price as a grid of %. The open is F0%. +f100% is the daily expected high and -f100% is the daily expected low.
So we can use the grid for entry’s, targets, stops and as a filter. So the trading zone where we take signals as trades as a region could be +F31% of the Daily SFG Grid above and -f31% below -this region can be increased or decreased to suit trading style.
AFT PDF Trading Signals Basics Guide
AFT7 Session Open Breakout Trading Signal Types, please see this guide which is a basic intro and guide to day trading futures with AFT in a session breakout mode: https://algofuturestrader.s3.amazonaws.com/AFT-Trade-Plan-System-Rules.pdf
Turnkey Workspaces
- AFT SFG Breakout Trader-0000A-Generic-Micros
aimed at Semi Automatic and Fully Automated Trader in attendance
Related Links
NinjaTrader Performance Tips
1. Manually install AFT7 and make sure you got the latest.
2. Close down all other workspaces – only open 1 workspace
3. Close down the market analyzer – if not using it to see the difference
4. Only trade on a few charts – for example just 1 or 2 in trading mode etc
5. Save the workspace as your own copy
6. Reset the NT7 sim accounts – to free up data overhead
7. Data make sure you are not saving data to disk
Servers
These work fantastic based in St Louis USA:
https://contabo.com/?show=configurator&vds_id=301
windows 2016/2019
Workstation/Laptop
NinjaTrader 7 and AFT7 can be quite data/CPU hungry
1. PC Spec:
You will need a modern Spec PC –
Intel Core i7 or better, AMD Ryzen 7 or 9
16GB or better RAM
SSD Hard drive – Samsung NVME EVO recommended
Dual or triple Monitor Video Card
ASUS motherboard preferred
SSD Drive D for Data
Add a drive d NVME SSD and move my documents to that drive
e.g. D:\Users\Trader\Documents
then install NinjaTrader into the usual place
D:\Users\Trader\Documents\NinjaTrader 7
NT8 Versions
The NT8 version promises to be more performance oriented with orders internally but NT8 is very resource greedy and requires a very good pc or it will bog down and serve/ lagged old tick data in realtime.
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.
AFT7 Hybrid Automated Entry Day Trading Micro Futures
This video below shows the turnkey day trading workspace for the NYSE session breakout style of trading with the Automated Trading mode and Semi Autonomous mode on.
- Fully Automatic – Unlimited – Auto trade entry mode
- Semi Automatic – Limited- Auto trade entry mode
- Manual User Mode – AFT Easy Trader Button Entry

Please visit the AFT 24/7 Help Center for AFT7 Video guides
For more info see how to get started day 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.