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AFT Trader John Video Episode 15 – day trading Nasdaq Futures Market Round Up August week 3

August 23, 2021 by AFT

https://youtu.be/Xb5NubE8EKo

In this week’s video, Trader John goes through all the trades in the MNQ for the week with the AFT7 Opening Morning Breakout Trader for NinjaTrader 7 (Ninja 8 Beta). AFT7 is free to download and use in simulation mode for as long as you want. The AFT onboarding page and AFT Trading Group Discord server links are detailed below:

You can follow AFT Trader John in the live market each day in our free online day trading group.

  • 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, backtesting, and 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 provides 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, AFT7 Turnkey Workspaces, AFT8, ATS Trading Community, Micro EMini Equity Futures, NinjaTrader 7 Tagged With: AFT7, Algo Trading Futures, Automated Trading NinjaTrader, day trading futures, day trading micro futures, Emini Futures, Micro E-Mini Equity Index Futures, NinjaTrader 7


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Automated Futures Day Trader Trend Scalper Turnkey Workspace for AFT7

June 7, 2021 by AFT

Automated TrendOmeter Trade Filter day trading futures trend scalping

Announcing a new workspace: “AFT Trend Trader Scalper-1001A-Generic-Micros” and “AFT Trend Trader Scalper-1001B-Generic-Micros” for trend scalping with the TrendOmeter filter system to allow many signal opportunities. This was in response to demand for a turnkey workspace that fits better with multi-time frame filter directional bias and TrendOmeter usage. The AFT Session Breakout System may have too few trade signals and miss out on too many good trades for some traders. This new day trading futures trend scalper setup will provide many signals per session and allow trading anywhere on the chart, up or down, without restriction. All filters are off—no traffic light filters, no trading zone filter—only the optional TrendOmeter filter, or the user can set long or short bias in real-time. Here is the initial draft, and it will be added to the Templates Installer. Consider it experimental and aimed at experienced traders who want to use the real-time interactive controls and trade man and machine hybrid automated trading.

Automated future day trading trend scalper trade system
Automated future day trading trend scalper trade system turnkey setting – ready to sim trade out of the box

AFT Scalper is set up as a very clean chart to show the USAR On chart signals below. Here in this screenshot, we can see the real-time live market trades taken on the sim in a real-time test.

AFT Trend Trader longs all winners
AFT Trend Trader longs all winners – no shorts taken – TrendOmeter in action – super clean chart look and feel for trend scalpers
AFT Trend Trader Scalper all long winners
AFT Trend Trader Scalper all long winners, no loser demo day trading equity micro e-mini futures

The latest AFT7 Workspace version is now 2021.6.7.1. The main program AFT7 version is now 2021.5.25.4 and in most cases should automatically update when NinjaTrader 7 is restarted. However, some antivirus software might prevent this from occurring. To manually update your AFT7 to the latest version, simply visit the AFT downloads, download and run the AFT7 Universal Installer, or you can simply run the AFT7 Templates Installer to select additional options.

WARNING: Please note running the universal installer will close all NinjaTrader platforms running on your PC, including NinjaTrader 8, if running. Running the AFT7 Settings installer can be done with NinjaTrader running; it will not affect it.

AFT7 Futures Automated Trend Trader Scalper Trading System
AFT7 Futures Automated Trend Trader Scalper Trading System Turnkey Workspace “AFT Trend Trader Scalper-1001A-Generic-Micros”

For installation help for AFT7, please visit the AFT Quick Start help guide.

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.
  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT
 

Filed Under: AFT7 Turnkey Workspaces, Algo Futures Trader, automated trade entry, automated trade management, NinjaTrader 7, TrendOmeter Tagged With: AFT7, AFT7 Update, AFT7 workspaces, day trading scalper


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AFT7 Trend reversal pullback and continuation day trading turnkey workspace update for June 2021

June 2, 2021 by AFT

AFT USAR Trend Reversal Pullback Continuation Futures Day Trading System

Due to popular demand, amidst working on AFT8, we have found time to revamp the AFT7 Trend Reversal Turnkey workspace “AFT Trend Reversal Trader-1000A-Generic-Micros.” This can be installed and accessed from the NinjaTrader 7 control center > File > Workspaces.

Enhancements for entry signals include trend reversal or a pullback price break at any point on the chart without restriction, except for session time filters. This means you can set a bias long and short or trade with a directional bias filter using the TrendOmeter AlphaBias system. A Higher Time Frame Price Analysis workspace is also available in the templates installer.

The latest AFT7 Workspace version is now 2021.6.2.5. The main program AFT7 version is now 2021.5.25.4 and in most cases should automatically update when NinjaTrader 7 is restarted. However, some antivirus software might prevent this from occurring. To manually update your AFT7 to the latest version, simply visit the AFT downloads, download and run the AFT7 Universal Installer, or you can simply run the AFT7 Templates Installer to select additional options.

WARNING: Please note that running the universal installer will close all NinjaTrader platforms running on your PC, including NinjaTrader 8, if running. Running the AFT7 Settings installer can be done with NinjaTrader running; it will not affect it.

AFT USAR Trend Reversal Pullback Continuation Futures Day Trading System
AFT7 Turnkey Workspace – AFT Trend Reversal Trader-1000A-Generic-Micros

For installation help for AFT7, please visit the AFT Quick Start help guide.

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.

  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT

 

Filed Under: AFT7 Turnkey Workspaces, Algo Futures Trader, NinjaTrader 7 Tagged With: AFT7, AFT7 Update, AFT7 workspaces


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AFT7 update for market analyzer performance issue fixes

May 28, 2021 by AFT

AFT7 was updated as part of maintenance after reports of a slowdown in performance around the NYSE session open. The NinjaTrader 7 would become unresponsive. Optimization development was made to the USAR indicator and USAR OSC, which are used within the AlphaBias Market Analyzer that powers the AFT7 Trendometer. Chart loading time and overall smoother performance have been reported since the corrective development.

AFT TrendOmeter Integrated with Easy Trader
AFT TrendOmeter Integrated with Easy Trader – as found in the Turnkey workspaces installed

The latest AFT7 version is now 2021.5.25.4 and in most cases should automatically update when NinjaTrader 7 is restarted. However, some antivirus software might prevent this from occurring. To manually update your AFT7 to the latest version, simply visit the AFT downloads, download & run the AFT7 Universal Installer. Please note this will close all NinjaTrader platforms running on your PC.

AFT7 AlphaBias TrendOmeter
AFT7 version can be located in the properties of each component or in the AFT7 Easy Trader User Info panel

To see what version of AFT7 you are running, please see this screenshot which shows two places to identify the AFT7 version you are using. For installation help for AFT7, please visit the AFT Quick Start help guide.

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.

  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT

 

Filed Under: AFT7 Turnkey Workspaces, Algo Futures Trader, AlphaBias, NinjaTrader 7, TrendOmeter Tagged With: AFT7, AFT7 Update, Updates


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AFT7 NYSE Session Breakout Trading Micro Futures Workspace Update for March 2021 contract

December 11, 2020 by AFT

AFT7 NYSE March Contract 2021 Micro Futures Workspace

The workspaces for Micro Futures have been rolled to the new contract for 03-21. Restarting NinjaTrader with AFT7 installed will automatically download and install into NinjaTrader. Manual installation is also available from the AFT downloads page.

You will need to roll your contracts to the latest and download the data.

For assistance with NinjaTrader rolling, please see here: https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/rolling_over_a_futures_contrac.htm

You may also need to download 8 days of historical tick data: https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/download.htm

Then open the new workspace. Close the workspace if you are getting any errors about “unable to find instrument.” Roll over the contract, get the data, then open the workspace.

Visit the AFT Help Desk for more info or submit a support ticket: https://algotradingsystems.zendesk.com/knowledge/articles/360053590212/en-us?brand_id=360001147331

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.

  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT

 

Filed Under: AFT7 Turnkey Workspaces, Algo Futures Trader, NinjaTrader 7 Tagged With: AFT7 workspaces, NinjaTrader 7, Rolling contracts, Turnkey Workspaces


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Guide to get started with AFT7 day trading

November 25, 2020 by AFT

Session Breakout Trading Micro Futures Turnkey Workspaces pre election

Recommended Path for Getting Started with AFT7

To get started trading with AFT after installation, focus only on the session breakout workspace. Using one workspace at a time is the best practice. Follow the live market and trade from 9:30 AM NYSE EST for about three hours. Less is more; only trade one to three signals per instrument per session.

Starting out with MES is likely easier than MNQ. Save your own workspace and edit your preferred stops, targets, settings, etc. Start small, understand the controls, and system features.

Trading Tips:
Note the look and feel of successful and losing days. Avoid fear, greed, and impatience.

When to Trade and When to Sit Out?

  • Understand when to trade: market directional momentum, price analysis on higher time frames, and schedule of market-moving events.
  • Accept that market price cycles are not your fault or the system’s—trending days and choppy range-bound consolidation slow days.
  • There might only be 12 to 15 good market days per month and five horrendous ones—so why trade them if you can learn to see them prior or as they trade?
  • Better to learn to sit out, watch, and understand the cycles instead of trying to overtrade. Keep a log and note the high-probability days and the losing days. What was the context and pretext?
  • Note the calendar cycle of each new year, quarter, month, week, and day—can you use that for higher accuracy?
  • Use the Trendometer and Market Analyzer to assist and look to trade with correlation for indices of trending confluence rather than a messy, directionless market.

AFT: How It Works

There are four basic ways to trade futures with the AFT system: manual/semi/fully automated entry mode + automatic position trade exit management:

  • NYSE Session Open Breakout
  • Trend Reversal Trading
  • Manual Trade Momentum Trading
  • Manual OCO Breakout

Workspace turnkey settings are provided for that purpose. Simply install and open the system which appeals most.

24/7 Help Center Support Quick Links
Get Installed and Set Up

  • AFT7 Get Started Trading Futures with NinjaTrader and AFT7
  • AFT7 Fast Start Guide
  • AFT7 Downloads – AFT7 System Installers
  • AFT7 Plug And Trade – Install, Connect and Trade

Trading with AFT7

  • AFT7 Session Open Breakout Trading Basics
  • AFT7 TrendOmeter Basics
  • AFT7 Video Guides

AFT Blog Articles and Videos

Session Breakout Trading Info
AFT Trade Plan System Rules
US Equities Session Open Micro Futures Day Trading System Basics
Session Breakout Micro Futures Templates Settings Update
NYSE Session Open Breakout Micro Futures Turnkey Workspace

TrendOmeter/Market Analyzer
AFT7 Trendometer Alpha Bias Trend

Change Account and Save Your Own Workspaces/Settings
AFT7 How to Edit and Save Your Own Templates and Workspaces
AFT Trade Management Settings Adjustment

OCO Breakout
Non-Farms Payroll OCO Breakout Trading Micro Futures with AFT7

Modes of Trading
AFT7 Hybrid Automated Entry Day Trading Micro Futures

Performance Tips
NinjaTrader Performance Tips

24/7 Help Center Support Quick Links

  • AFT7 Get Started Trading Futures with NinjaTrader and AFT7
  • AFT7 Fast Start Guide
  • AFT7 Downloads – AFT7 System Installers
  • AFT7 Plug And Trade – Install, Connect and Trade
  • AFT7 Session Open Breakout Trading Basics
  • AFT7 TrendOmeter Basics
  • AFT7 Video Guides

Please take a good look through all and let us know any questions so we can post more support/resources/videos.

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.

  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT

 

Filed Under: AFT7 Turnkey Workspaces, Algo Futures Trader, AlphaBias, automated trade entry, automated trade management, Micro EMini Equity Futures, NinjaTrader 7, TrendOmeter Tagged With: AFT7, day trading micro futures, NinjaTrader 7


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