Algo Futures Trader

Free NinjaTrader Automated futures day trading system

FREE Live Day Trading Futures online Trading Room Commentary

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Trade on the right side of the market at the New York Session Open for day trading US equity indices Futures Nasdaq, SP500, Dow, Mid Cap and the Russell 2000 Small Cap Futures and micro Futures.

Announcing AFT Trader John live for Pre-Market Analysis and the Session Open in the AFT Free Trading Room Mon to Fri 9AM EST onwards.

Join us here at this link Live Pre Market Analysis and Commentary

  • AST Algo Signal Server Live Market Algo Trading System Charts
  • Live Market Voice Commentary from aft-trader-john – Pre Open and Session Open
  • Live Market Algo Streaming – 100% fully automatic systems & gap charts

The 5 step Basic Day Trading Approach for NYSE Session Breakout

1) Get to the desk before the open… 9am EST or so  – check news
2) Check the 4 main indices and see what happened prior… look to see what gaps are forming
3) Armed with that if the gaps are all different or all the same for example… GapBias
4)Look at the alphabias… etc  understand the strength of the instruments going into the open to make a selection of what to trade
5) Trading  9.30EST to around 11.30EST 1 to 3 signals per day – Signal + filters

Algo Signals Server Live Stream 24/7

This screenshot is realtime live market trading in simulation accounts – providing the stats and the signals you can believe as fact as they happen in realtime and are video streamed so you can even watch on your mobile or desktop.
The very same algo signals are also sent to the web for you as well!!!
Live Market commentary takes you through the pre trade setups and position management so you can follow along.

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Simple secret to Day trading futures success


Trading & Risk 101

Trading is simple but not easy, please do it safely and don't rush, it takes a lot of practice & stoicism, wining and losing cycles are expected!  5 quick tips to consider! 

    1. Impatience: FOMO - Fear of missing out, never rush to live money trade! Get consistent success sim trading 1 to 3 months then decide.
    2. Trade Capital: Get funded to day trade futures with a trading capital provider, no need to use your funds learning to trade.
    3. Micro Futures: Start with the smallest futures instruments such as Micro lots 1 to 3 lots to scale out
    4. Risk: Always use the smallest risk position sizing possible for example 1% or less of trade capital per trade
    5. Trade a plan: Don't chase the market or over-trade, focus on a systematic approach get consistent, trade the plan &  keep stats.
  • Learn & Trade risk free on the sim, demo account in NinjaTrader for free forever - AFT has no time limit, when you are ready and have proven to yourself that you are able to be successful at your own pace, you can consider live trading futures with AFT and NinjaTrader at your own discretion. Accelerate learning with a 1 to 1 day trading futures coaching but even then don't rush to live trade, put the learning into practice attend our  Free Futures Day Trading Group  for live market coaching voice and streaming at 9AM EST to 11.30 EST Mon to Fri.
  • Winning & Losing Cycles. You need to experience at least 1 to  3 months to see the typical cycles of the market and news cycles weeks of the months. You might start on a winning cycle on sim and suffer from recency bias, thinking its always easy to trade and rush to go live only to get hit by a losing cycle in live money trading and then pull the plug and freak out then you will miss the next winning cycle taking all the losers and missing all the winners the double whammy of trading! 
  • There is No short cut,  it takes time,  get a routine, practice and wait  until you are consistent month to month on the sim at your discretion and then consider live money,  or if you are certain sure you got the ability at the start, at the very least get funded to trade with a 3rd party trading capital so they take the risk...!  You may well catch a longer term easy phase of trading from the get go, and make good but eventually it will happen you will get a drawdown and a string of loses...losing days and even weeks may occur but if you the trader are consistent over the long term month to month you can succeed.

Free Day Trading Group for Futures Traders

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Welcome to the AFT Family! Since June 2021 by popular demand AFT Trading Group is free and accessible on discord available 24/7 with live streaming & trading events 9AM EST mon to Fri.

Trading Group operated by Algo Trading Systems LLC (“ATS”)

  • Trading Education, support and resources for Algo Trading Systems products: AlphaWebTrader (“AWT”), AlgoFuturesTrader (“AFT”) & AlgoSignalTrader (“AST”) for swing and day trading futures.
  • Multiple complimentary trading systems and toolsets AWT, AFT and AST all in one place
  • 247 ATS Trading Group is free & access on discord, windows, mac, linux and apple, android & web
  • Emini Day Trading the Session Open 9.15EST Mon to Fri FREE US EMinis and Micro Indices Futures day trading NYSE Session open free trade coaching pre-market session & gap analysis and realtime trading commentary.
  • FREE trading group access: Live Market Futures Emini Day Trading commentary and mentoring.
  • FREE Alpha Web Trader Access: Realtime Day Trading Tools for Futures, ETFs and FAANG
  • Secret to Day trading futures success : How did AFT traders start and win their trading accounts?

EMinis Indices Futures Live Pre-Market and NYSE Morning Session commentary

Fig:1 – Discord Trading Group Live Market Day Trading EMinis NYSE Session Open Breakout with proprietary FibGrid Systems
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100% fully Automated Live Market Algorithmic Trading Server Streaming

Fig:2 – Discord Trading Group Realtime Algo Trading in live market with paper trading and live money trading stats
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Get your Trading Edge with Swing Trading Technicals for Futures, ETFs & FAANG

Fig:3 – Discord Trading Group Professional EOD Technicals for Day Trading context & Swing Trading
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Trading & Risk 101

Trading is simple but not easy, please do it safely and don't rush, it takes a lot of practice & stoicism, wining and losing cycles are expected!  5 quick tips to consider! 

    1. Impatience: FOMO - Fear of missing out, never rush to live money trade! Get consistent success sim trading 1 to 3 months then decide.
    2. Trade Capital: Get funded to day trade futures with a trading capital provider, no need to use your funds learning to trade.
    3. Micro Futures: Start with the smallest futures instruments such as Micro lots 1 to 3 lots to scale out
    4. Risk: Always use the smallest risk position sizing possible for example 1% or less of trade capital per trade
    5. Trade a plan: Don't chase the market or over-trade, focus on a systematic approach get consistent, trade the plan &  keep stats.
  • Learn & Trade risk free on the sim, demo account in NinjaTrader for free forever - AFT has no time limit, when you are ready and have proven to yourself that you are able to be successful at your own pace, you can consider live trading futures with AFT and NinjaTrader at your own discretion. Accelerate learning with a 1 to 1 day trading futures coaching but even then don't rush to live trade, put the learning into practice attend our  Free Futures Day Trading Group  for live market coaching voice and streaming at 9AM EST to 11.30 EST Mon to Fri.
  • Winning & Losing Cycles. You need to experience at least 1 to  3 months to see the typical cycles of the market and news cycles weeks of the months. You might start on a winning cycle on sim and suffer from recency bias, thinking its always easy to trade and rush to go live only to get hit by a losing cycle in live money trading and then pull the plug and freak out then you will miss the next winning cycle taking all the losers and missing all the winners the double whammy of trading! 
  • There is No short cut,  it takes time,  get a routine, practice and wait  until you are consistent month to month on the sim at your discretion and then consider live money,  or if you are certain sure you got the ability at the start, at the very least get funded to trade with a 3rd party trading capital so they take the risk...!  You may well catch a longer term easy phase of trading from the get go, and make good but eventually it will happen you will get a drawdown and a string of loses...losing days and even weeks may occur but if you the trader are consistent over the long term month to month you can succeed.

AFT7 update for market analyzer performance issue fixes

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AFT7 was updates as part of maintenance after reports of a slow down 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 which powers the AFT7 Trendometer. Chart loading time and overall smoother performance has 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 cased should automatically update when NinjaTrader 7 is restarted however some antivirus might prevent this occurring. To manually update your AFT7 to the latest version 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 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 running.

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
 


Guide to get started with AFT7 day trading

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Recommended path for getting started with AFT7

To get started trading with AFT after installation. Focus only on the session breakout workspace, use 1 workspace at a time is the best practice.
Follow the live market and trade from 9.30 NYSE EST for 3 hours or so.
Less is more only trade 1 to 3 signals per instrument per session

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

Trading Tips:
Note the look and feel of days that are successful and losing days
Avoid fear and 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 market price cycles are not your fault or the systems -trending days and choppy range bound consolidation slow days
  • There might only be 12 to 15 good market days per month and 5 horrendous – so why trade them if you can learn to see them prior or as they trade.
  • Better to learn to sit out and watch and understand the cycles instead of try to over trade. Record 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 market -directionless. 

AFT How it works

There are 4 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 setup

Trading with AFT7

AFT Blog Articles and videos

Session Breakout Trading info
https://algofuturestrader.s3.amazonaws.com/AFT-Trade-Plan-System-Rules.pdf
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/us-equities-session-open-micro-futures-day-trading-system-basics/
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/session-breakout-micro-futures-templates-settings-update-v20201019/
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/nyse-session-open-breakout-micro-futures-turnkey-workspace-live-market-trading-micro-futures/

TrendOmeter/Market Analyzer
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/aft7-trendometer-alpha-bias-trend/

Change account and save your own workspaces/Settings
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/aft7-how-to-edit-and-save-your-own-templates-and-workspaces/
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/aft-trade-management-settings-adjustment-trail-stops-and-breakeven/

OCO Breakout
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/non-farms-payroll-oco-breakout-trading-micro-futures-with-aft7/

Modes of Trading
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/aft7-hybrid-automated-entry-day-trading-micro-futures/

Performance Tips
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/ninjatrader-performance-tips/

24/7 Help Center Support Quick Links

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

 

AFT7 TrendOmeter Alpha Bias Trend

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Trend Correlation both vertical and horizontal is provided by the Alpha Bias Trend System – within the market analyzer.
Trend momentum trading data stream is aggregated by the AFT TrendOmeter GUI into a proprietary formula – known as the AlphaBias, Confluence and Average Bias. Unlike traditional technical analysis this system is realtime and the actual market trend – not some projected or lagging view – this is the current state of price and trend – to be used in realtime.

  • Long only all winners not shorts allowed no chop
  • Automated TrendOmeter Trade Filter day trading futures trend scalping
    TrendOmeter Trade Filter day trading futures trend scalping
  • AFT7 Futures Automated Trend Trader Scalper Trading System
    AFT7 Futures Automated Trend Trader Scalper Trading System
  • AFT TrendOmeter Integrated with Easy Trader
    AFT TrendOmeter Integrated with Easy Trader
  • AFT TrendOmeter with Market Analyzer
    AFT TrendOmeter with Market Analyzer

AFT7 TrendOmeter is a premium product available as a standalone or integrated into the AFT Algo Pro Trader – please see pricing for details

AFT TrendOmeter is 100% free for sim,demo trading simply download and use a turnkey workspace to see it working, AFT7 Plug And Trade – Install, Connect and Trade

View this links for details of Automated Day Trading Scalper Turnkey Workspace.

The best traders know that a system is merely a system – it only becomes effective when its used at a time that is most suited for its success. So in other words you need to know when to trade and when to use a trading system. We can simplify the market into 2 states: messy/choppy and directional/trending.

Time wise as a regular schedule – the NYSE open is a good time to sit down to trade as statistically the market has a tendency to move and trend.
But it can be anytime for whatever reason that the market becomes in a tradeable moving directional state – for example market moving events or a self fulfilling price technical break from a price cycle of consolidation or merely the fact the big players have an obligation to make money and so are required to create a flowing market where all players can for a time win and keep the liquidity and profits flowing – the end result is the same and we don’t care why or who.

As mere mortals and traders we want to enter the market if possible at the start of this wave and ride it or to recognize the movement of a good easy market to trade and sit out the frothy choppy market- don’t be fooled by people who want to trade with death defying stunts – make life easy and sit out the chaos and look for the easy way. The main danger we have is trading is so easy a lot of times people think this is always the case and will hand it all back… So if we can stay out of danger that is better.

So with this in mind the Alpha Bias Trend correlation view of the AFT TrendOmeter and market analyzer view allow us to view and get the story of the us indices – by color.. is it all red ok that’s a short play, is it all green ok that’s long.. is it a mixed up jumble of colors ok that’s the markets not in sync.. Consider the ES as the sun as the center of the solar system and MYM and NQ and RTY in orbit… they may indeed go different ways at times… EMD And RTY are in fact a good pair to track.. NQ will go off and do what it does on the strength of the 25% tech giants – but all at some point will align and move with the ES as it is the worlds global leading indices -so orientate around this – at least consider it.

You might see a scenario of trend arbitrage whereby the NQ, ES and YM are long above the SFG Session open by a fraction and trending uniformly with the RTY lagging back… well -that is setup for a long on the RTY as it crosses to join the gravitational pull of the others… especially easy to spot if the EMD mid cap has already crossed….

So the purpose is to provide more scope and meaning context to trading -to make it higher probability by using the old saying the trend is your friend until the end.. nothing new here… we are just building tools on proven timeless methods for trading and evolving them.

AFT TrendOmeter – Integrated with “AFT Algo Pro Trader”
If you open the supplied turnkey workspaces then you should see it working alongside the AFT Easy Trader – NinjaBuddy GUI.  You can toggle the off the tool bar menu. 

Realtime TrendOmeter Filter – MultiTime Frame Trend Filter
Seen below is the a chart from the Workspace AFT SFG Breakout Trader-0000A-Generic-Micros with the TrendOmeters Filter set to on for realtime Signal Filtering based on the trend aggregation of 7 time frames and rules for long and short signal execution:

  • Allow Long Trades when AFT% > 50%
  • Allow Short Trades when AFT% < 50%

AFT TrendOmeter Integrated with Easy Trader
AFT TrendOmeter Integrated with Easy Trader to filter signals based on AFT% score

Market Analyzer – Alpha Bias Trend View

Here we can see above in the market analyzer – the overall market US indices trend is largely green/bullish so we would be more interested in a long – when the market analyzer is too messy/mixed in color its usually best to stay out. What we are looking for is a uniform/confluence of color and market direction green for long red for short – mixed state of color is neutral.

AFT TrendOmeter StandAlone – chart Indicator 
You can add the AFT indicator “AFT 200- AlphaBias Trend”  to a chart by itself to test.

  • Open the “AFT TrendOmeter Demo” workspace to view the following

AFT TrendOmeter with Market Analyzer
AFT TrendOmeter with Market Analyzer – powering the Alpha Bias view

AFT TrendOmeter is powered by the MarketAnalyzer – Alpha Bias

  • The Market Analyzer open with the relevant Instruments
    • MES, ES, NQ, MNQ, RTY, M2K, YM, MYM, EMD.
    • MES, MYM,M2K, MNQ is enough if you are trading micros only etc. 

From the NT7 control center open the market analyzer and right click and load the template:

  • 009ATrendometer for short terms
  • 008ATrendOmeter for short to medium terms

NOTE: RTY Small Caps Trend Correlation with Mid Caps
if you want to track correlations with RTY -add the EMD mid cap if you are enabled for that.

AFT7 Downloads 100% Free for sim, demo, replay trading

Please visit https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/downloads/

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For more guidance tips tricks and videos please connect to AFT

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