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Introducing ATS Help Bot: 24/7 AI-Assisted Support for Traders

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🤖 ATS Help Bot: 24/7 AI-Assisted Support for Traders

ATS Help Bot provides traders with direct messaging to our AI Support Agent, available 24/7 via Discord or email/help-desk chat.

What makes this truly powerful is that ATS Help Bot has access to all ATS product information and services—websites, blogs, videos, help guides, and Discord channels—so you don’t have to hunt across each resource. Use the ATS Help Bot as your universal search and expert in one place, always online and ready!

To access the ATS Help Bot, visit the Help Center or the Discord Group 24/7:

Help Desk AI Assisted Support Search

AI-powered ad hoc universal searching across all ATS products, websites, help desk, Discord, blog, videos, and resources- all in 1 place

ATS Help Bot - AI Agent Assisted Search
ATS Help Bot – AI Agent Assisted Search – universal search for all topics and resources about ATS products

Help Desk AI-Assisted Support via Email

The ATS Help Bot is also available through our Help Desk and Knowledge Base, covering topics beyond Discord, including the website, blog, pricing, videos, and online guides. You can even ask it to search Discord-only if you prefer, or to search all ATS topics as a universal support assistant.

Help Desk Support Email Lifecycle

ATS Help bot Support Request Form from the ATS Help Center
ATS Help bot Support Request Form from the ATS Help Center
  • Upon submitting a new ticket, you will receive an immediate acknowledgement from the help desk.
  • ATS Help Bot will read the ticket, fill any gaps, and correct ambiguity or spelling errors.
  • It will provide a list of best-fitting articles and guidance via email.
  • You can reply to the ticket to add more information or continue the conversation.
  • If needed, you can mark the ticket as resolved or escalate to a human agent.
ATS Help Bot support request reply
ATS Help Bot support request reply – set as solved or refer and escalate to a human agent if required.

Discord AI Chat Help

Chat directly by clicking the robot icon in the top-right moderator list, then send your message and select your search mode:

  • Choose a mode:
    1. Chat Discord Topics
    2. Chat All ATS Topics
  • This sets the AI Agent context to:
    • Discord only – topics and posts within Discord
    • Universal – all ATS products, services, and resources (Discord, blogs, videos, help-desk articles, websites, etc.)
  • When using Chat Discord Topics, all links will point to Discord channels, posts, forums, etc.
  • When using Chat All ATS Topics, links may point to Discord or external resources.

Getting Started

ATS Help Bot Direct Messaging in Discord Group
ATS Help Bot Direct Messaging in Discord Group
  • Sign up for the ATS universal Account and link your account to discord
  • Make sure you have Discord direct messaging switched on! Settings – Social and content – Direct Messaging
  • Enter your query in the pop-up box.
  • Your chosen mode (Discord only or All ATS Topics) will remain active for your session.
  • Switch modes at any time by clicking the buttons.
  • You can converse directly with @ATSHelpBot in your Discord inbox Simply click the robot icon ATSHelpBot and send a message

Time cycles are critical in trading indices futures

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Time Cycles in Trading

Time cycles are critical in trading, especially in indices futures, as they help traders anticipate periods of increased activity, potential reversals, and significant price movements. The ATS Discord trading groups provide time cycles in pre-session summaries and real-time notifications for traders to stay ahead of the curve.

Common Time Cycles Observed by Traders

1. Opening and Closing Sessions

Market Open (9:30 AM ET): The market open is one of the most active times of the day, often marked by significant volatility as traders react to overnight news, economic data, and other pre-market developments. Opening gaps, breakouts, and sharp reversals are common during this period.

Market Close (4:00 PM ET): The last hour of trading, often called the “power hour,” can see a surge in activity as traders finalize their positions for the day. This period is particularly important for institutional traders and can lead to strong trends or reversals.

2. Mid-Morning Reversal (10:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET)

10:00 AM Reversal Time (10 AM Jiggle): Often, the market makes its first significant move of the day between 9:30 AM and 10:00 AM ET. By 10:00 AM, traders often witness a reversal or continuation of the initial trend. Economic data releases, such as home sales, consumer sentiment, or manufacturing data, often occur around 10:00 AM, influencing market direction.

11:00 AM Transition: Around 11:00 AM, the market might consolidate or begin to lose momentum as traders start preparing for the lunchtime lull.

3. End-of-Session Squaring (3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET)

3:00 PM ET Reactions: This is another critical time when traders start positioning themselves for the close. Volume often increases as traders who have held positions throughout the day make decisions on whether to hold overnight or close out.

3:30 PM ET Ramp-Up: The final 30 minutes can be very volatile, with large institutional orders coming in, leading to significant price swings.

4. FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) Announcements

2:00 PM ET (FOMC Days): On days when the Federal Reserve announces interest rate decisions, the market often remains relatively quiet until 2:00 PM ET when the announcement is made. After the release, there can be extreme volatility, followed by the Fed Chair’s press conference.

5. European Market Open (3:00 AM – 5:00 AM ET)

London Open (3:00 AM – 4:00 AM ET): The London market open is significant because it often brings a wave of liquidity into the market, especially in currency pairs and indices futures tied to European and US markets.

Overlap with Asia and US Pre-Market: The period between 3:00 AM and 5:00 AM ET sees overlapping trading sessions between Europe and the end of the Asian trading day. This overlap can lead to increased volatility and trend formation.

6. Asia Market Sessions (7:00 PM – 3:00 AM ET)

Tokyo Open (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET): The Tokyo session can influence futures trading, especially in currencies and commodities. It is less volatile than the European and US sessions but still important for setting the tone for the day.

Australia and New Zealand Open: Before the Tokyo market, the Sydney and Wellington sessions open, marking the start of the global trading day. These markets can have a minor influence on futures trading, especially commodities like gold and oil.

7. Weekly Cycles

Monday Opening: Mondays can be unpredictable as traders digest news from the weekend. The market might gap up or down based on weekend developments.

Friday Close: Fridays often see traders closing positions ahead of the weekend, leading to increased volatility, particularly in the final hours of the trading day.

8. Monthly and Quarterly Cycles

End of the Month (EOM) Rebalancing: Institutional investors often rebalance portfolios at the end of the month, leading to increased volume and potential price swings.

End of the Quarter (EOQ) Reporting: The end of the quarter can see significant rebalancing and window dressing by fund managers, affecting indices futures and other financial instruments.

9. Economic Data Release Times

Non-Farm Payrolls (First Friday of Every Month, 8:30 AM ET): One of the most anticipated data releases, the Non-Farm Payrolls report can cause significant market moves, particularly in the first few minutes after its release.

CPI and PPI Reports: Inflation data like the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) also come out at 8:30 AM ET and can influence market direction.

10. Holiday Seasonality

Pre-Holiday Rallies: Markets often experience a rally before major holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, a phenomenon known as the “Santa Claus Rally.”

Post-Holiday Sessions: The day after a major holiday can be quieter, but it may also bring volatility as traders return to the market.

How to Use Time Cycles in Trading

These time cycles are not rules but rather observed patterns that can help in planning trades and understanding market behavior. Successful traders often incorporate these cycles into their broader strategies, considering them alongside technical and fundamental analysis.


Turnkey settings and workspaces for hybrid trading and automated trading

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AFT 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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ATS Discord Trading Group ATSBot gatekeeper

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ATSBot Discord Robot
ATS Trading Group Discord Robot ATSBot online 24/7 gatekeeper and guardian for quality of services

Meet ATSBot, the Gatekeeper of the Group.
ATSBot, the Discord robot, will assign the Discord group user role “ATS Group,” providing access to the Free Main Group Areas and VIP access for qualifying traders! To progress, we need to focus on the essentials, so we don’t waste time and resources on low-value tasks such as group admin. Therefore, ATSBot has a job to do this, and the caveat is that traders who don’t complete the entry process will be excluded.

Since going live, ATSBot has pruned hundreds of trader accounts who are scammers, spies, shills, plagiarists from other vendors, inactive accounts, time-wasters, and possibly a few bona fide members who have not been keeping up with the news and have been kicked out or downgraded as they have not linked their Discord accounts or gone through the onboarding process. Get Started Meeting. Bona fide members can rejoin and get linked up here from their account: https://algotradingsystems.net/TradingGroup

ATSBot Member Acceptance Criteria
Checks the history of each member prior to acceptance for access levels
1) ATS universal account is linked to the Discord username.
2) Trader attended a Get Started Meeting or has a qualifying usage record.

KYT/KYS – Know Your Trader/Know Your Supplier – Get Started Meeting https://calendly.com/algotradingsystems/get-started
We want to know all our traders and meet you one-on-one to ensure it’s a win-win situation. If you do not want to do this, then this group and trading systems software are not for you. To maintain high standards, quality, and compliance, and to keep out time-wasters, reduce support overheads, scammers, and beginners “white belts” who slipped through the net.

Member Qualifying Usage Record:
ATSBot primarily checks for a “get-started meeting” or additionally checks for the following records:
1) Any license software purchase records
2) ATS Universal Account – 3 months+
3) ATS Group join date – 3 months+
4) Multiple login records first and last
5) Multiple user sessions first and last

Help! The ATSBot kicked me out or downgraded my access
A) Then you were inactive or not linked up
B) No get-started meeting and no qualifying usage record

Solution: Attend the 100% FREE Get Started meeting
https://calendly.com/algotradingsystems/get-started
1) Group access to all areas to collaborate and get interactive support
2) Tech setup, product tour, ready-to-trade, free coaching session!
3) PLUS you get a free 30-day ATS Ultimate live license!
4) PLUS free trader review after 14 to 30 days.
5) Reduce the learning curve and support overhead, get a head start, and make sure you are on the right track.

Awwwww, can’t you just let me in?
No overrides, no exceptions
Note: There are no overrides in place, so the robot has ultimate control over entry. For example, if you were provided entry and did not book your get-started meeting or have a qualifying usage record, ATSBot will remove access. This means some members might have downgraded access or have been pruned/kicked but can rejoin.

Robot Error or User Credential Issues
If there is an error in the robot and it wrongly excluded a member, this will be fixed. Please report to support: https://algotradingsystems.net/Help

Bear Market Projected lows for S&P500 Super Bubble

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Bear market lows S&P500 2022
S&P500 projected lows for the bear market 2022 to 2023

BOA, Ray Dalio, Charlie Munger, Grantham, Dent, Gundlach, and Wesbury are all bearish, and it seems that no one is listening – price will tell us in time.

S&P500 lows for the bear market 2022/2023
This is not trading or investment advice – this is educational information using the Algo Futures Trader 8 swing pivots indicator for NinjaTrader 8 on a weekly chart to derive levels from the AFT Swing Pivots Indicator and the built-in NinjaTrader 8 Fib Retracement drawing tool. To get your copy for free, visit Downloads.

Price action will tell us what the market does – that is the only single source of truth – market price. However, we can project levels of historical price points for a view of where the market might go to and bounce or break, and this provides additional analysis and clarity of the bigger picture.

  • S1) 3639 current support from initial leg down.
  • S2) 3450 retrace and then down to the 50% level from the COVID era low to high.
  • S3) 3200/3100/3000 pre-COVID high as a significant bubble deflation level.
  • For a bubble burst, we will know within 6 months.
  • S4) 2700/2680 76.8% retrace.
  • S5) 2600/2500 figure
    • 2600 is a 50% retrace from the low of 2009 to the high of 2020.
  • For a super bubble meltdown – COVID Low
  • S6) 2200
  • S7) 2100/2000 – 2100 is a 61.8% retrace from the low of 2009 to the high of 2020 and COVID low.
  • For the all-time super bubble super meltdown
    • S8) 1700/1600 – 2016 Zone pre-Trump rally.

Looking at the Monthly Chart S&P500 Levels of Support

Monthly chart S&P500 2022
  • 2600 – the 50% retracement from the low of 2009 to the high of 2020 is the 2600 zone.
  • 2100 and a 61.8% retracement and COVID low – what a combo!
  • Below this, the Pre-Trump Rally Levels 1600 zone.

Summary of Levels

  • Retest bounce or break current swing low support level of 3639.
  • Retest of the 50% retrace of COVID low to all-time high – 3450.
  • Below this, a 61% retrace and pullback COVID rally bull flag base – 3200.
  • It is conceivable a flash down and bounce at 2000/2500 levels could occur.
  • Time will tell via price action – that is the one single truth of all opinions.

A Day Trader’s Perspective

Our interest is only volatility up or down; we don’t care about the direction, ideally tradeable volatility, not the frothy volatility that can be seen in the typical bear market. Trading the NYSE Session breakout E-Mini micro equity indices futures has never been so easy due to the large ranges and high prices. However, at the same time, the market enters periods where nothing seems to work…
The important thing is to not overtrade – bank money, leave some powder dry, and always remember the trend is your friend until the end – let winners run. Time-honored methods include trend correlations, higher time frame analysis, news catalysts, and more. Join us for free and see how good you are as a trader risk-free learning on the sim in the real market with free coaching every weekday 9:15 EST to 11:30 EST. For more info, visit automated trading systems.

For more technicals, economic news, and insights on the market, you can join us and read it from the inside track in the Free Day Trading Group for Futures Traders from our resident financial systems economist.

VIP Trading Group Live Market Trade Along

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Trade on the right side of the market at the New York Session Open for day trading U.S. equity indices futures: Nasdaq, S&P 500, Dow, Mid Cap, and the Russell 2000 Small Cap Futures and Micro Futures.

Pre-Market Analysis and the Session Open in the AFT Free Trading Room, Monday to Friday, 9 AM 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 Commentary from Pre-Open and Session Open
  • Live Market Algo Streaming – 100% fully automatic systems

The 5-Step Basic Day Trading Approach for NYSE Session Breakout

1) Get to the desk before the open, around 9 AM EST – check news.
2) Check the four 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 to understand the strength of the instruments going into the open to make a selection of what to trade.
5) Trading from 9:30 AM EST to around 11:30 AM EST, 1 to 3 signals per day – Signal + filters.

Algo Signals Server Live Stream 24/7

This screenshot is real-time live market trading in simulation accounts, providing the stats and the signals you can believe as fact as they happen in real-time 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.

Live Market Trading Screenshot

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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.

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