NinjaTrader Automated Trading by Algo Futures Trader

hybrid algorithmic automated futures trading for prop firm traders, day & swing traders

Unveiling the Path to Success hybrid automated day trading

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Key Questions Every Trader Should Ask

  1. What is your capital size? Your starting capital plays a crucial role in determining position sizing, risk management, and overall strategy feasibility.
  2. What is your risk percentage? Define a clear risk percentage per trade or portfolio, e.g., 1-2%. This ensures you survive losing streaks and avoid catastrophic drawdowns.
  3. What system and rules are you using?
    • Trade Frequency: Are you taking 1-2 trades a week or several trades daily?
    • Win Rate: What percentage of your trades are winners?
    • Risk-Reward Ratio: How much are you risking for every unit of potential profit?
    • Risk of Ruin: Have you assessed the likelihood of blowing up your account?
    • Drawdown vs. Net Profit: Can you stomach the drawdowns required to achieve your profit goals?
  4. What are your commission fees? Costs, including commissions and slippage, significantly impact profitability, especially for high-frequency traders.
  5. Are you trading with prop firm capital or personal funds? Prop trading comes with constraints like daily loss limits and stricter risk rules. Real-money trading requires a cushion for slippage and psychological endurance.

Hybrid vs. Fully Automated Trading

Hybrid trading, a blend of automation and manual oversight, adapts to market conditions in ways machines cannot replicate. While fully automated systems can deliver results like 100% in 3 months or 250% annually, they come with high drawdowns and emotional detachment.

In contrast, hybrid trading offers:

  • Personalized decision-making.
  • Enhanced control over drawdowns.
  • A balance between consistency and adaptability.

Results from Our VIP Group

Real traders, real stats—our community showcases diverse outcomes:

  • $15,000 in a single day.
  • $1,000 consistently per week and more.
  • Mixed days/weeks/months of wins and losses.

The key takeaway? Focus on your journey rather than comparing yourself to others. The real question is: Can you master the method and technology to fit your trading style?

Winning Mindset: A Structured Path

  1. Commitment to Learning: Traders in our VIP group prioritize education over quick wins.
  2. Process Over Stats: Focusing on improving your execution and decision-making ultimately leads to consistent results.
  3. Quality Over Quantity: Only 20% of retail traders succeed, but our structured approach filters for the top winning mindset committed traders.
  4. High Trading IQ Community: Low attrition rates, no noise or nonsense, no one-eye kings in the valley of the blind, trader group success peaks over 66% per month.

Performance Expectations

  • Gold Standard: >25% monthly returns (akin to Goldman Sachs-level trading).
  • Great Returns: 5-10% per month for a retail trader.
  • Good Performance: Breaking even with <10% monthly drawdown.

Cutting-edge Technology and AI

We pioneered Hybrid Automated Trading with tools that maximize control and minimize drawdowns.

  • Remove emotional bias.
  • Improve decision-making in live markets.
  • Focus entirely on market dynamics rather than ego-driven trading.
  • Minimize over-trading and drawdown to maximize results.

Now, We Integrate AI Copilots in the Discord Trading Group to Provide:

  • Fundamentals
  • Econews
  • Earnings
  • Signals
  • Higher Time Frame Price Analysis
  • Pre-session and session analysis of ATS tools
  • Providing trading context and education on the systems
  • This means you get it all in one place – all you need.

Deep Learning AI

  • Cloud Data Lake for training
  • AI predictive real-time probability
  • Pending release 2025… Q1 we hope to work alongside the AFT and AWT

The Trading Journey

Think of trading like mastering a Formula 1 car. The Ferrari’s lap time is irrelevant if you’re not trained to handle its power. Consistent success requires thousands of hours of chart time, trade plan rules, stats, and a diary, learning from every step of the journey.

We provide the tools and framework to build winners, but the final results depend on your dedication.

Why Choose Us?

  • Real Trading, No Gimmicks: No retail tricks or stat manipulation.
  • High IQ Community: Learn alongside serious traders focused on growth.
  • Proven Technology: Leverage cutting-edge tools for real deal traders.
  • Realtime Live Market: Signals, technicals, news, and commentary!

Try our system for free and decide if it fits your style and goals. Focus on the process—the profits will follow. Join the revolution.

AFT8 update version 20240611 license hotfixes and updates

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AFT v20240611 Hot Fixes for NinjaTrader Automated Trading


AFT8 Algos BaseLine 003 Turnkey Workspace

AFT8 Algos BaseLine 003 Turnkey Workspace

AFT8 version 2024 is now released and ready for download or update from the popup notices.

AFT8 Updater

AFT8 Updater popup can be used to install.

https://algotradingsystems.net/Downloads

Release Notes

  1. AFT8 License modes are enforced – real-time indicator plots will become invisible, signals and alerts disabled, algo entry and trade manager automation disabled.
  2. AFT8 can now be installed with no licenses or desktop apps and works with no license notifications for Sim, NT Demo, replay non-live trading, non-prop firm modes.
  3. Apex Prop Firm and Bulenox are supported for Evaluation trading for the Get Funded Accelerator save 80% + an additional promo code on top!
    1. For all other modes of prop firm or live trading, a license is required.
  4. Tracing and error message logging are now separated and accessible in the NinjaTrader Trace folder “\Documents\NinjaTrader 8\trace”.
  5. NinjaTrader Alert Window “AFT8 License Alert” will pop up once for each NinjaTrader session if licenses are required.
  6. AFT8 License Alerts details notes will be saved to the folder “\Documents\AlgoFuturesTrader\Docs” and pop up in a default web browser.
  7. AFT8 Code: Core optimization and error handling routines have been refactored for best speed, reliability, and local trace/error reporting.
  8. Indicators
    1. Indicator: Alpha PSAR – our interpretation of the PSAR has a new parameter “Trend Mode” added which allows a variant method for trend reversal calculation – this looks super awesome, check it out!
    2. Indicator: Dynamic Trend – removes some parameters and adds in PSAR Template for the secondary trend mode via settings template – create a PSAR template and use it in the Dynamic Trend for ease.
    3. Indicator: Generic Signals:
      1. New Rule 20: “Evolving Market Profile” Crossover on the Session Fib Grid Profile: Year, Month, Week, and Day – you need to switch on Market Profile Mode in the FibGrid.
      2. Fixes to Trade Signal Mode 1 – count of rules as a percentage bias.
      3. Fixes to Rule 19 – SFG-VWAP Crossover.
  9. AFT Workspaces are all available on day 1 of signup and a trader can go at their own pace and decide which one to install when they are ready.
  10. AFT VIP workspaces are provided in the Installer AFT Workspaces no4 and will sync updates to the local machine for VIP.
    1. BaseLine Futures Fully Automated Trading Systems “AFT8-Algos-BaseLine-004” has no charts at all, only the Algo Entry and Exits running.
    2. AFT8-Algos-BaseLine-003 has charts with rotating tabs the same as the algo server and a handful of indices on session breakout.
  11. Note: For Lifetime Owners who do not run the maintenance, the full feature of Trade Management will still work for live account trading. The Algo Entry Module will require renewal for live account trading and prop firm trading.

tip for the best results ninjatrader automated trading futures

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What can set you apart and put you in the top 20% of traders – the winners?

Get a routine and make it a habit; it will make you or break you! So make sure it is a good habit!

Have a Trade Plan:

  1. Define capital and risk per trade.
  2. Set trading goals and loss limits for the day and week.
  3. Select the system and instruments.
  4. Prepare system templates and workspaces.
  5. Schedule when to be at the trading desk, set the system in action, and know when to pause.

Pre-Session

  • Check the prior session and view a higher time frame analysis to get the bigger picture of the market.
  • Set a bias for the session, long or short.
  • Prepare the system with lots, risk, and limits for one trade or multiple trades.
  • Get the trade controllers ready for action with the controls you use at the ready.
  • Assess if the open is a high probability setup and entry.
  • Decide to go in with half clip or full risk according to your plan.
  • Decide whether to wait for the first 30 minutes, 5 minutes, or 1 minute of the open.

Tactics

  • Let trades run to the close – scale out.
  • Increase accuracy and limit drawdowns.
  • Use AlphaWebTrader for correlations and technicals.
  • Trade less, not more – trade smarter!

Trade Diary Stats and Notes

  • For each trade, make a screenshot of the entry and any other timeframes.
  • Note the levels, trends, and correlations of technicals, price cycles, and market news cycles.
  • Do this for the exits too, and note whether it was a winner or loser, mistake or fair trade.

Maintenance Routine
View help desk article on NinjaTrader Bars and Data

  1. Futures contract rollover.
  2. Instrument data
    1. Each day pre-session, download and get fresh data.
    2. Use the instrument manager and a list.
    3. Or refresh the data on the charts!

AFT Session Breakout needs 7 days of data downloaded to get the best consistent results of signals, range, and bars. To stay in sync across multiple desktop PCs, this task needs to be performed each day pre-session. Typically, download the last 2 days, and on weekends, download the last 7 to 7 days to get the corrections and backfills.

AFT8 update version 20240528 license hotfixes

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AFT v20240528 Hot Fixes for NinjaTrader Automated Trading

  1. Smoother startup and loading process – allows NT8 to start up and AFT8 to load before performing license checks.
  2. Previous versions of AFT8 would display a notice if a trader installed and used it in sim/demo mode without licenses. This has been changed to a notice that will only appear if NT is not a valid user license and there are connections to a live account or an unknown demo/prop evaluation account.
  3. Loading of licenses and verifications allows NT to start and load before checking.
  4. Popup notifications for license issues will only occur once per session of NinjaTrader Desktop after each restart. Components will display license issues if relevant.
  5. AFT Desktop and AWT Desktop are not started if they are not installed. If a user is using them for live trading or sim, there will be no attempt at loading or installation of desktop apps. This is purely left to the trader to follow and read the instructions in the popup or website get started info.
  6. As of this release, Apex Prop Firm support is enabled for free evaluation. Other prop firms require a license, free for users who use the ATS coupon.
  7. TradOvate prop firm support requires a license as there is no way to distinguish between a SIM and a prop firm account.
  8. AFT8 is free for Sim, Replay, BackTest, Historical, and TradOvate Demo accounts to allow a trader to view NinjaTrader Web and NinjaTrader Desktop simultaneously.
  9. AFT8 requires a license for all prop firms’ evaluation and performance, live real cash, or unknown demo accounts.
  10. AFT8 comes with a full live trading 7-day trial out of the box, accessible via downloading the AFT.Desktop app to sync the licenses.

Where is the information on how to change account for AFT8

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FAQ: Finding Information to Change the Account for AFT8

A very common question for all traders getting started with AFT8.

How to find the answers? Full details are provided in:

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