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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🚀 Get Started Trading the Easy Way

Get started 100% FREE with NinjaTrader Desktop, an ATS Universal Account and access to eligible ATS Freemium applications and trader resources without a time limit. Follow the self-assisted ATS Launchpad to create and configure your account, access AFT Freemium and request an available full-feature trial. No payment card is required to get started. If you prefer personal assistance, explore optional independently supplied setup and onboarding services through the ATS Ecosystem.

1) 📊 Download and Set Up NinjaTrader Desktop

Download NinjaTrader Desktop for futures charting and simulated trading. Real-time market data requires an appropriate connection and may involve separate fees. Use NinjaTrader with AFT for manual discretionary, Hybrid Algo or fully automated trading across supported demo, simulation, prop-firm evaluation, funded and live-trading accounts, subject to your AFT plan and account-provider rules.

📊 Download NinjaTrader

2) 🚀 Get Started 100% FREE

Create your free ATS Universal Account and follow the self-assisted Trader Launchpad to unlock eligible ATS Freemium access, Market IQ, trading-group resources, trader benefits and available full-feature trials.

• Freemium Access Without a Time Limit: Use eligible ATS Freemium applications within their included feature limits.
• AFT Freemium: Higher-timeframe charting indicator usage free forever for swing/intermediate position trading
• Self-Assisted Launchpad: Follow the guided steps to set up your account, applications and available services.
• White Glove Services:  Setup, onboarding and trader-mastery services through the ATS Ecosystem.
• Full-Feature Trial: Eligible traders can request an available trial directly from their ATS Account Trader Launchpad.
• No Payment Card Required: Create your account and begin with Freemium access at no cost.

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