NinjaTrader Automated Trading by Algo Futures Trader

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

ninjatrader automated trading fully automatic trade entry mode with Algo Futures Trader

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Session Breakout Workspace 2 NinjaTrader automated trading fully automatic mode

NinjaTrader automated trading fully automatic mode or semi-automatic and manual trade entry via the algo entry controller.

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Get Started Trading the Easy Way

  • 🎧 Free Discovery Meeting: Discuss your trading experience and goals, receive an ATS introduction and hybrid trading suite overview, and explore the most suitable pathway toward prop-firm payouts or live-trading results.
  • ⚡ Fast Track Zero to Hero: Receive assisted installation, setup, onboarding, orientation, and Stage 1–5 Trade Mastery with 30-day access to the complete ATS Hybrid Algo Trading ecosystem.
  • 🏆 Full Trading + Mastery: Get the complete ATS trading package, Fast Track Zero to Hero, three months of VIP Mastery, trade reviews, and ongoing one-to-one guidance toward payouts, consistent results, and system ROI.

N.B. Trading Pathways: Start with Fast Track Zero to Hero and 30-day full access, then upgrade to an eligible Full Trading + Mastery package with your Fast Track fee credited toward the purchase.

Start with ATS Fast Track Zero to Hero and 30-day full access.

Fast-track your progress with one-to-one Assisted Trade Mastery, designed to get you installed, set up, oriented, and ready to trade within seven days while providing 30 days to practise with ATS systems, workspaces, AI Copilot, trading groups, and support resources.

🚀 Get Started Trading

Not sure which pathway is right for you? Talk to an experienced ATS futures trader with no obligation. Book a free Discovery Meeting to discuss your experience and goals, see ATS products in action, review pricing, explore prop-firm and live-trading pathways, and choose the most suitable package and support route.

đź“… Book a Free Discovery Meeting

A Note on renewals for AFT8 lifetime

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One-Time/Lifetime License & Renewals

Some traders elected a one-time payment or pay plan, and these will be maturing and completed over the coming weeks and months for those who bought back in time. Just as a reminder, the details are here for optional annual renewals to keep the lights on for cloud services, such as AWT, trading groups, and consumable ongoing overheads. Additionally, to provide upgrade assurance, support, and development services, and very cost-effective ways to cut costs for traders, it is necessary to implement annual maintenance.

  • AFT8 will notify traders of pending renewals on the AFT desktop and via popup. This is only related to live trading/live prop firm performance account usage.
  • AFT8 licenses not renewed will allow live trading uses but will not provide the full gamut of premium/ultimate features. Access to trading groups will also downgrade to free only, and no priority support or VIP level perks will be available.
  • Upgrade Assurance Traders will not be protected from the upgrade for AFT9 when NT9 rolls out, ETA 2025, if not the first edition sooner. Upgrades without assurance are around 50% of the full ticket.
  • AWT will cease to work in premium/ultimate mode after 1 year if it was bought as part of the ATS Ultimate/Premium combo, but it will be covered by the annual renewal.
  • The annual renewal covers all current and future product access within the subscription period it was purchased, e.g., 1 year.
  • There is no deadline to purchase an annual renewal, and traders can elect when and if to do this in their own time via their licensing or pricing page.

Optional Annual Renewal

  • Renewal dates are from 1 year after the license start date.
  • For pay plans with less than a 1-year period ending on the 12th month, the renewal is the same as a one-time purchase.
  • For any pay plans that were longer than 12 months, the date is 2 months after the end of the pay plan.
  • By popular demand, annual renewals can be purchased in subscriptions:
    • Annual subscription
    • 6-month subscription
    • 3-month subscription

For more details, visit pricing – Optional Annual Renewal

Get Started Trading the Easy Way

  • 🎧 Free Discovery Meeting: Discuss your trading experience and goals, receive an ATS introduction and hybrid trading suite overview, and explore the most suitable pathway toward prop-firm payouts or live-trading results.
  • ⚡ Fast Track Zero to Hero: Receive assisted installation, setup, onboarding, orientation, and Stage 1–5 Trade Mastery with 30-day access to the complete ATS Hybrid Algo Trading ecosystem.
  • 🏆 Full Trading + Mastery: Get the complete ATS trading package, Fast Track Zero to Hero, three months of VIP Mastery, trade reviews, and ongoing one-to-one guidance toward payouts, consistent results, and system ROI.

N.B. Trading Pathways: Start with Fast Track Zero to Hero and 30-day full access, then upgrade to an eligible Full Trading + Mastery package with your Fast Track fee credited toward the purchase.

Start with ATS Fast Track Zero to Hero and 30-day full access.

Fast-track your progress with one-to-one Assisted Trade Mastery, designed to get you installed, set up, oriented, and ready to trade within seven days while providing 30 days to practise with ATS systems, workspaces, AI Copilot, trading groups, and support resources.

🚀 Get Started Trading

Not sure which pathway is right for you? Talk to an experienced ATS futures trader with no obligation. Book a free Discovery Meeting to discuss your experience and goals, see ATS products in action, review pricing, explore prop-firm and live-trading pathways, and choose the most suitable package and support route.

đź“… Book a Free Discovery Meeting

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.

Get Started Trading the Easy Way

  • 🎧 Free Discovery Meeting: Discuss your trading experience and goals, receive an ATS introduction and hybrid trading suite overview, and explore the most suitable pathway toward prop-firm payouts or live-trading results.
  • ⚡ Fast Track Zero to Hero: Receive assisted installation, setup, onboarding, orientation, and Stage 1–5 Trade Mastery with 30-day access to the complete ATS Hybrid Algo Trading ecosystem.
  • 🏆 Full Trading + Mastery: Get the complete ATS trading package, Fast Track Zero to Hero, three months of VIP Mastery, trade reviews, and ongoing one-to-one guidance toward payouts, consistent results, and system ROI.

N.B. Trading Pathways: Start with Fast Track Zero to Hero and 30-day full access, then upgrade to an eligible Full Trading + Mastery package with your Fast Track fee credited toward the purchase.

Start with ATS Fast Track Zero to Hero and 30-day full access.

Fast-track your progress with one-to-one Assisted Trade Mastery, designed to get you installed, set up, oriented, and ready to trade within seven days while providing 30 days to practise with ATS systems, workspaces, AI Copilot, trading groups, and support resources.

🚀 Get Started Trading

Not sure which pathway is right for you? Talk to an experienced ATS futures trader with no obligation. Book a free Discovery Meeting to discuss your experience and goals, see ATS products in action, review pricing, explore prop-firm and live-trading pathways, and choose the most suitable package and support route.

đź“… Book a Free Discovery Meeting

AFT8 the best and most advanced automated trading system for NinjaTrader

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Some claim! Yes, you heard it all before, and you should be skeptical. Use evidence-based decision-making, not emotion. Let us substantiate the facts below.

  1. Firstly, get a pedigree of who we are. View About Algo Trading Systems. This is about real traders with real systems designed, invented, and developed in-house using decades of professional trading and institutional-grade quantitative development and knowledge.
  2. Secondly, this is not a one-trick pony. It has many algorithms and billions of permutations for all different styles of trading: real swing, intermediate position trading, and day trading. Fully auto, semi-auto, and manual with automated exits, fault-tolerant, and even better, this is brought to retail so you may try them out free forever and decide if it’s for you or not.
  3. Thirdly, let’s look at the technical specs and understand why NinjaTrader’s open architecture allows us to create the best and most advanced system for retail trading. Check out the developer, our sister company MicroTrends Ltd across the pond – the pioneer and inventor of hybrid trading with a quick history of NinjaTrader algorithmic trading systems. See how they put the other vendors in top place with their white-label systems, but this one is only available direct from the source!

10 Quick Points of the Best Trading System Features

AFT8 resolves all the challenges for automated trading, fully and semi-auto hybrid, which the other systems in retail cannot do.
AFT8 Proprietary Trade Engine Features

  1. Manual, semi, or fully automated trading system
  2. Interactive real-time controls to set algorithms
    1. On/Off
    2. Long/Short set bias
    3. Semi-auto one trade and stop
    4. Fully auto trade as per configured rules
    5. Trader override and guidance and interaction with algo/trade management controller UI
  3. Stop and start NT – the system will auto-start when the workspace is opened and data is connected.
    1. Can start waiting for the trader to put on for auto
    2. Can start in fully auto mode
  4. Allows position compounding – adding to the same position or taking off. The system will adjust the stops and targets as required.
  5. Allows trader to close positions and cancel orders without stopping the system
  6. Allows restart of the NT system – will continue and work with orders and positions
  7. Fault tolerance allows the system to detangle orders and positions on a restart or in a fast market. If all orders are canceled, it will put the order back on, not leaving an unguarded position.
  8. True day trading, swing, and intermediate swing trading over the weekend for up to 3 months of a position. No matter how long you stop and start it, AFT8 will wake up and know what to do and continue onwards with your trading as long as there is a valid connection.
  9. Memory-persisted state between stops and starts so that the system can keep track of trades per day, per session, and money management goals. This is a vital element which other systems do not do, meaning you could blow your trade plan rules. AFT8 won’t let you. You can bypass the fail-safes and reset the memory – transparent data folder access or controls.
  10. Automatic data lag control will detect when the market is too fast and NT8 is lagging behind real-time data and prevent trading signals and executions of signal entries to prevent loss on slippage – news times, distance latency, and so on. Data lagging will be flagged visually in the market analyzers and can be set to 0.25s to 30s sensitivity. This is a vital element to stop trading during price shocks, news releases, and other scenarios which would enter with bad slippage and could blow your account. AFT8 safeguards trading against slippage and price shocks.

Plug and Play Turnkey Workspaces for Day Trading and Swing Trading

  • Turnkey baseline systems are made available for install, connect, and trading on sim
  • Designed for hybrid trading modes, man and machine, for real-time interaction
  • Baselines can be traded in fully automated mode to test and tweak to suit a trader
    • Session Breakout/Day trading/Swing
    • Trend Trading/Scalping
    • Range Trading/Mean Reversion
  • Off-Piste, a trader can use their imagination and experiment and build their own rules using the algo building blocks inside the system and even code their own in too!

Unrivaled Trading Flexibility

  • Multi-Time Frame, Multi-Algo
  • Multiple algorithms on the same account
  • Multiple Advanced Trade Managers on the same account
  • Asymmetrical bars for entry and exits
  • Can combine or pause and enable with real-time controls to suit the conditions on the day

Cloud Multi-Time Frame Filter System – AlphaWebTrader Trendometer API

  • Futures, Stocks, ETF aggregated amalgamated horizontal and vertical trend correlations
  • Cloud API Non-Lagging for CPU, disk, and data. NT8 will not go down and data lag/render delay
  • Aggregated data is read by AFT8 from the AWT.Desktop in real-time with no lagging or overhead
  • Vertical trend correlation up to 24 time frames per instrument
  • Horizontal trend correlation futures, Stock, ETF for bias
  • Group strength and weakness
  • Order flow by market ATR speed, volume, and trend efficiency
  • Signal Flow – order flow is good, but signal flow is a step above history and real-time
  • HTF Structure, gaps, levels, and more.
  • See AlphaWebTrader for more details

Battle-Tested Trading Systems on Real Money with a Real Fund

AFT8 Desktop comes from real live money trading of a $5 million hedge fund account from 2017 onwards to 2022 on trade sizes up to 1% or $50K USD stop loss risk. Clear Point Capital. In 2023, due to a lack of time and development obligations to the fund, we decided to release it to retail and cut it down from swing to day trade and make a desktop version of it for NT8, to allow the most advanced system for NT8 ever. We chose that route instead of migrating AFT7, but AFT7 parts and components are being added in over time.

Not a One-Trick Pony

  1. Time-Testing Approaches – Evolved
    1. Session Breakout – daily, weekly, monthly – custom breakout
    2. Trend Trading – USAR/Dynamic trend
    3. Range Trading – Mean Reversion fibGrid Bands
    4. News Trader – pending needs AWT API
    5. Multi-Time Frame Trend systems – AWT API Trendo etc.
  2. Many programmable systems available or even can add own code rules and compile into the system and use your rules and algo with the full off-the-shelf features

Build Your Own – Bring Your Own Algo
ATS & NT8 allows you to build your own and test for strategies and also for integration into AFT8 algos and leverage all the off-the-shelf features.

AFT8 Versus Traditional NT8 Strategies

NT Strategies do not provide this level of interaction and flexibility and cannot swing trade or self-recover. They require manual resolution of positions and orders to make safer before starting. AFT can start and resolve it all itself. NT Strategies don’t allow a trader to close positions and cancel orders without halting the strategy. AFT will also ship in the future with a strategy for backtesting, optimizing, and if preferred for trading, the most advanced ever built for NinjaTrader 8 Powered by ATS QuadroBase. This will be open source in the strategy to allow you to combine third-party and create your own algos combined with AFT8 sealed indicator components, with script development support in the Discord Trading Group.

Money Management – Challenges

Static or fixed fractional position sizing based on volatility stop-loss – fixed fractional or professional mode fund of funds position sizing and money management.

  • Off a user’s defined amount
  • Off the account
  • Or weighted balanced per asset stream – different values

Systematic Trading Systems – Trade Signal Generation & Execution

The system does all you need for manual, semi, or fully automated signal execution

  • Entry signal types
  • Exits
  • Stops and targets

Web Algo Trading Remote Control

  • On/Off of algorithms
  • Long/Short bias
  • Monitor and interact

There’s a lot more to come, and we don’t want to give it all away before we roll it out.
Note: Unlike our other white-label technologies used by well-known vendors in the ecosystem, we don’t license this to anyone else to resell!

Algo Trading Systems Group incorporating AFT and AST celebrates its first month with a 36K profit in the automated trading room

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The AFT Discord group has been restructured to house its parent and related brands, products, and services, creating a one-stop-shop community with a better-structured layout to get started.

The ATS Group provides services and products for two main groups of futures traders:

  • Self-Directed Retail Traders using the NinjaTrader Platforms
    • Algo Futures Trader 7
    • Algo Futures Trader 8
  • Traders who wish to Mirror Automated Trading Systems
    • Algo Signal Trader Apps – Signal Alerts
    • Algo Signal Trader to NinjaTrader 8

The Algo Signal Trader provides 100% fully automated trading all week in the live futures market and made $36K this month as we got going with a real-time live market trading portfolio executed on the NinjaTrader 8 sim account.

Trading Chart

These stats are not fabricated; we show the good, the bad, and the ugly as a baseline, and then we will create and evolve optimized versions for premium trading systems. We run alongside with no BS, smoke, and mirrors; it is 100% transparent. This is as close as you can get to live money trading in NinjaTrader 8 and the last step to take before. You can follow this system and watch the server in real-time or follow the trades it takes on the desktop app, free to all members of the community. If you are a member, please see here for the automated trading system stats and visit the free algo signal trader app to download and run before the NYSE to see the trade signals executed in real-time. In fact, let’s stop all the writing, and you can go there now and see for yourself. To join or log in for existing members, simply use this link anytime to visit: ATS Trading Community. We recommend the Discord mobile app or desktop app for the best viewing experience. Some prior info here: AFT Trading Group on Discord now open.

Free Day Trading Group for Futures Traders

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Multiple Trading Groups on Discord

ATS Support Group, ATS VIP Trading Group, AST Trading Signals & Market News AlertsATS Futures Trading Groups

ATS futures trading groups provide systems and tools for independent-minded traders: real-deal tools for real-deal traders, education, training, technicals, methods, and traders sharing and collaborating on how they use the systems and what their stats are. This includes live market trading commentary for pre-session technicals, trade analysis, economic news updates, and market structure. There is no trading or financial advice; all traders make their own trading decisions while leveraging the trading technology to sharpen their edge.

VIP Trading Group Cutting-Edge AI Technology

  • VIP Group AI trading co-pilots mentor and provide:
    • Market Radar
      • Fundamentals
      • Economic news
      • Earnings reports
    • Market Commentary & Analysis
    • Educational context of AWT
    • Higher Time Frame Price Analysis
      • AWT Pre-Session Analysis
      • AWT Session Open
      • AWT 10 AM Jiggle Analysis
      • AWT 10:30 AM Analysis

Discord Group Links

Note: You will need to register and link your ATS universal account to your Discord account to get access.

Group Basic Rules

  1. Only trade technicals, fundamentals, and trading-related feedback questions and answers based on the products and services here.
  2. Futures trading only – no religion, politics, profanity, toxicity, trolls, or rude comments. No 3rd-party systems, videos, screenshots, or chats.
  3. Do not send support questions directly to the admin. Use the support channels, help desk, or group chat for assistance.
  4. Read the “Get Started” guide, read the product information, search for answers in the group and forum, and then ask questions in the relevant section.
  5. No rushing to go live on fully automated systems! Take it step by step. Attend the “Zero to Hero” course and discover the level of automation and systems/instruments that suit you.

Link your Discord username to your ATS Universal Account to get access

Quality Over Quantity
Level up your game and trading skills with Hybrid Trading Systems. Attend the trading group and join a community of traders who are working up to trading live or are already trading live, or have been funded using turnkey hybrid automated trading methods. Learn from guidance and education resources, live trading chats, and trading streams. Accelerate learning, collaborate with other traders, absorb the knowledge of the community, and become a skilled and independent trader.

Group interactive support and education, real-time trading signals, technical analysis, market news alerts, and Futures VIP trade group.

  1. Group access controlled by ATS Bot & ATS Bot VIP
  2. Free access by linking your Discord username to your ATS Account
  3. Vendors, spam bots, scammers, and fake accounts will be barred
  4. VIP trade group for your live trading edge!
  5. 7-day free access to Algo Signal Trader