NinjaTrader Automated Trading by Algo Futures Trader

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

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Approach and Time to Market

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Realistic Timeframe for Success

The journey to success and live trading varies for each trader:

  • Veterans: Some adapt quickly and succeed within 1 day to 1 week.
  • New Traders: Others may require 1 month to 1 year to develop proficiency.

A realistic goal for most traders is to aim for 1 to 3 months.

The Secret to Success

  • Slow Down, Do Less: Focus on the process. Success comes from discipline—following the steps without rushing or overanalyzing.
  • Learn by Action: Repetition and practice work best, much like a boot camp drill:
    • Action > Theory: Don’t overthink; simply follow the signals and controls.
    • Habit & Repetition: The controls and signals become second nature with consistent practice.
  • “Don’t Think, Just Do”: Over time, your gut feeling will guide your trades based on subconscious competence built through repetition.

The Mindset for Success

  • Avoid the “academic trap” of wanting to know every equation or dissect every detail:
    • Simplicity Wins:
      • Green = Long.
      • Red = Short.
    • Playstation Mentality: Think of trading as intuitive execution; the less you complicate it, the better. The less you know, the better!

“Less is more” – Success comes from doing, not overanalyzing.

Structured Progression

Most traders will need 1 month to settle in and follow the program:

  1. Baseline Execution: Start with factory settings and follow the signals for consistent drills:
    • Treat it like driving a race car for 100 laps per day.
    • Focus on execution and getting a feel for the system.
  2. Support and Facilitation:
    • You are the Driver: Make trading decisions and stay on track.
    • We are the Pit Crew: Assist with tweaks, settings, and optimizations tailored to your style.
  3. Hone and Tune:
    • After gaining familiarity, refine the settings and create an optimal trading plan:
      • For prop firm evaluation to get funded.
      • For live swing trading to suit your goals.

Why This Approach Works

This method ensures you:

  • Understand the Signals: Recognize how the system wins and loses.
  • Build Confidence: Master the baseline settings before tweaking.
  • Develop Optimal Trading: Dial in settings later for tailored performance aligned with your risk tolerance and trading style.

Key Insight: By following a structured, disciplined process, you’ll achieve subconscious competence and trade with confidence. Success comes through habit, repetition, and simplicity—not complexity.

New Workspace Installer no5 for NinjaTrader Fully Automated Futures Trading Turnkey baseline algos

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Hybrid Pure Fully Automated Trading – 100% Automatic Futures Trading

In response to high demand, announcing AFT Algo Trading System baselines designed specifically for pure algorithmic trading with no charts, plus hybrid integrated charts & algorithmic multiple workspaces.


AFT fully automated turnkey workspace AFT8-Algos-BaseLine-004 Pure algo Mix of Algos micro and emini futures

100% fully automated turnkey workspace AFT8-Algos-BaseLine-004, a mix of Algos micro and emini futures – ready to trade risk-free on sim/demo accounts!

Workspaces 5 Installer for VIP and Free Trialists


Turnkey workspace fully automated futures trading algo baselines

Download Workspace 5 for VIP traders and free trialists:
https://account.algotradingsystems.net/Secure/Downloads

Purpose of BaseLine Algo Systems

Educational: This is for sim/demo trading and allows a trader to tweak a copy of the baseline algos to their trading style and compare back to the running baseline algos stats, etc. It runs fully automated on a server in sim/demo mode, providing baseline statistics and trading data. Traders should save a copy of algorithm settings, make adjustments, and compare results against these baselines. Once configured, the system operates 24/7 on a server with NinjaTrader connected; no license is required in NT8 sim/demo modes.

Installation and setup take just one minute. Workspace 5 can be installed immediately, but accounts will need to be added within the NinjaTrader control center.

Assessment: Weekly and monthly assessments ensure optimal performance—avoid live trading prematurely to mitigate recency bias!

Time to Market: A minimum evaluation period of 3 months to 1 year is advisable for fully automated trading with the settings and variants a trader has created to suit their trading plan and are tested.

AFT8 Workspaces #5

Fully Automated Algo Trading Baselines for NT8

  • AFT8-Algos-BaseLine-001 – Pure Algo DSFG/WSFG
  • AFT8-Algos-BaseLine-002 – AWT Hybrid Algo + Charts
  • AFT8-Algos-BaseLine-003 – MTF Hybrid Algo + Charts
  • AFT8-Algos-BaseLine-004 – Pure Algo Mix of Algos Micro + Emini

Accounts List for Algo Trading Baseline Workspace No. 5

  • SimAlgoSignalTraderDSFG
  • SimAlgoSignalTraderCryptos
  • SimAlgoSignalTraderWSFG
  • SimAlgoSignalTraderEnergy
  • SimAlgoSignalTraderDSFG-Gap
  • SimAFT-TrendTraderAWT-001

These accounts should be added to NinjaTrader in Multi Provider Mode. For example, NT8 will prefix the account with “Sim” for SimAlgoSignalTraderDSFG; add AlgoSignalTraderDSFG.

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NinjaTrader fully automated futures trading or hybrid algo trading?

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Hybrid AFT Trading or Pure AFT Fully Automated?

How to decide which model to choose for your trading success?

Hybrid Futures Trading: Man + Machine

Session breakout workspace

The fastest and easiest way to get funded and start trading with the best profits and least drawdown. Achieve the best control and hit a small target! Traders learn the level of automation to suit their plan, typically 50% to 80% automated. Smallest risk capital of 25K is acceptable. AFT Workspaces 1 to 4 guide you from zero to hero in Discord.

Hybrid Trading Time to Market

  • This is the fast track to success with day trading! It can be done in 1 week to 1 month, though most take 1 to 3 months, and some take 1 year or more. That’s okay; it’s 100% free, and you can go at your own pace!

Pure 100% Fully Automated Trading

NinjaTrader fully automated trading with advanced hybrid controls for algo entry and exit execution

Yes, it can be done, but note that this is the hardest and longest way to trade. Generally, it is not viable or permitted for prop firm trading, offering the least control over profits and drawdown. It takes 3 months for a veteran already successful, to 1 year or more for a new trader still on the success quest. Medium to long-term goals are essential. Hit very large, easy targets far off; asset stream diversification is key. Swing trading is really the only way to start, with large risk capital of 100 to 250K being acceptable. AFT Workspaces 5: put workspace 1 on a server and leave it for 1 month. Practice how to stop and start, and go from there. Create variants of the baselines and test and compare back.

Pure Algo Trading Time to Market

  • There are no shortcuts when done right!
  • 1 to 3 years is a realistic time to focus on mastering and tweaking a system that suits a trader.

For Both Traders’ Journeys: Hybrid or Pure Algo Trading

7-day Free Trial with Full Feature Access! Self-assisted and interactive support is provided when required. Free forever Freemium for sim/demo trading! Go at your own pace! For the fastest learning, traders begin with our “Zero to Hero” program to methodically navigate through the control set stages. This can be leveraged for hybrid and pure fully automated trading.

Alternate Routes for Traders Who Want Fully Automated Trading

Some links here for you to consider for your trading journey decisions. We do not earn from these links or endorse them; this is for informational purposes to see what is out there, the cost, and so on. Check out the stats and costs of these parties and analyze the pros and cons.

The Advantage Here:

Your stats and settings are your own. There is no sales gimmick here; no leap of faith required. Skill, commitment, and time are the costs. You have control of your trading destiny. As a self-directed trader using AFT, it’s 100% free forever on sim, as it really takes a whole lot of time. There is no shortcut; time and learning to be a pro are required! Some of our traders do it and are in years 1 and 3, being patient and working towards the end goal of a small fund of their own with transparent systems—no smoke and mirrors! Do they have drawdowns? Yes, and they have a plan in place and use diversified asset streams to minimize risk and drawdowns.

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.

create your own rules in your own NinjaTrader scripts and simply inject them into the algo trade entry module

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AFT now supports custom Ninja scripts that you can create to inject signals into the AFT8 Algo Entry system. Code examples are available in the AFT Discord dev forum. Users need to sign up for an ATS universal account, log in, and link their Discord account to gain access. This allows the AFT Desktop to download the latest patch when NinjaTrader 8 is closed. It makes it very easy to code your own rules in your NT Scripts indicator, market column, or strategy, and then inject the signal into AFT8.

AFT8 will execute the signal if your filters and controller settings allow it. The AFT trade management module will then take over, providing the best trading system features, all off the shelf, 100% free for sim, demo, replay, and prop firm evaluation trading. Take it to the next level!


Custom user algos inject signals into AFT trade entry module

Custom user trading system rules allow you to inject signals into the AFT trade entry module from a simple indicator on a chart, and all the rest is taken care of.


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