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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

The fastest easiest way to get funded and to get trading – with the best profits and least drawdown – best control! hit a small target!
Traders learn the level of automation to suit their plan – this is 50% to 80% automated on average.
Smallest Risk Capital 25K is ok.
AFT Workspaces 1 to 4 – work through in stages Zero to hero in discord.

Hybrid Trading Time to Market?

  • This is the fast track to success with day trading!
    1 week to 1 month can be done! most take 1 to 3 months some 1 year+ and that’s ok its 100% Free 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, this is the hardest & longest way to trade – generally in most cases not viable or permitted for prop firm trading – with the least control over profits and drawdown!
3 months for a veteran already from success to 1 year plus for a new or trader still on the success quest. Medium to Long term goals!
Hit very large easy targets far off – asset stream diversification is the key – swing trading is really the only way to start – large risk capital- 100 to 250K is about ok.
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 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 a system to master and tweak to get a system that suits a trader…

For both traders Journeys Hybrid or Pure Algo Trading

30-day Free Trial 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 auto.

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 the links or endorse this is for your information purpose to see what is out there the cost and so on, check out the stats and the costs – of these parties and analyze the pros and cons.,

The advantage here:

Here your stats and settings are your own – there is no sales gimmick here: no leap of faith required. Skill and commitment, time is the cost.
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 is required!
Some of our traders do it and are in years 1 and 3 and are 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.

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100% FREE Get Started Trading

Get your 100% FREE day trading futures hybrid automated trade system, attend the discord-free trading group, and learn at your own pace, oriented, ready to trade with all the information & resources you need & and the right system to suit you.
  • 30 day Free Trial Ultimate universal license
  • Self-assisted software download & installation
  • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Free Discord Trading Group Zero to Hero
  • Get 1 to 1 interactive support from the developer!

 

21 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Futures Traders

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  1. I want a trading system that does well in all market price cycles – (holy grail unicorn hunter  – learn: when to trade with a system and when not to and or implement diversified asset streams)
  2. A fully automated robot can trade my prop firm account to get funded and stay funded (BS alert! Prop firms mostly do not allow robots and their rules are so tight this is 99% going to fail )
  3. The system stats look great I will buy it as I have found the best system and be a winner (Victim of your financial aspirations – only believe the facts and evidence firsthand what it does with you as the driver)
  4. I want money and trading is the best way to get it if I buy a robot to do for me I can be rich (Get a job you are a loser already  – do not trade for money trade with a passion for the love of trading!)
  5. I need to trade all day more is more   ( we are taught at school and work to do more – in trading less is more – FOMO Fear and Greed)
  6. I will watch the market all day and all night if I have to learn an edge ( just watch learn the hours you are going to trade – focus on your trade session and trade plan rules)
  7. If I trade more instruments I will do better and make more money ( better to focus on 1 or at most a few 2 to 3 to start )
  8. I am a bad discretionary trader so a robot will cure my problem ( no cure your problem first as it will still manifest in auto trading 99%  fail at auto trading who rush it)
  9. I have a dream i want this more than anything so that means I will be successful ( then it means too much –  stop caring about money and honey – focus on  getting good and enjoying the game the rest will follow)
  10. I will trade the market economic news announcement results in a good means buy and bad means sell  ( no it doesn’t –  market catalysts can be a boost to trading your systematic rules will enter long or short)
  11. The market sees me and knows where my stops are it makes me lose this is a war I am cannon fodder (This is trader vanity – focus on the system and take care not to leave stops around obvious levels)
  12. I don’t need to understand the system in automated trading ( if you learn the game of golf and then use a golf robot you will do far better)
  13. I don’t need to take stats or keep a diary in automated trading ( you need to know when it is winning and why and when it’s losing and why – you can adjust your trade plan settings based on this info)
  14. I should attend a large  group in Discord to learn from people ( in the valley of the blind the one-eyed man is king! 99% is the blind leading the blind over the cliff or to a peak with each market phase)
  15. I can leave a system on forever and not monitor, attend or pause it (market price news shocks, internet & PC faults occur! monitor it! )
  16. The system started to lose the vendor is a fraud or the system is broken… ( systems all will have a drawdown period you should know this inside out before trying on live)
  17. Fully automated means no work and no interaction just set-and-forget trading and go play golf (Around about 90% fully auto with 10% manual interaction due to news, rollovers, and price exposure, etc, is about the right level for pro mode auto for full automation – there is a lot of ongoing work for auto trading -performance monitoring, optimization- preparation or R&D)
  18. These system stats are great i can be confident of winning in the future as it has proven in the past( luck, curve fitting, data sample, market shifts, slippage, errors, human interaction – there is NO guarantee)
  19. I am a prop firm trader i mirror 20 accounts I made 100K on NQ in the last month now I am ready for live cash trading ( slippage, broker limits, real cash margin, and real pressure real risk are very different you will probably blow up in a day)
  20. I trade manually and win so I know if I automate my trading it will be a winner ( no in most cases this is not the result at all, you would need to trade like a robot then automate it)
  21. The best trading software and settings and trade plan are the ones I see others doing well with ( no the best system and best stats are what you do with a system over time via direct hands-on experience)

There are many others but you get the gist…!

Trading is an art and skill! not an exact science – anyone who sells you the easy dream or this BS above is either delusional chasing a pipe dream or a malign Machiavellian and sadly folks most vendors, brokers, coaches, and influencers are the latter knowingly taking advantage of your financial aspirations and desperations! Statistically, the facts are no secret; day trading is for 80% of people the worst way to make money compared to getting a proper job and career…!  You never know if the market will be in a winning phase and what you will win or lose from week to month.!   It takes a whole lot of money and time to reach this pinnacle of trading for a living.   Ok so yes you can be a winner and so you have to be in the correct winning mindset and environment to do it, alongside an income,  something that provides stability and risk capital, or get funded to trade via a prop firm or you are guaranteed to go to lose and burn!  no matter how good the system – due to psychology!

Credit for the article title
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

tip for the best results ninjatrader automated trading futures

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

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

Have a trade plan:

  1. capital and risk per trade
  2. Set the trading goals, and loss limits for the day and week
  3. select the system and instruments
  4. system template & Workspaces
  5. Schedule when to be at the trading desk and set the system in action and when to pause.

Pre-Session

  • Check the prior session and view a higher time frame analysis to get the bigger picture of the story of the market
  • Set a bias for the session long or short
  • Get the system ready lots and risk and limits 1 trade only or multiple
  • 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 half clip or full risk to your plan
  • Decide to wait for the first 30 minutes or 5min 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, market news cycles
  • Do this for the exits too! and note the 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 15 days of data downloaded to get the best consistent results of signals and range and bars.
To stay in sync across multiple desktop PCs this task needs to be performed each day every day pre-session.
Typically download the last 2 days and on weekends download the last 7 to 15 days to get the corrections and back fills.

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100% FREE Get Started Trading

Get your 100% FREE day trading futures hybrid automated trade system, attend the discord-free trading group, and learn at your own pace, oriented, ready to trade with all the information & resources you need & and the right system to suit you.
  • 30 day Free Trial Ultimate universal license
  • Self-assisted software download & installation
  • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Free Discord Trading Group Zero to Hero
  • Get 1 to 1 interactive support from the developer!

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:

Help Desk Help Center Articles 

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100% FREE Get Started Trading

Get your 100% FREE day trading futures hybrid automated trade system, attend the discord-free trading group, and learn at your own pace, oriented, ready to trade with all the information & resources you need & and the right system to suit you.
  • 30 day Free Trial Ultimate universal license
  • Self-assisted software download & installation
  • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Free Discord Trading Group Zero to Hero
  • Get 1 to 1 interactive support from the developer!

how did the fib grid technology and trade systems get invented?

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The proprietary Fib Grid and Range grid technology first came to mind in 2007 when working for TCA Futures (RIP) in a trading arcade in the City of London – UK’s Wall St – it was dreamt up in response to a roasting from the S&P500 desk head trader – he was fuming and publicly outed me shouting in front of some 120 other suited and booted traders after hours in the daily retrospective – he’d seen my appalling trade via his CQG trade desk admin module, why I was trading long at the top of the market – 1 hour out quite near the end of the session oops.. ok that’s obvious- but I thought how the heck do you know where the top of the market is.. and later that night I dreamt of the fib grid and range grid to show me- back then it was excel and CQG, and here we are NinjaTrader from 2009 to 2024 it’s still my core methodology battle-tested in institutional and hedge fund and retail trading 

  • YSFG – Yearly Session Fib Grid
  • MSFG – Monthly Session Fib Grid
  • WSFG -Weekly Session Fib Grid
  • DSFG – Daily Session Fib Grid
Now combine this with structure price action time and a catalyst to provide the conditional trade setup for a high-probability move
and then use the signals/rules as the trade entry method and let the system do the rest.

Around 2008/2009 I then worked on the concept of the fib grid session breakout using it to prevent my ludicrous out-of-control scalping up to 1200 trade operations in 1 day was my record plus burnout after TCA Futures as a privateer with MFGlobal, made my broker rich and me a 35% account loss – Emini ES trading, not small change, it hurt badly so I stopped and later on was born again as a day/swing trader.. to 1 to 3 trades per day on the DSFG and this method is used in the ATS discord groups as a core method to teach good habits and run the trades – Fib Grid made me and saved me thank you to the head trader…

Note: From 2015 when I traded for managed futures/ futures hedge funds I used WSFG breakouts and MSG breakouts and let that go for several weeks/months you could get up to 100K per lot sometimes on NQ or ES FDAX etc. So some quite serious trades have gone down, and a good lot of time too. https://algotradingsystems.net/About I guess I could follow tradition and call it the Leeson lines after my surname as some did and still do – but to me, FibGrid has more meaning. AlgoFuturesTrader contains all the latest evolution of the FibGridTrading systems is 100% free for sim/NT demo and prop firm evaluation trading.
Enjoy & happy trading   Tom Leeson

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100% FREE Get Started Trading

Get your 100% FREE day trading futures hybrid automated trade system, attend the discord-free trading group, and learn at your own pace, oriented, ready to trade with all the information & resources you need & and the right system to suit you.
  • 30 day Free Trial Ultimate universal license
  • Self-assisted software download & installation
  • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Free Discord Trading Group Zero to Hero
  • Get 1 to 1 interactive support from the developer!

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
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 PC automatically with any changes or rolled-over contracts, including:
  1. Turnkey Workspaces
    1. Any downloaded workspace is refreshed
    2. Existing Workpaces 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 – to avoid info 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 take all trades – 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 of course suit day, swing, and intermediate trading over 1 day or many months and keep context and control even after a reboot and restart, with 100% unattended execution and trade management, but the vast majority of traders use the system from 50% automation to 80% automation. Note: In fund trading with a 5mil account 100% fully automated trading was engaged for a client CPC with the forerunner of the AFT system today- but even that was controlled for news and rollovers so say 90% automation was feasible/sensible  -this is also a statistic used by Ray Dalio for their Alpha trading systems. Classis 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 developer 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 a 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 % 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 for… 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 someone’s subjective best settings work for you,  only by hands-on experience and 1000s 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 ok 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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100% FREE Get Started Trading

Get your 100% FREE day trading futures hybrid automated trade system, attend the discord-free trading group, and learn at your own pace, oriented, ready to trade with all the information & resources you need & and the right system to suit you.
  • 30 day Free Trial Ultimate universal license
  • Self-assisted software download & installation
  • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Free Discord Trading Group Zero to Hero
  • Get 1 to 1 interactive support from the developer!
Click here: 🚀 Get Started 100% FREE!

100% FREE Get Started Trading

Get your 100% FREE day trading futures hybrid automated trade system, attend the discord-free trading group, and learn at your own pace, oriented, ready to trade with all the information & resources you need & and the right system to suit you.
  • 30 day Free Trial Ultimate universal license
  • Self-assisted software download & installation
  • Turnkey workspaces setup ready to trade
  • Free Discord Trading Group Zero to Hero
  • Get 1 to 1 interactive support from the developer!

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