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AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Video Episode 4 – Trendometer with session breakout

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In this week’s Algo Futures Trading Live Update, AFT John demonstrates how to use the TrendOmeter and AlphaBias trend correlation system as a trade filter for both long and short trades. This is done using AFT7 trading in demonstration mode on the live futures market with the NinjaTrader Platform, trading the NYSE session open.

Please visit the link for TrendOmeter.

Note that the TrendOmeter settings filtered out bad trades and allowed through good trades as it was set tight at 50%. This is a stringent setting when used with a session breakout system and can be easily altered in real-time and saved. With session open breakout trading, the number of trade signals and opportunities will be less than when used in a trend reversal and pullback continuation scenario, which allows trades to be taken further away or anywhere on the chart using a smaller time frame.

As you can see, we don’t cherry-pick or edit videos. As John recollected, “The system still made money overall that day using the TrendOmeter, and there will be days where it will filter out lots of bad trades and some days where it filters out good ones.”

AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Roundup Info: Each week, AFT Trader John will be showing a summary of the trades, futures trading systems, and methods with Algo Futures Trader on the live market using the NinjaTrader Platform. Expect more depth and coverage each week as this new series starts to take shape.

Guide to get started with AFT7 day trading

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Recommended Path for Getting Started with AFT7

To get started trading with AFT after installation, focus only on the session breakout workspace. Using one workspace at a time is the best practice. Follow the live market and trade from 9:30 AM NYSE EST for about three hours. Less is more; only trade one to three signals per instrument per session.

Starting out with MES is likely easier than MNQ. Save your own workspace and edit your preferred stops, targets, settings, etc. Start small, understand the controls, and system features.

Trading Tips:
Note the look and feel of successful and losing days. Avoid fear, greed, and impatience.

When to Trade and When to Sit Out?

  • Understand when to trade: market directional momentum, price analysis on higher time frames, and schedule of market-moving events.
  • Accept that market price cycles are not your fault or the system’s—trending days and choppy range-bound consolidation slow days.
  • There might only be 12 to 15 good market days per month and five horrendous ones—so why trade them if you can learn to see them prior or as they trade?
  • Better to learn to sit out, watch, and understand the cycles instead of trying to overtrade. Keep a log and note the high-probability days and the losing days. What was the context and pretext?
  • Note the calendar cycle of each new year, quarter, month, week, and day—can you use that for higher accuracy?
  • Use the Trendometer and Market Analyzer to assist and look to trade with correlation for indices of trending confluence rather than a messy, directionless market.

AFT: How It Works

There are four basic ways to trade futures with the AFT system: manual/semi/fully automated entry mode + automatic position trade exit management:

  • NYSE Session Open Breakout
  • Trend Reversal Trading
  • Manual Trade Momentum Trading
  • Manual OCO Breakout

Workspace turnkey settings are provided for that purpose. Simply install and open the system which appeals most.

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Trading with AFT7

AFT Blog Articles and Videos

Session Breakout Trading Info
AFT Trade Plan System Rules
US Equities Session Open Micro Futures Day Trading System Basics
Session Breakout Micro Futures Templates Settings Update
NYSE Session Open Breakout Micro Futures Turnkey Workspace

TrendOmeter/Market Analyzer
AFT7 Trendometer Alpha Bias Trend

Change Account and Save Your Own Workspaces/Settings
AFT7 How to Edit and Save Your Own Templates and Workspaces
AFT Trade Management Settings Adjustment

OCO Breakout
Non-Farms Payroll OCO Breakout Trading Micro Futures with AFT7

Modes of Trading
AFT7 Hybrid Automated Entry Day Trading Micro Futures

Performance Tips
NinjaTrader Performance Tips

24/7 Help Center Support Quick Links

Please take a good look through all and let us know any questions so we can post more support/resources/videos.

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for day trading futures

Simply Install, Connect. Learn and practice with ready to use turnkey settings and workspaces for Session Open Breakout trading and Trend Trading reversal and pullback continuation trading. Start NinjaTrader, connect to a futures data feed & open an AFT Turnkey workspace, the trading systems will appear on chart and are ready for simulator trading micro equity Index futures.
  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT
 

NYSE Session Open Breakout Micro Futures Turnkey Workspace live market trading micro futures Video

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https://youtu.be/XTliEtegfuk

AFT7 – How to use the pre-installed Turnkey AFT7 Session Open Breakout Trading system in real-time live market data – 100% risk-free on the NinjaTrader simulator.

This demonstration uses 3 lots trading Micro Futures #MNQ, #MYM, #MES, #M2K. More lots can be added. This demonstrates a minimal amount to day trade on small accounts. Less is more, aiming for about 1 to 3 trade signal operations, long or short, per session trading from 9:30 EST to about 12:30 EST. Trading this approach for 1 to 3 hours is all you need. Trade 3 days per week; some days you might sit out to evaluate the price cycles or higher time frame price analysis, or sit on the side, then go in when the market correlation and direction are clean and clear.

Please note this is all 100% free for sim, demo, replay, and practice accounts. Simply download and install AFT7 for free from the website, install, connect, and trade. Open the turnkey ready-to-trade sim session breakout system for micro futures indices. When the charts are loaded, simply enable automated trading.

Note there are 2 modes of automated trading: Semi-Auto – Limited trading and fully unlimited. For more details on this trading methodology and approach, please view this article for Session Breakout trading details.

AFT is free for sim forever. To get started trading micro futures for free, risk-free trading on the simulator with NinjaTrader Free Trade Platform, with our ready-to-use turnkey workspaces and settings, simply download your free trading system.

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for day trading futures

Simply Install, Connect. Learn and practice with ready to use turnkey settings and workspaces for Session Open Breakout trading and Trend Trading reversal and pullback continuation trading. Start NinjaTrader, connect to a futures data feed & open an AFT Turnkey workspace, the trading systems will appear on chart and are ready for simulator trading micro equity Index futures.

  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT

 

Non Farms Payroll OCO Breakout Trading micro futures with AFT7

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Non-Farm Payroll OCO Breakout Trading Micro Futures in semi-automated trading mode.

https://youtu.be/UaQ5SrdLLzk

You can install and open any workspace provided that suits you. Simply wait until you are a minute or so away from the pending news release. Click the OCO button and then make sure the entry long and short are in the technical position as you like.

Now wait for the market trend momentum and price to fill one of the entry orders. The One Cancels Other (OCO) means the other order will be canceled. The AFT7 automatic trade management module will then place the trade exit orders and automatically scale out and trail the stop loss.

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US Equities Session Open Micro Futures Day Trading System Basics

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System Premise

The trend is your friend until the end. Let winners run and cut your losers.

Note: You trade out from the session open and do not take reversal trades back to the open from the high or low, etc. You let it run and trail.

Get in a trade as early as possible and avoid chop and false signals. Aim for an entry price near the session open price, ensuring a high probability of a run leading to a profit, as opposed to entering later at the high and trend exhaustion or requiring a larger stop loss to weather pullback continuations or chop and noise.

To get started with this system, please use the workspace “AFT SFG Breakout Trader-0000A-Generic-Micros” and view the following guidance for AFT Day Trading Micros Session Open Breakout.

With this system, you enter with the trend momentum and direction of the market from the session open when there is statistically significant momentum and direction caused by the NYSE open. You should aim to enter a trade from 9:30 AM EST to 11:00 AM as a guide.

AFT System Details

Session Breakout Trading Micro Futures Turnkey Workspaces pre-election 2020
Session Breakout Trading Micro Futures Turnkey Workspaces pre-election 2020

Using the Daily Session Fib Grid signals indicator as the system base, signals are taken above or below the Daily Session Fib Grid “No Trade Zone” (NTZ) within a percentage above and below that area, called the trading zone. The area is set by the “SFG Proximity Filter %”.

The SFG Fib Grid provides a map of price as a grid of percentages. The open is F0%. +F100% is the daily expected high, and -F100% is the daily expected low.

We can use the grid for entries, targets, stops, and as a filter. The trading zone where we take signals as trades could be +F31% of the Daily SFG Grid above and -F31% below. This region can be adjusted to suit trading style.

AFT PDF Trading Signals Basics Guide

AFT7 Session Open Breakout Trading Signal Types: Please see this guide, which is a basic introduction and guide to day trading futures with AFT in a session breakout mode: AFT Trade Plan System Rules

Turnkey Workspaces

  • AFT SFG Breakout Trader-0000A-Generic-Micros

Aimed at Semi-Automatic and Fully Automated Traders in attendance

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AFT7 Hybrid Automated Entry Day Trading Micro Futures

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This video below shows the turnkey day trading workspace for the NYSE session breakout style of trading with the Automated Trading mode and Semi-Autonomous mode on.

  • Fully Automatic – Unlimited – Auto trade entry mode
  • Semi-Automatic – Limited – Auto trade entry mode
  • Manual User Mode – AFT Easy Trader Button Entry

AFT7 Hybrid Automated Mixed Mode Day Trading Futures
AFT7 Hybrid Automated Mixed Mode Day Trading Futures

Please visit the AFT 24/7 Help Center for AFT7 Video Guides.

For more information, see how to get started day trading.

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for day trading futures

Simply Install, Connect. Learn and practice with ready to use turnkey settings and workspaces for Session Open Breakout trading and Trend Trading reversal and pullback continuation trading. Start NinjaTrader, connect to a futures data feed & open an AFT Turnkey workspace, the trading systems will appear on chart and are ready for simulator trading micro equity Index futures.

  1. Get NinjaTrader & a datafeed
  2. Download & install AFT
  3. Get started day trading with AFT

 

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