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AFT Trader John Video Episode 15 – day trading Nasdaq Futures Market Round Up August week 3

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https://youtu.be/Xb5NubE8EKo

In this week’s video, Trader John goes through all the trades in the MNQ for the week with the AFT7 Opening Morning Breakout Trader for NinjaTrader 7 (Ninja 8 Beta). AFT7 is free to download and use in simulation mode for as long as you want. The AFT onboarding page and AFT Trading Group Discord server links are detailed below:

You can follow AFT Trader John in the live market each day in our free online day trading group.

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 the Algo Futures Trader automated breakout strategy on the live market using the NinjaTrader Platform. Expect more depth and coverage each week as this new series starts to take shape.

Trade for Free Forever on Sim, Demo, Test & Practice Accounts Risk-Free!

  • AFT is 100% free forever for sim, demo, replay, backtesting, and forward testing for all futures.
  • AFT is 100% free forever for evaluation trading.
  • Prop Firms Trading Capital Providers.
  • Practice on the sim/demo until you are making a weekly/monthly profit.
  • Use risk capital to trade or get funded by a prop firm such as:
  • Trade part-time or full-time from home or the office, trade for a living, or supplement your salary.
  • AFT License required when NinjaTrader is connected to a real money live account with Global Simulation Mode: Off – Live Trading.
    • AFT comes with a free 30-day live trading license. AFT Ultimate provides access to all AFT Features for AFT7 and AFT8.

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for Day Trading Futures

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

The fast route to start day trading micro futures

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Whether you are a free or premium user, you still need to read the guides, blogs, and videos and attend the room to understand, become conversant, and make the most of any coaching or self-learning. All the topics are covered in the guides, blog, and videos. If not, send us a question.

Start here to find the relevant information and get oriented

https://algofuturestrader.com/support/aft-quick-start-guidance/

AFT: Where to start, what to learn?

NYSE Session Breakout
Start out and focus on the session breakout system workspace. It is a perfect match for US indices futures trading 1 to 3 hours per day.

Do less, achieve more—actually learn how to trade and leverage technology like a trader and hybrid algo/Pilot and Plane relationship.

  • Learn good habits
  • Understand the price cycles and news cycles
  • Apply good risk management
  • Make a trade plan
  • Do not overtrade.
  • Select 1 to 2 instruments to trade
  • Use other instruments for correlations
  • Attend the AFT Trade Group daily for trading tips and examples with AFT Trader John

Turnkey Workspaces

  • Session Breakout rules are explained—take signals above or below the NTZ within the trade zone.
  • Trend Trading/Scalping—take signals wherever they occur, long or short, at any time your rules apply.
  • Session breakout is focused on—all other system workspaces are not supported for free and newcomers, so we will not be answering or providing guidance for them for traders in the early phases. These are only for traders who understand what they are, are proficient, and can self-assist and use them—Trend Trader/Trend Scalper, etc. Once you have mastered the basics of the AFT7 system and one methodology, you can consider the other methods and use the trading group channels to see how people are using them, etc.

Step by Step

  • Learn how to trade and learn how to leverage the different levels of automation
  • Learn when to use the system or not and to what degree of automation on which instruments.
  • Get a routine and make it a habit—retrospect, plan, execute, and evaluate

The 5-Step Basic Day Trading Approach for NYSE Session Breakout

1) Get to the desk before the open… 9 am EST or so—check news
2) Check the 4 main indices and see what happened prior… look to see what gaps are forming
3) Armed with that, if the gaps are all different or all the same, for example… GapBias
4) Look at the AlphaBias… etc. Understand the strength of the instruments going into the open to make a selection of what to trade
5) Trading 9:30 EST to around 11:30 EST, 1 to 3 signals per day—Signal + filters

Trade Entry

  • Multiple algo signals and filters—manual, semi-auto, fully auto

Trade Exits

  • Trade Man Settings
  • All settings are adaptive—use the guide to alter if desired

Testing

  • Test in replay or walk forwards real-time
  • 100% free, unlimited, risk-free on the sim or evaluation accounts

AFT8

  • Work in progress and not supported as yet

AFT7 Online Help Guides 24/7:

Videos:

Check the Blog for Articles:

Use the AFT Trading Group:

AFT Intro:

Please Note the AFT Support Model

  • As a free user, you will need to use the self-assisted help guides
  • As a premium user, you have a different support level

For more details, view the AFT Support Model

ATS/AFT Trading Group – for additional resources

  • Note: All users, free and premium, are welcome to the Online Trading Community Trading Group where you will also have support and education resources as well as live market trading systems, trade signals, news, and fundamentals.
  • Simply visit us here at our ATS/AFT Discord Group during NYSE trading hours.

Premium 1 to 1 Assistance
If you are struggling with the self-assisted support model, that’s fine. We offer premium packages.
For example, if you want live 1 to 1 assistance as a free user NT & Setup, then we offer these packages:
https://algofuturestrader.com/product/remote-assistance-support/
https://algofuturestrader.com/product/aft-get-started-trading/

AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Video Episode 5 – Session Breakout filters Advanced modes and Settings

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https://youtu.be/wlRQvdF0DPo

In this week’s Algo Futures Trading Live Update, AFT John examines some of the different market types observed on Thursday and Friday, and how the opening breakouts could be filtered depending on the market type. Later, John goes beyond the turnkey settings to demonstrate how the system parameters can be adjusted to fit one’s trading style, contract sizes, daily goals, and more for the session breakout system and beyond for live market trading Micro E-mini Futures, Nasdaq, S&P 500, Dow, Russell 2000 micro futures with Algo Futures Trader automated trading.

AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Roundup Information. Each week, AFT Trader John will present 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 begins to take shape.

Automated Futures Day Trader Trend Scalper Turnkey Workspace for AFT7

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Announcing a new workspace: “AFT Trend Trader Scalper-1001A-Generic-Micros” and “AFT Trend Trader Scalper-1001B-Generic-Micros” for trend scalping with the TrendOmeter filter system to allow many signal opportunities. This was in response to demand for a turnkey workspace that fits better with multi-time frame filter directional bias and TrendOmeter usage. The AFT Session Breakout System may have too few trade signals and miss out on too many good trades for some traders. This new day trading futures trend scalper setup will provide many signals per session and allow trading anywhere on the chart, up or down, without restriction. All filters are off—no traffic light filters, no trading zone filter—only the optional TrendOmeter filter, or the user can set long or short bias in real-time. Here is the initial draft, and it will be added to the Templates Installer. Consider it experimental and aimed at experienced traders who want to use the real-time interactive controls and trade man and machine hybrid automated trading.

Automated future day trading trend scalper trade system
Automated future day trading trend scalper trade system turnkey setting – ready to sim trade out of the box

AFT Scalper is set up as a very clean chart to show the USAR On chart signals below. Here in this screenshot, we can see the real-time live market trades taken on the sim in a real-time test.

AFT Trend Trader longs all winners
AFT Trend Trader longs all winners – no shorts taken – TrendOmeter in action – super clean chart look and feel for trend scalpers
AFT Trend Trader Scalper all long winners
AFT Trend Trader Scalper all long winners, no loser demo day trading equity micro e-mini futures

The latest AFT7 Workspace version is now 2021.6.7.1. The main program AFT7 version is now 2021.5.25.4 and in most cases should automatically update when NinjaTrader 7 is restarted. However, some antivirus software might prevent this from occurring. To manually update your AFT7 to the latest version, simply visit the AFT downloads, download and run the AFT7 Universal Installer, or you can simply run the AFT7 Templates Installer to select additional options.

WARNING: Please note running the universal installer will close all NinjaTrader platforms running on your PC, including NinjaTrader 8, if running. Running the AFT7 Settings installer can be done with NinjaTrader running; it will not affect it.

AFT7 Futures Automated Trend Trader Scalper Trading System
AFT7 Futures Automated Trend Trader Scalper Trading System Turnkey Workspace “AFT Trend Trader Scalper-1001A-Generic-Micros”

For installation help for AFT7, please visit the AFT Quick Start help guide.

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
 

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.

AFT7 Trend reversal pullback and continuation day trading turnkey workspace update for June 2021

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Due to popular demand, amidst working on AFT8, we have found time to revamp the AFT7 Trend Reversal Turnkey workspace “AFT Trend Reversal Trader-1000A-Generic-Micros.” This can be installed and accessed from the NinjaTrader 7 control center > File > Workspaces.

Enhancements for entry signals include trend reversal or a pullback price break at any point on the chart without restriction, except for session time filters. This means you can set a bias long and short or trade with a directional bias filter using the TrendOmeter AlphaBias system. A Higher Time Frame Price Analysis workspace is also available in the templates installer.

The latest AFT7 Workspace version is now 2021.6.2.5. The main program AFT7 version is now 2021.5.25.4 and in most cases should automatically update when NinjaTrader 7 is restarted. However, some antivirus software might prevent this from occurring. To manually update your AFT7 to the latest version, simply visit the AFT downloads, download and run the AFT7 Universal Installer, or you can simply run the AFT7 Templates Installer to select additional options.

WARNING: Please note that running the universal installer will close all NinjaTrader platforms running on your PC, including NinjaTrader 8, if running. Running the AFT7 Settings installer can be done with NinjaTrader running; it will not affect it.

AFT USAR Trend Reversal Pullback Continuation Futures Day Trading System
AFT7 Turnkey Workspace – AFT Trend Reversal Trader-1000A-Generic-Micros

For installation help for AFT7, please visit the AFT Quick Start help guide.

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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