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Session Open Dynamics trading indices futures hybrid automated traders

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As we approach the NYSE open, here are some key points to consider:

  1. Session Open Dynamics:
    • At the opening bell, the market could either see a trending breakout or engage in light volume, frothy or choppy see-saw movements around the session open within the Daily Session Fib Grid.
  2. Key Levels to Monitor:
    • MSFG, WSFG, DSFG previous session Open NTZ, highs and lows. These levels can be significant in determining early market direction and potential support or resistance points during the session.
    • Additionally, be mindful of outside gaps (where the opening price is outside the previous session’s range) and inside gaps (where the opening price is within the previous session’s range). These gaps can offer clues about market sentiment and potential follow-through.
  3. Time Cycle 10 AM Jiggle:
    • Around 10:00 AM, the market often experiences the “10 AM Jiggle,” where it establishes a clearer direction and often a new high or low.
      • This may lead to a reversal attempt or we could see a pullback followed by a continuation of the earlier trend, posting a higher low or lower high for the session.
  4. News Catalysts:
    • Be aware of any scheduled news releases around 10:00 AM, as they can act as catalysts by reinforcing the current trend or triggering a reversal.
    • During earnings season, particularly pay attention to the MAG7 (Meta, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla) earnings reports, as well as AI tech-related companies and banks. These sectors can have a significant impact on market sentiment and direction.
  5. Indices Futures Correlations:
    • For an easy view of the correlations between indices futures trends and price action, check AWT Trendo: AWT Trendometer. This can help determine whether the market is mixed, choppy, or confluent, and provide a bias for the upcoming session.
  6. Overall Market View:
    • For a comprehensive market view that includes levels, signals, gaps, and pending news, visit TradingPoint: Overall Market View.

VIP Trading Group Live Market Trade Along

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Trade on the right side of the market at the New York Session Open for day trading U.S. equity indices futures: Nasdaq, S&P 500, Dow, Mid Cap, and the Russell 2000 Small Cap Futures and Micro Futures.

Pre-Market Analysis and the Session Open in the AFT Free Trading Room, Monday to Friday, 9 AM EST onwards.
Join us here at this link: Live Pre Market Analysis and Commentary

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  • Live Market Commentary from Pre-Open and Session Open
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The 5-Step Basic Day Trading Approach for NYSE Session Breakout

1) Get to the desk before the open, around 9 AM EST – check news.
2) Check the four 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 to understand the strength of the instruments going into the open to make a selection of what to trade.
5) Trading from 9:30 AM EST to around 11:30 AM EST, 1 to 3 signals per day – Signal + filters.

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This screenshot is real-time live market trading in simulation accounts, providing the stats and the signals you can believe as fact as they happen in real-time and are video streamed so you can even watch on your mobile or desktop. The very same algo signals are also sent to the web for you as well! Live Market commentary takes you through the pre-trade setups and position management so you can follow along.

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Trading & Risk 101

Trading is simple but not easy, please do it safely and don't rush, it takes a lot of practice & stoicism, wining and losing cycles are expected!  5 quick tips to consider! 

    1. Impatience: FOMO - Fear of missing out, never rush to live money trade! Get consistent success sim trading 1 to 3 months then decide.
    2. Trade Capital: Get funded to day trade futures with a trading capital provider, no need to use your funds learning to trade.
    3. Micro Futures: Start with the smallest futures instruments such as Micro lots 1 to 3 lots to scale out
    4. Risk: Always use the smallest risk position sizing possible for example 1% or less of trade capital per trade
    5. Trade a plan: Don't chase the market or over-trade, focus on a systematic approach get consistent, trade the plan &  keep stats.
  • Learn & Trade risk free on the sim, demo account in NinjaTrader for free forever - AFT has no time limit, when you are ready and have proven to yourself that you are able to be successful at your own pace, you can consider live trading futures with AFT and NinjaTrader at your own discretion. Accelerate learning with a 1 to 1 day trading futures coaching but even then don't rush to live trade, put the learning into practice attend our  Free Futures Day Trading Group  for live market coaching voice and streaming at 9AM EST to 11.30 EST Mon to Fri.
  • Winning & Losing Cycles. You need to experience at least 1 to  3 months to see the typical cycles of the market and news cycles weeks of the months. You might start on a winning cycle on sim and suffer from recency bias, thinking its always easy to trade and rush to go live only to get hit by a losing cycle in live money trading and then pull the plug and freak out then you will miss the next winning cycle taking all the losers and missing all the winners the double whammy of trading! 
  • There is No short cut,  it takes time,  get a routine, practice and wait  until you are consistent month to month on the sim at your discretion and then consider live money,  or if you are certain sure you got the ability at the start, at the very least get funded to trade with a 3rd party trading capital so they take the risk...!  You may well catch a longer term easy phase of trading from the get go, and make good but eventually it will happen you will get a drawdown and a string of loses...losing days and even weeks may occur but if you the trader are consistent over the long term month to month you can succeed.

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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 update for market analyzer performance issue fixes

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AFT7 was updated as part of maintenance after reports of a slowdown in performance around the NYSE session open. The NinjaTrader 7 would become unresponsive. Optimization development was made to the USAR indicator and USAR OSC, which are used within the AlphaBias Market Analyzer that powers the AFT7 Trendometer. Chart loading time and overall smoother performance have been reported since the corrective development.

AFT TrendOmeter Integrated with Easy Trader
AFT TrendOmeter Integrated with Easy Trader – as found in the Turnkey workspaces installed

The latest 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 & run the AFT7 Universal Installer. Please note this will close all NinjaTrader platforms running on your PC.

AFT7 AlphaBias TrendOmeter
AFT7 version can be located in the properties of each component or in the AFT7 Easy Trader User Info panel

To see what version of AFT7 you are running, please see this screenshot which shows two places to identify the AFT7 version you are using. 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

 

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

 

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