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AFT8 Beta version 202208311 – new workspace for day trading emini micro indices futures

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AFT8 Emini Micro Indices Futures day trading session breakout hybrid algo trading system
Workspace AFT8-SFG Breakout Trader-0000B Emini Micro Indices Futures day trading session breakout hybrid algo trading system

Two turnkey futures day trading workspaces are better than one.

Workspace AFT8-SFG Breakout Trader-0000B

AFT8 Mode Hybrid Semi-automated trading - manual entry and fully automated exits
AFT8 Mode Hybrid Semi-automated trading – manual entry and fully automated exits

The new workspace is essentially the same theme as the original beta but much more refined and simplified. It provides four charts side by side with fully automated trade management. Each chart has a tabbed view from the higher time frame down to the trading time frame with self-optimizing bars for session breakout and trend trailing.

  • EOD MSFG
  • 60-Min WSFG
  • 5-Min RTH Gap Analysis
  • SASR – DSFG

For all AFT8 updates, please use the Downloads page. There is only one link and one installer. It can’t be any easier. Download, install, connect, open the workspace, and trade risk-free on the sim account.

Workspace AFT8-SFG Breakout Trader-0000A

AFT8 Hybrid Trading Turnkey Workspace
Workspace AFT8-SFG Breakout Trader-0000A – AFT8 Hybrid Trading Turnkey Workspace multiple chart multi-time frame view

This workspace allows context clicking to set the instrument context across all views with fast switching. The same system and trade management rules but a different view. Ready to use out of the box – only one workspace should be loaded at a time.

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For all AFT8 updates, please use the Downloads page. There is only one link and one installer. It can’t be any easier. Download, install, connect, open the workspace, and trade risk-free on the sim account.

Compare AFT8 versus AFT7 and other vendor products. View the developer details of Algorithmic Trading Systems to understand why this is the very best trading system brought to you 100% free for sim…

AFT8 Trading Systems Stats

AFT8 server edition has been providing baseline trading system stats since the trading group was started in 2021 – so the same systems are available in the AFT8 retail system.

AFT8 Roadmap

1) AFT8 is a beta available to traders who can self-support – so we focus on delivery.
2) AFT8 will be released as a series of ongoing updates over 2022 – notifications will be made.
3) Turnkey workspaces and examples will be provided.
4) System optimization from the baseline will take place and more stats/systems provided.
5) Guidance and articles will be provided after AFT8 is ready for public release.

What About AFT7?

  • Existing lifetime members will be able to use it for as long as the NinjaTrader 7 platform is supported and available by NinjaTrader LLC.
  • AFT7 will be maintained for lifetime purchasers and in 2023 will be taken down as purchasable on lease and no longer supported or maintained.

Connect to AFT for Updates and Info

AlgoFuturesTrader 8 Beta update released v20220825

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AFT8 Trading System
AFT8 is our very best trading system made for NinjaTrader, developed by MicroTrends Ltd.

AFT8 Turnkey Workspace: Trade Flow Manual Entry and Auto Exits

  • AFT8 trade workflow for hybrid manual trade entry with automatic trade management:
  • 1) Signal arrives, sounds an alert in the Alerts Window.
  • 2) Click the signal row – charts switch to the signal instrument.
  • 3) Check and decide to trade using Chart Trader.
  • 4) Automatic trade management places the exits.
  • 5) Manage the trade with visual orders using Chart Trader.

Turnkey Workspaces Info – Multi-time Frame

  • Spoiler Alert: This workspace displays 4 charts with tabs, showing an instrument in multiple timeframes.
  • Note: Workspace is designed for a monitor size of 1920 x 1080, fitting 80% of screens.
  • This setup is different from what you have seen before, featuring advanced navigation for quick chart switching to a single view of an instrument, with others visible via the trendometer/trading info and signals.

Pending Turnkey Workspaces for AFT8

  • Session Breakout: 4 Charts view of Emini micro indices side by side.
  • Trend Scalper
  • More such as Mean Reversion and others

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Automation: Hybrid and Fully Automatic Trade Management

  • 100% fully automated Algo Trade Entry is enabled, but turnkey workspace settings are not yet released.
  • Fully automatic advanced trade management is provided by the turnkey workspace.

AFT8: Our Best Automated Trading System for NinjaTrader

Why exactly is AFT8 the best algorithmic trading system for NinjaTrader, developed by MicroTrends Ltd?

AFT8 is a constantly evolving product that will become AFT9, growing with the times to stay ahead of the curve.

AFT8 server edition, first created in 2017 to power a hedge fund system by MicroTrends Ltd, evolved to 2021. It was decided to splice off a subset of this fully automated swing trading cloud technology to deliver a lightweight retail AFT8 desktop version, merging in the concepts of AFT8 hybrid trading. Battle-tested live on mini futures on commercial-sized accounts, it is now available for retail trading with accounts from 20K up for auto and less for hybrid pilot and machine.

AFT8 provides the best automated trading systems for retail day trading and swing trading Emini Micro and popular Futures, developed by MicroTrends as of 2022.

AFT8 versus AFT7

AFT7 is now just a classic minnow and a fond memory for those who have transitioned to AFT8.

  • AFT8 is an evolved system containing a superset of AFT7 and a hedge fund system trading engine.
  • AFT8 has more algorithmic trading systems and multiple timeframes:
    • Session Breakout/Gap Trader
    • Swing Trend Trader
    • Day Trader Trend Scalper
    • Mean Reversion
    • Pending:
      • News Trader
      • Cloud Trading
      • AI
      • and more…
  • AFT8 also integrates with AlphaWebTrader API link for real-time trade filters.
  • AFT8 is a true automated technology for day and swing trading, fault-tolerant and the most advanced available for NinjaTrader.
  • Desktop Hybrid controls for desktop trading.
  • Web Remote Controls for fully automated trading.

Compare AFT8 versus AFT7 and other vendor products. View the developer details of Algorithmic Trading Systems to understand why this is the very best trading system, brought to you 100% free for simulation.

AFT8 Trading Systems Stats

AFT8 server edition has been providing baseline trading system stats since the trading group was started in 2021. The same systems are available in the AFT8 retail system.

AFT8 Roadmap

1) AFT8 is a Beta available to traders who can self-support, allowing us to focus on delivery.
2) AFT8 will be released as a series of ongoing updates over 2022 – notifications will be made.
3) Turnkey workspaces and examples will be provided.
4) System optimization from the baseline will take place, with more stats/systems provided.
5) Guidance and articles will be provided after AFT8 is ready for public release.

What About AFT7?

  • Existing lifetime members will be able to use it as long as the NinjaTrader 7 platform is supported and available by NinjaTrader LLC.
  • AFT7 will be maintained for lifetime purchasers and in 2023 will be taken down as purchasable on lease and no longer supported or maintained.

Connect to AFT for Updates and Info

What’s next with the AFT8 update?

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With regret, as the sole creator and developer of AFT8, I have to inform you that I was out for the count for two weeks with a fever and a throaty cough. I’m not sure if it was COVID or the flu, so I made no progress at all on the AFT8 update since the last version in mid-March. However, I am glad to say I am pretty much recovered, except for lingering lethargy, and have been coding again.

AFT8 is still in beta and has a long way to go before all the planned features are released. It will be worth the wait; it needs to be as it’s going to be my main retail account trader. There will be updates to the AFT8 system starting next week, including fixing a bug to save settings on the main signals indicator, an ease-of-use feature for configuration, and some inclusions of swing trading/weekly fib grid trading features in the turnkey workspaces. Here’s why.

The AFT retail day trading version of the software came from a much larger swing trading multi-server, client/server n-tier, SOA, cloud-based system with NT8 at its core, providing the awesome technicals, execution, and trade management. AFT contains a small subset of the functionality but exactly enough for the algo premise and capability for day trading and some swing trading, with user interactivity for many of the tasks. The hedge fund system will cost you 50K USD plus fees and data server overheads per annum to use. AFT retail starts at free. The following will give you some idea about the two versions.

During my absence, the CPC/AFT Hedge fund systems continued to work even though the developer algo trader was not in attendance. The servers restarted each weekend via Windows Task Scheduler and updated themselves. NT8 is then started, and historical data is downloaded each week and replicated out from a main server to other servers to negate the need to download again.

With the full hedge fund version, there is no need for a user at all, except for rollovers and in emergencies or system selection. It is 100% fully automated trading in the real sense, and I am not allowed, even if I want to, to intervene. Not allowed to enter or close a trade, move a target, or trail a stop, so we get a pure dataset of stats. Sometimes it means there were trades I would not have done, but sometimes it does incredible trades that were far better than me. Over time, it works, and that is the goal.

A hedge fund’s performance has to be measurable to something tangible and risk control also, so removing all humans is the ideal way to do it, as a human is hard to backtest and benchmark. They get sick too or move jobs. So when I’m talking fully automated, it’s big trade accounts and no fiddling or making it up as you go. All the systems that make it to live from the thousands that don’t go through system selection, board approval, and compliance for annual auditing—no pressure 🙂

AFT retail traders benefit from a hybrid feature set to allow fully as well as manual/semi-automated trading, which is really very important for retail day trading as it is less forgiving than swing trading. AFT benefits from many years and many hundreds of thousands of USD of research and development and real trading of the systems professionally in automated swing trading. They end up as much as possible as turnkey for day trading with minimal tweaking required.

CPC/AFT algos for the hedge fund start on a Sunday. The week begins, the Windows Task Scheduler process will start NT8 in time to trade the CME open for indices, connecting to various data feeds in turn for each exchange and feed. Then it loads the workspaces and loads the algos and starts them, a mix of sim and live. For each system, each algo will inspect orders and remove any anomalies within NinjaTrader, then process the positions and orders, risk, and technical context, and continue trading where it left off, adapting to any changes and implementing fault tolerance and safety.

Technically, the CPC/AFT algos are part of a greater system—a signals framework, execution management system (EMS), order management system (OMS), position and trade management, rollover liquidation, data acquisition, automated web stats collation and reporting system, and automatic trade safety system and more besides—evolved in NinjaTrader and .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, MSSQL, and Azure Service Bus, created over a four-year period.

It is quite incredible what we have achieved with the technology directly due to the amazing work of the NinjaTrader development team to allow us access to all areas to create what we want, limited by imagination and skill only. So in short, even though the developer was away and useless, the system continued onwards fully automated regardless, so no trades were missed and no one goofed things up with under-par irrational decision-making.

In my absence, here is a pretty good trade example of the CPC/AFT Weekly Swing trading algo, which took up to the high last week, 2021-April-16. Now reversed and closed into a small short this week—10K per lot was the MFE trading Emini S&P—just with a 4 lot trade of about 5K to $7500 risk on that volatility. It could have been a lot more based on the past and recent times, but it’s still a respect-worthy demonstration of what we can achieve with the toolset.

USAR WSFG swing trade fully automated no manual trading interaction ES

We will provide this WSFG weekly setup as part of AFT8 turnkey settings for micro indices and Emini so that traders can use it as a guide for intraday or indeed take the weekly SFG Signals.

As you can see, yes, this is a live trade. Note that the chart trader is black and the account does not begin with Sim. We really do trade, and we really do use these tools. The AFT day trading system is a version built for small account trading based on the professional hedge fund trading for which it was originally created. So the day trading version is basically a daily session breakout instead of weekly for swing trading. You can also see the power of the risk-reward in action on this type of system and the staying in trend-following method.

AFT8 is available in the shop as a free product AFT8 Free Trading System or available from the AFT download page. Articles and videos will follow on installation but should be very simple if you can use a mouse and PC and get around any AV warnings, etc. Please visit the support and help desk.

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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