Secret to Day trading futures success

October 19, 2021 by AFT

The Secret to Day Trading Futures Success

Successful futures trading is not based on a secret indicator, guaranteed strategy, or fully automated profit machine. It comes from combining a proven trading process, disciplined risk management, high-quality market information, hybrid automation, deliberate practice, and continuous improvement.

A Complete Approach to Futures Trading

Algo Futures Trader helps traders develop a complete 360-degree approach using the AFT desktop trading platform, AlphaWebTrader market intelligence, turnkey trading workspaces, AI-assisted commentary, structured education, trader support, and optional one-to-one Trade Mastery.

The ATS hybrid trading method combines human market awareness with automated execution and trade management. Traders assess the market, establish a long or short bias, select acceptable signals, and use automation to assist with entry, stop-loss placement, profit targets, trailing, scaling, and exits.

This approach keeps the trader responsible for every trading decision while using technology to improve consistency, execution speed, risk control, and emotional discipline.

Signals Alone Are Not the Trading Plan

A trading signal should be considered together with external market filters and predefined risk rules. These filters help traders decide whether market conditions support a long trade, a short trade, or no trade at all.

Common ATS market filters may include:

Economic news announcements and scheduled market events
Overnight price action and session opening gaps
Higher-time-frame trend direction and important price levels
Relative strength and correlation across the major equity indices
Market volatility, momentum, volume, and trading range
Daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal market cycles
AlphaBias, GapBias, TrendOmeter, market signals, and AI-assisted commentary

The objective is not to predict every market move. The objective is to wait for suitable conditions, take qualified trades, control the risk, and execute the same process consistently.

The Five-Step NYSE Session Breakout Process

Prepare before the market opens. Be at your trading desk before the 8:30 AM CT equity-index futures session open. Check the economic calendar, major news events, overnight market activity, and your platform connections.
Review the four primary US equity indices. Compare the E-mini or Micro E-mini S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Dow, and Russell markets. Identify overnight direction, opening gaps, relative strength, and whether the indices are correlated or mixed.
Establish a preliminary market bias. Use tools such as GapBias, higher-time-frame analysis, key levels, news risk, and session structure to determine whether conditions favor long trades, short trades, or patience.
Allow the market to confirm direction. Review AlphaBias, correlation, price action, and ATS trading signals after the open. Use the AFT controls for manual, semi-automatic, or hybrid automated execution only when the signal and filters agree with your trading plan.
Trade selectively and finish on schedule. Focus on the primary session from approximately 8:30 AM to 11:00 or 11:30 AM CT. One to three qualified trades may be sufficient. Stop trading when your daily loss limit, profit objective, maximum number of trades, or session end time is reached.

What Successful ATS Traders Do Differently

They learn in simulation first. They practise until they can follow the process consistently before considering prop-firm evaluations or personal live capital.
They manage the drawdown allowance. They understand that the usable account is the permitted drawdown, not the advertised account size.
They use small position sizes. They begin with Micro futures and avoid increasing size until their statistics and discipline justify it.
They combine signals with filters. They do not automatically trade every signal or chase a move because of fear of missing out.
They accept normal losing cycles. They judge performance over a meaningful series of trades rather than one trade, one day, or one week.
They journal and review. They record entries, exits, screenshots, risk, market conditions, mistakes, and lessons for continuous improvement.
They remain responsible for every trade. Automation assists execution and management, but it does not replace supervision, judgment, or risk control.

The ATS Hybrid Trading Toolkit

Algo Futures Trader for NinjaTrader 8: Hybrid trade entry, automated trade management, advanced indicators, bars, signals, risk controls, and turnkey futures trading workspaces.
AlphaWebTrader: Web, mobile, and desktop market intelligence for futures, indices, ETFs, and leading US stocks.
Economic News Alerts: Monitor scheduled announcements that can increase volatility and trading risk.
AlphaBias Trend Correlation: Compare trend direction and relative strength across related markets.
TrendOmeter: Evaluate market trend alignment and correlation.
Session GapBias: Analyze overnight and session-opening gaps as part of the directional bias process.
Futures Trading Signals: Review selected energy and equity-index futures signals together with your external filters.
ATS Trading Groups: Access trader support, market commentary, AI Group Copilot assistance, educational discussions, and the ATS community according to your package.

AlphaWebTrader market intelligence and day trading tools — AlphaWebTrader provides market intelligence, directional filters, news awareness, correlation tools, and trading signals.

Algo futures trading US equity index signals with session gap filters — ATS signals should be evaluated together with market filters, risk limits, and a documented trading plan.

A Structured Path to Trading Consistency

Begin with a free ATS Universal Account and follow the self-assisted Trader Launch Pad. Accept the starting terms, verify your email in Stage A, then complete the Stage B trader prerequisites and explore your eligible benefits. Discord linking is optional.

AFT Freemium offers Daily, Weekly and longer-timeframe indicators. Eligible traders can request a full-feature trial in Stage C or skip it for now. In Finish, select Finish Trader Launch Pad, then Close Setup & Open Trader Launch Pad. Your permanent Launch Pad provides the account links and eligible downloads.

Practise in simulation, study the Zero to Hero resources, document your trade plan and review your results before considering evaluation or live trading. One-to-one setup and Trade Mastery coaching are optional services offered by independent ATS Ecosystem providers.

🚀 Get Started Free 📖 Follow the Quick Start Guide Explore optional one-to-one help

The Real Secret to Day Trading Futures Success

The real secret is doing the ordinary things exceptionally well: prepare before the session, understand the market context, wait for qualified signals, use the smallest practical risk, supervise the automation, follow the trading plan, stop when the session is finished, and review every result without emotion.

Signals plus filters plus risk control plus disciplined repetition create the foundation for long-term trading development.

Futures Trading Risk Warning

Futures and leveraged trading involve substantial risk and are not suitable for every trader. Simulation, hypothetical, and past results do not guarantee future performance. Prop-firm rules, platform restrictions, commissions, slippage, trailing drawdown, and market volatility can materially affect results. Never trade funds you cannot afford to lose, and never assume that software, automation, education, or coaching guarantees profits or funding payouts.

Trading & Risk 101

Trading is simple to understand but difficult to master. Do not rush. Consistent trading requires practice, discipline, emotional control, risk management and the ability to remain stoic through both winning and losing cycles.

Five Essential Trading Tips

Avoid Impatience and FOMO: Never rush into live-money trading because you fear missing an opportunity. Build a repeatable routine and demonstrate consistent simulator results across different market conditions before deciding whether to attempt a prop-firm evaluation or trade a funded or personal live account.
Protect Your Trading Capital: Learn and practise in simulation first. A prop-firm evaluation may provide an alternative route to funded trading, but evaluation fees, drawdown limits, consistency rules, prohibited practices and payout conditions still create genuine financial risk.
Start with Nano Futures/Micro Futures: Begin with the smallest practical position size, commonly one Micro futures contract. Increase size only when your measured results, discipline, account limits and written trade plan justify it.
Control Risk on Every Trade: Define the maximum acceptable loss before entering. Use protective stops, conservative position sizing, daily loss limits and a risk level that allows you to withstand normal losing streaks without creating unacceptable financial or emotional pressure.
Trade a Written Plan: Do not chase the market, revenge trade or overtrade. Follow a defined setup, record every trade, review your statistics and judge performance over a meaningful series of trades rather than one winning or losing result.

Learn and Practise Before Risking Trading Capital

Use NinjaTrader simulation, market replay, backtesting and supported demo environments to practise execution and become familiar with the ATS trading tools.

Create your free ATS Universal Account and follow the self-assisted Trader Launchpad. Use eligible AFT Freemium applications, turnkey workspaces, structured Zero-to-Hero education, AI-assisted guidance, the ATS Help Bot, knowledge-base resources, Market IQ and trading groups to develop your trading process at your own pace.

Eligible traders can also request an available full-feature ATS trial through their personal Trader Launchpad. Training, software, automation and AI-assisted tools cannot guarantee profits, evaluation success, funding or payouts. Their purpose is to help you develop a repeatable process, manage risk, reduce avoidable mistakes and make better-informed trading decisions.

Expect Winning and Losing Cycles

Market conditions continually change. Trending, ranging, volatile, quiet, news-driven and seasonal conditions can each produce different results. A trader who begins during a favourable period may develop recency bias and incorrectly assume that trading will always feel easy.

A difficult cycle can include consecutive losing trades, losing sessions, drawdowns and occasionally losing weeks. Equally, one strong session or short winning sequence does not prove that a method will continue performing under different conditions.

Follow your predefined risk limits during both favourable and unfavourable periods. Stop trading when a daily loss limit, account rule or safety threshold is reached. Never continue trading simply to recover a loss or because you believe a winning cycle must be due.

There Are No Shortcuts

Build a routine, practise consistently, maintain accurate statistics, review your mistakes and allow enough time to experience different market conditions. Consider progressing beyond simulation only when your execution, risk control, discipline and results across a meaningful period demonstrate that you are ready.

Whether you use a simulator, prop-firm evaluation, funded account or personal live account, every decision and trade remains your responsibility. Use only risk capital you can afford to lose, understand all applicable account rules and never assume that past, hypothetical or simulated performance guarantees future results.

Get Started Day Trading Futures 100% FREE with AFT & NinjaTrader

Start with the NinjaTrader desktop platform, create your free ATS Universal Account and follow the self-assisted Trader Launchpad to unlock AFT Freemium, Market IQ, eligible trader resources and available full-feature trials. No payment card is required to get started. Begin with simulation, replay or a supported demo account while you learn the platform, explore the supplied turnkey workspaces and develop a structured trading routine. Progress toward prop-firm evaluations, funded accounts or personal live trading only when your experience, performance and risk control demonstrate that you are ready.

Plug and Trade Turnkey Futures Trading Systems

Install, connect and begin practising with ready-to-use ATS settings and workspaces for Session Open Breakout, trend reversal, pullback continuation, momentum and Hybrid Algo futures trading. Start NinjaTrader, connect to a supported futures data feed, open an ATS workspace and practise trading Micro or E-mini futures using trader-controlled entry, automated trade management, risk-management and exit tools available with the applicable AFT access level.

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1. Download the NinjaTrader Desktop Trading Platform

NinjaTrader provides advanced charting, market analysis, strategy development, backtesting, market replay and simulated trading. Download NinjaTrader Desktop and connect to a supported demo, simulation, prop-firm or live futures account. Download NinjaTrader & Explore Demo Data

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2. Create Your ATS Universal Account 100% FREE

Create your free ATS Universal Account using a supported social account or a verified email address and password. No payment card or purchase is required. Your Universal Account provides access to your personal Trader Launchpad and unlocks Freemium-level access to eligible ATS applications and trader resources, including AFT Freemium free Market IQ services and full feature free trial. Get Started with ATS 100% FREE

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AFT memorial day sale 25% off lifetime licenses for AFT7 and AFT8

May 31, 2021 by AFT

AFT7 has been retired. Please upgrade to AFT8.

All AFT7 traders should upgrade to AFT8, available with freemium access and a full-featured free trial. Get AFT8 here for NinjaTrader.

Simply enter this coupon MDAY25% at checkout, and you will receive 25% off the Premium or Ultimate lifetime deals. Please note the offer lasts for two weeks and expires on April 11th. Both the Premium and Ultimate packages include AFT7 for NinjaTrader 7 and AFT8 for NinjaTrader 8. You can lock in a discount now for a lifetime license, which includes the full versions of AFT7 and AFT8 when they are released in stages this year. Compare pricing for more details and view the license information for free, Premium & Ultimate versions of AFT.

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What’s next with the AFT8 update?

April 23, 2021 by AFT

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.

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.

how to place stop loss and targets for day trading futures with NinjaTrader 8 and AFT8

March 19, 2021 by AFT

There are two main methods for the placement of stop-loss orders and profit limit orders: “Static,” using a fixed distance, and “Adaptive,” using a non-fixed amount, in this case at a technical stop/target placement setting stop and target orders to various technical levels on the chart.

You can trade with a loose approach or a tighter approach when using exits to control risk/stop loss and profit points. Trading with closer targets provides a higher win ratio, and a far target approach will result in a smaller win ratio but a greater risk-reward average. By using multiple targets, it is possible to scale out and implement sophisticated trade management techniques to take profit and lock in profit with stop-loss trails as well as run for trend breakout days. A tighter stop-loss will cause a lower win ratio but a larger risk-reward; however, if it’s too tight, your system expectancy will be negative. What we aim to do is keep trading frequency lower—1 to 3 trades per session is a good amount if required—the first might be the only one you need. So we have a wide stop-loss and let the system breathe and run—this actually increases the risk but also increases the win ratio and probability of the system.

Much of that choice is down to the preference of the trader; however, the usage can be governed by inside and outside gap days and range/trend price cycles and market structure and order flow on the day, to decide to have a nearer tighter game or a more loose game or use a hybrid combination good in all weather to take profit off the table as soon as possible and still allow a good run to capture as much as possible as 100% of the daily move.

For proven and advanced traders, a quick note about variable position sizing based on high probability conditional trade setup versus a more arbitrary entry, etc. In addition to target and stop-loss arrangement, you can also consider half clip and full clip trades. For example, you might want to trade with 8 lots on a micro futures, but if you are not sure on a trade but you might miss a runner if you stay out, then you can go half clip with 4 lots, and when the market is clearer, less mixed, more directional across all indices and the conditional setup pattern and time, you might go full clip with 8 lots, which would need to be within your max % per trade. Up to 1% is way enough for a beginner—you could conceivably add to a half clip position also in a pullback, for example, but this is not recommended for beginners as it can lead to doubling down and a random off-the-hip trading style, abandoning the systematic approach and ultimate failure.

Static ATM Defined Stop-Loss and Profit Target Orders

Pending the AFT8 Easy Trader/NinjaBuddy GUI, you can use the NinjaTrader Chart Trader and ATM to automatically place exit stop-loss and profit targets and interact with them on a chart in real-time.

NinjaTrader 8 Help Guide/Video Training
- Chart Trader
- Advanced Trade Management (ATM)
Related Essential Training with NinjaTrader 8
- Charts
- Workspaces
- Visit the NinjaTrader 8 video library

The following can easily be created in the NinjaTrader ATM. Additionally, you can add break-even stop-loss strategies, such as at T1 move to breakeven or move in by 50% of the risk, for example.

Static Stop-loss and Targets examples for educational use
- ES/MES
  - Stop Loss: 28 ticks
  - Target 1: 10 ticks
  - Target 2: 16 ticks
  - Target 3: 100 ticks
- NQ/MNQ
  - Stop Loss: 35 ticks
  - Target 1: 20 ticks
  - Target 2: 30 ticks
  - Target 3: 100 ticks

Technical Stop-Loss and Targets Using the Fib Grid Levels

Stop-loss and profit targets are placed at Fib Grid Levels and are therefore adaptive advanced intelligent trade management, which can be applied to any market/instrument.

I prefer this method always. Imagine that I have to sometimes test and elect to trade on a universe of some 65 futures markets. Trying to find out what static ticks would be best would take up thousands of hours of ongoing testing to re-optimize and guide as the market phases and ranges change, making life unbearably hard work. So, in fact, that’s not required at all or best. Instead, simply use my Fib grid levels to adapt to the market and range as it changes and save all that brain ache. Of course, with the correct pending AFT8 technology, you can couple that with a volatility-adjusted stop-loss fixed fractional position size and add in scaling out, and now you have a professional setup. Meantime, with manual adjustment, as long as your stop-loss risk is within acceptable parameters and a sensible price, you are good to go.

Loose Setup – Low Win Ratio High Risk Reward

Stop Loss Technical position is behind the No Trade Zone (NTZ) yellow rectangle
Target 1 – 2 lots at the 50% regions on the grid
Target 2 – 1 lot at the 76% region
Target 3 is a runner or 100% grid line

AFT8 Day trading futures stops and targets with chart trader position and order visualization

Technical Stop-Loss Trail

Example Stepping Fib Grid Trail: When price moves and closes above the 50% blue line, move the stop-loss to the far side of the Fib grid price grid line -25% grid trail, or alternatively follow the USAR…look for the trailing triangles.

So how did that trade pan out?
T1 and T2 acquired – 3rd bracket was trailed down and taken out at -f61%

Tighter Setup High Win Ratio & Medium Risk Reward

Stop Loss Technical position is behind the No Trade Zone (NTZ) yellow rectangle
Target 1 – 2 lots at the 23% regions on the grid (could also be 33%)
Target 2 – 1 lot at the 50% region
Target 3 is a runner or 100% grid line

AFT8 Near Targets Semi Trend Scalping Trading Approach to take profit early but still allow a runner and positive risk reward

ATM Automatic Stop-Loss and Target Placement with Manual Adjustment
You can configure and use the ATM to place the stops and targets and then simply use the mouse on the chart to move the orders to the various Fib grid positions. Please visit the AFT help guides also for articles on day trading futures stop loss and targets.

Please note this article is for educational use only. This is not investment or trading advice—you need to test out and make your own decision based on statistical evidence.

AFT8 workspace update fibgrid trend % correlations

March 16, 2021 by AFT

The featured post image showcases a fully automated algo trading system for the Russell 2000, utilizing the Alpha Bias intraday near and medium-term trend correlation module. This is just one component of the comprehensive system of futures indices I employ for my hedge fund trading. Some features are being integrated into the AT8 system to include a subset of the hedge fund futures portfolio trading system. Traders, we truly trade professionally with this technology. I don’t intend to entice by displaying a real trade with real cash—it’s just another trade picture. However, it illustrates a NYSE daily session breakout fib grid SFG daily short signal taken and traded, using the grid for targets and stops, and the full version of the Alpha Bias Trendometer from which AFT8 is derived. This is a matured trading technology, now being released after years of use and battle-tested in live hedge fund trading with millions of USD in risk capital, utilizing advanced servers and technologies costing around $100K USD annually. Now, it’s being offered in a small form factor for desktop retail trading, allowing you to get started day trading futures with real trading tools for NinjaTrader 8. Trade like a pro with an edge from real trading systems and methodologies—AFT8 will lead the way as the best trading system for NinjaTrader from the MicroTrends hall of fame of trading systems.

AFT8 daily session fib grid day trading Russell 2000 futures fully automated

Yes, AFT8 will have a similar shape, form, and function, but with more lightweight interactive features, allowing it to be fully or semi-automated. The hedge fund system is 100% algo, which is not suitable for 99% of retail account sizes and preferences. Don’t worry, AFT8 is a smaller, more controllable piece, offered at a small price and free unless you live trade with it. As the original architect and pioneer of hybrid algo trading systems, we will provide features to facilitate easy trading and management of day trading size/small accounts. However, we need time to code and release step by step. The next step is to add the trend correlations as outlined below.

The latest AFT8 Workspace update includes the start of the TrendOmeter Market Analyzer with Daily Fib Grid Values. Net % is meaningless unless you know the typical market net %, which is too much homework and not relevant now—it’s yesterday’s news. We want to see today and the current real-time situation in the live market. With AFT8, we simplify trading and normalize every market as a grid of % with the fib grid. F0% is the open, -F100% is the market bottom, and +F100% is the market top.

By viewing the price as a %, we eliminate the need for the actual price, which is meaningless without knowledge of price levels. The current Fib grid % is key to understanding the market view from a particular session start at 0%. We can apply this to sessions to comprehend the market structure without a chart, understanding the market story from the prior session to now or further back at a glance. Critically, we can grasp the trend correlation and market short-term view—is it a mixed-up, jumbled market, or a moving, trending, directional market with a decisive trend up or down? Identifying these conditions and knowing how to trade them, or when to sit on the sidelines, is crucial to trading a trend from beginning to end. The trend is your friend until the end; let winners run. These clichés are timeless and truly effective.

To get the latest code, it should automatically update after you restart NinjaTrader 8 within one day. However, if you want to manually get the update, you can simply run your installer from your PC again, and it will grab the latest code and installer workspaces. Please visit the Algo Futures Trader downloads page for details.

Traders, all the best with your trading. Drop us a line at support for any feedback or to let us know how it’s going.
Many thanks, Tom.

AFT8 for NinjaTrader 8 beta released

March 12, 2021 by AFT

AFT8 version 20221.3.12.4 is now available for all traders for all futures for free!

As promised, this week we have released AFT8 for beta. Only some of the core indicators are available, and there is much work to do. Over time, we will fix any issues from your feedback regarding bugs and glitches and add any features that make sense for all traders to have.

Going forward, we will have weekly releases, if not daily, and add features. Typically, if all goes well, updates will occur after you close down NinjaTrader 8. AFT8 will update itself and add any factory default workspaces and template modifications.

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 it 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.

The installer is so new that all antivirus software will be moaning and asking to check and quarantine it. This is something we cannot avoid. All the code installers are code signed with MicroTrends Digicert Code signing. When the installer has earned a reputation by enough downloads, AV will become less bothersome.

AFT8 is a beta, so it might have some issues we can’t test internally, but we have tested it on a small selection of users already prior to this release.

The AFT8 installer will download the latest code and templates/workspaces and install them into your documents NinjaTrader location. It will expect a default NinjaTrader installation.

Please note the AFT8 version 20221.3.12.4 only provides, at this time, trade charting indicators, systematic trading signals, alerts, and speech. No automated trading features are available yet. We will update and release these features in the coming weeks.

Getting Started with AFT8
After you install AFT8 from the AFT8 download page, start NinjaTrader 8. Then open one of the turnkey workspaces. There are two workspaces installed, which both provide turnkey systematic day trading signals for manual order placement for day trading micro futures MES, MNQ, MYM, M2K.

AFT8 – Beta
- 4 charts with no tabs MES, MNQ, MYM, M2K
- Trading time frame charts DSFG USAR combo
AFT8-SFG Breakout Trader-0000A
- Multi-time frame tabbed charts higher time frame to trading time frame charts
- Enable download of COT data in your NinjaTrader 8 options market data for the COT indicator to function in the workspace
- Your version of NT8 needs to support tabbed charts – contact [email protected] if you are unsure.

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