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AFT8 the best and most advanced automated trading system for NinjaTrader

June 4, 2023 by AFT

Some claim! Yes, you heard it all before, and you should be skeptical. Use evidence-based decision-making, not emotion. Let us substantiate the facts below.

  1. Firstly, get a pedigree of who we are. View About Algo Trading Systems. This is about real traders with real systems designed, invented, and developed in-house using decades of professional trading and institutional-grade quantitative development and knowledge.
  2. Secondly, this is not a one-trick pony. It has many algorithms and billions of permutations for all different styles of trading: real swing, intermediate position trading, and day trading. Fully auto, semi-auto, and manual with automated exits, fault-tolerant, and even better, this is brought to retail so you may try them out free forever and decide if it’s for you or not.
  3. Thirdly, let’s look at the technical specs and understand why NinjaTrader’s open architecture allows us to create the best and most advanced system for retail trading. Check out the developer, our sister company MicroTrends Ltd across the pond – the pioneer and inventor of hybrid trading with a quick history of NinjaTrader algorithmic trading systems. See how they put the other vendors in top place with their white-label systems, but this one is only available direct from the source!

10 Quick Points of the Best Trading System Features

AFT8 resolves all the challenges for automated trading, fully and semi-auto hybrid, which the other systems in retail cannot do.
AFT8 Proprietary Trade Engine Features

  1. Manual, semi, or fully automated trading system
  2. Interactive real-time controls to set algorithms
    1. On/Off
    2. Long/Short set bias
    3. Semi-auto one trade and stop
    4. Fully auto trade as per configured rules
    5. Trader override and guidance and interaction with algo/trade management controller UI
  3. Stop and start NT – the system will auto-start when the workspace is opened and data is connected.
    1. Can start waiting for the trader to put on for auto
    2. Can start in fully auto mode
  4. Allows position compounding – adding to the same position or taking off. The system will adjust the stops and targets as required.
  5. Allows trader to close positions and cancel orders without stopping the system
  6. Allows restart of the NT system – will continue and work with orders and positions
  7. Fault tolerance allows the system to detangle orders and positions on a restart or in a fast market. If all orders are canceled, it will put the order back on, not leaving an unguarded position.
  8. True day trading, swing, and intermediate swing trading over the weekend for up to 3 months of a position. No matter how long you stop and start it, AFT8 will wake up and know what to do and continue onwards with your trading as long as there is a valid connection.
  9. Memory-persisted state between stops and starts so that the system can keep track of trades per day, per session, and money management goals. This is a vital element which other systems do not do, meaning you could blow your trade plan rules. AFT8 won’t let you. You can bypass the fail-safes and reset the memory – transparent data folder access or controls.
  10. Automatic data lag control will detect when the market is too fast and NT8 is lagging behind real-time data and prevent trading signals and executions of signal entries to prevent loss on slippage – news times, distance latency, and so on. Data lagging will be flagged visually in the market analyzers and can be set to 0.25s to 30s sensitivity. This is a vital element to stop trading during price shocks, news releases, and other scenarios which would enter with bad slippage and could blow your account. AFT8 safeguards trading against slippage and price shocks.

Plug and Play Turnkey Workspaces for Day Trading and Swing Trading

  • Turnkey baseline systems are made available for install, connect, and trading on sim
  • Designed for hybrid trading modes, man and machine, for real-time interaction
  • Baselines can be traded in fully automated mode to test and tweak to suit a trader
    • Session Breakout/Day trading/Swing
    • Trend Trading/Scalping
    • Range Trading/Mean Reversion
  • Off-Piste, a trader can use their imagination and experiment and build their own rules using the algo building blocks inside the system and even code their own in too!

Unrivaled Trading Flexibility

  • Multi-Time Frame, Multi-Algo
  • Multiple algorithms on the same account
  • Multiple Advanced Trade Managers on the same account
  • Asymmetrical bars for entry and exits
  • Can combine or pause and enable with real-time controls to suit the conditions on the day

Cloud Multi-Time Frame Filter System – AlphaWebTrader Trendometer API

  • Futures, Stocks, ETF aggregated amalgamated horizontal and vertical trend correlations
  • Cloud API Non-Lagging for CPU, disk, and data. NT8 will not go down and data lag/render delay
  • Aggregated data is read by AFT8 from the AWT.Desktop in real-time with no lagging or overhead
  • Vertical trend correlation up to 24 time frames per instrument
  • Horizontal trend correlation futures, Stock, ETF for bias
  • Group strength and weakness
  • Order flow by market ATR speed, volume, and trend efficiency
  • Signal Flow – order flow is good, but signal flow is a step above history and real-time
  • HTF Structure, gaps, levels, and more.
  • See AlphaWebTrader for more details

Battle-Tested Trading Systems on Real Money with a Real Fund

AFT8 Desktop comes from real live money trading of a $5 million hedge fund account from 2017 onwards to 2022 on trade sizes up to 1% or $50K USD stop loss risk. Clear Point Capital. In 2023, due to a lack of time and development obligations to the fund, we decided to release it to retail and cut it down from swing to day trade and make a desktop version of it for NT8, to allow the most advanced system for NT8 ever. We chose that route instead of migrating AFT7, but AFT7 parts and components are being added in over time.

Not a One-Trick Pony

  1. Time-Testing Approaches – Evolved
    1. Session Breakout – daily, weekly, monthly – custom breakout
    2. Trend Trading – USAR/Dynamic trend
    3. Range Trading – Mean Reversion fibGrid Bands
    4. News Trader – pending needs AWT API
    5. Multi-Time Frame Trend systems – AWT API Trendo etc.
  2. Many programmable systems available or even can add own code rules and compile into the system and use your rules and algo with the full off-the-shelf features

Build Your Own – Bring Your Own Algo
ATS & NT8 allows you to build your own and test for strategies and also for integration into AFT8 algos and leverage all the off-the-shelf features.

AFT8 Versus Traditional NT8 Strategies

NT Strategies do not provide this level of interaction and flexibility and cannot swing trade or self-recover. They require manual resolution of positions and orders to make safer before starting. AFT can start and resolve it all itself. NT Strategies don’t allow a trader to close positions and cancel orders without halting the strategy. AFT will also ship in the future with a strategy for backtesting, optimizing, and if preferred for trading, the most advanced ever built for NinjaTrader 8 Powered by ATS QuadroBase. This will be open source in the strategy to allow you to combine third-party and create your own algos combined with AFT8 sealed indicator components, with script development support in the Discord Trading Group.

Money Management – Challenges

Static or fixed fractional position sizing based on volatility stop-loss – fixed fractional or professional mode fund of funds position sizing and money management.

  • Off a user’s defined amount
  • Off the account
  • Or weighted balanced per asset stream – different values

Systematic Trading Systems – Trade Signal Generation & Execution

The system does all you need for manual, semi, or fully automated signal execution

  • Entry signal types
  • Exits
  • Stops and targets

Web Algo Trading Remote Control

  • On/Off of algorithms
  • Long/Short bias
  • Monitor and interact

There’s a lot more to come, and we don’t want to give it all away before we roll it out.
Note: Unlike our other white-label technologies used by well-known vendors in the ecosystem, we don’t license this to anyone else to resell!

Filed Under: AFT8, Algo Futures Trader, automated trade entry, automated trade management, NinjaTrader 8 Tagged With: AFT8, best trading system, Hybrid Automated Trading Systems


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