NinjaTrader Automated Trading by Algo Futures Trader

hybrid algorithmic automated futures trading for prop firm traders, day & swing traders

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NinjaTrader Automated Trading with desktop mobile and web

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AlgoFuturesTrader provides NinjaTrader Automated Trading in fully automatic, semi-automatic, and manual trade entry with full automatic trade management modes. Hybrid Trading Controller user interfaces allow full control of NT8 Desktop algo trading. In addition, AFT provides the ability to work remotely via NinjaTrader web or NinjaTrader desktop while AFT8 runs on your NinjaTrader desktop at home, the office, or a server:

NinjaTrader Automated Trading/Triple Control

  • View, monitor, and control your trades via NT web and NT mobile.
  • PLUS, you can take new trades on the NT web/mobile.
  • Take New Trades
  • Position Compound – add to existing
  • Close Positions
  • Cancel Orders – automatic replace

AFT8 Advanced Automated Fault Tolerant trade manager will place the exits, breakeven stops, trailing stops, and time-based exits, contract expiry exits. It will also deal with overfills, underfills, and stuck orders. Automatic startup with NinjaTrader as long as there is a valid connection, it will perform its tasks via NT 8 Desktop. AFT8 will replace canceled orders and ensure the balance of entry and exits is correct. Normal strategies in NT will close and halt if you start to close positions. If you cancel orders, they will not be replaced. In addition, it would go out of sync with the real underlying account if you add new positions and would not safeguard the exits – allowing unlimited loss. AFT8 solves this problem by allowing local control and interaction in real-time as well as remotely via the NT web and NT mobile tools. It does this by using the low-level API layers of NinjaTrader and providing full control real-time hybrid trading – direct from the pioneers of hybrid automated trading!

How to get started?

To get started, simply open the turnkey trading system workspaces and set the account in NinjaTrader desktop AFT8 to your NinjaTrader brokerage account live or demo!

  1. Install AFT8 + Start NT8
  2. Open Turnkey workspace
  3. Set NT demo or NT Live Account

🚀 Get Started Trading the Easy Way

Get your trading journey off on the right foot with NinjaTrader Desktop and AFT Hybrid Algo Trading Systems—purpose-built for day, prop-firm and swing trading. Get a head start with a one-to-one expert Discovery Meeting or assisted installation, setup and onboarding through Fast Track Zero to Hero, while learning to pursue maximum profit, minimum drawdown and the least possible emotion.

Getting started is simple: download NinjaTrader Desktop, then choose ATS Trader Pathway A or B below—Fast Track Zero to Hero for assisted onboarding or a Discovery Meeting to explore the most suitable route for your goals.

1) đź“Š Download and Set Up NinjaTrader Desktop

Download NinjaTrader and access real-time futures data and simulated trading.

Use NinjaTrader for discretionary, fully automated or modern Hybrid Algo Trading with AFT across supported prop-firm and live-trading accounts.

Want assistance downloading, installing and configuring NinjaTrader, including connecting it to your supported prop-firm or live brokerage account? Leave it to us—assisted NinjaTrader installation, platform setup and account connection are included with Fast Track Zero to Hero.

đź“Š Download NinjaTrader

2) Choose Your ATS Pathway

Choose Pathway A to get started as soon as possible with assisted setup and onboarding, or Pathway B to attend a Discovery Meeting, explore your options and identify the most suitable ATS pathway.

A) ⚡ Fast Track Zero to Hero

Get started as soon as possible with assisted installation, setup and one 30-minute to one-hour one-to-one onboarding session. Receive orientation to the Stage 1–5 progressive turnkey pathway and 30 days of full-featured ATS Ultimate access, AI Copilot, trading groups and the live Trade Zone.

⚡ Start Fast Track Zero to Hero

B) 🎧 ATS Discovery Meeting

Not sure whether Fast Track or another ATS product is right for you? Book an ATS Discovery Meeting to discuss your trading experience, goals, available time, preferred instruments and platform requirements. Explore the ATS Hybrid Algo Trading ecosystem, review products and pricing, and identify the most suitable pathway—with no obligation.

đź“… Book Your Discovery Meeting

how did the fib grid technology and trade systems get invented?

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Daily Fib Grid Session

The proprietary Fib Grid and Range Grid technology first came to mind in 2007 when working for TCA Futures (RIP) in a trading arcade in the City of London – UK’s Wall St. It was conceived in response to a reprimand from the S&P500 desk head trader. He was fuming and publicly criticized me in front of some 120 other traders after hours in the daily retrospective. He’d seen my appalling trade via his CQG trade desk admin module, questioning why I was trading long at the top of the market, one hour out, quite near the end of the session. It was obvious, but I thought, how do you know where the top of the market is? Later that night, I envisioned the Fib Grid and Range Grid to show me. Back then, it was Excel and CQG, and here we are with NinjaTrader from 2009 to 2024. It’s still my core methodology, battle-tested in institutional, hedge fund, and retail trading.

Fib Grid Multi Time Frames
  • YSFG – Yearly Session Fib Grid
  • MSFG – Monthly Session Fib Grid
  • WSFG – Weekly Session Fib Grid
  • DSFG – Daily Session Fib Grid
Now combine this with structured price action, time, and a catalyst to provide the conditional trade setup for a high-probability move. Then use the signals/rules as the trade entry method and let the system do the rest.

Fib Grid Session Breakout Basics

Around 2008/2009, I then worked on the concept of the Fib Grid session breakout, using it to prevent my ludicrous out-of-control scalping. Up to 1200 trade operations in one day was my record, plus burnout after TCA Futures as a privateer with MFGlobal. It made my broker rich and me a 35% account loss – Emini ES trading, not small change, it hurt badly. So I stopped and later was reborn as a day/swing trader, making 1 to 3 trades per day on the DSFG. This method is used in the ATS Discord groups as a core method to teach good habits and run the trades. Fib Grid made me and saved me, thank you to the head trader.

Note: From 2015, when I traded for managed futures/futures hedge funds, I used WSFG breakouts and MSG breakouts and let that go for several weeks/months. You could get up to 100K per lot sometimes on NQ or ES FDAX, etc. So some quite serious trades have gone down, and a good lot of time too. https://algotradingsystems.net/About I guess I could follow tradition and call it the Leeson lines after my surname, as some did and still do, but to me, FibGrid has more meaning. AlgoFuturesTrader contains all the latest evolution of the FibGridTrading systems and is 100% free for sim/NT demo and prop firm evaluation trading. Enjoy & happy trading. Tom Leeson

🚀 Get Started Trading the Easy Way

Get your trading journey off on the right foot with NinjaTrader Desktop and AFT Hybrid Algo Trading Systems—purpose-built for day, prop-firm and swing trading. Get a head start with a one-to-one expert Discovery Meeting or assisted installation, setup and onboarding through Fast Track Zero to Hero, while learning to pursue maximum profit, minimum drawdown and the least possible emotion.

Getting started is simple: download NinjaTrader Desktop, then choose ATS Trader Pathway A or B below—Fast Track Zero to Hero for assisted onboarding or a Discovery Meeting to explore the most suitable route for your goals.

1) đź“Š Download and Set Up NinjaTrader Desktop

Download NinjaTrader and access real-time futures data and simulated trading.

Use NinjaTrader for discretionary, fully automated or modern Hybrid Algo Trading with AFT across supported prop-firm and live-trading accounts.

Want assistance downloading, installing and configuring NinjaTrader, including connecting it to your supported prop-firm or live brokerage account? Leave it to us—assisted NinjaTrader installation, platform setup and account connection are included with Fast Track Zero to Hero.

đź“Š Download NinjaTrader

2) Choose Your ATS Pathway

Choose Pathway A to get started as soon as possible with assisted setup and onboarding, or Pathway B to attend a Discovery Meeting, explore your options and identify the most suitable ATS pathway.

A) ⚡ Fast Track Zero to Hero

Get started as soon as possible with assisted installation, setup and one 30-minute to one-hour one-to-one onboarding session. Receive orientation to the Stage 1–5 progressive turnkey pathway and 30 days of full-featured ATS Ultimate access, AI Copilot, trading groups and the live Trade Zone.

⚡ Start Fast Track Zero to Hero

B) 🎧 ATS Discovery Meeting

Not sure whether Fast Track or another ATS product is right for you? Book an ATS Discovery Meeting to discuss your trading experience, goals, available time, preferred instruments and platform requirements. Explore the ATS Hybrid Algo Trading ecosystem, review products and pricing, and identify the most suitable pathway—with no obligation.

đź“… Book Your Discovery Meeting

ninjatrader automated trading fully automatic trade entry mode with Algo Futures Trader

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Session Breakout Workspace 2 NinjaTrader automated trading fully automatic mode

NinjaTrader automated trading fully automatic mode or semi-automatic and manual trade entry via the algo entry controller.

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🚀 Get Started Trading the Easy Way

Get your trading journey off on the right foot with NinjaTrader Desktop and AFT Hybrid Algo Trading Systems—purpose-built for day, prop-firm and swing trading. Get a head start with a one-to-one expert Discovery Meeting or assisted installation, setup and onboarding through Fast Track Zero to Hero, while learning to pursue maximum profit, minimum drawdown and the least possible emotion.

Getting started is simple: download NinjaTrader Desktop, then choose ATS Trader Pathway A or B below—Fast Track Zero to Hero for assisted onboarding or a Discovery Meeting to explore the most suitable route for your goals.

1) đź“Š Download and Set Up NinjaTrader Desktop

Download NinjaTrader and access real-time futures data and simulated trading.

Use NinjaTrader for discretionary, fully automated or modern Hybrid Algo Trading with AFT across supported prop-firm and live-trading accounts.

Want assistance downloading, installing and configuring NinjaTrader, including connecting it to your supported prop-firm or live brokerage account? Leave it to us—assisted NinjaTrader installation, platform setup and account connection are included with Fast Track Zero to Hero.

đź“Š Download NinjaTrader

2) Choose Your ATS Pathway

Choose Pathway A to get started as soon as possible with assisted setup and onboarding, or Pathway B to attend a Discovery Meeting, explore your options and identify the most suitable ATS pathway.

A) ⚡ Fast Track Zero to Hero

Get started as soon as possible with assisted installation, setup and one 30-minute to one-hour one-to-one onboarding session. Receive orientation to the Stage 1–5 progressive turnkey pathway and 30 days of full-featured ATS Ultimate access, AI Copilot, trading groups and the live Trade Zone.

⚡ Start Fast Track Zero to Hero

B) 🎧 ATS Discovery Meeting

Not sure whether Fast Track or another ATS product is right for you? Book an ATS Discovery Meeting to discuss your trading experience, goals, available time, preferred instruments and platform requirements. Explore the ATS Hybrid Algo Trading ecosystem, review products and pricing, and identify the most suitable pathway—with no obligation.

đź“… Book Your Discovery Meeting

Turnkey settings and workspaces for hybrid trading and automated trading

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AFT Workspace settings sync - turnkey workspaces and VIP automated trading system baselines Workspace and Settings Sync

For traders logged into AFT Desktop, workspaces will download to the PC automatically with any changes or rolled-over contracts, including:

  1. Turnkey Workspaces
    1. Any downloaded workspace is refreshed.
    2. Existing Workspaces for each stage of Zero to Hero.
  2. VIP Workspaces
    1. New and existing VIP settings.
    2. Downloaded and available.
    3. Details in the Discord VIP sections.
Hybrid Trading Turnkey Workspaces

ATS provides and supports turnkey workspaces for hybrid trading. Traders elect the level of automation in attendance on the day to suit their trade plan and approach. Traders use the workspaces released in the “Zero to Hero” stages within Discord to learn and use features progressively over time, avoiding information overload.

Baseline Automated Workspaces

VIP members get access to workspaces used to run baseline tests to show different premises and features and the natural phase of market winning and drawdown. These take all trades and are not optimized for trading. Baselines are to compare back to for your variants/settings or to guide hybrid trading. A trader could optimize and tweak the supplied settings to suit their trading preference of style and risk.

Flexible Levels of Automation

The AFT system can suit day, swing, and intermediate trading over one day or many months, maintaining context and control even after a reboot and restart, with 100% unattended execution and trade management. However, the vast majority of traders use the system from 50% to 80% automation. Note: In fund trading with a $5 million account, 100% fully automated trading was engaged for a client CPC with the forerunner of the AFT system today. Even that was controlled for news and rollovers, so 90% automation was feasible/sensible. This is also a statistic used by Ray Dalio for their Alpha trading systems.

Classic Automated Trading Systems versus AFT Hybrid Trading Systems

The reason 95% fail at automated trading is they do not have any control over the system—100% classic full automation—switch on or switch off. The majority of systems worked that way until ATS developers pioneered hybrid automated trading in 2009 for NinjaTrader. Old school strategies are like sitting in the back of a rally car with no controls, steering, or brakes, no driver going over the Alps in snow and shine. The sensible majority exit the vehicle at the first series of bumps, or the bold stay in the whole way and take a full drawdown and then run out of capital. If the market phase was suitable for the system, then the remaining few percent might make it through for a quarter or a year. All systems will draw down at some point as the market phases change—the question is when the wall is hit and how long it lasts.

AFT Hybrid trading lets you control and steer past this without total switch off or on. It allows super fine control in the live market, avoidance of price risks and the doldrums, and continuation for the high probability of winning runs after the losing runs. AFT provides full control and transparency of the system, allowing the trader to use it in the way that is best for them.

What are the best settings?

This is a guessing game or a gamble. Never take it for granted that someone’s subjective best settings work for you. Only by hands-on experience and thousands of hours of chart time, stats, testing, and practice will the “best settings” and trade plan be revealed for each trader, custom-fitted to suit them. Turnkey workspaces and baseline settings make this task easier and are a base to start from and to measure back to. Some traders run with the settings provided in the turnkey workspaces and do okay, some even say great! But note that hybrid mode interaction is employed over the top to suit the trader—not something that is qualitatively repeatable by a pure robot. We cannot say if that will be the case for you.

🚀 Get Started Trading the Easy Way

Get your trading journey off on the right foot with NinjaTrader Desktop and AFT Hybrid Algo Trading Systems—purpose-built for day, prop-firm and swing trading. Get a head start with a one-to-one expert Discovery Meeting or assisted installation, setup and onboarding through Fast Track Zero to Hero, while learning to pursue maximum profit, minimum drawdown and the least possible emotion.

Getting started is simple: download NinjaTrader Desktop, then choose ATS Trader Pathway A or B below—Fast Track Zero to Hero for assisted onboarding or a Discovery Meeting to explore the most suitable route for your goals.

1) đź“Š Download and Set Up NinjaTrader Desktop

Download NinjaTrader and access real-time futures data and simulated trading.

Use NinjaTrader for discretionary, fully automated or modern Hybrid Algo Trading with AFT across supported prop-firm and live-trading accounts.

Want assistance downloading, installing and configuring NinjaTrader, including connecting it to your supported prop-firm or live brokerage account? Leave it to us—assisted NinjaTrader installation, platform setup and account connection are included with Fast Track Zero to Hero.

đź“Š Download NinjaTrader

2) Choose Your ATS Pathway

Choose Pathway A to get started as soon as possible with assisted setup and onboarding, or Pathway B to attend a Discovery Meeting, explore your options and identify the most suitable ATS pathway.

A) ⚡ Fast Track Zero to Hero

Get started as soon as possible with assisted installation, setup and one 30-minute to one-hour one-to-one onboarding session. Receive orientation to the Stage 1–5 progressive turnkey pathway and 30 days of full-featured ATS Ultimate access, AI Copilot, trading groups and the live Trade Zone.

⚡ Start Fast Track Zero to Hero

B) 🎧 ATS Discovery Meeting

Not sure whether Fast Track or another ATS product is right for you? Book an ATS Discovery Meeting to discuss your trading experience, goals, available time, preferred instruments and platform requirements. Explore the ATS Hybrid Algo Trading ecosystem, review products and pricing, and identify the most suitable pathway—with no obligation.

đź“… Book Your Discovery Meeting

create your own rules in your own NinjaTrader scripts and simply inject them into the algo trade entry module

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AFT now supports custom Ninja scripts that you can create to inject signals into the AFT8 Algo Entry system. Code examples are available in the AFT Discord dev forum. Users need to sign up for an ATS universal account, log in, and link their Discord account to gain access. This allows the AFT Desktop to download the latest patch when NinjaTrader 8 is closed. It makes it very easy to code your own rules in your NT Scripts indicator, market column, or strategy, and then inject the signal into AFT8.

AFT8 will execute the signal if your filters and controller settings allow it. The AFT trade management module will then take over, providing the best trading system features, all off the shelf, 100% free for sim, demo, replay, and prop firm evaluation trading. Take it to the next level!


Custom user algos inject signals into AFT trade entry module

Custom user trading system rules allow you to inject signals into the AFT trade entry module from a simple indicator on a chart, and all the rest is taken care of.


ATS Discord Group Developers

ATS Discord Group Developers Forum with code samples and interactive support from the actual developer and creator!

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AFT8 version 2024 update released

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Algo Futures Trader v8 2024
Algo Futures Trader v8 2024 – fully automated trading mode baselines for VIP members

AFT8 version 2024 is now released and ready for download or update from the popup notices.

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AFT8-updater popup can be used to install.

Download AFT8

This is the most advanced version yet, many months in the making and 1000+ hours in development since the last version in November 2023, with iterative polishing of features and incremental release of new features. We have also added features and fixes reported from the ATS Discord Group and are delighted with the feedback and organic evolution of the product.

AutoSync Turnkey Workspaces

Turnkey Workspaces are polished and ready for installation and will stay fresh and up to date with automatic sync from the cloud to NinjaTrader 8 via the AFT.Desktop App.

Trade Plan Goals (TPG)

The latest feature, “Trading Plan Goals (TPG) filter,” is available in simulation and live for valid subscribers with lifetime licenses older than one year. An optional renewal will be required to unlock and access the AFT8 advanced features. As this is brand new, we instruct traders to try it only in simulation mode to learn and provide feedback via the forum for any assistance, Q&A, issues, or caveats. Inline Automatic % and Cash win and loss limits rules for winning and losing signals, long or short per session and per week, are ideal for prop firm trading to avoid breaking the rules!

Signal Execution Filter (f2)

This feature has been built out with inline controls to allow micro-management of trading systems rules for winning and losing signals, long or short per session and week.

Algo Entry and Algo Trade Manager Info View

Realtime information from the state and activity of each algo asset stream is displayed on the controller info bar inline to allow easy transparency of the mode of operation and function of algo entry and trade manager.

Proprietary Bars/Super Bars

ATS is the inventor of Adaptive Prop Bars and now Bad Tick Proof Super Bars. NinjaTrader occasionally suffers from bad tick data from the data brokerage connection, which can skew the charts.

  • AFT bars detect and remove the bad ticks, so you do not have to delete and reset your data. Our bars will continue without the erroneous data, with no spike gaps or skew.
  • NT can also send data out of hours on a Saturday and try to display it on a chart, but our bars use the correct trading hours, filtering out invalid hours data.
  • AFT Super bars do not lag like NT8 bars, wasting CPU cycles testing for trading hours. Data flows 24/7 within the correct trading exchange hours, available for all time-based bars.
  • AFT Adaptive bars work off various formulas to optimize the bars to trading phase. One size fits all instrument modes: scalp, day trade, and swing settings, also with tick and hours filters.

NinjaTrader 8 Advanced Execution API Methods

NinjaTrader 8 tends to get swamped on low to medium-performance computers/servers and slow disks (non-NVME) with lots of order data, becoming sluggish and even requiring a restart when trading more than the average day trader would. Generally, when using trade copiers and strategies, some are worse than others, and they all eventually foul up NT8. One way to cope with this is to reset the database every week and delete the logs and trade files to keep it lean and mean. NT8 was not designed for 20 prop firm accounts mirrored in parallel; it was designed for a scalper doing a few trades here and there. However, AFT8 has been tested with 500 algos in parallel on NT8 and works 100% fine with no problems over multiple 6 months+ of operation to large sizes of data without a glitch in hedge fund trading simulation and live. AFT8 is not the problem, nor is NinjaTrader 8; it is the tools people use on it, the prop firm craze, and trade copiers, and the knowledge or lack thereof. The beauty of NT8 is that it allows us access to the API underlying accounts and connections. NinjaTrader 8 has superb trading technology underlying its GUI. AFT8 plugs into this layer and uses direct method access into the API layers of the account and connection directly, using methods that bypass all the overhead of strategies, trade copiers, and even the best run-of-the-mill tools from the NT ecosystem. The result is that this avoids the typical foul-ups inside NT8. AFT8 uses advanced execution and asynchronous threading methods to avoid conflict and thread locks inside NT8, usually requiring a restart and even jammed-up positions that can only be resolved by using the NinjaTrader web, which we advise always to have on alongside NT8 in case of net or platform failure. We also recommend restarting NT8 every day to get data and start afresh for optimal trading and data.

AFT8 Optional Renewals

AFT8 is now older than one year, and some traders will need to renew to get the latest and greatest features. The AFT core features will still function for all in simulation and partial non-advanced features for live trading modes, but advanced modes and new features will not. This allows a win-win situation so traders get the best, and we can keep the lights on and deliver quality to keep increasing your edge. It is also optional, so AFT will still work, but to get the full gamut of advanced and new features, a renewal can be purchased when it suits. For full details, visit the main ATS website section Optional Annual Renewal.