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AFT Trader John Video Episode 15 – day trading Nasdaq Futures Market Round Up August week 3

August 23, 2021 by AFT

In this weeks video, Trader John goes through all the trades in the MNQ for the week with the AFT7 Opening Morning Breakout Trader for Ninja Trader 7 (Ninja 8 Beta) AFT7 is free to download and use in sim mode for as long as you want
The AFT onboarding page and AFT Trading Group – discord server, links details below:

You can follow AFT Trader John in the live market each day in our free online day trading group.

AFT Trader John Weekly Trade Roundup Info. Each week AFT Trader John we will be showing a summary of the trades, futures trading systems and methods with Algo Futures Trader automated breakout strategy on the live market using the NinjaTrader Platform. More depth and coverage each week as this new series starts to take shape.

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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 Automated Breakout strategy 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.

AFT7 NYSE Session Breakout Trading Micro Futures Workspace Update for March 2021 contract

December 11, 2020 by AFT

The workspaces for Micro Futures have been rolled to the new contract for 03-21. Restarting NinjaTrader with AFT7 installed will automatically download and install into NinjaTrader.
Manual installation is also available from the AFT downloads page

You will need to roll your contracts to the latest and download the data –

For Assistance with NinjaTrader rolling please see here: https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/rolling_over_a_futures_contrac.htm

You may also need to download 8 days of historical tick data: https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/download.htm

Then open the new workspace – close the workspace if you are getting any errors about “unable to find instrument” – roll over the contract and get the data then open the workspace

Visit the AFT Help Desk for more info or submit a support ticket:
https://algofuturestrader.zendesk.com/knowledge/articles/360053590212/en-us?brand_id=360001147331

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.

Guide to get started with AFT7 day trading

November 25, 2020 by AFT

Recommended path for getting started with AFT7

To get started trading with AFT after installation. Focus only on the session breakout workspace, use 1 workspace at a time is the best practice.
Follow the live market and trade from 9.30 NYSE EST for 3 hours or so.
Less is more only trade 1 to 3 signals per instrument per session

Starting out with MES is likely easier than MNQ.
Save your own workspace and edit your preferred stops and targets, settings etc. Start small understand the controls and system features

Trading Tips:
Note the look and feel of days that are successful and losing days
Avoid fear and 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 market price cycles are not your fault or the systems -trending days and choppy range bound consolidation slow days
There might only be 12 to 15 good market days per month and 5 horrendous – so why trade them if you can learn to see them prior or as they trade.
Better to learn to sit out and watch and understand the cycles instead of try to over trade. Record 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 market -directionless.

AFT How it works

There are 4 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.

24/7 Help Center Support Quick Links
Get installed and setup

Trading with AFT7

AFT Blog Articles and videos

Session Breakout Trading info
https://algofuturestrader.s3.amazonaws.com/AFT-Trade-Plan-System-Rules.pdf
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/us-equities-session-open-micro-futures-day-trading-system-basics/
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/session-breakout-micro-futures-templates-settings-update-v20201019/
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/nyse-session-open-breakout-micro-futures-turnkey-workspace-live-market-trading-micro-futures/

TrendOmeter/Market Analyzer
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/aft7-trendometer-alpha-bias-trend/

Change account and save your own workspaces/Settings
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/aft7-how-to-edit-and-save-your-own-templates-and-workspaces/
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/aft-trade-management-settings-adjustment-trail-stops-and-breakeven/

OCO Breakout
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/non-farms-payroll-oco-breakout-trading-micro-futures-with-aft7/

Modes of Trading
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/aft7-hybrid-automated-entry-day-trading-micro-futures/

Performance Tips
https://aftwebprod1.wpengine.com/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

AFT7 How to edit and save your own templates and workspaces

November 15, 2020 by AFT

AFT7 – How to view, edit and save your own settings and workspaces

AFT7 – How to view, edit and save your own settings and workspaces This video shows you how to save your own settings and workspace for AFT7

Step #1. Open a pre-installed turnkey workspace, wait for the charts to load.

Step #2. maximise your chosen chart, click the 4 dots settings menu to open settings view Ninja Buddy Settings view will appear.

From here it is easy to view and edit the settings & template “Trade Entry Tab”, displays Trade modes. Trade Signal, Filters, account and position sizing.

How to set the Trading Account, use trade system account to set the desired trading account as supported by your data connection for sim, demo or live trading.

Click the Trade Filters tab to view and update, toggle filters on or off and edit values.

Click the Stop Loss Tab to view and edit the basic stop loss settings and modes – Risk, stop loss placement, breakeven stop loss and trailing stops Click the “Advanced All tab”, to view and edit the full view of available parameters.

Step # 3. Click “Save as”, to save your changes to a setting file name of your choice. Click “Ok”, to apply changes and close the Ninja Buddy Settings. Note you might need to click Restart or press F5 to apply your settings Templates files can be browsed in the the local PC file system folders from the Tools Menu

Step #4. Save your trading workspace from the NinjaTrader control center.

AFT is free for sim forever. To get started trading micro futures for free, risk free trading on the simulator with NinjaTrader Free Trade Platform- with our ready to use turnkey workspaces and settings, simply download your free trading system

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for day trading futures

Video How to download AFT7 and get started automated trend trading micro futures with NinjaTrader 7

November 15, 2020 by AFT

Plug and Trade – Turnkey Trading Systems for day trading futures

Non Farms Payroll OCO Breakout Trading micro futures with AFT7

November 9, 2020 by AFT

Non Farms Payroll OCO Breakout Trading Micro Futures in semi automated trading mode.

You can install and open any workspace provided that suits you. Simply wait until you are a minute or so away from the pending news release. Click the OCO Button and then make sure the entry long and short are in the technical position as you like.

Now wait for the market trend momentum and price to fill one of the entry orders. The One Cancels Other (OCO) means the other order will be cancelled. The AFT7 automatic trade management module will then place the trade exit orders and automatically scale out and trail the stop loss.