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Flexible Position Sizing & Scaling with AFT8

June 4, 2025 by AFT

AFT8 offers three distinct ways to size and scale positions, allowing traders to manage entries and exits in stages rather than all at once. These modes are:

  1. All-In, Scale-Out
  2. All-In, All-Out
  3. Scale-In, Scale-Out

Each method breaks trades into tranches—entering or exiting partial positions—so you can control how much capital is at risk at different points. This incremental approach helps lock in profits or curb losses as the market moves. While all three are available, most traders use “All-In, Scale-Out” or “All-In, All-Out” for simplicity. “Scale-In, Scale-Out” is reserved for experienced traders comfortable with building into a position and managing multiple exit levels. AFT8’s Algo Trade Manager handles all scaling once you’ve chosen your mode, though scaling in must be initiated manually to keep risk in check.


1. All-In, Scale-Out

  • How You Enter: As soon as your entry conditions trigger, AFT8 commits the entire intended position at once. You receive your full number of contracts or shares in a single fill.
  • How You Exit: Rather than closing everything at once, you set predetermined exit points. For example, you might take 50% off at the first profit target, 25% at a second level, and allow the remaining 25% to ride to the final objective. AFT8 automatically submits the staggered exit orders behind the scenes.
  • Why Use It: This technique secures partial profit early while still leaving room to catch larger trends. As the price moves in your favor, you shave off risk rather than waiting for a single exit signal. It’s particularly useful when you believe in a strong trend but want to lock in gains gradually.

2. All-In, All-Out

  • How You Enter: Identical to “All-In, Scale-Out,” you buy or sell the full position immediately upon signal.
  • How You Exit: You close out 100% of the position in one go when your exit parameters are met—no partial exits, no staggered targets.
  • Why Use It: For traders who prefer the cleanest possible execution, this mode keeps things simple. You commit all capital up front and exit on a single signal, eliminating the complexity of managing multiple orders. It’s ideal when you want a straightforward, no-nonsense entry and exit.

3. Scale-In, Scale-Out

Also known as position compounding, this method is best suited for advanced traders.

  • How You Enter: Instead of jumping in at full size, you build your position over multiple steps. For instance, you might initiate 25% of your total allocation when the first momentum threshold is met, then add another 25% if price confirms strength at a higher level, and continue until you’re fully invested. You decide the increments and price levels in AFT8’s position size settings.
  • How You Exit: Your exits are also staggered. You might take 20% off at an early profit point, another 30% if the market retests a key level, and then let the final 50% ride until your maximum target or stop is hit. AFT8’s Algo Trade Manager automatically places these exit orders according to your rules.
  • Why Use It: By scaling in, you reduce the risk of entering on a false breakout or sudden pullback. Scaling out then locks in gains in stages, so a reversal can’t erase all your profits. This dual-stage approach gives you maximum control over both entry and exit risk.

How AFT8 Manages Scale-In/Scale-Out:
Once your initial signal fires, AFT8 handles each tranche automatically. If you prefer to add manually, you can still use NinjaTrader 8’s Chart Trader, order tickets, or DOM to increase your position; AFT8 will immediately queue up the corresponding exits. Note that scaling in is disabled by default to prevent inexperienced traders from overleveraging. Only advanced users who fully understand the risks should enable it.


How to Choose Between Them

  • All-In, Scale-Out is ideal if you have very high conviction in your signal but still want to lock in profits gradually.
  • All-In, All-Out works best when you want a clear, unambiguous entry and exit—no partials.
  • Scale-In, Scale-Out is for highly dynamic markets where you’re uncertain about the signal’s strength; it lets you dial into the position as confirmation builds and peel off profits in stages.

In AFT8, you configure these modes under the “Position Sizing and Scaling” section of your strategy. Position amounts are defined in the Algo Entry settings, while exit tranches are set up in the Algo Trade Manager.

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Updating of support policy inactive product user pruning and expiry of old version of AFT8

August 10, 2024 by AFT

A Quick Note to Update on Changes of Policy

This is a win-win model for traders with a winning mindset! From time to time, we have to assess, adapt, and evolve, as will our products. To ensure the best quality of service and maintain a sustainable support structure, we are updating our support, Discord usage, and AFT8 version policy.

1. Challenges to Address

1.1 Support Overhead Black Hole: Win-Lose

Recently, we’ve faced significant challenges with users who, despite our generous time investment and comprehensive support, have not engaged in a win-win partnership. Many have pursued personal quests that deviate from our step-by-step baseline systems Zero To Hero process, which is great for self-assisted off-piste, but requires a constant support overhead. This overhead leads to substantial lost time and resources, and delays in coding and releases. This is no longer a tenable support model. We must focus on the turnkey Zero To Hero path and let the freemium automated traders go their way self-assisted. The structured Zero To Hero way for the VIP members worked great, so the support policy will focus on winners and the winning way and those who contribute; a win-win for all.

1.2 Discord Spammers and Scammers

Additionally, we’ve encountered issues with spammers and scammers, malicious actors in Discord seeking to defraud traders or “steal” business and sell services under pretense and impersonation. To prevent bad actors from joining or getting a foothold, some pretend to be traders and free trialists and are enacting campaigns on the members in DM. Vendors, Ponzi scheme operators, crooks, and thieves prey on people’s financial aspirations and dreams. We are taking stringent measures in Discord as a result, so patience may be required as the dust settles.

1.3 AFT Old Versions Used to Dodge Licensing

Some traders, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt due to a lack of communication perhaps, are still using outdated versions of our software and have not updated to licensed versions for trading live or getting funded. They have yet to contribute or support us, make a referral, or even a review for their years of free usage.

Solutions for the Challenges

These challenges, combined with the need to focus our efforts on genuine users who value our tools and support, have led us to adapt our policies. Our goal is to foster a community of dedicated traders who are committed to success and collaboration, ensuring that we can continue to provide top-tier service and create win-win scenarios for everyone involved. Changes are now in force as below:

2.1 Support Levels and Model

  • Free trials/VIP – access all groups + interactive support focus on Zero To Hero
  • Free users – read-only self-assisted support + help desk for installation and troubleshooting

2.2 Discord Inactive Product User Pruning

Inactive product users will be removed by ATS Bot from Discord groups. Users not logged into AFT or AWT and actively using will be assumed inactive, regardless of VIP or Freemium status.

  • 150 user accounts have already been removed by ATS Bot. Traders can rejoin as explained in the article below.
  • Note VIP users are affected too! Some VIP users are attending Discord but are not actively logged into AWT or AFT, maybe just coasting in sim mode, so they are seen by the bot as inactive. Hence this news update and info:
  • VIP users who are within renewal dates of subscriptions will not be pruned as we fix that module and can rejoin via the Discord Group links.
  • ATS Discord Groups inactive user pruning

2.3 AFT8 Old Versions Expiry

Old versions of AFT8 will expire and self-uninstall over time. Traders using them for free live trading and free evaluation trading to avoid a subscription need not panic. You can use the Get Funded Accelerator and save 80% and get a summer deal! See here for details: AFT8 Pricing

  • This could be due to a lack of communication with a handful of traders, and we are now addressing it.
  • N.B: Polite update notices will be sent out to all, and then in a window of time, the older versions will expire, stop working, and self-uninstall. Please update to the current versions to avoid complications.
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Trading and Winning Mindset

We can only do what is right. Mistakes, challenges, bad actors, and so on will be plenty along the way. Wins and losses are fine; let them happen. It’s great! Grist for the mill! We are thankful for the experiences as we learn and move higher. Our focus should be on stoic, pragmatic trading and development, not wasting time on other matters. Emotional reactions are not required. Mistakes and challenges are opportunities to level up our game!

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Secret to Day trading futures success

October 19, 2021 by AFT

Algo futures trading us equity indices signals Our goal is very simple, buck the trend and disrupt the trading retail ecosystem with disruptive pricing,  ethics, real deal tools and to create as many winners as possible and do it for free until they are live trading and that is our mission!! 

How do traders become so successful with AFT? By taking advantage of our holistic approach to day trading, we provide a 360-degree approach with systems, tools, and coaching—all for FREE! We offer both the tools and the tuition in our free trading room to optimize results with the hybrid interactive semi-automatic approach, where trades are filtered to a long or short bias for automated entry.

The trading system entry filters we teach and provide are used as external rules to guide trading on the systems. These can consist of gaps and other technical higher time frame price analysis, market news cycles, market price cycles, levels, and seasonal trends, to name just a few. Some of these are discussed with chart screenshots, while other web trading tools provide others.

Since June 2021, we have been excited to offer our new free futures day trading group. Many traders started trading 100% free and got funded by passing a trading capital provider evaluation using our systems, or simply made profits on their own trading account risk capital. All of these people were focused, driven, and did a lot of learning. They asked questions and deserved their success—we salute you, and you make it all worthwhile!

The secret to successful day trading for these traders was based on the following list of trading systems and tools, which are available to you right now. There is no catch, no obligation, no time limits, no money or details needed—there’s no risk and no harm in trying the following to learn on sim trading and become consistent and successful at trading:

The 5-Step Basic Day Trading Approach for NYSE Session Breakout

1) Get to the desk before the open around 9 AM EST – check the news.
2) Check the 4 main indices and see what happened prior—look to see what gaps are forming.
3) Armed with that, if the gaps are all different or all the same, for example… GapBias.
4) Look at the AlphaBias… etc. Understand the strength of the instruments going into the open to make a selection of what to trade.
5) Trade from 9:30 AM EST to around 11:30 AM EST—1 to 3 signals per day, using Signal + Filters.

  • FREE Algorithmic Futures Day Trading System for the NinjaTrader desktop trade platform
  • FREE Trading Group Access: Live market trading commentary calls and mentoring with live streaming algo server
  • FREE Alpha Web Trader Access: Real-time day trading tools for Futures, ETFs, and FAANG
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    • Alpha Bias Trend Correlation
    • TrendOmeter Trend Correlation
    • Session Gap Bias Filters
    • Oil & Indices Futures Trade Signals
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Algo futures trading US equity indices signals
Algo Futures Trading US Equity Indices Signals with Gap Filter System

Trading & Risk 101

Trading is simple but not easy, please do it safely and don't rush, it takes a lot of practice & stoicism, wining and losing cycles are expected!  5 quick tips to consider! 

    1. Impatience: FOMO - Fear of missing out, never rush to live money trade! Get consistent success sim trading 1 to 3 months then decide.
    2. Trade Capital: Get funded to day trade futures with a trading capital provider, no need to use your funds learning to trade.
    3. Micro Futures: Start with the smallest futures instruments such as Micro lots 1 to 3 lots to scale out
    4. Risk: Always use the smallest risk position sizing possible for example 1% or less of trade capital per trade
    5. Trade a plan: Don't chase the market or over-trade, focus on a systematic approach get consistent, trade the plan &  keep stats.
  • Learn & Trade risk free on the sim, demo account in NinjaTrader for free forever - AFT has no time limit, when you are ready and have proven to yourself that you are able to be successful at your own pace, you can consider live trading futures with AFT and NinjaTrader at your own discretion. Accelerate learning with a 1 to 1 day trading futures coaching but even then don't rush to live trade, put the learning into practice attend our  Free Futures Day Trading Group  for live market coaching voice and streaming at 9AM EST to 11.30 EST Mon to Fri.
  • Winning & Losing Cycles. You need to experience at least 1 to  3 months to see the typical cycles of the market and news cycles weeks of the months. You might start on a winning cycle on sim and suffer from recency bias, thinking its always easy to trade and rush to go live only to get hit by a losing cycle in live money trading and then pull the plug and freak out then you will miss the next winning cycle taking all the losers and missing all the winners the double whammy of trading! 
  • There is No short cut,  it takes time,  get a routine, practice and wait  until you are consistent month to month on the sim at your discretion and then consider live money,  or if you are certain sure you got the ability at the start, at the very least get funded to trade with a 3rd party trading capital so they take the risk...!  You may well catch a longer term easy phase of trading from the get go, and make good but eventually it will happen you will get a drawdown and a string of loses...losing days and even weeks may occur but if you the trader are consistent over the long term month to month you can succeed.

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Plug and Trade - Turnkey Trading Systems for day trading futures

Simply Install, Connect & Trade. Learn and practice risk-free on the NinjaTrader trading simulator 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.

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Filed Under: Algo Futures Trader, Alpha Web Trader, ATS Trading Community Tagged With: AFT7, AFT8, Algo Trading Futures, Automated Trading NinjaTrader, day trading futures, day trading micro futures, Emini Futures, Micro E-Mini Equity Index Futures, NinjaTrader 8


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What’s next with the AFT8 update?

April 23, 2021 by AFT

USAR WSFG swing trade fully automated no manual trading interaction ES

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
 

Filed Under: AFT8, Algo Futures Trader, NinjaTrader 8 Tagged With: AFT8, AFT8 update, NinjaTrader 8


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

March 19, 2021 by AFT

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

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.

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    • Chart Trader
    • Advanced Trade Management (ATM)
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    • 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
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%

Technical Stop-Loss Trail Visualization

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
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.

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

 

Filed Under: Algo Futures Trader Tagged With: AFT8, day trading futures, NinjaTrader 8


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NinjaTrader 8 AFT version status as of Feb 2021

February 2, 2021 by AFT

The long-awaited NT8 version is still a work in progress.

There are many challenges and workarounds with migrating from NT7 to NT8. The “WPF” technology is a significant hurdle and offers, in some ways, less capability but in most ways far better than its predecessor, “Windows Forms.” WinForms was lightning quick to use and develop in but was discontinued, hence NinjaTrader had no alternative but to switch to WPF, which is very slow, ponderous, and laborious to develop applications with in comparison.

The good news is that NT8 is light years ahead of NT7 and allows us to create unimaginable features and methods compared to prior versions. The trading is faster, the data is faster, and the presentation is even better. All in all, the wait will be very worthwhile, so the only downside is really development time.

NT8 does allow the up-to-date .NET Microsoft framework 4.8, but the caveat is the WPF layer it uses is of older versions. This means we are limited and restricted and not able to use the full gamut of tools and components from our development kits. It means there is a lot of rework and dead ends, and a lot of time-consuming effort, weeks and months spent, until we find a workaround to resolve the hurdles. That is the norm in development—nothing worth doing is easy, and then we have to do it all again for NinjaTrader 9 down the road, but it will be far easier, we expect.

Due to delays and developer obligations to hedge fund algo trading, the only way we are going to get a release out is to do it in stages. So in February, the indicators will be rolled out and released, followed by the Trading System automated Easy Trader and NinjaTrader 8 strategy back-tester, etc.

The Alpha Bias and Trendometer may also be complemented with or replaced by a remote API version due to the performance overhead this has on some machines, but time will tell.

There will be ongoing updates and releases over time. The project will easily continue over a 6-month period as new features are released also.

Please help us use our time wisely, and do not weigh down resources by asking the help desk for support regarding when the AFT8 is going to arrive. Please keep a check on social media and newsletters. February will see the first indicators as the plan goes.

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