Getting Started with Algo Trading Using AFT8
Note: Firstly, start off with: Hybrid Trading Systems Get Started. Then, when competent in all aspects, the transition to fully automated trading is easy. Starting off fully automated is not likely to work well unless you are a veteran and well-experienced prior.
- Install AFT, start NT8, connect to data.
- Open AFT Turnkey Workspace. Recommended start: Workspaces 1 to Workspaces 4 in stages.
- Trade in hybrid, manual, semi-auto, or fully automated modes using the algo entry controller and algo trade manager controller as you decide.
- Hybrid/Automated trading starts in Stage 2.
- For support and education, attend the Zero to Hero for hybrid or the fully algo sections. View the algo trading server streaming live market trading.
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BOTS are a good guide! You can check what the baseline robots do. They do exactly that: red short, green long. But they trade every trade and do not follow an optimized trade plan, baselines, and no filters. So you can see a good easy day where it smashes it out of the park and then a seesaw frothy day and why we need limits to trading and so on. Can you beat the bot? It's a baseline, a dumb rules bot... It's doable in time.