AFT8 is a multi-algo system -not a 1 trick pony
AFT8 has internally many billions of internal permutations from the many possible combinations of algo rules - and allows a trader to build their own rules and code them in to leverage the power of AFT8 or configure their own. AFT8 ships with some presets which are a popular way to trade such as session breakout and trend trading within turnkey workspaces -which can be used in multiple ways manual, semi-auto, or fully auto as the trader decides.
Algo Turnkey Workspaces & Baseline Stats
- Turnkey workspaces provide baseline systems that can be readily tweaked and used in different styles of trading as preferred by the trader for entry and exit,trade management rules.
- Baseline Algos are provided only as turnkey workspaces suitable for hybrid man and machine interactive trading and are not provided as optimized workspaces for pure 100% algo trading - the trader elects the level of automation as they decide for trading.
- Turnkey workspace and stats of optimized variants of the baselined systems for traders to use and tweak will be for VIP traders - typically these stats will be paper trading and live money
- Algo Servers are run with baselines and variants and in time-optimized systems - this can be viewed and algo settings R&D are made available to VIP members
- Stats are collected from sim paper trading and live money trading on the AFT8 pre-release versions gen 1.0 - gen 2.0 will need to start afresh as it is brand new but evolved: view more Info on stats
How to do Algo Optimization and Backtesting with AFT8
- Algos housed in the market analyzer only replay, paper trading, and live trading are options for stats so this is a road block for traders who wish to build their own, configure their onw algos with AFT8, and test and optimize so a strategy solution in NT8 is the ideal feature to speed up the process.
- For Optimization and back-testing an open-source system will be provided using the very best technology available ATSQuadroStrategyBase purpose made and supported by NinjaTrader 8 Strategies
- Dev tips and guidance are provide in a section in the ATS Discord Trading Group