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Automated Algorithmic Trading Systems by MicroTrends for retail – including white-label products sold under license by other vendors listed below. A lookback from 2009 until the present day Jan 2024. This list of trading systems will guide system selection based on the history and evolution of systems and also the valid current technology in use by NinjaTrader and Microsoft.
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Alpha Pro Trader (APT) for NinjaTrader 8
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
MicroTrends DBA Alpha Pro Trader, AlphaProTrader 8 (APT8)
Year: 2024
NinjaTrader 8 Current Active development, Long term Development & support Basic Hybrid Semi/Fully Automation with Attendance, NT8 unmanaged Strategy, no overfills or halts on errors. Institutional grade coding and methods as standard.
Technology
ATSQuadroBaseStrategy https://github.com/MicroTrendsLtd/NinjaTrader8
Proprietary Trend Ladder and Indicator pack

Cons

Limited function as an automated trader
Better suited as a hybrid manual entry control
See below for full details: ATS QuadroBase

APT now replaces Woodies CCI Club trading group and systems and is headed by Tim Pruyn, and still has the same veteran trading group moderators doing video and trade along with chat and commentary live in the group as before, in the group with the ethos traders helping traders!
AlphaWebTrader cloud, web, desktop & NinjaTrader 8
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
Algo Trading Systems LLC, AlphaWebTrader Web, Desktop & Mobile, API for NinjaTrader 8 Current Active development, Long term Development & support API Signals, Technicals & Trade Mirroring
Information system for futures Trading. ETFs & FAANGM stocks
Proprietary Trading Technical, Trade Signals, API for web/desktop – freemium and premium.
Allows API access and integration via AWT.Desktop into AFT8, NinjaTrader 8 for signals, and technicals for API subscribers.
Algo Futures Trader (AFT8) for NinjaTrader 8
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
Algo Trading Systems LLC, AlgoFuturesTrader 8 (AFT8)
Year: 2022
NinjaTrader 8 Current Active development, Long term Development & support Professional level 100% Full Automation, Stop, Start continue, Full Swing/Position trading Capability, Hybrid Interactive Automation, Fault-tolerant Self Healing. Dual tech provides a Strategy for Back testing/Optimization and the core NT8 API Algorithmic Trader provides the most advanced Level of Automation ever for NinjaTrader.
Pros
The best of both worlds Hybrid attended fully interactive trading and the highest possible level of fully automated unattended modes of algorithmic trading.
100% free for sim/demo, evaluation trading – no time limits, trading group daily session coaching and mentoring, support, and resources.
Disruptive Pricing is super cheap and flexible for high quality – a higher level of unattended fully automated features the most advanced system ever written for NinjaTrader 8 and retail platforms for rock-bottom disruptive pricing.
Technology
AFT8 has taken the core premise of the AFT7 system and then combined this with a hedge fund futures 100% unattended trading futures portfolio algorithmic system foundation battle-tested in live fund swing trading evolved since 2017 at the costs of several 100Ks USD in development and testing up to 2023 with long term dev and support phases.
For the AFT8 retail desktop a smaller subset of the commercial hedge fund system is used within the NinjaTrader 8 platform, minus all the cloud dependencies and features not required for retail day/swing trading, delivering a set of core trading elements, merged in and combined with the same premise as the AFT7 Hybrid approach possible for those who want it but also providing pure real algorithmic automated trading at a level never attained before by NinjaTrader vendor products, plus additional algos and features a whole new concept allowing portfolio trading – making it possible for a professional level of trading with NinjaTrader not previously possible.
Key Points
The highest level of Automation ever. Real deal automation several levels above all the prior NinjaTrader products below, allows AWT API access and integration –
100% fully automated -even the server is automated and self-starts itself each week, then starts NinjaTrader, downloads data, opens workspaces, starts the algos, self-corrects stuck orders and anomalies makes safe any contract rollovers, and can continue for months a truly automated system which can carry on where it left off or self-correct and start-up as a human would do. See AFT8 for more details.
Supports multiple entry position compounding and multiple scale-outs:
The only real deal original NinjaTrader system providing true multi-day/ multi-week/multi-month trading capability for the day, swing trading futures
AFT8 Will provide strategy back-testing components via the ATS QuadroStrategyBase but trading uses the professional layers of the NT8 API to bypass those limitations.
AFT8 Algorithmic Trading System is suitable for Day traders & swing traders used in a hybrid man and machine mode or as fully automated.Custom Algo Trading  Signals – build your own or use off the shelf
Supports User Defined Algo Rules in NinjaScripts or use the off-the-shelf Algos and filters and turnkey workspaces.!

Remote Cloud view & control Pending
Pending features When run on a server or desktop it will be possible to see what the Algo is doing and control the systems from a web/mobile therefore reducing the need for more than 1 system and reducing server/ platforms/data fees.
Cons

  • Intermediate to advanced traders only
  • Self Assistance & premium support
BlueWaveTrading BWT Precision AutoTrader for NinjaTrader 8
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
Blue Wave Trading LLC, BWT Precision AutoTrader 8Year: 2020 to 2022White label of old tech BWT7 Tech migrated to NT8 under royalty-free license – same deal as the NT7 version but with a one-off fee. NinjaTrader 8Powered by ATS QuadroBase Delivered & Completed 2022 Basic Hybrid Semi/Fully Automation with Attendance, NT8 unmanaged Strategy, no overfills or halts on errors. Strategy halts on disconnection and required a manual restart- does not auto start with NT8.
Technology
Open source engine
ATSQuadroBaseStrategy https://github.com/MicroTrendsLtd/NinjaTrader8Cons
Limited function as an automated trader
Better suited as a hybrid manual entry control
See below for full details: ATS QuadroBase
Strategy Open Source Engine for ATS QuadroBase Hybrid AutoTrader for NinjaTrader 8
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
MicroTrends
AlgoTradingSystems LLC
NinjaTrader 8Powered by ATS QuadroBase Delivered & Completed 2020 Basic Hybrid Semi/Fully Automation with Attendance, NT8 unmanaged Strategy, no overfills or halts on errors, however, Strategy halts on disconnection, loses the context of orders & positions, No auto stop, auto start. manual start, stop, no fault tolerance, manual orders, and positions cancel flatten to restart.
Technology
The trade engine used for this partially complete product is available for free open source in the MTL Github
ATSQuadroBasestrategy https://github.com/MicroTrendsLtd/NinjaTrader8Cons
Same major flaws of a NT8 Strategy cannot be addressed. Stop and start manual control and orders positions need hand manual cancel and flatten for best results on a restart disconnect but this is better than NT7 was.
A pure nt8 strategy based only, it is a redundant system for algo trading now AFT8 is here with its next generation algo engine – but ATSQuadroBase is good for backtesting and optimizing- hybrd trading is also possible -where as a AFT8 style API algo trader is best for real deal 100% automated unattended trading.
  • Cannot self-heal and continue.
  • No position compounding ability
  • Not a true swing trading system
Algo Futures Trader (AFT7) for NinjaTrader 7
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
Algo Trading Systems LLC, AlgoFuturesTrader 7 (AFT7)
Year: 2018
NinjaTrader 7 Discontinued Development, Long term support, Obsolete Tech. Hybrid Semi/Fully Automation with Attendance, Stop, Start continue. NT7 API Algorithmic Trader
Pros
The best of the hybrid trading world for NinjaTrader 7 interactive real-time algo trading. 100% free for sim/demo, evaluation trading – no time limits, trading group daily session coaching and mentoring, support, and resources. Pricing is disruptive for the best quality, at cheapest and flexible price points.
Used by developer for trading, battle tested proven with many traders obtaining trading capital accounts.
Hybrid NYSE session breakout/trend trading Purpose designed and developed for the NYSE Eminis, Energy trading and popular futures day traders- using the most advanced system ever built for NinjaTrader 7 built from the ground up after many prior iterations/products as below by MicroTrends.
Technology
Hybrid Automated trading, stop start continue trading – can continue where it left off after a restart, manual and fully automated. Multiple algo multi timeframe day, swing trading system -designed for trend trading, session open breakout, oco news breakout with real-time interaction with a trade manager Trade GUI – takes all prior products and white labels to the next level. Emphasis is on automated features in attendance for optimal and most reliable usage scenarios for human intervention and interaction for best trading outcomes – man and machine.
Key Points
NT7 API Algorithmic trading, bypasses the Strategy layers and therefore does not suffer the limitation of the even the most advanced NinjaTrader strategy – uses an API direct within NinjaTrader to provide the highest reliability, quality, and flexibility for NT7.
Cons
  • Manual back test only no FULL strategy testing.
  • No automatic trading stats produced
BlueWaveTrading BWT Precision AutoTrader for NinjaTrader 7
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
Blue Wave Trading LLC, BWT Precision AutoTrader 7Year 2013 to 2022 NinjaTrader 7 Discontinued, No support, Obselete Tech. MTDS7 Whitelabel derivative, Pseudo Fully Automated Features, – basic Hybrid Semi/Fully Automation with Attendance, NT7 Un-Managed Strategy.Strategy halts on disconnection, loses context of orders & positions No auto stop, auto start. manual start, stop, no fault tolerance, manual orders and positions cancel flatten to restart.
Pros
Looks awesome and pulls people in with the amazing color scheme and look and feel. The technology was a very advance strategy engine from MTDS which still had the same old issues of Strategies. But without the overfill issues and much improved reliability over the original NT strategies in 2006 onwards
TechnologyWhite label of MTDS components reshaped for BWT Algo – royalty-based License agreement.
The while label provides the following under license
  • BWTPrecisionTrend Indicator – (Subset of the AFT USAR)
  • BWTTradeManager – MTDS7 reskin
  • BWTProfitLoss
  • BWTOrdersPositionsVisuals
  • BWTStrategyBase – MTDS7 Dervied engine

NinjaTrader 7 unmanaged strategy no overfills and strategy halts, hybrid trading to allow user interactive control in realtime. The system was at best pseudo automated, could never swing trade long than the connect lasted so that would be a maximum of Sunday to Friday if there was a solid internet connection. After a pause or stop. /Start it requires a manual cancel of the stops and close of the positions. Can be left unattended but not advisable
Stats
None ever recorded showing the successful long-term fully auto trading, only some semi auto manual stats and video marketing, The system shot to fame in YouTube with a trader Jim using the hybrid controls of it which were a mere subset of the MTDS and AFT systems power but no performance for fully automated achieved.
Key Points
designed for hybrid attended mode for best safety and results.
Cons

  • Obselete Windows NT7 technology limited life span
  • Disconnections cause the strategy to stop, lose track of positions and orders
  • On a Restart or disconnect orders and positions  require manual start and fixing of orders/positions by hand

History
This was a merger of the very old BWT system consisting of 1 trend indicator for the ATR Trend – from the stocks and commodities vervoot ATR trend algo which didn’t work properly, along with a very badly written default mode of NT7 strategy which would halt on overfills and errors and leave a tangle of canceled orders and unguarded positions. BWT took a like to the MicroTrends MTDS systems it was agreed to provide a white label and merge with the existing legacy BWT code to cut out the old parts and wire in the new and it was achieved making a stunning-looking system – that performed great in terms of usability but did not deliver fully automated reliable stats – however when used with hybrid controls to control when to buy and sell or set the bias as it traded – it was a very successful system for traders man and machine mode, but was only a small subset of the MTDS and AFT7 technology so very limited – but easy to use and very easy to configure due to BWT’s original configuration panel.
This system looked amazing in the videos and marketing and on the chart and sold 100s of copies up to 2019, in 2020 onwards 95% of traders switched to NinjaTrader 8 making this obsolete. The vendor’s look, and style applied to it made it look very compelling, combined with an excellent video series this really took off. All done and said in its day it was alone and at the top of the rankings prior to AFT7 2014 to 2018.
Conclusion
A real classic and hit in its day, the price is a lot more for this system, yet it only contains a small subset of the AFT7 and AFT8 which can be used free forever and you will have to spend 5K to know if it will suit you for the limited life span it has left.

Woodies Pro Trader for NinjaTrader 8
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
Woodies CCI Club, Woodies Pro Trader
Year: 2018
NinjaTrader 8 Discontinued 2018, vendor sales & supports only. None, Manual order entry and Automatic Trade Management from NT8 ATM
An indicator-based pack of some of the old Woodie’s NT7 indicators migrated to NT8 to lessen & declutter the prior offerings.
Woodies AutoTrader for NinjaTrader 7
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
Woodies AutoTrader
Year: 2012
NinjaTrader 7 Discontinued, No support, Obselete Tech MTDS7 – basic Hybrid Semi/Fully Automation with Attendance, NT7 Un-Managed Strategy. Strategy halts on disconnection, loses context of orders & positions, No auto stop, auto start. manual start, stop, no fault tolerance, manual orders and positions cancel flatten to restart.
A very large set of supplied indicators from Woodie which were evolved and grew into an enormous pack and complex auto trader some people loved it many said it was too vast and complex….
MicroTrends MTDS7 for NinjaTrader 7
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
MicroTrends Ltd,MicroTrends MTDS7
Year: 2010
NinjaTrader 7 Discontinued, No support, Obselete Tech MTDS7 -basic Hybrid Semi/Fully Automation with Attendance, NT7 Un-Managed Strategy. Strategy halts on disconnection, loses context of orders & positions, No auto stop, auto start. manual start, stop, no fault tolerance, manual orders and positions cancel flatten to restart.
Was the first commercial unmanaged mode strategy engine with hybrid controls for semi/full auto and allows easy creation of strategies in a few lines of code… as for all NinjaTrader Strategies managed and unmanaged – still had major flaws preventing true automated trading not addressed until AFT7.
MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7
Vendor/Product Platform Status Automation
MicroTrends Ltd,MicroTrends MNTF7
Year: 2009
NinjaTrader 7 Discontinued, No support, Obselete Tech Hybrid Semi/Fully Automation with Attendance, NT7 Managed Strategy. Overfill, strategy halt on error. Strategy halts on disconnection, loses context of orders & positions, No auto stop, auto start. manual start, stop, no fault tolerance, manual orders and positions cancel flatten to restart.
Large complex indicator and strategy pack – the very first Hybrid system ever invented providing user semi/fully automated control over a strategy in NinjaTrader


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