Get Started with the ATS Trader Launch Pad
The ATS Trader Launch Pad provides a structured pathway for learning the ATS hybrid trading methodology, setting up the required trading technology and preparing for futures prop-firm evaluations responsibly.
Create your ATS Universal Account free of charge, verify your email address and follow the Launch Pad to access the available ATS products, education, support resources and trading groups. No payment card is required to create your account.
The ATS Get-Funded Pathway
- Create and unlock your ATS Universal Account.
- Review the trader prerequisites, suitability information and account requirements.
- Install NinjaTrader Desktop and connect an eligible simulation, prop-firm or brokerage account.
- Choose an eligible paid AlgoFuturesTrader plan for intraday and prop-firm trading.
- Learn the ATS systems through the structured Zero-to-Hero Stages 1–5 pathway.
- Load the supplied turnkey workspaces and begin in simulation.
- Develop a written trade plan covering entries, daily risk, drawdown limits and session controls.
- Establish a repeatable and rules-compliant process before purchasing or trading an evaluation.
The objective is not to provide a switch-on profit robot. ATS supplies professional trading software, algorithmic tools, turnkey workspace baselines, education and decision-support resources. Each trader remains responsible for learning the systems, testing the supplied settings, controlling risk and making their own trading decisions.
AlgoFuturesTrader for Prop-Firm Trading
AlgoFuturesTrader operates inside NinjaTrader 8 Desktop and supports discretionary, hybrid and progressively more advanced algorithmic trading methods.
Eligible paid AFT plans provide intraday features for evaluation, simulated-funded, funded and personal live-brokerage accounts. Available capabilities depend on the selected Essentials, Premium or Ultimate plan.
- Turnkey Session Breakout, Trend Scalper and other supported trading workspaces.
- Support for eligible Nano, Micro, E-mini and standard futures instruments according to plan.
- Manual and semi-automated trade entry.
- Automated trade management and real-time trader controls.
- Algorithmic signals, technical indicators and market-analysis tools.
- ATS Zero-to-Hero education, support resources and eligible trading-group access.
- Progressive plans for simulation, prop-firm and personal live-brokerage trading.
AFT Freemium does not include intraday or prop-firm trading functionality. It is limited to higher-time-frame charting and selected technical indicators for swing, intermediate-term and position-trading analysis. An eligible paid AFT plan is required for intraday bars, signals, technical workspaces, automated trade management and prop-firm trading features.
View the latest ATS products, packages and available pricing.
Optional White-Glove Assistance
Optional white-glove assistance is available through independent service providers listed on the ATS Ecosystem.
ATS Hybrid Trading for Restrictive Prop-Firm Accounts
ATS Hybrid Algo Trading combines trader judgment with algorithmic signals, semi-automated execution and adaptive automated trade management. The trader remains responsible for market selection, direction, entry timing, risk and compliance while the technology assists with execution and trade management.
This approach can provide more oversight than unattended fully automated trading, particularly where a prop firm imposes strict drawdown, consistency, news-trading, position-size or automation rules.
- Begin with NinjaTrader simulation or Market Replay.
- Set a maximum risk amount for each trade and trading session.
- Base position size on the account’s permitted drawdown rather than its headline account value.
- Record trades, statistics, mistakes and rule compliance.
- Do not progress to an evaluation until you can follow your plan consistently.
- Recheck the prop firm’s current rules before every evaluation or funded-account stage.
Trading with Top One Futures
After developing and testing a suitable trading process, traders may consider an evaluation with Top One Futures or another NinjaTrader-compatible futures proprietary trading firm.
- Check current account types, rules, offers and available discounts through Top One Futures.
- Review the current profit target, drawdown method, daily loss limit, consistency rule, contract allowance and payout requirements.
- Confirm whether discretionary, semi-automated, automated and copy-trading methods are permitted.
- Use only the promotion or coupon code currently displayed by the prop firm.
- Do not assume that rules applying during an evaluation remain identical after funding.
Trading futures and participating in proprietary trading evaluations involves substantial risk. Passing an evaluation, receiving a funded account, qualifying for payouts or generating trading income is never guaranteed. Only risk capital should be used.