AAA System

AAA Master Controller

The AAA Master Controller is the central control interface for the AAA Core System, giving the trader direct access to automation mode, ATM selection, trade direction, quantity, signal permissions, market filters, execution settings, and system status from the chart.

Master Controller Quick-Start & Control Guide

Automation & Trade Permissions

Mode — OFF / SEMI / AUTO: OFF blocks automatic signal entries. SEMI allows one qualified entry per direction; after a long or short entry is used, additional signals in that same direction are blocked until the SEMI state is reset. AUTO continues accepting qualified entry signals as long as the enabled permissions, filters, timing rules, and risk controls allow the trade. LONG / SHORT: These buttons independently permit or block automatic long and short entries. ARM: This is the master enable for the automated trading logic; when ARM is off, automatic entries are blocked.

ATM & Entry Controls

ATM: Selects the NinjaTrader ATM template that will manage the trade after entry. ATM Px: Turns AAA custom entry-pricing logic on or off; when it is off, ATM entries are submitted as market orders. Px Mode: Market submits immediately at market. Passive uses a limit order on the less-aggressive side of the spread. Aggressive uses a limit price on the more-aggressive side to improve fill probability. Limit→Mkt first submits a passive limit order and, if it remains unfilled for the configured timeout, cancels it and converts the entry to market. Previous Low, Open, High, Close and Current Open/Close use those selected bar prices as the limit-entry reference. BestPx evaluates the permitted live Bid, Ask, Last and, when enabled, current-bar OHLC candidates; for longs it selects the lowest valid entry price, while for shorts it selects the highest valid entry price. BestPx can also reject bar/Last candidates that are too far from the live market using the Max Away setting.

Core Configuration Windows

Filters: Opens the Filters window, where the trader defines the custom filters AAA will use when qualifying trade conditions. The AAA Core System includes AAA Copy, AAA AND, and AAA OR, which can be used with available variables to create custom filter logic and combine multiple conditions into the pass/block rules used by the system. Signals: Opens the Signals window, where the fast-signal names used by the Core System are specified so the Master Controller knows which configured signals can act as entry triggers. T3 and REGTREND: These are separate directional gates on the Master Controller. When enabled, each gate must agree with the proposed trade direction before an automatic entry is permitted. Additional filters, indicators, and logic modules can be incorporated when they are included in the selected AAA configuration.

Quantity, Limits & Status

MAX: Sets the maximum number of trades AAA is permitted to take per direction under the configured trade-limit logic. Act: Controls the maximum-active-contracts limit; when enabled, AAA blocks additional entries that would exceed the selected active-contract limit. Qty: Sets the number of contracts used for each new entry order. These controls work together so the trader can separately define how many entries may occur, how much total position activity is permitted, and how large each individual entry will be. Status information: The Master Controller also receives live execution information from the AAA host, including system status, realized and unrealized PnL, time-window state, and recent signal information used to show what the system is currently doing or why an entry may be blocked.

Manual Controls & Setup Windows

E — Manual Exit: Sends a manual close request that closes the active tracked ATM trade and any remaining same-instrument position without disabling the AAA strategy. L — Manual Long: Submits a discretionary long entry using the currently selected account, ATM template, and ATM Px settings. S — Manual Short: Does the same for a short entry. Manual L/S entries do not require AUTO or SEMI mode, ARM, fast-signal approval, or the normal regime/filter approval, allowing the trader to enter manually while still using AAA’s execution path. Manual entries can still be prevented by applicable safety conditions such as an active loss cooldown or missing account/ATM execution information.

Save, Times & PnL Setup

Save: Stores the current Master Controller configuration so the selected operating settings can be restored rather than re-entered each time. Times: Opens the trading-window setup, where the trader defines the times during which AAA is permitted to take automated entries. Outside the enabled trading windows, new automatic entries are blocked. PnL: Opens the profit-and-loss/risk setup used to configure account-level protections such as daily profit and loss limits, trailing drawdown controls, and related lockout or cooldown behavior available in the Core configuration.

Included Core Logic Tools — AAA Copy, AAA AND & AAA OR

AAA Copy: Lets the trader take a selected NinjaTrader input or indicator plot and publish its current value into the AAA system under a custom variable name. That variable can then be used by other AAA logic tools. AAA Copy can also optionally create named long and short FastSignals when the copied value meets user-defined greater-than, less-than, or equal-to conditions.

AAA AND: Combines multiple conditions into custom long and short logic where all required conditions must be true before the condition passes. It can use variables created by AAA Copy as well as supported built-in market values, and it can publish its result as another variable or as a named FastSignal.

AAA OR: Works similarly, but allows the condition to pass when any one of the configured OR conditions is true. AAA AND and AAA OR also support separate cancel/block conditions and can be chained with other AAA variables to build more complex custom logic.

Together, these three tools allow the Core System to turn indicator values into reusable variables, combine those variables into custom trading conditions, and create named signals that can be incorporated into the AAA workflow.

Filters Window — Entry Qualification Rules

The Filters window controls entry-qualification rules that apply to all automatic entry signals when FILTER is enabled. Separate Long Filter and Short Filter rules can be created, and multiple conditions are treated as AND requirements—meaning every listed condition for that direction must pass before the filter allows the entry. The window supports direct market expressions such as Open, Close, High, Low, Volume, SMA, EMA, ATR, and VWAP. For more customized logic, the included AAA Copy, AAA AND, and AAA OR tools can be used to expose indicator values as named variables, combine multiple conditions, and build reusable logic that can be incorporated into the AAA system’s entry-qualification workflow.

Signals Window — Entry & Exit FastSignal Names

The Signals window defines the named FastSignals that the AAA Core System listens for. Long entry names are listed separately from short entry names, allowing the trader to specify which configured signals can trigger long or short entry requests. The window also includes optional Exit Long and Exit Short FastSignal names. Those exit names are only used when the XFAST toggle on the Master Controller is turned ON, allowing designated FastSignals to act as fast-exit triggers for open trades.

Trading Times Window — Automated Entry Schedule

The Trading Times window provides up to eight separate automated-entry windows. Each window can be individually enabled and assigned a Start and End time in HH:mm format. AAA uses the enabled windows to determine when new automatic entries are permitted; when the current time is outside all enabled trading windows, automatic entries are blocked. This allows the trader to create one continuous session or several separate trading periods during the day while leaving other times disabled.

PnL Controls — Account-Level Risk Management

The PnL Controls window provides account-level safeguards for the AAA Core System. Daily Realized limits can enforce a configured profit cap and maximum loss based on cumulative realized PnL since the selected reset time, while Daily Unrealized limits monitor the current open PnL. The Action setting determines the configured response when a limit is reached; the example shown uses FlattenOnly. Loss Cooldown can block AUTO entries and manual L/S entries for a specified number of minutes after a losing trade while still allowing the manual Exit control to function. Step Goal provides a session-based profit-step and trailing-protection system with optional warning and chart display settings. Prop Account Trailing Stop tracks account equity using the configured beginning account value together with realized and unrealized PnL, and can lock trading after the trailing drawdown level is reached. Its peak/trailing state can also be persisted so restarting or reconnecting does not automatically reset the drawdown reference.

Values shown in the screenshot are example configuration values and are not recommended trading or risk settings.

XFAST — Optional Fast Exit Control

XFAST: This toggle enables or disables the Core System’s optional FastSignal-based exit path. When XFAST is ON, AAA monitors the Exit Long and Exit Short FastSignal names configured in the Signals window. If a matching exit signal is received for the direction of the open trade, AAA can use that signal as a fast-exit request. When XFAST is OFF, those configured exit FastSignal names are ignored. This allows the trader to enable or disable FastSignal-driven exits without changing the entry-signal configuration.