Order Flow+ is NinjaTrader’s own set of order flow studies. It comes with a NinjaTrader lifetime plan; otherwise it costs $59 a month. Delta, large trades, volume at price and resting depth can also be built from the data your feed already sends. That is how every FlowForged tool works.
Updated 11 October 2026
According to NinjaTrader’s help guide, Order Flow+ adds these studies to NinjaTrader 8:
Plans change, so check your NinjaTrader account for current terms.
Your data feed already sends two things that order flow is made from:
A NinjaScript indicator can read both through NinjaTrader’s standard market data. FlowForged indicators do the classification and counting on your machine, so none of them needs Order Flow+.
None of these needs Order Flow+. Here is what each one reads, and whether Tick Replay adds anything.
| Tool | Reads | Tick Replay |
|---|---|---|
| Range Engine | Standard minute bars | Not used |
| Refine | Level 1 trades (live POC) | Not needed |
| ORB | Standard bars | Not used |
| HTF FVG | Its own 5m, 15m, 1H and 4H bars | Not used |
| Anvil | Live Level 2 market depth | Not used |
| Hammer | Level 1 trades | For historical marks |
| Forge | Level 1 trades with bid and ask, up to four markets | For historical dots |
| Flux | Level 1 trades and the inside bid and ask | Recommended |
| Delta Profile | Level 1 trades with bid and ask | For history on load |
| Risk/Reward | Your clicks and the instrument’s point value | Not used |
| Tally | Your account’s orders, fills and positions | Not used |
| Fair Value Gaps (free) | Bar prices | Not used |
| First Presentation FVG (free) | Its own 1-minute bars | Not used |
| Auto BE (free) | Live prices and your working stops | Not used |
| Drawing Kit (free) | Chart bars, to snap your clicks | Not used |
| ICT Macros (free) | Bar times, highs and lows | Not used |
| Session Levels (free) | Bars, and trades in real time | Optional |
| Tick Velocity (free) | Live Level 1 trades with bid and ask | Not used (live only) |
| Volume Profile (free) | Level 1 trades with bid and ask | For past sessions |
Tick Replay is a NinjaTrader setting, not part of Order Flow+. The install guide shows how to turn it on.
These are close, not identical. Each FlowForged tool does one job, and some Order Flow+ studies have no FlowForged counterpart.
| Order Flow+ study | Closest FlowForged tool | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| Cumulative Delta | Flux | Flux builds its own cumulative delta from the tick stream and marks the bars where it disagrees with price: divergence at swings, exhaustion at new extremes and absorption on heavy, narrow candles. |
| Trade Detector | Hammer | Hammer groups same-side fills that arrive within milliseconds into one order before it applies the size test, and rings any single trade above your Big Print threshold. |
| Market Depth Map | Anvil | Anvil draws only the Level 2 levels at or above your trigger size, labelled with their contracts, on the price chart. |
| Volume Profile | Volume Profile (free) and Delta Profile | Volume Profile draws NY, London, Asia or Overnight session profiles with POC and value area. Delta Profile draws net delta at each price for a session, the bars on screen, the last N bars or a rolling time window. |
| Volumetric Bars | None | FlowForged does not make a footprint chart. |
| VWAP | None | Not part of the FlowForged tools. |
No. Delta is built from each trade and the bid and ask at that moment, which a Level 1 feed sends on any NinjaTrader plan. Flux, Delta Profile, Volume Profile and Tick Velocity all compute it themselves.
A Level 1 feed with trades, bid and ask, such as Rithmic, CQG or Kinetick, covers every FlowForged tool except Anvil. Anvil also needs Level 2 market depth.
Not from FlowForged. Footprint, or volumetric, bars are part of Order Flow+, and FlowForged does not make a footprint chart.
No. Tick Replay is a NinjaTrader data series setting that replays recorded trades for historical bars. You turn it on under Tools > Options > Market Data, then in the chart’s Data Series.
The free tools include Volume Profile and Tick Velocity, both built from Level 1 data. The full suite, with Hammer, Flux, Delta Profile and Anvil, is in a free private beta.
Futures trading involves substantial risk and is not for every investor. FlowForged tools are analytical software, not trading advice. NinjaTrader® and Order Flow+ belong to NinjaTrader Group, LLC; FlowForged is not affiliated with NinjaTrader.