NinjaTrader 8 Suite

You shouldn't have to leave your execution platform to read GEX or order flow. The Hermes NinjaTrader suite brings the web terminal's options levels, order-flow analytics, structure levels and trade journal into NinjaTrader 8: read the levels on the chart, read the book and the tape on the DOM, place and copy orders in one click, and every closed trade lands in your web journal automatically.

What's in the suite

Installation

Where to find each component:

Authorization and plans

1. The first time you add any Hermes component (or open the DOM / Copier / Prop Sync), a browser authorization page opens with the code prefilled.
2. Sign in to HermesGEX → click Authorize → back in NinjaTrader the status line turns to "Connected".
3. Every component shares this one authorization, and NinjaTrader can run alongside Hermes plugins on other platforms on the same machine.

• The token lives in memory only, never on disk. It's discarded when NinjaTrader closes; approve once more on the next start. Recompiling with F5 during development does not ask again.
• One subscription, one trading machine. Authorizing on another computer signs the previous one out, and the status line tells you so.
• Plans: components that use options data (GEX levels, options-flow panes, options levels on the DOM…) need a paid subscription; Net Flow / Net Drift are Ultra-only; Chart Link needs no authorization. See pricing for what each plan includes.

Data requirements

Suggested starting layout: three charts

Intraday options-level trading: a 1–5 minute chart with GEX · Levels & Distribution + Daily Market Info + VWAP Pro + Chart Link. Use the Gamma Flip for bias, Call / Put Walls as targets and stop references, and the opening range plus VWAP for rhythm.

Order-flow confirmation: a second chart of the same instrument with Footprint + Volume Profile + Futures Toxicity + Control Panel. When price reaches a wall, footprint imbalance and toxicity extremes tell you break vs. rejection.

Execution: Control Center → New → Hermes DOM. Turn on the Levels column (options levels and chart structure levels sync in automatically), read the impact in the momentum-tail column, and click to trade.

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Options levels: GEX · Levels & Distribution

Real-time GEX levels and per-strike distribution on your candles. Futures (ES / NQ / RTY / YM / GC / CL…) are converted to the contract's own price scale automatically.

• Levels: Zero Gamma (Gamma Flip), Long / Short Gamma (incl. 0DTE), Call / Put Walls (volume and open-interest basis), HVL, Call / Put Transition, secondary walls C2–6 / P2–6. By default each level runs from the last bar to the price axis with a label box; nearby labels are staggered.
• Distribution slots: up to 4 floating slots, each with its own source (volume GEX / OI GEX / Gamma / Delta / Vanna / Charm), direction (one-sided / centered), bar style, and a "⇔" handle to drag it anywhere.
• Expiry switch: "Distribution / wall expiry" in 2 · Display picks 0DTE / 1DTE / 90DTE for both the distribution and the walls; when the chosen expiry has no data it falls back to 0DTE and the status line shows "DTE?".
• Gamma heat bands: soft bands along +Γ / 0Γ / −Γ that breathe with strength; today's history is backfilled on load.
• Stats and GEX-change panels: net GEX, OI walls, 25Δ risk reversal; a per-minute log of build-ups / unwinds and level moves.
• Language: Chinese UI on Chinese Windows, English everywhere else; set the environment variable HERMES_LANG=en or zh to force it.

Key settings: in 1 · Connection leave "Ticker override" blank for automatic mapping; polling interval 3–120 s; manual scale factor 0 = automatic. 2 · Display toggles each level family; 9 · Distribution slots configures the slots.

Three distribution panels (OI & Volume / GEX / Greek Level)

Vertical strips on the right edge of the price panel, sharing the price axis and moving with pan and zoom; several panels on one chart stack right to left automatically. They share the GEX indicator's data, so they add no extra requests.

• Expiry: 0DTE / 1DTE / 90DTE; when the chosen expiry has no data the panel shows 0DTE and says so in its header.
• Profile style: left-aligned / right-aligned / mirrored; panel width, opacity and bar colors are adjustable.
• Major lines: lines and labels toggle separately; lines run from the last bar to the chart's left edge, labels sit on the price chart.
• Hover tooltip: hover a bar to see that strike's value and distance from price; the panel draws its own last-price line and a HermesGEX brand bar.

Options-flow panes

Order flow

Structure

Hermes DOM: standalone trading window

Control Center → New → Hermes DOM. Independent of SuperDOM — ladder, order-flow columns and order entry are all custom-drawn, and the window width snaps to the columns.

Top controls (two rows)

• Row 1: instrument · cross-contract · account · ⚙ settings · position and status.
• Row 2: quantity · TIF · ATM template · OCO · center · auto-center · reset | Buy Mkt · Sell Mkt · Reverse · Flatten · Cancel All.

Order entry

• ATM strategies: pick a NinjaTrader ATM template and every entry gets its stop / target brackets, shown on the ladder and draggable; remembered per instrument.
• OCO: while checked, the next limit / stop orders share one OCO group.
• Cross-contract trading: click "Cross" and pick the routing contract, e.g. read the NQ book and trade MNQ. Orders, position and P&L follow the routing contract; book and order-flow data stay on the instrument you're reading.
• Numpad trading: enable in settings (NumLock on); bind each key to market / joined limit / stop / flatten / cancel / quantity ±1 / center.
• Duplicate protection: an identical order is sent at most once within 700 ms.
• Confirm orders: optional confirmation before every order.

Columns (drag headers to reorder, drag edges to resize, right-click a header for settings)

Two independent Time & Sales panes sit on the right (each with its own minimum size), sweeps marked » in gold. Colors, parameters and column order are saved per instrument — ES and NQ keep separate setups.

SuperDOM columns

Prefer NinjaTrader's own SuperDOM? Right-click Columns and add:

Click a column header to reset it. SuperDOM columns accumulate in real time only — load them before the open to cover the whole session.

Chart Link: orders on the chart

Add HermesGEX · Chart Link to a chart (no authorization needed): working orders become draggable price pills — drag to modify, × to cancel — including orders on sibling contracts (ES ↔ MES, NQ ↔ MNQ); font, size, distance from the axis and background opacity are adjustable. Hand-drawn levels on charts are also mirrored into the Hermes DOM levels column.

Hermes Trade Copier

Control Center → New → Hermes Trade Copier. One leader drives many followers: fills are copied immediately, with periodic position reconciliation as a safety net.

• Mirror working orders (on by default): the leader's limit / stop / stop-limit orders are placed on followers at the same price with scaled size, OCO kept, and price / size changes and cancels are synced — stops and targets you place by hand, and ATM brackets, all appear on the followers. When such an order fills, followers wait for their own copy instead of sending a market order; if a copy hasn't filled within "Mirror grace" (1500 ms default) after the leader's fill, the rest is cancelled and filled at market. Followers with an ATM template are not mirrored. Disarming cancels only entry-side mirrors and keeps protective stops / targets.
• Summary and per-row status: the top line shows leader balance, account / enabled counts, position mismatches, total follower working orders, and summed realized / unrealized P&L of enabled followers; each row shows its working orders, realized and unrealized P&L separately, and a "Flatten" button (while armed the account is locked until you unlock it). "Flatten all" disarms, then flattens every enabled follower and cancels its orders.
• Reconciliation: every cycle (1.5 s default) positions are checked; only after two consecutive mismatches does the follower's drift policy run — ignore / alert / auto-align / flatten and lock.
• ATM copying: entries and adds use the ATM template; partial exits by the leader are not copied (the ATM manages exits); leader flat → follower flattens; reversal → flatten, then re-enter.
• Risk: daily target / loss limit flattens and locks until the next New York day; max size; outside the session window positions can only shrink; per-minute order cap; lock after repeated rejections.
• Local risk controls (Risk tab + "Risk settings…"): pick a prop template by firm / type / size, "Load template into fields", review every value, then "Apply to N accounts". The template is only a starting point, and an optional daily loss limit is applied only when you tick it. Set an absolute equity floor, a trailing drawdown (intraday or end-of-day high-water, trail distance, stop level, and an editable observed high-water), a buffer, and consistency (best day, total profit, percentage — advisory, or flatten and lock for the day at the cap). Equity ≤ floor + buffer flattens and locks the account; the lock survives an NT restart and can only be reset while disarmed, with confirmation. High-water only rises and the baseline is never auto-reset. Everything is computed locally — the prop firm's dashboard is authoritative.
• Alias / group: give each account an alias and a group (e.g. Lucid-50K); the search box matches account name, alias and group.
• Bulk actions: filter → select all → set parameters or enable / disable / unlock / flatten in one go.
• Log: submit and fill latency for every copied order, reconciliation and risk events; export to CSV.
• Copier groups are synced to the "Platform accounts" panel of the web prop journal.

Prop Sync: trades straight into your journal

Control Center → New → Hermēs · Prop 同步 (Prop Sync; reuses the authorization if any Hermes indicator is already loaded).

1. Create an account in the web prop journal with the account number set to the NinjaTrader account name — or wait for the platform accounts to report in and link / create directly from "Platform accounts".
2. Trade normally: each time an instrument returns to flat a trade is recorded (side, size, average entry / exit, gross P&L, commission) and uploaded within 15 seconds.
3. Every 5 minutes the cash balance is attached so the web shows the platform balance and the difference for reconciliation.

• Nothing lost offline: trades are queued locally first; trades for accounts not yet created are kept for 7 days and uploaded once the account exists; the server de-duplicates.
• Multiple machines merge: platform accounts and copier groups from all your computers appear under one web account.
• Market context on the calendar: with Market Stats on a chart ("Sync to trading calendar" is on by default), each day's structure and MGI appear on the calendar; click a day for the detail and that day's trades, and see monthly P&L by day type.
• Commission comes from NinjaTrader's fills (set a commission template in NinjaTrader, otherwise it is 0). Missing trades can be imported from CSV on the web.

FAQ and troubleshooting

Hermes doesn't appear in the indicator list Check that Documents\NinjaTrader 8\bin\Custom\Hermes.NinjaTrader.dll exists and that NinjaTrader was fully closed during install; restart and search HermesGEX.

Compile error about duplicate definitions Old source files and the new package are both present. Run install.bat again (it moves old sources aside), then press F5 in the NinjaScript Editor.

Status says signed out by another device The subscription was authorized on another computer. Re-add an indicator here to authorize again (which signs the other one out).

Status says "Stale data" The data is more than 5 minutes old — usually market closed or weekend. The last valid trading day is shown and it resumes at the open.

Walls are offset from the web by a constant Usually futures-to-index basis drift. Check the contract month; if needed set a manual scale factor in the indicator.

Footprint / delta only show data since loading Enable Tick Replay in the chart's Data Series and reload.

DOM bid / ask, pull-stack or heatmap is empty Your connection has no Level 2 depth, or depth isn't subscribed for that contract.

Wrong UI language The UI follows the Windows display language; set the environment variable HERMES_LANG=en or zh and restart NinjaTrader to force it.

Still stuck? Email support@hermesgex.com with your NinjaTrader version and a screenshot of the status line.

Next steps