TradingView Pine Script programming tutorials

PART 1

Introduction

Platform

General
  1. Keyboard hotkeys
Chart settings
  1. Toggle dark theme
  2. Exchange time zone
  1. Script before bars
Indicators
  1. Indicator on indicator
Ungrouped
  1. Chart's reversed order size
PART 2

Fundamentals

Operators

Intro
  1. Introduction
  2. Operator priority
Operators for variables
  1. Assignment operator
Arithmetic operators
  1. Arithmetic operators
  1. Combine strings with +
  2. Modulus operator
History operator
  1. History operator
If/else operators
  1. Conditional operator
True/false operators
  1. Comparison operators
  2. Logical operators
Function operator
  1. Function operator

If/else

Types of if statements
  1. If statement
  2. Nested if statement
  1. If/else statement
FAQ
  1. Local scope if error
  1. Switch statement?

Strings

String comparison
  1. String compare functions
  2. String is empty (or not)
  3. String contains other string
  4. String starts with string
  5. String ends with string
  6. Contains (case insensitive)
  7. Starts with (case insensitive)
  8. Ends with (case insensitive)
String manipulation
  1. Remove string prefix
  2. Remove string suffix
String casing
  1. Convert to lowercase
  2. Convert to uppercase
  3. String is lowercase
  4. String is uppercase
String formatting
  1. str.tostring()
  2. str.format()
  1. str.format_time()
  2. Format placeholders
  3. Format specifiers
  4. Pattern digits
  5. Pattern letters
PART 3

Settings

Script settings

Intro
  1. Script settings overview
  2. Configure with code
Name settings
  1. Script name
  2. Short script name
  3. Filename versus display name
Chart settings
  1. Overlay on instrument
  1. Price scale format
  2. Plotted values precision
  3. Precision of overlay script
  4. Set price scale
  5. Always on instrument
Drawing limits
  1. Labels maximum
  1. Trend lines maximum
  2. Boxes maximum
  3. Why a drawing limit?
Data buffer
  1. Max bars back

Indicator settings

Intro
  1. indicator() function
  2. All indicator settings
  1. Recommended indicator settings
Time frame
  1. Other time frame
  1. Time frame gaps

Strategy settings

Intro
  1. The strategy() function
  2. All strategy settings
  3. Recommended settings
  4. Manual strategy settings
  5. Configure with code or hand
Capital settings
  1. Initial capital
  2. Margin long orders
  3. Margin short orders
  4. Strategy currency
  5. Initial capital & currency
  1. Backtest currency conversion
Commission settings
  1. Slippage
  2. Commission type
  3. Commission amount
Order settings
  1. Pyramiding (scale in entries)
  2. Default order type
  3. Default order size
  4. Exit order sequence
  5. Verify limit order price
  6. Pyramiding strategy.entry()
  1. Pyramiding strategy.order()
Calculation settings
  1. Trade closed bars
  2. Calculate after order fill
  3. Calculate with every tick
  4. Calc order fill requirements
  5. Calc every tick different results
  6. Order fill calc different results

Inputs

Types of inputs
  1. Inputs overview
  2. Common input features
  3. Integer (whole number) input
  4. Float (fractional number) input
  5. Bool (true/false) input
  6. String (text) input
  1. Colour input
  2. Source (price data) input
  3. Symbol (instrument) input
  4. Session (time range) input
  5. Time frame (resolution) input
  6. Time (with date) input
  1. Price input
Input features
  1. On/off, yes/no inputs
Other inputs
  1. Input from other script
PART 4

Work with Pine Script

Bar data

Bar data
  1. Close higher, lower, unchanged
  2. Red & green candles
  3. Bar number
  4. Number of bars on chart
  5. Close for last price
Bar ranges
  1. Full bar range
  2. Body range
  3. Wick range
  4. Upper wick range
  5. Lower wick range
Crosses
  1. Crossover & -under
Extremes
  1. Lowest since condition
  2. Highest since condition

Price data

Data extremes
  1. Recent highest value
  2. Recent lowest value
  3. Chart highest value
  1. Chart lowest value
  2. All-time high
  3. All-time low

Instrument data

Introduction
  1. Overview: instrument variables
  2. Instrument info window
Symbol name
  1. Symbol (ticker)
  2. Identifier (tickerid)
  3. Exchange (data source)
  4. Derivative root symbol
Symbol tick
  1. Tick size
  2. Tick amount input
  1. Tick size any instrument
  2. Pip size
  3. Pip amount input
  4. Point value
  5. Tick value
Currency
  1. Currency
  2. Base currency
  3. Check for fiat currency
Symbol features
  1. Asset type
  2. Description
  3. Is continuous future
  4. Is perpetual future
Symbol time
  1. Instrument time zone
  2. Session type

Chart information

Time frame tests
  1. Minute time frame
  2. Hour time frame
  3. Full hour time frame
  4. Full quarter time frame
  5. Above/below 1 hour
  6. Above/below 1 day
Ungrouped
  1. Overview: time frame variables
  2. Time frame period
  3. Time interval (multiplier)
  4. Seconds time frame
  5. Intra-day time frame
  6. Day, week, or month time frame
  1. Show chart date range
  2. Minute time frame
  3. Weekly time frame
  4. Daily time frame
  5. Monthly time frame

Bar state

Bar states
  1. All bar state variables
  2. Closed bars
  3. First price bar
  1. Historical bars
  2. Last price bar
  3. Last historical bar
  1. New bars
  2. Real-time bars

Math

Rounding
  1. Ways to round
  2. Round up & down
  3. Round up
  4. Round down
  5. Round to tick
  1. Round to tens
  2. Round to hundreds
  3. Round to thousands
  4. Truncate numbers
Statistics
  1. Smallest (minimum) value
  1. Largest (maximum) value
  2. Limit number to range

Time & date

Intro
  1. Time values
Time variables
  1. Price bar time
Time calculations
  1. Time convert
  1. Time conversions
Time zone
  1. Effect time zone setting
  2. Time zone of code
Time countdown
  1. Countdown price bar
  2. Countdown minutes and seconds

Time zone

Intro
  1. Time zone names

Session

Define sessions
  1. Session strings
  2. Session with days input
Session info
  1. Bar inside session
  2. First session bar
  1. Last session bar
  2. First bar after session
  3. Bar before session
Session data
  1. Session high
  1. Session low

Technical analysis

Moving averages
  1. Moving averages overview
  2. Simple average (SMA)
  3. Exponential average (EMA)
  4. Weighted average (WMA)
  5. Hull average (HMA)
  1. Relative average (RMA)
  2. EMA versus RMA
  3. Symmetrical average (SWMA)
  4. Arnaud Legoux (ALMA)
  5. Volume-Weighted (VWMA)
  1. Volume-Weighted (VWAP)
  2. Select average with code

Example indicators

Trend following
  1. Donchian Channel
Moving averages
  1. Double Exponential Moving Average
  1. Triple Exponential Moving Average
Pivot indicators
  1. Floor Trader Pivots
Volatility indicators
  1. Average True Range
PART 5

Visual output

Colours

Intro
  1. color.new() function
  2. Colour functions
Colour lists
  1. Standard colour variables
  2. Transparent colours
  3. Hexadecimal colours
  1. Hexadecimal groups
Work with colours
  1. Conditional colours
  2. Gradient colours
  3. 'Turn off' colour
  4. Change colours by hand
  1. Random colours
  2. If/else colours
  3. Shifted colours
Other
  1. Legacy colours

Bar colour

Intro
  1. Colour price bars
Bar colour features
  1. Colour specific bars
  2. Multiple bar colours
  1. Gradient bar colour
Bar colour options
  1. Offset coloured bars
  2. Show last coloured bars
Bar colour examples
  1. Colour bars in range

Background colour

Colour full background
  1. Colour chart background
  2. Conditional background colour
  3. Shift coloured background
  4. Combine coloured backgrounds
  5. Colour background sessions
  6. Heat map background
Colour background part
  1. Colour background part
  2. Background line & area plot
  3. Colour support & resistance
  4. Background invisible plots
  5. Background circles & crosses
  6. Histogram & columns background
  1. Fill area plot background
  2. Combine background sections
  3. Fill background price bands
Filled background examples
  1. Background of price range

Plots

Intro
  1. Plot types overview
Plot types
  1. Line plot
  2. Histogram plot
  1. Cross plot
  2. Circles plot
  3. Area plot
  1. Columns plot
PART 6

Alerts

Alert conditions

Intro
  1. Create & configure alerts
  2. Program alerts
  3. Alert situation examples
  4. Real-time & historical alerts
Program alerts
  1. Multiple criteria alerts
  2. Turn alert in strategy
  3. Alerts from other indicator
Alert placeholders
  1. Standard placeholders
  1. Condition with standard placeholders
  2. Plot placeholders
  3. Plot in alert condition
Alerts on chart
  1. Coloured background alerts
  2. Coloured bar alerts
  3. Plotted character alerts
  4. Plotted shapes alerts
  5. Text & shapes alerts
  1. Plot alert texts
  2. Arrows alerts
  3. Plot alert trigger level
  4. Highlight real-time alerts
FAQ
  1. Why no alert fired
  2. Why old settings alert

Strategy alerts

Alert placeholders
  1. Standard placeholders
  2. Plot placeholders
  1. Position placeholders
PART 7

Drawings

Labels

Change label location
  1. Move label functions
  2. Update time coordinate
  3. Update price coordinate
  4. Update time & price
  5. Modify time coordinate style
  6. Set label anchoring
Get label location
  1. Label location functions
  2. Get label price
  3. Get label time
  1. See if label uses bars or times
Work with label text
  1. Label text functions
  2. Set label text
  3. Get label text
  4. Set text alignment
  5. Text alignment explained
  6. Set text colour
  7. Set font family
  8. Set tooltip text
Visual appearance
  1. Label appearance functions
  2. Set label colour
  3. Set label size
  4. Label size explained
  5. Label size input
  6. Change label style
  7. Overview label styles
  8. Label style input

Boxes

Set box location
  1. Functions that move box
  2. Move right border
  3. Move left border
  4. Update top border
  5. Update bottom border
  6. Change left & top borders
  7. Change right & bottom borders
Get box location
  1. Box border location functions
  2. Get right border
  3. Get left border
  1. Get top border
  2. Get bottom border
  3. See if box uses bars or times
Visual appearance
  1. Functions that change box look
  2. Change background colour
  3. Transparent box (rectangle)
  4. Change border colour
  5. Change border style
  6. Understand border styles
  7. Style box with input
  1. Modify border size
  2. Border size features
  3. Set border size with input
  4. Remove box border
  5. Extend box drawing
  6. Box extension features
  7. Extend box with input
Box examples
  1. Daily high/low boxes
  2. Session high/low boxes

Trend lines

Make & delete lines
  1. Create trend line
  2. Remove line
Get line coordinates
  1. Get line price
  2. Get line time
  3. See if line uses bars or times
Update line coordinates
  1. Change line price & time
  1. Change line time
  2. Change line price
  3. Change coordinate style
Extend lines
  1. Extend line
Change appearance
  1. Change line size
  2. Modify line style
  1. Set line colour
  2. Line colour input
  3. Extend line input
  4. Line size input
  5. Style line input
PART 8

Advanced Pine Script

Arrays

Add elements to array
  1. Add to array start
  2. Add inside array
  3. Safe array insert
  4. Add to array end
Array statistics
  1. Array statistics functions
  2. Array average
  1. Array covariance
  2. Array maximum
  3. Array median
  4. Array minimum
  5. Array mode
  6. Array range
  1. Standardised array
  2. Array standard deviation
  3. Array sum
  4. Array variance
PART 9

Trading strategies

Orders

Entry orders
  1. Ways to open trades
  2. Market order entry
  3. Limit order entry
  4. Stop order entry
  5. Stop-limit entry
Exit orders
  1. Market order exit
  2. Profit target (limit) exit
  3. Stop loss exit
Order features
  1. Real-time vs historical orders
  2. Orders' simulated fills
  3. Order phases
  1. How position impacts `strategy.order()`
Stop-loss examples
  1. Percentage stop
  2. Moving average stop
  3. Highs & lows stop
Order functions
  1. Order functions overview
  2. strategy.entry()
  3. strategy.exit()
  4. strategy.order()
  5. strategy.close()
  6. strategy.close_all()
  7. strategy.cancel()
  1. strategy.cancel_all()
Trailing stop examples
  1. Percentage trail stop
Order groups
  1. Stop entry orders
  2. Stop-limit entry orders
Order issues
  1. Orders with negative equity
  2. Order size doesn't work
Orders FAQ
  1. Exits always FIFO
Take profit examples
  1. Percentage profit target
Ungrouped
  1. Verify price limit orders

Backtesting

Time period
  1. Backtest between dates
  2. Backtest since date
  1. Backtest until date

Trade info

Open trades
  1. All open order functions
  2. Entry price
  3. Entry bar number
  4. Entry identifier
  5. Entry time
  6. Entry size
  1. Open profit/loss
  2. Entry commission
  3. Entry comment
  4. Open max run up
  5. Max run up explained
  6. Open max drawdown
  1. Max drawdown explained
Closed trades
  1. Entry comment
  2. Exit comment

Position info

Current position
  1. Strategy position size
  2. Not long or short
  3. Long or short position
  1. Is flat or has open position
  2. Went long/short
Position duration
  1. Bars since last open entry
  1. Bars position open

Strategy performance

Profit
  1. Gross profit
  2. Gross loss
  3. Net profit
  4. Profit factor
  5. Pessimistic Profit Factor
Equity
  1. Highest (peak) equity
  1. Lowest (bottom) equity
Trades
  1. Total trade count
  2. Closed trades count
  3. Win trade count
  4. Lose trade count
  5. Even trade count
  1. Win percentage
  2. Lose percentage
  3. Pessimistic Win Percentage
  4. Pessimistic Lose Percentage
Positions
  1. Biggest position sizes

Risk management

Intro
  1. Risk functions
  2. Combine risk functions
Global risk functions
  1. Long/short direction
  2. Limit losing days
  3. Maximum drawdown
  1. Maximum position size
Intra-day risk functions
  1. Limit intra-day trades
  2. Limit intra-day loss
Streak management
  1. Losing streak stop
  2. Limit winning streak
Weekly risk metrics
  1. Limit weekly loss
  2. Limit weekly trades
  3. Limit weekly losing trades
Other
  1. Long/short input

Money management

Default order size
  1. Fixed order size explained
  2. Cash orders explained
  3. Equity % orders explained
Margin
  1. Required margin explained
  2. Effect of margin
  3. Margin calls explained

Automated trading

Intro
  1. TradingView auto trading

Example strategies

Trend following
  1. ATR Channel Breakout
  2. Bollinger Breakout
  3. Donchian Trend
  4. Donchian Trend Time Exit
  5. Dual Moving Average
  6. Triple Moving Average
  1. SMA Crossover
  2. SMA Weekly Crossover
  3. Trend With Pattern Entry
  4. SMA Crossover Pyramiding
  5. Donchian Channel Breakout
  6. Double Donchian Channel Breakout
Price action
  1. Outside Month
Countertrend
  1. Swing Trade Market Gaps
Mean reversion
  1. Unilateral Pairs Trading
Volatility
  1. VIX Reversal
Calender
  1. Wide Range Midweek Reversal

Alert automation

Intro
  1. Auto trade services
PART 10

Appendix

Errors

Script errors
  1. Bad session spec
  2. One output function call
  3. Needs indicator() or strategy()
  4. Out of depth at index
  5. Requests too many securities
  6. Loop too long
General errors
  1. Undeclared identifier
  1. Variable already declared
  2. No viable alternative
  3. Cannot assign expression
  4. End line without continuation
  5. Mismatched input
  6. Syntax error at input
  7. Cannot call with arguments
  1. Couldn't find function
Function errors
  1. Unknown argument
Indicator errors
  1. Can't use strategy functions in indicator
Strategy errors
  1. Order limit

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