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You may want to export TradingView strategy backtesting data for any number of reasons. For instance, you could want to use data in other programming languages or analyze this data in Excel or analytics tools. The good news is that TradingView recently introduced a feature to make this process super easy for you. Keep in How to Export TradingView Backtesting Data From a Pro Account Read More →

There are multiple libraries that you can use to backtest a strategy in Python. However, I often use Backtrader because it is a nice open-source framework that allows me to quickly test historical data, optimize strategies, and create visual plots. Backtrader comes across as being really flexible and quite easy to use – which makes

Order placement commands are quite important to your TradingView strategy. But many people are surprised by the default behavior of PineScript when it executes market orders. Sample Strategy  For an illustration, the Pine Script code below highlights a super simple strategy.  In this strategy, we enter and exit long positions using market orders. We also

You can receive this error by running this simple code: Add to Chart operation failed, reason: line 5: Value with NA type cannot be assigned to a variable that was defined without type keyword The issue is that PineScript doesn’t know what type should this variable be. It can’t guess the type from the NA

You may have noticed the following warning message in your PineScript indicator scripts: The `transp` argument will be deprecated soon. We recommend using color.new() or color.rgb() functions to specify the transparency of the plots instead. Below is an example of code that causes this warning. Why does this error occur? This warning message occurs simply