FAQ

You may sometimes need to add some session logic to your TradingView strategies and indicators. This can be useful especially when you want to execute your entries only within a certain time window and close all positions when this window is over. Check Session Status  The first step is to check that the current bar How to Know if Your Current Bar is in a Certain Session Read More →

Representing time and date in Pine Script can be problematic, especially for not-so-experienced developers. The output format for date/time may not make a lot of sense. As an illustration, let’s try to plot the date/time on your screen using the following code. You should get something like this: This happens because date and time are

You may sometimes need to display an indicator on top of the price chart (for instance, when you want to compare patterns in the indicator with the price). Issues may however occur with the price chart if the scale of your indicator is vastly different from the price scale. TradingView will try to display both

This method doesn’t seem to work anymore, check the following article: Exporting New TradingView Trades metrics to Excel In one of my previous posts, I detailed how it is possible to export strategy backtesting data (but only a Pro+ or Premium TradingView account). If you are a trader/user who only has a free TradingView account,

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

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

Based on my experience, PineScript strategies output appears to be quite limited. Performance is displayed by the plot and measured on a trade-by-trade basis. It is not uncommon that you want to see something that is not available by default. So it can get quite tricky to understand when the strategy works well and when

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

Just recently TradingView added a possibility to plot nice tables on your chart from Pine Script. It’s a really nice way to present information for your indicators and strategies. In this article, I will show you a very simple example of how you can plot a table from PineScript. To create a table you can