FAQ

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

Sometimes you might want to display labels in TradingView for the future bars so they won’t intersect with the latest bars. Also, it might be useful to plot lines into the future as a projection. From first sight, it’s not obvious how to do that in PineScript. In this article, I will show you an

Quite often in TradingView, you might want to display labels at a specific time every day. It can be some information at day close, day open, premarket, etc. In this article, I will show you how you can exactly that. If you’ll just use the label.new function as is it will simply plot labels for

Sometimes vertical lines can be a pretty good way to display signals or other information for your indicators. In this article, I will show you how you can plot a vertical line for a custom TradingView indicator in Pine Script. You can do in just 1 line of code: You will see the following vertical

By default TradingView colors candlestick in 2 colors: green when close > open and red if close < open. Quite often you might want to change the standard coloring of the bars for your indicators. Fortunately, it’s really easy to change these colors in TradingView. There are 2 ways to do that, In this article,

TradingView recently added an array feature to Pine Script. This powerful new feature allows traders to build custom datasets by working with one-dimensional data structures. However, given that this is a fairly new feature, there aren’t many examples and tutorials to guide beginners. You may find that even the simplest Pine Script array operations result

There are plenty of ways you can get help with your PineScript indicator or strategy. In this article, I will list few free and paid ways you can get help. Check official documentation and manuals TradingView has a pretty nice collection of reference guide and manuals: Official Pine Script v4 User Manual – You can

Drawing objects need to be limited (per study or strategy) because they consume server resources. When you create too many drawings, Pine runtime automatically deletes old ones in a process known as garbage collection (removing data that is no longer required or in use). If something goes wrong with regards to drawings, you may encounter

Quite often for your PineScript indicator or strategy, you need tick size. Of course, you can add it explicitly in your code. But this won’t work for all instruments and you’ll have to change the code for all instruments with different tick values. Fortunately, there is a universal way to get tick value in PineScript