On this page, we present a step-by-step approach that you can follow to gradually become more familiar with indicators and strategies (also called scripts) written in the Pine Script …

Sets key properties of the script such as its name, where it will appear when it is added to a chart, the precision and format of the values it displays, and certain values that govern its runtime …

Pine Script® is a programming language developed by TradingView, used for writing proprietary indicators and strategies that can be added to your chart and used in technical analysis.

Pine Script® relies on an event-driven, sequential execution model to control how a script’s compiled source code runs in charts, alerts, Deep Backtesting mode, and the Pine Screener.

Pine Script® has hundreds of built-in variables and functions. They provide your scripts with valuable information and make calculations for you, dispensing you from coding them.

Pine Script® Strategies are specialized scripts that simulate trades across historical and realtime bars, allowing users to backtest and forward test their trading systems.

In the Pine Script runtime environment, as your code is executed once for each historical bar in the dataset, starting from the left of the chart, Pine Script is adding a new element in the series …

A Pine script is not like many normal programs that execute once and then stop. In the Pine runtime environment, a script runs in the equivalent of an invisible loop where it is executed …

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A Pine script executes only once per historical bar, and all historical executions occur when the script first loads on the chart. As such, the timenow value is relatively consistent on historical …