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Pinescript requires many of its built-in functions to use a simple int as their period length, which entails the period length cannot vary during the script's execution. These functions allow using a series int or series float for their period length, which means it can vary on each bar. The functions shared in this script include: Rolling sum: ...

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This script provides a framework to add alerts to a script. It uses a method and provides code that: — Allows the indicator's users to select the plotting of markers representing the different conditions used to trigger alerts. — Allows filtering of the markers on direction: both, longs only, shorts only. — Uses a single alert for the indicator. It will trigger...

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This indicator shows how to avoid repainting when using the security() function to retrieve information from higher timeframes. What do we mean by repainting? Repainting is used to describe three different things, in what we’ve seen in TV members comments on indicators: 1. An indicator showing results that change during the realtime bar, whether the script is...

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Much confusion exists in the TradingView community about backtesting on non-standard charts. This script tries to shed some light on the subject in the hope that traders make better use of those chart types. Non-standard charts are: Heikin Ashi (HA) Renko Kagi Point & Figure Range These chart types are called non-standard because they all transform market...

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Even when your code does not use security() calls, repainting dynamics still come into play in the realtime bar. Script coders and users must understand them and, if they choose to avoid repainting, need to know how to do so. This script demonstrates three methods to avoid repainting when NOT using the security() function. Note that repainting dynamics when ...

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Our MTF Selection Framework allows Pine coders to add multi-timeframe capabilities to their script with the following features: ► Timeframe selection The higher timeframe can be selected using 3 different ways: • By steps (60 min., 1D, 3D, 1W, 1M, 1Y). • As a multiple of the current chart's resolution, which can be fractional, so 3.5 will work. • Fixed. ►...

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The need to calculate averages (arithmetic mean) comes up here and there in scripts. When you want the average of a value only when a given condition has occurred, you will often not be able to use the standard sma function in Pine because it will average all values in the series. Even if you take care to use your condition to set non-conforming values to zero,...

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█  OVERVIEW Calculating time-based offsets is necessary when coders need to draw lines or labels into the future because using `xloc = xloc.bar_time` in `label.new()` or `line.new()` is then mandatory. This script provides a function to help with those calculations: f_timeFrom(_from, _qty, _units) The function calculates a negative (into the past) or...

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This script calculates the run time of a Pine script. While its numbers are not very precise and it doesn’t work on all scripts, it will help developers calculate run times more precisely than by hand, and so provides Pine coders with an additional profiling tool to help them optimize their code. How to use the code • Place the code included between the...

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This simply provides links to the scripts I publish from other accounts on TradingView.

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This script prints a trade number <1000 on the chart. It requires at least 3 bars between successive entries.