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Introduction to Pine Script: Start Creating Your Own Indicators and Strategies

Nov 27, 202512
#Pine Script#TradingView#automated trading#algo trading#strategy development

Introduction to Pine Script (Part 1)

Pine Script is a simple yet powerful scripting language used on TradingView for creating indicators and trading strategies.

What is Pine Script?

A lightweight scripting language designed for technical analysis and algorithmic systems.

TradingView Editor

Pine Script is written directly inside the TradingView editor:
https://sancoqhub.com/go/tradingview

Your First Pine Script Code

//@version=5
indicator("My First Indicator", overlay=true)
plot(close)

Indicator vs Strategy

  • Indicator → visual
  • Strategy → simulates trades

First Strategy

//@version=5
strategy("Simple Strategy", overlay=true)
longCondition = close > open
if longCondition
    strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long)

Pine Script Core Structure

  • Variables
  • Functions
  • plot()
  • ta. library (EMA, RSI, etc.)

Premium Recommendation

More alerts, more chart layouts, more data:
https://sancoqhub.com/go/tradingview

Conclusion

You now know the basics of Pine Script.
Next part will cover variables, operators, and inputs.