PineCoders Squawk Box

🌲 #newfeature A new time_tradingday variable for time returns the actual trading day the bar belongs to, which may differ from that returned by time on certain markets like forex. https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-reference/v4/#var_time_tradingday

🌲 #newfeature You can now export data from both the "Performance Summary" and the "List of Trades" tabs of the "Strategy Tester" panel.

🌲 #newfeature New banners in script pages When users open script pages now, new banners appear under their description. These are the changes we made: 1. The banner for each type of script (open-source, protected and invite-only) contains new text. 2. Instructions for traders on how to load the script on their chart are clearer. 3. Links to Help Center pages are provided. 4. TV blue is now used for the banner's frame on open-source scripts. The icon and banner frame of protected scripts is now black/white, and red is used for invite-only scripts. 5. For invite-only scripts • A new "Author's instructions" field allows authors to include instructions for users who want to request access to the script. DO NOT ask users to use the script's "Comments" section for this. Ask them to send you a private message or use the links which you may include in that new field. • You can ALSO use the new "Author's instructions" field to include links to external content that is specific to your script, such as a Google doc containing screenshots, or a TV or YouTube video. You CANNOT use this external content to replace your script's description, which must still contain the essential information our rules require. • The "Author's instructions" field will not appear retroactively on older publications because for those, it is empty. You can, however, populate or change the field when you update your script. • A warning now appears in invite-only banners, which links to new Help Center pages warning users about using invite-only scripts. • The Help Center page and banner text is different on public and private invite-only scripts. We invite traders to more caution before paying for private invite-only scripts. We hope you find these changes useful.

🌲 #newfeature You can now click on a trade in the "List of Trades" tab to move the chart to it. https://i.imgur.com/VLTOxjd.gif

🔈 #news Our Pine Wizards Nominees for 2021 https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/our-pine-wizards-nominees-for-2021-22754/

🔈 #news Even More Pine Functions Now Support Dynamic Length Arguments https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/more-pine-functions-support-dynamic-length-arguments-22719/

🔈 #news We revisit the powerful security(), which can also become a weapon of mass destruction when used improperly: https://www.tradingview.com/script/00jFIl5w-security-revisited-PineCoders/

🌲 #newfeature Big day today: We now have alerts with dynamic messages, in strategies or studies! https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/our-new-alerts-allow-for-dynamic-messages-22588/

🔈 #news String Manipulation Framework [PineCoders FAQ] https://www.tradingview.com/script/l0wdrsUO-String-Manipulation-Framework-PineCoders-FAQ/

🌲 #newfeature str.split(str, "") will now split the str string into an array of characters.

🔈 #news 2020: Big Leaps Forward for Pine and Indicators https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/2020-for-pine-and-indicators-22224/

💪 #tip See our FAQ entry on how to split a string into characters: https://www.pinecoders.com/faq_and_code/#how-can-i-split-a-string-into-characters

🔈 #news The Pine User Manual has a new page on debugging techniques: https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-docs/en/v4/Debugging.html

🔈 #news How PineCoders Write and Format Script Descriptions https://www.pinecoders.com/techniques/script_description/

🌲 #newfeature When invite-only script users are removed from the access list, they will lose access to the script after four hours, even if they do not refresh their browser tab.

🌲 #newfeature The new str.length() function returns the number of characters in a string: https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-reference/v4/#fun_str{dot}length

🌲 #newfeature Arrays now support three additional types: line ids, label ids and strings. Two new functions allow the manipulation of string with arrays: array.join() and str.split(): https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-reference/v4/#fun_array{dot}join https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-reference/v4/#fun_str{dot}split

🔈 #news We added a FAQ entry: How can I find the nth highest/lowest value in the last bars? https://www.pinecoders.com/faq_and_code/#how-can-i-find-the-nth-highestlowest-value-in-the-last-bars