PineCoders Squawk Box

🔈 #news See our awards for the best scripts from our 2023 Editors' Picks: https://www.tradingview.com/chart/SPY/Z90fypln-Best-Editors-Picks-of-2023/

🔈 #news Meet our new Pine Wizards.

🌲 #newfeature The Pine Editor now helps you track unsaved changes to your code: https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/track-unsaved-changes-in-the-pine-editor-42549/

🌲 #newfeature The plot*() functions have two new parameters, format and precision, which allow you to selectively control how they display values in the chart pane’s y-axis, the script’s status line, and the Data Window: https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-docs/en/v5/Release_notes.html#december-2023

🔈 #news A new User Manual page on request.*() functions was rolled out: https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-docs/en/v5/concepts/Other_timeframes_and_data.html#

🔈 #news You sometimes ask us who PineCoders are. We tried to explain things in here.

🔈 #news The winners of Pinefest #1 are out. Warm thanks to all participants.

🌲 #newfeature Draw irregular shapes with the new polyline drawings: https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/pine-script-polyline-drawings-41467/

🔈 #news Pinefest #1 is out! You have one week to submit an entry to our Pine Script® programming contest. The winner will receive 500 USD. https://www.tradingview.com/chart/SPY/ZTjv3sPV-Pinefest-1/

🌲 #newfeature Use external EOD data from a GitHub repo in your scripts with our new Pine Seeds and `request.seed()`: https://github.com/tradingview-pine-seeds/docs

🔈 #news Read about our new Pinefests and how you could win 500 USD: https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/tradingview-pinefests-2023-40832/

🌲 #newfeature An ignore_invalid_timeframe parameter was added to request.security_lower_tf(). It provides more control over the runtime errors generated by scripts using the function: https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-reference/v5/#fun_request.security_lower_tf

🌲 #newfeature The syntax of Pine Script® code blocks in chats and published script descriptions is now highlighted.

🌲 #newfeature Access future dividend information with three new variables: `dividends.future_amount, dividends.future_ex_date and dividends.future_pay_date`.

🌲 #newfeature ticker.inherit() now allows you to transport symbol modifiers from one symbol to another when creating tickers for request.*() functions, including previously inaccessible modifiers such as back-adjustment: https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-reference/v5/#fun_ticker%7Bdot%7Dinherit

🌲 #newfeature A new timeframe.from_seconds() function makes it easier to manipulate timeframes when used in conjunction with the existing timeframe.in_seconds(). See the code example in the new function's entry in the Reference Manual.

🔈 #news The z-index of visual elements has changed. Among the changes, fills now appear behind plots and hlines: https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-docs/en/v5/concepts/Colors.html#z-index

🌲 #newfeature Consider using the new Pine Script® maps when you need efficient lookup tables in scripts: https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/pine-script-now-features-maps-40538/

🌲 #newfeature Debug with Pine Logs! https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/pine-logs-in-pine-script-40490/

🌲 #newfeature The Reference Manual was reorganized in more meaningful sections, which you can see in its left navigation pane. Also, items in each sections are now ordered alphabetically.