Teach Yourself Coding Indicators in PineScript

This book has improved edition by the name "Tradingview Pine Script Programming from Scratch" which also includes trade strategies and arrays. It is recommended to purchase above improvised book.

Teach Yourself Coding Indicators in PineScript provides a good starting point for you in PineScript programming. It covers important topics in PineScript and lays a solid foundation for a serious beginner. After reading this book, you will be able to write basic PineScript programs on your own to develop Indicators in tradingview platform. It is a simple book to read with to understand the concepts and programming skills introduced in the book. The best part is that this book offers many sample programs and exercises with clear explanations and answers, that makes the concepts of the PineScript easier to understand. If this is your first time learning any programming language, this book is written for you. In fact, in writing this book it is assumed that the readers have no prior programming experience.
Topics Covered
CHAPTER -1: TAKING THE FIRST STEP
- What PineScript is ?
- Why you need to learn PineScript?
- Assumptions About You
- Setting Up Your System
CHAPTER -2: YOUR FIRST PROGRAM IN PINESCRIPT
- A Simple PineScript Code
- Compiling and running the script
- What are Builtin Functions?
- Example of Other Built-in Functions
- What are Builtin Variables?
CHAPTER -3: PLOTTING ON THE CHART
- Moving Average Crossover
- The plot function
- Arguments to plot function
CHAPTER -4: UNDERSTANDING DATA TYPES
- Concept of DataType
- Concept of Variable
- Arithmetic Operations in Series Variable
CHAPTER -5: OPERATORS IN PINESCRIPT
- Assignment Operator
- Arithmetic Operators
- Comparison Operators
- Logical Operators
- Identifying Doji
- Drawing Shapes on Chart
CHAPTER -6: CONTROL-FLOW: ITERATION
- Flow Chart
- Repeating task
- The for loop statement
CHAPTER -7: CONTROL-FLOW: BRANCHING
- The iff statement
- The conditional operator
- The "if....else..." statement
CHAPTER -8: FUNCTIONS
- The need for user-defined functions
- Understanding function
- Defining Custom Functions in Script
- Scope of Variables
CHAPTER-09: EXAMPLES USING FUNCTIONS
- ZigZag Indicator
- Identifying "BAT" Harmonic Pattern
CHAPTER -10: BUILT-IN LINE FUNCTION
- Line Function
- Example joining pivot points
CHAPTER -11: CUSTOMIZABLE SCRIPT - TAKING INPUT FROM USERS
- The input function
- Boolean input provide toggle button
- Integer input
- Float input
- Symbol input
- Resolution input
- Source input
- Option argument of the input function
CHAPTER -12: INDICATORS & CODE LIBRARY- Built-in Indicators
- Publishing Code to Trading View
CHAPTER-13: ERRORS AND THEIR REMEDY