Basic types
Time
Milliseconds since the Unix epoch, UTC.
Color
A colour: #rrggbb, #rrggbbaa, or a theme token from color.* (theme:up, theme:down,
theme:neutral, theme:panel, theme:none, theme:study:<0-15>, each with an optional alpha suffix such as
theme:[email protected]). null means “the theme’s colour for this output”, which is what a plot uses
when no colour is given.
SourceName
A price-derived value of the bar a source input can pick.
Venue
Which venue a market trades on. Defaults to the chart’s venue.
IntervalCode
An interval code. Time: 1m 3m 5m 15m 30m 1h 2h 4h 8h 12h 1d 1w, and calendar
months 1M 2M 3M 4M 6M 12M (capital M; 1m is a minute). Weeks open on Monday
00:00 UTC and months on the 1st, from January. Bars that close on trades (see src/browser/trade-bars.mjs): s15 seconds, t500 trades,
v1000000 volume, d250000 delta, r10 range, k10 renko, x10-0 reversal.
PaneName
Where a value is drawn: the price pane, the script’s own pane ('own'), or a named pane of this script.
LineStyle
LineWidth
ShapeName
A shape to mark a bar with. labelUp and labelDown are labels with a pointer: labelUp
sits below its point and points up at it, labelDown sits above and points down; their
text is written inside.
ShapeLocation
Size
na is the missing number, a float NaN: arithmetic with it gives na, and every comparison
with it is false, as in Pine. Missing strings, colours and objects are null.
nz()
x, or replacement (default 0) when x is na.
isNa()
Whether x is na (for numbers) or null.
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