Turning a trading idea into a TradingView script that actually compiles: Pine v6 rules, the errors that break a build, and how to test a strategy before risking anything on it.
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Describe an indicator in plain English and get Pine Script that runs on TradingView. A full worked example, from prompt to chart, with the checks that matter.
What backtesting actually tells you, how to run one on TradingView, and how to read the report so a losing strategy does not look like a winning one.
What Pine Script is, what it can and cannot do, where to write it, and how far you can get describing what you want instead of coding it.
How HFT actually works, what it costs to compete, and which parts of the retail complaint about it are true.
The parts of a strategy description that decide whether the resulting script works, from what to draw to the exit rules almost everyone leaves vague.
The Pine v6 mistakes that actually break a TradingView build, what each error means, and the ones that compile cleanly and still draw nothing on your chart.
What quant trading means, where the institutional version is out of reach, and the part a retail trader can genuinely use without a maths degree.
A session range break strategy that built with zero errors and finished at 0.939 profit factor. The code was fine and the exit rule was not.