Indicator · Pine Script v5 · On the chart

Bar States

by be-thomas

Bar States is an educational utility indicator that demonstrates Pine Script bar state variables directly on the price chart overlay.

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GitHub stars65on the repository
Pine versionv5runs as is
Lines of code22
Settings0inputs
LicenceGPL-3.0
Last update4 days ago24 Oct 2026

Add It to Your TradingView Chart

  1. 1Copy the scriptPress Copy script above, or the copy button on the code below.
  2. 2Open the Pine EditorOpen a TradingView chart and choose Pine Editor at the bottom of the screen.
  3. 3Paste over the templateCreate a new indicator, select all of the template text and paste. Press Save and give it a name.
  4. 4Add it to the chartPress Add to chart, then adjust the settings with the gear icon next to its name.

Source Code

22 lines of Pine Script v5 from examples/v5/tradingview-docs/v5-concepts-bar-states-05.pine, published under GPL-3.0. Keep the author's credit and licence lines when you reuse it.

v5-concepts-bar-states-05.pine
//@version=5
indicator("Bar States", overlay = true, max_labels_count = 500)

stateText() =>
    string txt = ""
    txt += barstate.isfirst     ? "isfirst\n"     : ""
    txt += barstate.islast      ? "islast\n"      : ""
    txt += barstate.ishistory   ? "ishistory\n"   : ""
    txt += barstate.isrealtime  ? "isrealtime\n"  : ""
    txt += barstate.isnew       ? "isnew\n"       : ""
    txt += barstate.isconfirmed ? "isconfirmed\n" : ""
    txt += barstate.islastconfirmedhistory ? "islastconfirmedhistory\n" : ""

labelColor = switch
    barstate.isfirst                => color.fuchsia
    barstate.islastconfirmedhistory => color.gray
    barstate.ishistory              => color.silver
    barstate.isconfirmed            => color.orange
    barstate.isnew                  => color.red
    => color.yellow

label.new(bar_index, na, stateText(), yloc = yloc.abovebar, color = labelColor)

Overview

On every bar, it evaluates execution context properties including historical status, real-time status, new bar creation, bar confirmation, and boundary conditions such as the first or last confirmed historical bar. The script constructs text labels above each candle listing all active states and applies color coding matching the primary bar condition to help developers visualize how Pine Script processes chart data.

Details

Published by

be-thomas on GitHub

Type

Indicator, Pine Script v5

Draws

On the price chart

Markets

Any symbol

Timeframes

Any timeframe

Risk Notes

No repainting, lookahead or stacked entries were found in its code or README. That says nothing about how well it works: test it first.

Topics

algorithmic-tradingbacktestingcompilerfintechjavascriptpinescripttechnical-analysistradingview

Third-party code. ForexR did not write, test or endorse this script, and the summary above was generated automatically from its code and README. Indicators describe the past, and a strategy's backtest can look better than live trading, especially when a script repaints. Check it in the Strategy Tester and on a demo account before you rely on it.

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