Indicator · Pine Script v6 · On the chart

HalfTrend

by everget

HalfTrend plots a trailing trend line on the price chart.

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GitHub stars948on the repository
Pine versionv6current
Lines of code104
Settings5inputs
LicenceGPL-3.0
Last update10 days ago18 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

104 lines of Pine Script v6 from trailing_stops/halftrend.pine, published under GPL-3.0. Keep the author's credit and licence lines when you reuse it.

halftrend.pine
//@version=6
// Copyright (c) 2021-present, Alex Orekhov (everget)
// HalfTrend script may be freely distributed under the terms of the GPL-3.0 license.
indicator('HalfTrend', overlay = true)

const string calcGroup = 'Calculation'
amplitude = input.int(2, title = 'Amplitude', group = calcGroup)
channelDeviation = input.int(2, title = 'Channel Deviation', group = calcGroup)

const string visualGroup = 'Visuals'
showArrows = input.bool(true, title = 'Show Arrows', group = visualGroup)
showChannels = input.bool(true, title = 'Show Channels', group = visualGroup)
showLabels = input.bool(true, title = 'Show Buy/Sell Labels', group = visualGroup)

//---

var int trend = 0
var int nextTrend = 0
var float maxLowPrice = nz(low[1], low)
var float minHighPrice = nz(high[1], high)

var float up = 0.0
var float down = 0.0
float atrHigh = 0.0
float atrLow = 0.0
float arrowUp = na
float arrowDown = na

atr2 = ta.atr(100) / 2
dev = channelDeviation * atr2

highPrice = high[math.abs(ta.highestbars(amplitude))]
lowPrice = low[math.abs(ta.lowestbars(amplitude))]
highma = ta.sma(high, amplitude)
lowma = ta.sma(low, amplitude)

if nextTrend == 1
    maxLowPrice := math.max(lowPrice, maxLowPrice)

    if highma < maxLowPrice and close < nz(low[1], low)
        trend := 1
        nextTrend := 0
        minHighPrice := highPrice
        minHighPrice
else
    minHighPrice := math.min(highPrice, minHighPrice)

    if lowma > minHighPrice and close > nz(high[1], high)
        trend := 0
        nextTrend := 1
        maxLowPrice := lowPrice
        maxLowPrice

if trend == 0
    if not na(trend[1]) and trend[1] != 0
        up := na(down[1]) ? down : down[1]
        arrowUp := up - atr2
        arrowUp
    else
        up := na(up[1]) ? maxLowPrice : math.max(maxLowPrice, up[1])
        up
    atrHigh := up + dev
    atrLow := up - dev
    atrLow
else
    if not na(trend[1]) and trend[1] != 1
        down := na(up[1]) ? up : up[1]
        arrowDown := down + atr2
        arrowDown
    else
        down := na(down[1]) ? minHighPrice : math.min(minHighPrice, down[1])
        down
    atrHigh := down + dev
    atrLow := down - dev
    atrLow

ht = trend == 0 ? up : down

const color buyColor = color.blue
const color sellColor = color.red
const color textColor = color.white
const color buyFillColor = color.new(buyColor, 85)
const color sellFillColor = color.new(sellColor, 85)

htColor = trend == 0 ? buyColor : sellColor
htPlot = plot(ht, title = 'HalfTrend', linewidth = 2, color = htColor)

atrHighPlot = plot(showChannels ? atrHigh : na, title = 'ATR High', style = plot.style_circles, color = sellColor)
atrLowPlot = plot(showChannels ? atrLow : na, title = 'ATR Low', style = plot.style_circles, color = buyColor)

fill(htPlot, atrHighPlot, title = 'ATR High Ribbon', color = sellFillColor)
fill(htPlot, atrLowPlot, title = 'ATR Low Ribbon', color = buyFillColor)

buySignal = not na(arrowUp) and trend == 0 and trend[1] == 1
sellSignal = not na(arrowDown) and trend == 1 and trend[1] == 0

plotshape(showArrows and buySignal ? atrLow : na, title = 'Arrow Up', style = shape.triangleup, location = location.absolute, size = size.tiny, color = buyColor)
plotshape(showArrows and sellSignal ? atrHigh : na, title = 'Arrow Down', style = shape.triangledown, location = location.absolute, size = size.tiny, color = sellColor)

plotshape(showLabels and buySignal ? atrLow : na, title = 'Buy Label', text = 'Buy', location = location.absolute, style = shape.labelup, size = size.tiny, color = buyColor, textcolor = textColor)
plotshape(showLabels and sellSignal ? atrHigh : na, title = 'Sell Label', text = 'Sell', location = location.absolute, style = shape.labeldown, size = size.tiny, color = sellColor, textcolor = textColor)

alertcondition(buySignal, title = 'HalfTrend Buy', message = 'HalfTrend Buy, {{exchange}}:{{ticker}}')
alertcondition(sellSignal, title = 'HalfTrend Sell', message = 'HalfTrend Sell, {{exchange}}:{{ticker}}')

Overview

HalfTrend tracks recent highs and lows over an amplitude window and flips between up and down when a simple moving average of highs or lows crosses the tracked extreme and price confirms. The line is blue in an uptrend and red in a downtrend. Optional ATR channel bands, arrows, and buy or sell labels mark those changes. Amplitude and channel deviation control sensitivity and band width. It does not place trades or set exits.

Details

Published by

everget on GitHub

Type

Indicator, Pine Script v6

Draws

On the price chart

Category

Trend, Volatility & bands

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

pinepinescripttechnical-indicatorsindicatorsoscillatorbandsaveragetradingviewindicatormoving-average

Settings

The inputs you can change from the gear icon on the chart. Defaults are the author's.

SettingTypeDefaultVariable
Amplitudeint2amplitude
Channel Deviationint2channelDeviation
Show ArrowsbooltrueshowArrows
Show ChannelsbooltrueshowChannels
Show Buy/Sell LabelsbooltrueshowLabels
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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