Indicator · Pine Script v5 · On the chart

Trend SNEK

by rajatjpatel

A price chart overlay that plots the highest high and lowest low of the previous set number of bars, ten by default, together with a midline between them.

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GitHub stars1on the repository
Pine versionv5runs as is
Lines of code23
Settings1inputs
LicenceNone statedfile: MPL-2.0
Last update4 years ago18 Oct 2022

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

23 lines of Pine Script v5 from trendsnek.txt, published under MPL-2.0 (file header). Keep the author's credit and licence lines when you reuse it.

trendsnek.txt
// This source code is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License 2.0 at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
// :copyright: plewis22782

//@version=5

//Thanks to the great folks at kodify for all their explainations of functions. 

indicator("Trend SNEK", overlay=true)
//gather user input for lookback
TRL=input.int(10, minval=2, title="Trading Range Lookback", group = "Trading Range")

//request data for bar highs and lows
highestHighs = ta.highest(high, TRL)[1]
lowestLows   = ta.lowest(low, TRL)[1]

//plot bar highes and lows and plot BG colored with potential breakouts.

highestPlot = plot(highestHighs, color=color.green, offset=0, linewidth=1, title="SMMA")
lowestPlot = plot(lowestLows, color=color.red,offset=0, linewidth=1, title="SMMA")
middle = highestHighs - ((highestHighs - lowestLows)/2)
plot(middle)

fill(highestPlot, lowestPlot, color= high>highestHighs[1] ? color.green : low<lowestLows[1]  ? color.red : na , transp=50, title = "Trend Fill")

Overview

The area between the bands is shaded green when the current bar's high breaks above the prior upper line and red when the low breaks below the prior lower line, which highlights possible range breakouts. The lookback length is the only setting. It has no alerts, entries or exits.

Details

Published by

rajatjpatel on GitHub

Type

Indicator, Pine Script v5

Draws

On the price chart

Category

Breakout, Support & resistance

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.

Settings

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

SettingTypeDefaultVariable
Trading Range Lookbackint10TRL
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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