How to draw a vertical line in TradingView pine script?

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not2qubit picture not2qubit · Dec 2, 2017 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

I'm trying to use the web based TradingView platform to make my own custom scripts to display various financial market properties. This is possible through its pine scripting engine/interpreter.

At the moment I'm trying to simply display a vertical line on either the main chart or on an indicator chart. However, it doesn't seem that their scripting engine is supporting vertical lines, except by using the plot's histogram or column types. Either way, I am not able to get any satisfactory lines.

SOME TESTS

(1) I've had some minor success with using bgcolor() like this:

//@version=3
study(title="vbar1", overlay = false)
trange(res, sess) => not na(time(res, sess))
vlinecol = #000000 // black
plot(n, color = na) // check last value from plot but don't display
vline =  (n < 5710) ? na : trange("1", "0700-0701") ? vlinecol : na
bgcolor(vline, transp=0)

This results in:

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(2) A much better result when using plot() with the style=histogram argument:

//@version=3
study(title="vbar2", overlay = true) // scale=scale.none only for overlay=true
vlinecol = #000000 // black
cond = barstate.islast
bh = 10*high   // Use 10 x the window max price height for top of vbar (or use 1e20)
bo = -10       // Set offset from last bar
plot(cond ? bh : na, color=vlinecol, linewidth=2, offset=bo, style = histogram, transp=0)

with the following result:

enter image description here

Answer

Dany Chamoun picture Dany Chamoun · Jul 7, 2018

It is an old post, but this could help others. You can use this to draw a line:

testPeriodStart = timestamp(testStartYear,testStartMonth,testStartDay,0,0)
plot((time==testPeriodStart)?10e20:na,color=black, linewidth=1, style=line)

I was not able to plot a dashed line though

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