OPEN-SOURCE SCRIPT
[-_-] Custom Type Examples
Description:
This script shows an example use of new Pinescript's feature called User Defined Types, which can be seen as analogue of <struct> from C++ or <dataclass> from Python. It is not an indicator for technical analysis, and serves only as an example of how to use the new feature mentioned above.
In the script I define 4 custom types and a custom initialisation function for each:
- Point (represents a coordinate with x -> bar_index, y -> price)
- Tria (creates a triangle using <line> objects and <point> objects as coordinates of 3 points)
- Path (creates a path-like object from an <array> of <point>)
- Trade (creates a visual representation of a Long/Short trade with set Take Profit and Stop Loss, and displays an info label with realized Profit/Loss)
I'd personally like to see this feature improved by adding methods (so that we could, for example, define functions inside a custom type), which could be an analogue of classes from other programming languages.
This script shows an example use of new Pinescript's feature called User Defined Types, which can be seen as analogue of <struct> from C++ or <dataclass> from Python. It is not an indicator for technical analysis, and serves only as an example of how to use the new feature mentioned above.
In the script I define 4 custom types and a custom initialisation function for each:
- Point (represents a coordinate with x -> bar_index, y -> price)
- Tria (creates a triangle using <line> objects and <point> objects as coordinates of 3 points)
- Path (creates a path-like object from an <array> of <point>)
- Trade (creates a visual representation of a Long/Short trade with set Take Profit and Stop Loss, and displays an info label with realized Profit/Loss)
I'd personally like to see this feature improved by adding methods (so that we could, for example, define functions inside a custom type), which could be an analogue of classes from other programming languages.
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