Pine Script archive: 50+ indicators, what survived
I have written more than 50 Pine scripts. Five or six survived as daily-use tools. The rest is a graveyard, and the graveyard taught me what survival looks like.
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If I open the cloud folder, there are 53 Pine Script files. Most of them are dated 2021–2023, when I was building a personal toolkit and pushing publish on TradingView every other week. Today I use five of them daily, two weekly, and the rest sit there as a graveyard.
What the survivors have in common
- One job. Every survivor does one thing. The dead ones tried to be three indicators in a trenchcoat.
- Readable on the chart. Two colours, one or two lines, labels only where they matter. The dead ones look like a Christmas tree.
- No magic parameters. Every input has a clear meaning. The dead ones have
multiplier,tolerance,filterStrengthwith no story. - Stable defaults. The survivors work out of the box. The dead ones require ten minutes of tuning before they make sense.
The five I use daily
Keltner Zones with squeeze. Volume profile by session. Wyckoff event labels (a port of my cTrader one). A custom range-day detector. A simple multi-timeframe trend ribbon.
Together they take maybe 40 lines of inputs and 600 lines of code. That's a healthy ratio.
What the graveyard taught me
The instinct, when an indicator "doesn't work," is to add a feature. That instinct is wrong. The correct move is almost always to remove a feature. Every survivor in my list is the third or fourth version, after I deleted code, not after I added it.