Book Review: Teach Yourself Coding Indicators in PineScript

 PineScript is a TradingView Platform Programming script, designed for the development of custom indicators in TradingView Platform. The e-Book and paperback book - " Teach Yourself Coding Indicators in PineScript" are available on Amazon in its various markets.

This book is intended for beginners with no or little knowledge of computer programming. In case you are an experienced programmer, I would suggest you go through the PineScript manual available on the TV website as you will find that the content is more targeted towards beginners with no prior programming experience.

The author of the book has about 20 years of experience in programming and has the patience to teach hard concepts with simple examples. This man can really teach any beginner. The author is also an instructor at Udemy for the course "Creating trade strategies & backtesting using PineScript" wherein also the author has earned a reputation and good reviews from his students.

In any case, learning PineScript will profit you when you start to apply programming skills gained to real problems. You will be able to take full advantage of the TradingView Platform by understanding the concepts and logic behind the trade scripts of other pine programmers.

The book starts with basic concepts like variables and their types which have been explained neatly with nice examples and are intended for learners with no programming skills. The codes are put in separate boxes and each code is followed by the result and then line by line explanation. The book has separate chapters on errors generated while compilation of script. The solution to identify errors and to correct them is also provided in the book. The book has codes with neat explanations for identification of doji, plotting moving average crossover, plotting of zigzag indicator, identifying BAT harmonic pattern, and plotting of other indicators.

The only drawback in the paperback book is that it is not colored and sometimes I had to really struggle to understand charts printed in the book. The e-book has been priced at USD 2.99 and the paperback book has been priced at USD 6.36.

I recommend this book to all serious learners who want to apply technicals to charts. By using this book and learning codes, you will also be able to by-pass the limitation put on by TradingView on the maximum number of indicators that a user may use in a basic free version of TradingView.

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