Visual

It is a color decomposer: it converts a hex color's alpha (opacity) byte to the 0-1 scale (e.g. 0x80 → 0.502). Where red/green/blue give channels, alpha gives opacity.

The color can be a series; with iff each candle takes its own color by condition. barcolor colors INSTANTANEOUSLY — each bar's color depends only on that bar's condition. To color a region continuously until the signal changes, use colorBySignal.

The color can be a series; with iff you give a different color per bar by condition (or na → no shading). bgcolor paints the entire vertical bar stripe — it is independent of price level.

It is a color decomposer: it extracts the blue component from a hex color. Together with red/green/alpha it is used to take a color apart and rebuild it with rgb.

It requires a strategy (a position must be opened with enterLong/enterShort). Colors are applied after the backtest runs, by looking at each bar's position: long>0 → long color, short<0 → short color, otherwise flat. The actual position state, not a condition, decides.

It takes two signals and holds STATE: on longSignal the region turns green and stays so until shortSignal arrives; on shortSignal it turns red. Before the first signal it uses the flat color. Where barcolor(iff(...)) colors each bar instantaneously and looks speckled, this produces continuous green/red blocks.

Both edges may be series; a constant number is broadcast to every bar. The fill covers the vertical gap between a and b; the area is shaded correctly even where the edges cross. You usually plot both edges as well to make the band visible.

It is a color decomposer: it extracts the green component from a hex color. Together with red/blue/alpha it is used to take a color apart and rebuild it with rgb.

The level is a single constant number — it does not change bar to bar. If you pass an indicator series (e.g. sma(close,50)) only its last-bar value is used to draw a flat line at that height; for a moving line use plot.

condition is a series; one mark is drawn per true bar. It is a compact helper for quickly flagging signals — location and size are adjustable, but it lacks the finer controls (offset/textcolor) of plotshape.

Colors are hex codes; see the Colors section for ready-made options.

The arrow height is proportional to |value| (clipped to minheight..maxheight); it visualizes the magnitude.

Unlike plotcandle: there is NO body (filled rectangle) — just a vertical high-low line with a short tick on the left for open and on the right for close. The whole bar is a SINGLE color (no separate body/wick/border colors like plotcandle).

For drawing your own OHLC (e.g. Heikin-Ashi, rescaled) or conditionally colored candles. The color can be conditioned on a series.

Like plotshape, but instead of a fixed shape it draws the character/glyph you choose. The collision-avoidance rule in text works the same as plotshape.

series is a boolean/series; a shape is drawn on every true bar. location positions the shape relative to the bar. Adding in text (at the END of the text for abovebar, at the START for belowbar) pushes the label away from the bar — use this to avoid overlapping another label on the same bar (e.g. the automatic buy/sell marker).

It is a color decomposer: it extracts the red component from a hex color. Together with green/blue/alpha it is used to take a color apart and rebuild it with rgb.

It is a color builder: it assembles one hex color from three channels + opacity. opaklik is on a 0-1 scale and is rounded to a 0-255 alpha byte (e.g. 0.15 → 0x26). You can feed the result anywhere a color is expected — plot/barcolor/bgcolor/fill.