Who are PineCoders?

People often ask us who PineCoders are. Simply put, we are a group of Pine programmers who aim to contribute to the TradingView ecosystem. Many of the Pine Wizards are PineCoders, yet many PineCoders are not Wizards. We are a relatively small group of just about 40. Our group of programmers contributes to the ever-growing community in many ways. Some may create script publications for users to benefit from, while other members are Pine experts contributing in different, often anonymous, ways. We don't publish a list of PineCoders members because many are happy avoiding the limelight; they do what they do for the love of Pine and our community.

PineCoders strive to represent, in a balanced way, the interests of Pine programmers, script publishers and vendors, and the traders who use scripts on TradingView. Oh, and we have lots of fun together.


█ WHAT DO PINECODERS DO?

Many of you recognize us as the script moderators who operate this account. However, script moderation is only one manifestation of our activities. In the Pine realm, we also:
 • Help maintain and evolve the Script Publishing Rules and Vendor Requirements.
 • Answer questions in the Q&A forums we support: the Q&A chat on TradingView, the Telegram Q&A group, and Stack Overflow.
 • Moderate the Telegram Q&A group and the Q&A chat on TradingView.
 • Manage the private spaces where our top programmers share and help improve Pine.
 • Design solutions to improve the Pine-related aspects of TradingView.
 • Help define Pine-related development priorities.
 • Tally suggestions for improvement from Pine users.
 • Answer Pine-related support tickets.
 • Test new features and changes to Pine.
 • Report bugs.
 • Publish content from the PineCoders and TradingView accounts.
 • Publish a monthly script in TASC and from the PineCodersTASC account.
 • Publish Pine-related news in our broadcast channels.
 • Select and support our Trusted Pine Programmers for Hire.
 • Select the Editors' Picks for Community Scripts.
 • Select the yearly Pine Wizards nominees.
 • Organize Pinefests, the Pine programming contests.
 • Collaborate on the technical documentation of Pine.


█ HOW ARE PINECODERS CHOSEN?

Any member of PineCoders can propose a candidacy. When our management team approves it, they submit the nomination to our members to cast their votes. If the majority of our group agrees, we send an invitation to the user. We select people who are agile in Pine and interested in contributing to our ever-growing community. We keep our group relatively small but diverse, as we believe it fosters a dynamic conducive to productive exchanges and efficient decision making.


█ WHAT'S YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH TRADINGVIEW?

A handful of users launched PineCoders in 2019 with the support of a TradingView co-founder who recognized the potential of uniting power users with good ideas to improve Pine. The official support from this visionary and our daily collaboration with key TradingView teams are some of the main reasons we can successfully realize our projects.

We founded PineCoders as a volunteer group, and to this day, the vast majority of PineCoders activities are made possible because of volunteer contributions. As our projects evolved and some work required a few of us to commit to internal TradingView activities, those few also added contract work for TradingView to their volunteer activities within PineCoders.


█ WE ARE NOT ALONE

Our group does not hold a monopoly on good deeds. Many other Pine programmers also contribute to the strength and liveliness of our unique community.

With TradingView being so popular, a constant influx of newcomers to Pine want to learn how to enhance their trading practice by programming indicators and strategies. It would be impossible for PineCoders to support them alone, and it's comforting to see that even today, some people still find purpose in volunteering their time and knowledge to help others.

Thank you to all those who help our fantastic community in one way or another.