Do I need to know how to code to use Agenticks?

No. AlgoAgent accepts prompts and converts them directly into backtestable strategies. AlgoAgent does the same for TradingView indicators. No coding, no Pine Script, no programming background required.

AlgoAgent is the product. You describe a trading idea and it turns that into explicit entry, exit, sizing and risk rules, writes the strategy as sandboxed Python, runs it over the included market history, and hands back every trade so you can judge the idea yourself.

How long can I run a backtest?

As far back as the instrument's own history goes. US stocks and ETFs run from as early as 2000-01-01 through 2026-03-31 and supported futures from 2016, at 1m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h and 1d. There is no five-year cap. Results include an equity curve, a full trade log, drawdown analysis, regime breakdown, Monte Carlo resampled from the real trades, and a prop firm pass estimate.

What is the AlgoAgent live automation lane?

On the Agent plan an approved strategy places its own orders through the brokerage you connected with SnapTrade (Interactive Brokers, Alpaca, Wealthsimple, Webull, Moomoo, Coinbase, Kraken, Binance and more). It runs on Agenticks servers, not in your browser, so it keeps running when your computer is off. You approve the strategy, pick the account, set sizing and risk limits, and arm it explicitly. Editing it creates a new version that needs a new approval. Several supported brokers are read-only. Paper-test first.

PineScript and TradingView Indicators

PineScript v6, custom TradingView indicators, alerts, and indicator workflows explained for traders who want structured chart logic.

Guides in this category

PineScript v6 Explained for Traders: PineScript v6 explained from a trader's perspective: indicators, alerts, strategies, what changed in v6, and how Agenticks supports custom indicator workflows.
How Custom TradingView Indicators Help Traders Structure Better Setups: Why building or using custom indicators leads to more consistent chart analysis compared to relying on public indicators with unknown assumptions.
PineScript Indicator vs Strategy: What Is the Difference?: The structural difference between PineScript indicator scripts and strategy scripts, and when each type is appropriate.
What Makes a Good TradingView Indicator?: The criteria that separate useful, structured indicators from visually appealing but fundamentally misleading chart tools.
Why Most Custom Indicators Look Good but Trade Poorly: Why an indicator that appears to identify setups visually often fails to produce results in a structured backtest or live trading context.
How to Think About Alerts, Signals, and Conditions in TradingView: The logic behind building alert conditions, signal triggers, and plot conditions in PineScript v6 for structured trading workflows.
PineScript v6: What Traders Need to Know Before Building Indicators: The key syntax and structural differences in v6 that traders should understand before writing or modifying PineScript code.
Custom Indicators vs Public Indicators: Which Should Traders Use?: A practical comparison of building your own indicators versus using public library scripts, including transparency and control tradeoffs.
How to Convert a Trading Idea Into a TradingView Indicator: A structured process for translating a trading concept into PineScript v6 indicator logic using Agenticks's AlgoAgent workflow.
The Trader's Guide to PineScript Without the Coding Headache: How traders can work with PineScript v6 using structured tools and generation workflows instead of learning programming from scratch.
How AI Generated TradingView Indicators Work: AI can turn a described indicator concept into working PineScript v6. What the generation process handles well, what still needs a trader's review, and how to use the output as a tested starting point.
How to Create a PineScript Indicator With AI: Instead of learning PineScript syntax, you describe the logic and the AI writes v6-compliant code. A practical guide to generating, reviewing, and refining a custom TradingView indicator without coding from scratch.
Building Custom Indicators With a No-Code AI Indicator Builder: A no-code builder lets traders assemble and generate indicator logic without writing a line of PineScript. How component-based and AI-driven indicator creation compares to hand-coding.
How to Describe an Indicator Idea and Get Working PineScript: The quality of an AI-generated indicator depends on how clearly you state the rules. How to translate a chart idea into a precise prompt that produces clean, v6-compliant PineScript.
OTE and Standard Deviation Projections Explained: Optimal trade entry zones and standard deviation projections give structured reference areas off a defined move. How the OTE and StdDev indicator framework maps those zones on the chart.
Best Volume Profile Indicator for TradingView: How to Pick: Row size, range type and session handling change what a profile shows. What to check before you trust one, free or paid.
Free vs Paid TradingView Indicators: What Actually Differs: Price is not the only difference between free and paid indicators. How to judge logic quality, repainting, and whether an indicator gives context you can actually test.
Pine Script: Indicator vs Strategy, and When to Use Each: An indicator draws context. A strategy simulates entries and exits and gives you stats. Which to build, and how to convert one to the other.
How to Add Alerts to a PineScript Indicator: Alerts turn a visual indicator into something you can act on without watching the chart. How alert conditions work in PineScript v6 and how to generate them cleanly.
How to Convert a TradingView Indicator Into a Strategy: Turning an indicator into a testable strategy means defining entries, exits, and risk explicitly. How traders make that jump in PineScript v6 or with AI assistance.
How to Build a TradingView Indicator With AI, Just by Describing It: Describe the indicator you want and an AI writes the PineScript for you. Here's how AI PineScript generators work, how to phrase a request, and what to check before you trust it.
What Is a Repainting Indicator? A 60-Second Test: A repainting indicator redraws its own past signals, so the backtest you saw never happened. How to catch one before you trade it.
Indicator vs Strategy on TradingView: Which Do You Need?: An indicator draws information on your chart; a strategy simulates buying and selling it, and only a strategy can be backtested. Here's the prompt-driven difference and when you actually need each one.
The Best Free Volume Profile Indicator on TradingView: TradingView's built-in volume profile is free and does the job. What POC, VAH and VAL mean, and how to set it up in under a minute.
How to Make TradingView Indicators (No Coding): Making a TradingView indicator without coding is simple now. You describe the indicator, an AI agent writes the Pine Script, and you paste it onto your chart. Here is the full no-code path, start to finish.
How to Make a Pine Script Indicator With AI: Want a custom TradingView indicator but don't know Pine Script? You can skip the syntax. Describe the logic you want, let an AI write clean v6 code, and paste it into TradingView.
How to Make a Custom TradingView Indicator: Want an indicator that marks exactly what you watch for on a chart? You can build one without writing code. Describe the levels, lines, and highlights you want, generate the script, then add it to TradingView.
How to Use the OTE and Standard Deviation Indicator on TradingView: A clear walkthrough of the OTE zone and standard deviation projections on TradingView: what each one marks on your chart, and how to read them as reference areas for context, not automatic buy or sell points.
How to Add a Volume Profile Indicator to TradingView: Volume profile shows how much trading happened at each price instead of each moment. Here's how to add it to a TradingView chart, and how to read the POC, value area, and volume nodes as context.

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