Overview
Key Terminology
Definitions for Pineify's AI coding, Pine Script, screening, market research, optimization, backtest, and journaling workflows.
| Term | Meaning in Pineify |
|---|---|
| AI Coding Agent | A language-specific workflow that creates and revises Pine Script, MQL5, or cTrader C# from natural-language requirements. |
| Code artifact | The editable generated source kept in the coding workflow so the agent can make targeted revisions. |
| Syntax or compiler validation | A check for language and platform API diagnostics. Passing it does not prove trading correctness or profitability. |
| Visual Pine Script Editor | The no-code builder for combining indicators, price data, inputs, conditions, plots, alerts, and strategy orders into Pine Script V6. |
| Indicator | A script that calculates and displays market information without simulating orders. |
| Strategy | A script with entry and exit orders that TradingView can evaluate in Strategy Tester. |
| Screener | A tool or generated script that compares symbols against selected fields or conditions. A result is a research filter, not a prediction. |
| Input | A configurable value exposed in the generated script's settings. |
| Price Data | Open, high, low, close, volume, and related series for a symbol and timeframe. |
| Condition | A boolean rule built from indicators, price data, values, and logical operators. |
| Plot | A visual output such as a line, histogram, bar color, background, shape, or character. |
| Alert | A notification condition emitted by a Pine Script and configured in TradingView. |
| MCP | Model Context Protocol, used to connect compatible AI clients to Pineify's hosted read-only tools. |
| Options flow | Reported options transactions organized by contract, premium, side, and related attributes. It does not reveal every participant's intent. |
| Dark-pool trade | A reported off-exchange block print used as market-activity context. |
| Parameter optimization | Repeating a TradingView backtest over a defined grid of input values and comparing the recorded results. |
| Out-of-sample test | Evaluation on data that was not used to select or tune a strategy. |
| MFE / MAE | Maximum Favorable Excursion and Maximum Adverse Excursion: the best and worst unrealized movement observed during a trade. |
| Trading journal | A structured record of trades, setups, sessions, diary notes, and performance statistics. |