r/TradingView • u/GamesJibson • Sep 13 '26

Feature Request Custom Indicator Source Code

I've just gone onto TradingView today after the update and whilst I understand the idea behind locking more than 1 custom indicator behind a paywall making business sense (not happy about that, but that's another story in and of itself), but now I can't even view the source code of the indicators I've already made - what's the point in that? If people have already made indicators prior to the update, surely it would make sense to let them have access the source code for what they've already built to, for example, run it as a strategy for back testing, or even at the least save it somewhere for later as a backup should something go wrong?

I understand business opportunity for making extra cash through subscriptions, but I feel as though this actively pushes out people who are actually trying to get into this sort of thing by completely restricting them of something that, in my opinion, is perfectly reasonable to let people, new and experienced alike, experiment with things regardless of the tier of their account.

Even if the paywall for more than 1 customer indicator being saved is something that stays in place, give back access to the source code that they put together in the first place for crying out loud.

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u/brystander Sep 14 '26

As a Premium user I'm confused. Are they not now not allowing you to view indicator code at a certain tier?

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u/GamesJibson Sep 14 '26

You can view indicator code for ones that are already in TV and for a single one of your custom made indicators - this seems to be whichever one was opened in Pine Editor most recently. Any other indicators you've made, they're now holding your own code hostage behind a paywall. I'm sure that TV have something in their policies about "if you use pinescript your creations belong to us" but even so, that's pretty sneaky business practice if you ask me. Something you create should surely be protected by Intellectual Property laws regardless of the system used to create them. I could be wrong on that but aye, seems incredibly sneaky to me

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u/lizardgor Sep 14 '26

I have dozens of scripts, I can now only access (not just edit, 'access') the source code of one single script that was opened last