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Indicators in the Backtester

The Indicators dialog, its categories and how Lab builds appear.

Press Indicators in the chart header to open the dialog titled Indicators, metrics, and strategies. It has a search box, a sidebar of categories and a list of scripts with a star beside each one.

Sidebar

  • Personal holds Favorites, your own scripts, Import Pine and Templates.
  • Built-in lists QuantLab's models, levels and sessions, and the strategies that draw their entries and exits on the chart.
  • Community lists open-source studies ported to QuantLab.

Pick a category to narrow the list, or use the All, Indicators and Strategies pills above it. Star a script to keep it under Favorites. Press the add control on a row to put it on the chart, and press the remove control to take it off.

A script that failed to compile is marked Compile failed with the reason.

Import Pine

The Import Pine row opens a panel where you paste a Pine script and check it before adding it. For Pine you want to keep, use Import Pine in the Lab.

A link from the Lab can add an indicator for you. QuantLab, Partnered and library cards open the Backtester with the indicator already on the chart.