PineCoders: The Pine Script Community That Deliberately Stays Anonymous
What it actually is, from its ~40-member volunteer group to its GitHub libraries and TradingView freelancer directory, and how custom scripts pair with automated execution.
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PineCodersThe hook: PineCoders is roughly 40 people, includes several of TradingView's own Pine Script Wizards, has been running since 2019 with a TradingView co-founder's backing, and by its own stated policy refuses to publish who its members actually are.
- ~40 members; launched 2019 with support of a TradingView co-founder
- Deliberately anonymous, no published member roster
- Runs Pinefest, an annual community programming contest
About PineCoders
PineCoders is a volunteer group of roughly 40 people, launched in 2019 with the backing of a TradingView co-founder, made up largely of the platform's own Pine Script Wizards and experienced developers. New members are nominated by existing members, vetted by a management team, then voted in, and the group explicitly does not publish who belongs to it: by its own stated reasoning, many members prefer anonymity and contribute for the community rather than personal recognition.
Its work extends well beyond the documentation most traders encounter. Beyond curating TradingView's Editors' Picks and maintaining resources like the Learning Pine Script Roadmap and a 14-section FAQ-and-code compendium, PineCoders tests unreleased Pine Script features and reports bugs directly to TradingView, publishes monthly educational scripts, selects TradingView's yearly Pine Script Wizards, and organizes Pinefest, an annual community programming contest.
Its code lives mostly on GitHub rather than its own site: the repository behind pinecoders.com itself has over 100 stars and more than 1,200 commits, while a companion snippets-and-tips repository, pine-utils, has over 400 stars. The group also maintains two separate TradingView publishing accounts, PineCoders and PineCodersTASC, and its developer-for-hire directory actually lives on TradingView's own site, not pinecoders.com, listing roughly 25 vetted freelancers with public track records.
What PineCoders Offers
Learning Pine Script Roadmap
A structured path from Pine basics through code conversion from other platforms.
FAQ & Code Compendium
14 sections of reusable, explicitly permission-free code snippets.
Coding Conventions & Script Description Guides
Style standards used across the community.
Digital Signal Processing Guide
An advanced technical guide authored by community member Alex Grover.
Curated Book List
13 recommended trading-systems and quant-finance titles.
TradingView Freelancer Directory
A vetted list of roughly 25 Pine Script developers for hire.
Pinefest
An annual community programming contest.
GitHub Libraries
Open-source repos including pine-utils and other Pine tooling projects.
Why Traders and Developers Rely On PineCoders
Its appeal is trust without a sales pitch. In a category dominated by paid, invite-only scripts and marketing claims, PineCoders' code and recommendations carry weight specifically because the people writing it are recognized experts working for free, not trying to sell a subscription.
A group of roughly 40 people, several of them TradingView's own Pine Script Wizards, and it deliberately won't tell you their names.
PineCoders: Strengths and Limitations
Strengths
Limitations
PineCoders FAQ
Roughly 40 members, launched in 2019 with the support of a TradingView co-founder, though the group deliberately does not publish a membership list.
By its own stated preference, many members prefer anonymity and contribute for the community itself rather than personal recognition, so the group doesn't publish a roster.
On TradingView itself, at its Pine Script freelancers page, not on pinecoders.com, which only links out to it.
Its main site repository has over 100 stars and more than 1,200 commits, and a companion repo of snippets and tips has over 400 stars.
Yes, it also tests unreleased Pine Script features, selects TradingView's yearly Pine Script Wizards, and organizes Pinefest, a community programming contest.
Automating a PineCoders-Sourced Script with PickMyTrade
A script pulled from PineCoders' open-source repositories, or built by a developer hired through its TradingView-hosted directory, still needs an execution layer once it's generating real alerts. PickMyTrade connects that TradingView alert to a broker or funded futures account, so a custom-built strategy can run automatically instead of requiring manual order entry.
How it works
- Build or commission a script that generates a TradingView alert
- Connect PickMyTrade to your broker or prop firm account once
- PickMyTrade executes automatically when the alert fires
- Copy the same signal across multiple accounts at once
Not always, many are written as teaching examples rather than live-alert-ready scripts, so a developer typically needs to add an alert condition before automation is possible.
Yes, a Pine Script developer can build the alert condition into a custom script from the start, which PickMyTrade can then execute on.
PickMyTrade is an independent automation platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PineCoders, unless otherwise stated. Trading futures and other leveraged products carries substantial risk of loss. Details reflect what was published on PineCoders' official site, GitHub, and linked TradingView pages at the time of research and may have changed since.