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The short answer: The Trade Ideas Formula Editor is our scripting engine for stock scanners. You build your own measurements from Trade Ideas data, and each saved formula works as a filter on live Streaming Alerts and Top Lists across the whole market. It is in every TI Pro plan; backtesting a formula in OddsMaker needs TI Premium. Trade Ideas doesn't run Pine Script: Pine is a chart-script language, while these are market-wide real-time scanner formulas.
In one minute
Stock scanner scripting, in one minute
The Trade Ideas Formula Editor is the scripting engine: you build your own measurements from Trade Ideas data.
A saved formula works as a filter on live Streaming Alerts (Scanner) and Top Lists (Screeners) across the whole market.
The Formula Editor is in every TI Pro plan; backtesting a formula in OddsMaker needs TI Premium.
Built-in filters are measurements Trade Ideas has already defined; 249 of them. The Formula Editor lets you define new ones from the same variables, combined with math, comparisons, Boolean logic and if-then. The syntax is C-style. It is a power tool, included in every TI Pro plan for anyone with the skills to use it. Formulas save to your account and run like the built-in filters, so a custom indicator for the stock screener narrows every stock as trades print, not one chart at a time. A formula combines fields that exist; it doesn't create a new data feed.
A real Trade Ideas strategy, March 10, 2025, from the Formula Editor page on trade-ideas.com: one alert, five built-in filters and one custom formula filter (the last line). Settings shown as an example, not a recommendation.
Examples
Real example formulas
[Vol_10]/[Float]*100: the percent of the float traded in the last 10 minutes (from the live Formula Editor page).
v_up_1 / v_up_5 * 5: with a minimum of 2, only stocks whose last minute of volume is at least twice the average one-minute pace of the prior five minutes.
(v_up_5/(v_up_10-v_up_5))*100: volume in the last 5 minutes compared with the 5 minutes before (from the Volume 5 Minute filter help page).
These are examples of the syntax, not trading recommendations. The variable codes come from the filter codes list in the help pages.
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Formula
Trade Ideas doesn't run Pine Script, and Pine scripts can't be pasted in. The two do different jobs. Pine Script is a language for chart indicators and strategies, applied to the chart you are looking at. Trade Ideas formulas are market-wide, real-time scanner filters: one formula screens the whole market as trades print, inside Streaming Alerts and Top Lists (Screeners). If you came looking for TradingView screener scripting, the closest Trade Ideas equivalent is a Formula Editor filter in a Top List, rewritten in Trade Ideas syntax.
Testing
Backtest a formula in OddsMaker
Put the formula in an Alert window and OddsMaker backtests it with profit targets, stops, timed exits or the future close or open, and reports win rate, profit factor and the trades. A profit target or stop can also use a filter value, including a custom formula, so you can set your exit to a formula you wrote. OddsMaker is part of TI Premium.
Key point
Past results, including backtests, don't guarantee future results.
No code
Prefer no code?
Settings
You don't have to script. The AI Assistant, in every TI Pro plan, builds Alert windows and Top Lists (Screeners) from plain English, then you set up the test in OddsMaker (TI Premium), also without code. See no-code backtesting software.
Plans
Plans
Setting the entry and exit times in OddsMaker.
The Formula Editor comes with both plans. TI Standard: $89 a month billed annually ($1,068 a year) or $127 monthly. TI Premium adds OddsMaker and Holly AI Signals: $178 a month billed annually ($2,136 a year) or $254 monthly. TI Pro runs on Windows, and on a Mac through Parallels. Open a free account to try it. Prices checked October 2026.
It does a different job. Trade Ideas doesn't run Pine Script; its Formula Editor scripts filters that scan the whole market in real time, rather than indicators on one chart.
Can I paste my Pine Script into Trade Ideas?
No. Rewrite the logic as a Formula Editor formula using Trade Ideas variable codes.
What language does the Formula Editor use?
A C-style formula syntax with math operators, comparisons, Boolean logic and if-then, applied to Trade Ideas variables such as [Float] and [RV].
Can I build custom indicators for the stock screener?
Yes. A saved formula works like a built-in filter in Top Lists (Screeners) and Streaming Alerts.
Can I backtest a custom formula?
Yes, in OddsMaker on TI Premium. Past results, including backtests, don't guarantee future results.
Do I have to code?
No. The AI Assistant builds Alert windows and Top Lists from plain English; you then set up the test in OddsMaker, also without code.
Which plan includes the Formula Editor?
Every TI Pro plan, TI Standard and TI Premium. Testing formulas in OddsMaker needs TI Premium.
Can I create a new data field?
No. Formulas combine the fields Trade Ideas already provides; the rule you build is the custom part.
