FAQ
Answers to the questions that come up most often, plus how to reach support when the docs do not cover your case.
Which Markets And Timeframes Are Covered?
Scribe covers the markets most traders actually trade: US stocks, the major ETFs, the major forex pairs, and gold, silver and oil. Every strategy can be built and backtested on the 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily timeframes, can trade long, short or both directions, and can be run on any other covered market with Portfolio Backtest, so a rule set that works on one stock can be tested across the rest in a few clicks.
Strategies are built from what the chart shows, price and volume, using the indicators traders already know: RSI, MACD, stochastics, moving-average crossovers and filters, ADX, Bollinger Bands, VWAP, volume, breakouts, sweeps of prior highs and lows, and Camarilla levels. Name a market and a timeframe in the chat and Scribe builds and backtests for it; the Ticker filter in The Strategy Library lists every covered market. Commodity coverage is spot, so gold runs on spot gold, silver on spot silver and oil on WTI crude, and every result names the exact market it was measured on.
How Do Credits Work?
Scribe Studio meters usage in credits. Your subscription includes a monthly allowance. The balance shows in the studio's sidebar, and hovering it shows the allowance and when it resets: credits refill on the 1st of each month, UTC.
Actions that do new work draw credits: asking for a strategy, asking a question in the chat, backtesting your own rules, re-running after a Tweak, and running a strategy on another market with Portfolio Backtest. Looking at what you already have does not. Opening a strategy from the Library, Saved Strategies or History, switching between runs, favoriting, and copying code are all free.
Where an action has a cost, the studio shows it before you commit: on the Run backtest button, and on hover for the starter chips and the Portfolio Backtest options. When your balance cannot cover an action, its button dims and a notice above the message box says what is left. Everything free keeps working until the allowance refills.
Does Scribe Place Trades Or Send Alerts?
No. Scribe produces a strategy, a backtest of it, and the Pine Script to run it. You put the script on your own TradingView chart, and any trading is yours to do. Backtested on historical data. Past performance doesn't predict future results.
Once the script is on your chart, TradingView's own alert system applies to it like any strategy. Set the trigger to Once Per Bar Close, because the strategy was tested on closed bars; any other setting acts on prices that can still move.
Why Is A Figure Shown As A Dash, Or Flagged Small Sample?
A dash is a number Scribe will not stand behind, not a zero. Hover the label to see which reason applies: no trades in the window, no trade closed yet (an open position does not count until it closes), or a ratio too extreme to state meaningfully.