How do I add a number suffix to my script? K thousands, M million

Question

Tradingview by default shows volume numbers as (K) Thousands and (M) Millions. How do I add this to a custom script I created?

For example, if I see Net Volume as 1740654.0000 on a bar, I would prefer it shows as 1.74M instead.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 11 '19 at 12:18

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study's precision with value 0 will help: https://www.tradingview.com/study-script-reference/#fun_study

//@version=3
study("My Script", precision=0)
plot(volume)

answered Mar 11 '19 at 12:18

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Wonderful! Thank you!! – ECH5030 Mar 12 '19 at 01:00
To make this work in Pine V4 you need to use the `format` parameter with the `format.volume` constant: `study("Your study", format = format.volume)`. In V4 the suffix is not tied to the `precision` parameter, you can use any value. – karatedog Sep 08 '21 at 09:25

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '20 at 21:08

In Pine Script v4 I was able to format the numbers in that way using the format argument of the study function.

From the documentation:

format (const string) type of formatting study values on the price axis. Possible values are: format.inherit, format.price, format.volume. Default is format.inherit.

//@version=4
study("My indicator", format=format.volume)

How do I add a number suffix to my script? K thousands, M million

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