Script doesn't contain any statements
The compiler reached the end of your script without finding a single executable statement.
Quick answer
This error means the compiler parsed your script and found nothing to execute. There are only three realistic causes: the editor is genuinely empty, every line is commented out, or you have the //@version and indicator()/strategy() declaration but no statement after it. Note that the version comment and the declaration alone are not enough — Pine needs at least one real statement, such as a plot(). Add a single plot(close) and it will compile.
The exact error
v5 → v6
Identical behaviour in v4, v5 and v6. One version-specific trap: if you pasted a script that begins mid-file without the //@version line, Pine defaults to v1 and may fail to parse the rest, which can surface as this error rather than a syntax error.
Why this happens
The most common real cause is a paste that silently failed — you copied a script, pasted into the Pine Editor, and only whitespace landed. Select all in the editor and check the line count at the bottom right before debugging anything else.
The second cause is commenting out the entire body while debugging and forgetting to undo it. Pine has no block comment syntax, so this is usually a column-select that prefixed every line with //.
The third cause is a declaration with no body: //@version=6 followed by indicator("My script") and nothing else. That is a valid declaration but not a statement, so the script has nothing to run.
Indentation matters here too. If everything after the declaration is indented, Pine reads it as a local block belonging to nothing, and can report the script as empty.
If you are using an AI assistant that writes into the editor for you, this error is also what you see when the write silently failed and left the editor empty — check the editor actually contains your code before re-running the fix.
The working code
//@version=6//@version=6
indicator("Minimal script that compiles", overlay = true)
// A version line plus a declaration is NOT enough on its own.
// Pine needs at least one executable statement. This is the smallest one:
plot(close)
// Anything below is optional, but each of these also counts as a statement:
ema20 = ta.ema(close, 20)
plot(ema20, "EMA 20", color = color.orange)Copy and paste into the TradingView Pine Editor, or let TradePilot adapt it to your exact case.
FAQ
Script doesn't contain any statements — common questions
Why does Pine Script say my script doesn't contain any statements?
Because the compiler found no executable statement. Either the editor is empty, every line is commented out, or you have only the //@version line and the indicator()/strategy() declaration with no body. Adding a single plot(close) resolves it.
Is the indicator() declaration a statement?
No. The declaration tells Pine what kind of script this is, but it is not an executable statement on its own. You need at least one more line, such as a plot() call or a variable assignment that is used.
I pasted a script and got this error — what happened?
The paste almost certainly did not land. Click into the editor, select all, and check the line count. An apparently full editor that reports one line means the paste failed and you are compiling whitespace.
More Pine reference
Other functions and errors
math.clamp
"math.clamp" is not a real Pine Script function — here is the exact error and the fix.
ta.dmi
The exact fix for "Cannot use the history-referencing operator" on ta.dmi().
ta.rma2 / ta.dema2 / ta.tema2
"ta.rma2", "ta.dema2" and "ta.tema2" are not real Pine functions — here is what actually works.
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