What are 'ticks'? ... Once the script’s execution reaches the rightmost bar in the dataset, if trading is currently active on the chart’s symbol, then Pine indicators will execute once every time an update occurs, i.e., price or volume changes ... (tradingview.com/pine-script-docs/en/v5/language/Execution_model.html)
This script has 2 parts:
1) Option: ' Tick up/down' This is a further progression of previous work. During bar development, every time there is an update (tick), a dot is placed. If for example there is 1 tick (first of new bar), a dot will be placed on 1, if it is the 8th tick off that bar, there will be a dot placed on 8.
For each bar this is better, it has to be mentioned though that looking in history, once the limit of 500 has been reached, you'll notice the last ones are being deleted. This is one of the reasons the script is not suitable for higher timeframes (1h and higher, even higher than 5 minutes can give some issues if it is a highly traded ticker), if a bar would have more than 500 ticks, they won't be drawn anymore (which is not desirable of course)
Caveats: - Labels and text will not always be exactly on the price itself - The scripts needs more testings, possibly some ticks don't always get drawn as they should. The lower the timeframe, the more possible issues can occur - Since (candle option) the dots move to the right, the higher the timeframe and/or the more ticks, the sooner ticks will go in the area of next candle. That's why I made a separate 'start symbol' -> This is the very first tick on each candle, then you can zoom in/out more easily until the dots don't merge into each other candle area: https://www.tradingview.com/x/0xx1IH3Q/ https://www.tradingview.com/x/YaJMnk8X/
A timeframe higher than 5 minutes mostly won't be feasible I believe