How do I plot lines in the future in pine script?

Question

I have been trying to plot take profit and stop loss lines for a script I wrote, but I am struggling with plotting lines in the future.

I have tried using the plot and line.new functions but with no success.

An example of what I would like to see

Answer 1

You can calculate the values you want to plot on the graph then set offset. Something like this,

plot(close, offset = 1, color = color.black, linewidth=2)

here offset will be number bars in the future. i.e 1 is calculated bar in future.