--- title: "The beginning of a trend: Buy zones and Sell zones" slug: "beginning-of-a-trend-in-trend-hunter-strategy" kind: "ACADEMY" category: "trend-hunter-strategy" locale: "en" canonical: "https://app.forecastcity.com/academy/trend-hunter-strategy/beginning-of-a-trend-in-trend-hunter-strategy" published: "2026-10-31T13:06:00.909Z" updated: "2026-11-02T22:46:28.830Z" description: "See the difference between a trend hunter and a trend follower, and learn how 4CastMachine AI maps Buy zones and Sell zones on the daily (D) chart." --- # The beginning of a trend: Buy zones and Sell zones In **ForecastCity**, Saturday's **Weekly Forecasts** map the exact price zone where a new daily trend is likely to start before the reversal happens. Instead of chasing a wave after it has already moved hundreds of pips, you prepare in advance to enter at the **Buy zone** or **Sell zone**. ## Trend hunter vs. trend follower? Most trend strategies rely on lagging indicators such as moving-average crossovers. Days or weeks pass, and price moves hundreds of pips away from the reversal point before those indicators confirm the new direction. Because they wait until the trend is obvious to everyone, they are called **trend followers**. By the time a trend follower enters, a large part of the wave is already over and the stop loss sits far away. The core advantage of the **Trend Hunter Strategy** is that it identifies the start of a new trend in advance. Entering near the origin of the daily wave gives you the largest profit potential with the smallest initial risk. ## How Weekly Forecasts map the start of a trend? Every Saturday, **4CastMachine AI** analyzes structural support and resistance across the monthly (`M`), weekly (`W`), and daily (`D`) timeframes and plots the result on the **daily (`D`)** chart: - **Forecast direction:** The forecast header and chart banner show `Forecast: Beginning of Up Trend` or `Forecast: Beginning of Down Trend`. - **Entry zone:** A shaded **Buy zone** marks the support band where an uptrend is likely to begin (with the guide-line note `Buy above …`). A shaded **Sell zone** marks the resistance band where a downtrend is likely to begin (with the note `Sell below …`). ## Example on NZDUSD: hunting a new daily downtrend On `2014-07-14` (Figure 1), the weekly forecast for `NZDUSD` announced `Forecast: Beginning of Down Trend`. The **Sell zone** sat between `0.8780` and `0.8840`, and the chart note `Sell below 0.8840` showed where we planned to open Sell trades once a daily reversal pattern formed. ![Figure 1: NZDUSD Daily (D) chart on 2014-07-14 showing Forecast: Beginning of Down Trend and the Sell zone between 0.8780 and 0.8840 (Sell below 0.8840).](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/b2/b268437e5cad5132fc01c4ca37bed807d29171cb86e0a33b09c4fbfc8e7cadff.gif) Figure 1: NZDUSD Daily (D) forecast on 2014-07-14 mapping the Sell zone between 0.8780 and 0.8840 (Sell below 0.8840) before the downtrend started. **Sell trade result on NZDUSD (Figure 2):** Price reversed down right from the **Sell zone**. Our stepped Sell orders banked `9361` pips in `79` trading days through `2014-11-03`. ![Figure 2: NZDUSD Daily (D) performance chart from 2014-07-15 to 2014-11-03 showing the 79-day downtrend from the Sell zone hitting stepped profit targets for 9361 pips.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/0e/0e2979c3c1c9839d529ccb6268d36808e5fcf310a6147a854be86ca0c5afa891.gif) Figure 2: NZDUSD Daily (D) performance from 2014-07-15 to 2014-11-03 showing 9361 pips banked across stepped targets in 79 trading days. ## Example on USDCHF: hunting a new daily uptrend On `2014-05-03` (Figure 3), the weekly forecast for `USDCHF` announced `Forecast: Beginning of Up Trend`. The **Buy zone** sat between `0.8700` and `0.8800`, with the note `Buy above 0.8700` marking where we planned to open Buy trades. ![Figure 3: USDCHF Daily (D) chart on 2014-05-03 showing Forecast: Beginning of Up Trend and the Buy zone between 0.8700 and 0.8800 (Buy above 0.8700).](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/12/12e12c8b3c149f2614c553ab5d528c08d056d6e0ec36f5c03c375674e947f663.gif) Figure 3: USDCHF Daily (D) forecast on 2014-05-03 mapping the Buy zone between 0.8700 and 0.8800 (Buy above 0.8700) at the start of the uptrend. When price reversed up from that **Buy zone** (Figure 4), our stepped Buy orders earned `7667` pips across `106` trading days through `2014-10-03`. ![Figure 4: USDCHF Daily (D) performance chart from 2014-05-03 to 2014-10-03 showing the 106-day uptrend from the Buy zone earning 7667 pips.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/aa/aa245f529bca57918d356007bee987ce8842dd897e0a9510e61af59fb6bcfdf4.gif) Figure 4: USDCHF Daily (D) performance from 2014-05-03 to 2014-10-03 showing 7667 pips of profit across stepped targets in 106 trading days. ## Related guides - [Entry methods: daily patterns, Monday and near-zone rules]() - [Profit-taking methods: stepped targets and the Free Trade]()