--- title: "Quick tour: trade a complete Trend Hunter setup in 5 steps" slug: "trend-hunter-strategy-overview" kind: "ACADEMY" category: "trend-hunter-strategy" locale: "en" canonical: "https://app.forecastcity.com/academy/trend-hunter-strategy/trend-hunter-strategy-overview" published: "2026-10-28T19:10:57.895Z" updated: "2026-11-02T22:54:35.600Z" description: "A 5-minute visual tour of the Trend Hunter Strategy on the daily (D) chart: pick a Saturday zone, wait for a DTO reversal pattern, set stepped TPs, and trail." --- # Quick tour: trade a complete Trend Hunter setup in 5 steps In this 5-minute quick tour, you walk through all five stages of a complete **Trend Hunter Strategy** trade on the daily (`D`) chart. With **4CastMachine AI** updating the zones every Saturday and **Daily Trading Opportunity (DTO)** scanning for entry candles, you can follow the entire workflow in minutes each week. **What this quick tour covers:** You start on Saturday by picking a chart with a fresh **Buy zone** or **Sell zone**, wait for a daily reversal candle, open stepped targets plus one Free Trade, move your stop to Break-Even, and close the runner when the trend ends. ## Step 1 on Saturday: pick a chart with a Buy zone or Sell zone? 1. On Saturday, open **Weekly Forecasts** (or open any symbol on the daily `D` chart in 4CM-AI Charts) and look for symbols showing `Forecast: Beginning of Up Trend` or `Forecast: Beginning of Down Trend`. 2. Note the shaded **Buy zone** (support where a new uptrend is likely to start) or **Sell zone** (resistance where a new downtrend is likely to start) on the chart and set [an alert]() on it. ![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: Step 1 on NZDUSD Daily (D) where the Saturday forecast maps the Sell zone between 0.8780 and 0.8840 before the downtrend begins. ## Step 2 at the zone: wait for a daily reversal pattern? 1. Do not open a trade just because price touches the zone. Wait for the daily (`D`) candle to close and form a reversal pattern inside (or within `ATR(264) / 2` of) the zone. 2. For a **Buy zone**, wait for a daily [Hammer]() or [Valley (Trough)](). For a **Sell zone**, wait for a daily [Shooting Star]() or [Peak](). Check the pattern's strength score in the [DTO]() table. 3. If the pattern forms on Friday, wait and enter when the market opens on **Monday morning** (as long as Monday opens without a price gap). ![Figure 2: Daily Trading Opportunity (DTO) table on 2014-07-02 reporting a daily Trough (Valley) on USDJPY with pattern strength +32.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/bb/bb32075b4f9034934c053e46b78ad2606f1de24c1b16bf69c7cb77fbbeb99eda.gif) Figure 2: Step 2 in the DTO scanner on 2014-07-02 detecting a daily Trough (Valley) inside the USDJPY Buy zone with strength +32. ## Step 3 on entry: split your setup into stepped targets and one Free Trade? 1. Divide your planned trade size across several equal orders at the same entry price (or configure multi-target exits in [**AI Strategy Studio**]()). 2. Set fixed take-profit targets (`Hard Take Profit`: `TP1`, `TP2`, ...) on the support or resistance levels mapped by the forecast. 3. Leave one order open with **no fixed take-profit target** (the **Free Trade** / `Free Take Profit`) to ride the wave if the trend breaks past the final target. ![Figure 3: USDCAD Daily (D) performance chart from 2014-07-14 to 2014-10-17 showing 6 stepped Buy targets closed for 2252 pips while the 7th Free Trade stays open.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/01/0183d5d14ca7981c4449d3b31a1a8db74465140f0bea37a2cf9569625b51e0d5.gif) Figure 3: Step 3 on USDCAD Daily (D) where 6 stepped Buy orders banked 2252 pips at their targets while the 7th Free Trade stayed open. ## Step 4 after initial profit: move stops to Break-Even (or exit on a zone break)? 1. Once price hits `TP1`, `TP2`, or `TP3` (or crosses the daily `WEMA-21` line), move the stop loss of all remaining open orders to the **entry price** (`Break-Even`). From that moment on, a pullback cannot cause a loss. 2. If price reverses before Break-Even and a full healthy daily candle closes outside the outer edge of the entry zone (with at least `80%` of its body outside the zone), close the trades on a **Soft Stop Loss**. ![Figure 4: EURGBP Daily (D) chart showing three Buy setups where initial targets banked profits and Break-Even stops closed the remaining orders at zero loss on pullbacks.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/3d/3db7aca71eb1d5aa6032e522581c7c15e8a695827918d3bebab33abdc7df6081.gif) Figure 4: Step 4 on EURGBP Daily (D) where moving stops to Break-Even after initial targets protected capital across three pullbacks. ## Step 5 at trend end: close the Free Trade when the wave finishes? 1. Hold your untargeted **Free Trade** (and any remaining open targets) while the daily trend stays valid. 2. Close all remaining open orders by hand when a new weekly forecast announces a trend in the **opposite direction**, or when a full healthy daily candle breaks the horizontal **green trend-end guide-line** (with at least `80%` of its body beyond the line). ![Figure 5: EURAUD Daily (D) chart showing 5 stepped targets banking 3315 pips and manual exit of the remaining 3 orders on 2013-12-21 for 3369 pips (6684 pips total) when the forecast announced a new downtrend.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/1e/1e86838ed4f53acca059b4924f8ebf6bd1943526caa2d92fca29a7f6b9211a93.gif) Figure 5: Step 5 on EURAUD Daily (D) where closing the Free Trade and open orders at the trend-end forecast added 3369 pips (6684 pips total). ## Next steps - [Step-by-step guide: learn the Trend Hunter Strategy in order]() - [Why daily trend strategies beat intraday strategies and high-leverage scalping]() - [Entry methods: daily patterns, Monday and near-zone rules]()