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Move your stop to break-even and trail price

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In AI Strategy Studio, artificial intelligence makes managing open trades and locking in profit simple and accurate: you simply define in the management setup how your stop loss moves automatically once price moves in your favor. You can move the stop loss to the entry price (break-even) after price hits the first target (TP1), a chosen R multiple or the WEMA 21 moving average, and then trail the stop automatically behind 4CastMachine AI pivots, an ATR multiple, a fixed distance or recent candles.

Example: you build a management setup with the default 4CM-AI settings that moves the stop loss to the entry price plus 1 pip when price reaches TP1 and trails the stop loss behind the 4CM-AI pivot after break-even.

Open the Management setup window

  1. In the Build tab of AI Strategy Studio, click the dashed + management button or the purple Management part in the strategy sentence to open the management setup selection list (click ‹ The strategy to return to the strategy page).

  2. Pick a saved management setup, click the pencil icon on the active row, or click + New Management setup.

Set your break-even rule

  1. Under Break-even · optional, click + Add break-even if the row is not active.

  2. Next to When, choose what triggers moving the stop loss to break-even:

  • Take Profit hits (default): when price hits one of your take profit targets (from TP1 to TP5, defaulting to TP1).

  • price reaches: when the trade reaches a chosen R multiple (such as 1R).

  • profit reaches: when the trade profit reaches a chosen distance in pips, price or percentage.

  • price reaches WEMA 21: as soon as price in profit reaches the 21-period weighted exponential moving average (WEMA 21) on your chosen timeframe, the stop loss moves to the entry price.

  1. Next to Move the stop to the entry, plus, the offset defaults to 1 pip to cover spread and commission costs (you can set it to 0 or any custom value).

Selecting the break-even trigger on the WEMA 21 moving average in the Management setup window
Set break-even when price reaches the WEMA 21 moving average

  1. Break-even trigger when price breaks WEMA 21 with a healthy candle

  2. Plain-text summary card of the break-even rule on WEMA 21

  3. The Replay tab to watch the stop loss move candle by candle on the chart

Add an optional trailing stop and preview

  1. Under Trailing stop · optional, click + Add a trailing stop and choose next to Start when trailing begins (for example, after break-even).

  2. Next to Follow, choose how the stop trails price:

  • 4CM-AI pivot (default): follows the support or resistance pivot of the 4CastMachine AI forecast.

  • Distance: keeps a fixed distance in pips, price or percentage behind the best price reached.

  • ATR × k: trails price by a multiple of ATR or the daily range average ATR(264, D).

  • Recent low/high: trails behind the lowest low or highest high of the last N completed candles.

Management setup window showing the Break-even and Trailing stop sections, plain-text summary and level preview on the right.
Management setup window

  1. Break-even rule (Break-even): trigger condition and +1 pip offset from the entry

  2. Trailing stop rule (Trailing stop): starts after break-even and follows the 4CM-AI pivot

  3. Plain-text summary card of the break-even and trailing stop rules

  4. The Preview on this chart box with the level table (Levels) and candle replay (Replay) tabs

After you save the management setup, the purple Management rule is added to the strategy sentence and the Then row in the level table of the Build tab so you see the break-even and management level right beside the other chart lines.

The Build tab in AI Strategy Studio showing the purple trade management row in the level table
Trade management rule in the strategy sentence and the Build tab level table

  1. Trade direction buttons, stage badge and colored strategy sentence

  2. Risk per trade row (Risk … per trade) for automatic lot size calculation

  3. The If you enter now, on the chart section with live entry, stop loss and target prices

  4. The ⇕ handles on the chart lines to move and adjust levels with the mouse

Good to know

  • A management setup moves your stop loss only in your favor and never pulls it backward once it has advanced.

  • Under Virtual account, the forward test engine applies your break-even and trailing stop rules automatically on virtual trades; you can also add a comparison variant under Compare with a variant to see how your strategy performs with and without trade management.

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Last updated: 10/27/2026