--- title: "Quick tour: build, test, watch and trade a strategy" slug: "strategies-quick-tour" kind: "HELP_ARTICLE" category: "strategies" locale: "en" canonical: "https://app.forecastcity.com/help/strategies/strategies-quick-tour" published: "2026-10-15T22:02:45.586Z" updated: "2026-10-29T18:55:28.479Z" description: "A one-page tour of AI Strategy Studio in 4CM-AI Charts: Build, Test, Run (virtual and real account) and Performance." --- # Quick tour: build, test, watch and trade a strategy In this hands-on tour, in under five minutes you build a complete EURUSD strategy in **AI Strategy Studio** with AI, adjust its lines on the chart, test it on the **Test** tab, run it on a virtual account and a real account on the **Run** tab, and compare your real result against untampered execution in the **Performance** tab and **AI Trading Journal**. Example in this tour: on the 1-hour (`1h`) EURUSD chart, build the default **4CastMachine AI strategy** template with `1%` risk per trade, run it on a `$10,000` virtual account, and watch EURUSD for entry alerts at the same time. ## Step 1: build a strategy in seconds from ready templates or AI Trading Assistant 1. Click **St. Studio** in the top toolbar to open AI Strategy Studio. 2. Click **New** and choose one of the four standard trading styles or the ready-made **4CastMachine AI strategy** template under **From my trading style** (or click **✦** and tell **AI Trading Assistant** your strategy so it builds it for you). 3. Confirm the trade side and strategy name, then click **Create** to open the strategy on the **Build** tab. ![Naming step, trade side choice and colored strategy sentence preview before creating in AI Strategy Studio.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/ed/edfaba0e49788a89d356b27ced4dd670340b46f91eec46fce36399c89cd0a537.png) Step 3 of creating a new strategy: choosing the side, naming it and previewing the four-part sentence 1. Trade side choice (**Buy** or **Sell**) for the new strategy 2. Strategy name box 3. Full preview of the colored strategy sentence before creation 4. **Create** button to build the setups and open the **Build** tab ## Step 2: edit the four strategy parts and adjust chart lines with your mouse on the Build tab 1. On the **Build** tab, click any of the four colored sentence parts (blue entry, green take profit, red stop loss and purple management) to open its focused setup panel, and click **‹ The strategy** to return to the overview. 2. Click **\+ risk per trade** and pick your risk percentage per trade (for example, `1%`) so the lot size is calculated automatically from the stop distance. 3. Under **If you enter now, on the chart**, view the entry, stop loss and target levels on the current candle and move any line with your mouse using the **⇕** handles. ![Focused view for choosing or creating a setup for one strategy part on the Build tab.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/3b/3b7276cb827bfd554dbb063a9da5745e512d298d682fd3d23c92438bbe2bb220.png) Focused view for choosing or editing the setup of any part on the Build tab 1. **‹ The strategy** back button to return to the strategy sentence 2. Saved setups list with the **In use** badge and edit pencil icon 3. **\+ New … setup** button to create a new setup ## Step 3: test on past candles and replay trades on the Test tab 1. Open the **Test** tab and set the time range (from `60d` to `1y` or a custom date), starting balance and fee model under **Money**. (The Test tab will be released to everyone in the near future.) 2. Review net profit, win rate, profit factor and the balance curve on the **Result** card, and click **Replay** on any trade to watch its candle-by-candle action on the chart. ![Monthly performance chart, trade exit breakdown and test assumptions on the Test tab.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/09/09a59bf2a75680d5eed93b40686a7b890e4b9faa978ef8df4d56a62928ab9261.png) Time breakdown and how trades ended on the Test tab 1. Bar chart of month-by-month (**By month**) or week-by-week (**By week**) performance 2. **How the trades ended** card (breakdown of target exits, partial closes and stop loss) 3. **How this test was run** card with candle fill, fee and price gap assumptions ## Step 4: run a live forward test on a virtual account on the Run tab 1. Open the **Run** tab and set the top switch to **Virtual account**. 2. Select (or create) a virtual account, choose your symbols and position sizing rule, and click **Start the run** so the strategy trades the live market with virtual money and real trading costs. ![Form for starting a live strategy run on a virtual account on the Run tab.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/43/43ac41b98bc0744f57c7370647f9d3c41231a0e67a66cada0c9c6f30c7eb3218.png) Setting the virtual account, symbols and starting a forward test on the Run tab 1. Selecting a virtual account from the **Account** list or creating a new one 2. Choosing watched symbols (**Symbols**) and the trade sizing rule (**Size of each trade**) 3. **Ask me before each trade** and high-impact news filter (**Skip entries around high-impact news**) options 4. Notification channel picker and the **Start the run** button ## Step 5: watch symbols and follow open trades on a real account on the Run tab 1. On the **Run** tab, set the top switch to **Real account** and click **Change** in the **Tell me when** bar to configure your notification channels. 2. Add your chosen symbols to the watch list so as soon as the entry condition lines up, the complete trading plan (entry, stop loss, `TP1` to `TP5` targets and lot size) is ready under **Latest alerts**. 3. Once a trade is open in your connected **ForecastFollow** account, follow each step and your break-even and trailing-stop reminders on the chart under **Open trades**. ![Real account view on the Run tab with the Tell me when bar, watched symbols and Latest alerts and Open trades sub-tabs.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/c9/c9c7d3f2de8af04daf1905f41c5e6bd4e1c3272bec3d5da7c947447a53c3b97d.png) Real account view on the Run tab: Tell me when table, watched symbols, alert plans and open trades 1. **Tell me when** notification bar and **Change** button for the 5×5 channel table 2. Watched symbol pills (active, `waits for its zone` or `off`) and add-symbol box 3. **Latest alerts** and **Open trades** sub-tabs ## Step 6: compare real results against untampered execution in Performance and Journal 1. Open the **Performance** tab and switch between **Your trades** (your real account trades in the journal) and **Virtual accounts**. 2. On the **Followed the strategy** card and the **Strategy check** card in **AI Trading Journal**, see how closely you followed each of the six strategy parts, what result you achieved, and what result you would have achieved if you had followed the strategy without manual tampering. ![Performance tab in AI Strategy Studio showing performance summary and strategy adherence.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/c2/c26abc3b1ea833f14829ecc481bb17c82580acfc3ab8e822394629f48e25f603.png) Performance tab: checking real results against strategy rules and connecting to AI Trading Journal 1. Switch between **Your trades** and **Virtual accounts** and the trading account picker 2. Performance summary cards: trade count (**Trades**), net result (**Result**) and average trade 3. **Followed the strategy** card and adherence breakdown across all six strategy parts 4. **Closed trades** list with links to the journal check card ## Related guides - [AI Strategy Studio: start here]() - [Build your first strategy from your trading style]() - [Set up your entry and stop loss]() - [Set up single and multi-target take profit]() - [Run your strategy live on a virtual account]() - [Check strategy adherence and cost per part in AI Trading Journal]()