AI Strategy Studio: start here

The main reason many trades lose money is trading without a strong strategy. Without a strong strategy and confidence in its edge, you hesitate at your stop loss or move your target out of fear or greed. In AI Strategy Studio, alongside 4CastMachine AI forecasts and AI Trading Assistant, those emotional decisions disappear. Your rules turn into a clear trading plan on the chart in seconds (before you risk a single dollar).

Start from your trading style or 4CastMachine AI

When you click St. Studio in the top toolbar and click New, a three-step flow helps you build a complete strategy in seconds:

• Choose from four standard trading styles: build your strategy from Scalping, Day trading, Swing trading or Position trading. You can also start from the ready-made 4CastMachine AI strategy template (built around 4CastMachine AI entry zones, pivots and targets).

• Ten-question Find your style quiz and Academy lessons: if you do not know your trading style yet or your past strategies have not been profitable, click Not sure? Answer 10 quick questions. The studio recommends the best style for your time and risk tolerance, or you can read Your Personal Strategy and Choose Your Trading Style in the Academy.

Know your whole trading plan before you enter

Your entry, take profit, stop loss, trade management and risk appear in one readable sentence on the Build tab. Click any part to open its focused setup panel. Entry, stop loss, price targets (TP1 to TP5) and management rules (such as break-even and early exit on trend break) appear on the chart. You can adjust any line with your mouse.

Each strategy combines four independent setups that you can save separately and reuse across multiple strategies:

• Entry setup (blue, Entry): defines when to enter (buy, sell or both sides with automatic mirror rules). Start from 4CM-AI forecast zones with a confirmation candle, level breakouts or indicators.

• Take profit setup (green, Take Profit): sets one to five price targets (TP1 to TP5). Place targets on 4CM-AI forecast targets, an R multiple or price distance, and choose how much to close at each target.

• Stop loss setup (red, Stop Loss): sets the exit level in a loss from the 4CM-AI pivot, recent swing high/low or an ATR multiple. You can also add an early exit when the trend breaks.

• Management setup (purple, Management) and risk per trade: moves your stop to break-even automatically and trails price. It also calculates your lot size from your risk percentage per trade.

Tell the AI your strategy and let it build it for you

Click the ✦ (Ask the AI Trading Assistant) button in AI Strategy Studio to open AI Trading Assistant right beside the studio. Use the ready-made From AI Strategy Studio starters or tell the AI your strategy in your own voice (or in a short sentence). The AI builds the complete strategy, setups and risk rules on the chart.

Prove your strategy before risking real money

Running a new idea straight on a real account puts your capital at risk right away. On the Test tab, test your strategy rules on past candles with a starting balance and realistic costs without risking a dollar. Review the balance curve, win rate and how trades ended, then use candle-by-candle Replay to spot weaknesses in minutes instead of weeks. (The Test tab will be released to everyone in the near future.)

Run on virtual or real accounts

On the Run tab, run and follow your strategy in the live market in two ways so you do not have to watch charts all day:

• Automated forward test on a virtual account (Virtual account): run your strategy in the live market with virtual money. Trades open, manage and close with real spread, commission and swap costs, and Compare with a variant compares parallel versions side by side.

• Watch symbols and follow open trades on a real account (Real account): watch your chosen symbols and timeframes on this tab and set the Tell me when notification grid. When your entry lines up, the full trading plan appears under Latest alerts, and step-by-step break-even and stop-trail reminders stay with you under Open trades.

Measure real vs untampered results in Performance and Journal

Often the strategy itself is profitable, but last-second changes such as closing winners early, moving the stop loss or entering outside the rules cause losses. The Performance tab connects directly to AI Trading Journal and measures your results in two views:

• Your real account trades (Your trades): every closed trade is checked against all strategy parts on the Strategy check card. You see clearly what result you achieved vs. what result you would have achieved if you had followed the strategy without tampering, and what each rule break cost in dollars.

• Virtual accounts (Virtual accounts): track live virtual strategy performance and compare live results against past tests. You also see the dollar impact of manual changes compared with automated execution.

Start here

• Quick tour: build, test, watch and trade a strategy

• Step-by-step guides: learn strategies by example

• Build your first strategy from your trading style

Build the four parts

• Set up your entry and stop loss

• Set up single and multi-target take profit

• Move your stop to break-even and trail price

• Set risk per trade and calculate lot size

Test, watch and trade

• Test your strategy on past candles

• Run your strategy live on a virtual account

• Manage virtual accounts, challenges and verified pages

• Watch symbols and read your trading plan when an alert fires

• Follow open trades and break-even reminders on the chart

Journal, playbooks and AI Trading Assistant

• Check strategy adherence and cost per part in AI Trading Journal

• Build and refine strategies with AI Trading Assistant