This map shows which step-by-step guide to open for any goal in AI Strategy Studio so you can build your strategy with AI in seconds, test it, run it on a virtual account or a real account, and compare your real result against untampered execution in AI Trading Journal.
Your first complete strategy
If you are new to strategies, follow these five guides in order:
Build your first strategy from your trading style. Click St. Studio to open AI Strategy Studio, start from one of the four standard trading styles or the default 4CastMachine AI strategy template (or answer the 10-question Find your style quiz) and create your strategy.
Set up your entry and stop loss. Set your entry condition and stop loss level on the Build tab and adjust their lines on the chart with your mouse.
Set up single and multi-target take profit. Add one to five price targets (
TP1toTP5) and choose the percentage closed at each target.Run your strategy live on a virtual account. On the Run tab (under Virtual account), run your strategy in the live market with virtual money and real trading costs.
Watch symbols and read your trading plan when an alert fires. On the Run tab (under Real account), set the Tell me when grid, watch your symbols and read the full trading plan under Latest alerts.
Find the guide for your goal
| I want to… | Open this guide |
|---|---|
| Create the default 4CastMachine AI strategy or a template that fits my trading style in a few clicks | Build your first strategy from your trading style |
| Change my entry rule (one-sided or two-sided with an automatic mirror) or place my stop loss behind the 4CM-AI pivot, recent swing or ATR | Set up your entry and stop loss |
| Place up to five take profit targets (TP1 to TP5) on 4CM-AI targets or R multiples and close part of the trade at each target | Set up single and multi-target take profit |
Move my stop loss to the entry price after TP1 or WEMA 21 (break-even) or trail the stop |
Move your stop to break-even and trail price |
| Set my risk per trade from a connected ForecastFollow account or a custom amount so the lot size is calculated automatically | Set risk per trade and calculate lot size |
| Test my strategy on past candles in the Test tab with realistic costs and replay any trade (released in the near future) | Test your strategy on past candles |
| Run my strategy in the live market on a virtual account in the Run tab (Virtual account) and compare parallel variants | Run your strategy live on a virtual account |
| Create virtual accounts with real fees, measure manual intervention impact, practice a prop challenge or share a verified public page | Manage virtual accounts, challenges and verified pages |
| Set the Tell me when grid in the Run tab (Real account), watch my symbols and read the trading plan in Latest alerts | Watch symbols and read your trading plan when an alert fires |
| Follow open trades with break-even and trailing-stop reminders in the Run tab (Real account, Open trades) | Follow open trades and break-even reminders on the chart |
| See in the Performance tab and AI Trading Journal what result I achieved vs. what result I would have achieved without tampering | Check strategy adherence and cost per part in AI Trading Journal |
| Ask AI Trading Assistant beside the studio to build a setup or a complete strategy or run it on a virtual account | Build and refine strategies with AI Trading Assistant |