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Draw the entry zone, the stop and the target on the chart. Add conditions as plain-language blocks. Test the setup on history, then let FOCSAL track it live and alert you when it changes state.
Why it exists
Ask a trader for their setup and you get a sentence: price comes back to the zone after a break of structure, RSI is washed out, enter on the reaction. Written down, that sentence is a list of conditions — and on any given candle each of them either holds or it doesn't.
Setup Builder turns the sentence into a chain you can check. You draw what only you know — the entry zone, the stop and the target — and add the rest as blocks. FOCSAL then evaluates the chain on closed candles: over history when you test it, and candle by candle when you track it live.
How it works
Each stage holds what must be true at that moment: an event before the zone, the touch of the zone, the conditions on the candle in the zone, the reaction from it, and the result.
Illustrative example — not market data and not a forecast.
Condition blocks
8 blocks cover what a discretionary setup usually asks. Events look back a number of candles you set; states are checked on the candle that touches the zone.
| Block | Kind | Stage | What it checks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Structure break | Event | Earlier | The last break of structure was up or down, within a window of candles you set. |
| Liquidity sweep | Event | Earlier | Price swept above a high or below a low, within the window. |
| Moving-average cross | Event | Earlier | One average crossed another — SMA or EMA, with periods of your choice. |
| MACD cross | Event | Earlier | MACD crossed its signal line, up or down. |
| Price vs moving average | State | In the zone | Price is above or below an SMA or an EMA. |
| Price vs VWAP / POC / Value Area | State | In the zone | Price is above or below VWAP or the point of control, or inside the value area. |
| Indicator threshold (RSI, ADX, %K) | State | In the zone | RSI, ADX or Stochastic %K is above or below a value you set. |
| MACD vs signal line | State | In the zone | MACD is above or below its signal line. |
Group blocks with “One of…” when any one of them is enough. Next to every block the chain shows whether it holds on the current candle.
Templates
5 ready-made chains. Fill in what only you know — the entry zone, the stop and the target — and change any block whenever you want.
Price returns to a defended demand zone after a swing break up and bounces.
Price breaks a range and comes back to retest the broken level, with a sweep in the last few candles.
Price touches VWAP from above and is rejected back in the trend's direction.
Price pulls back to the EMA 50 inside an uptrend and resumes.
A wick takes liquidity below a level and closes back inside the range.
Test · Track
Pick a window from 7 to 365 days and run the chain over it. The result is a timeline: whether price touched the zone, where the conditions lined up, and how the run ended — target, stop, invalidation or no entry.
Switch tracking on and every newly closed candle on the setup's timeframe is checked once. Each change of state lands on a live timeline — zone touched, entry, stop, target, invalidation.
Plans
| Setup Builder | Free | Plus | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saved setups | 1 | 10 | 100 | 100 |
| Assets | BTC | 122 | 153 | 153 |
| Test on history | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Live tracking | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts | — | Email, Telegram | Email, Telegram |
Timeframes on every plan: 15m, 1h, 4h and 1d. 122 assets on Plus are 65 crypto and all 57 real-world assets. Compare plans
FAQ
A no-code tool in Strategy Lab for turning a trading idea into a tested, tracked setup. You draw the entry zone, the stop and the target on the chart, add conditions as plain-language blocks, test the setup on history, then let FOCSAL track it live and alert you when it changes state.
In the app, open Strategy Lab and choose Setup Builder. It sits next to the Trade Calculator and the Trade Planner.
No. You draw the entry zone, the stop and the target, and add conditions as blocks with a few settings each — a period, a threshold, a number of candles. The chain reads as one sentence.
The 15m, 1h, 4h and 1d timeframes, on crypto and on real-world assets — stocks, index ETFs and commodities tracked as 24/7 perpetual contracts. Free covers BTC, Plus 122 assets, Pro and Enterprise all 153.
It runs the chain once over the window you choose, from 7 to 365 days, and shows how that run ended: target, stop, invalidation or no entry. It is not a forecast and not a statistics report — there is no win rate, and fees and slippage are not modelled. The optional reaction-from-the-zone step relies on lower-timeframe data, so on 1h and above it confirms only in live tracking.
No. FOCSAL is an analytics platform — it does not execute trades or hold funds. Setup Builder tells you when your conditions are met; the decision and the execution stay with you.
Free includes one setup on BTC, tested on history. Live tracking and alerts start with Plus.
FOCSAL is an analytics platform — it does not execute trades or hold funds.
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