Beginner guide · 8 min read
How to use the DMS Sun Engine
A beginner walkthrough of the Sun Engine: what the zones and EQ lines are, the four ways price reacts at them, and where your own strategy fits in.
The one-line version
The Sun Engine shows you where to look. Price tells you what to do.
1. What you are looking at
Each colored box on your chart is one city's sunrise zone — the range price occupied during the minute the sun rose in that city. The box marks an area of interest, somewhere price has a habit of reacting when it returns.
Zones stay on the chart for 12 days by default, and the engine puts new ones up on its own. There is nothing to adjust day to day.
2. The dashed line is the EQ
The dashed line running through the middle of every zone is the EQ line — short for equilibrium. It sits at the 50% level of the box, and it often acts as support or resistance in its own right.
So each zone gives you three things worth watching: the top, the bottom, and the EQ in between.
3. Watch for a reaction
A zone on its own is not a signal. What matters is what price does when it arrives. There are four common reactions, and learning to tell them apart is most of the skill.
Rejection. Price enters the zone, refuses it, and leaves a wick behind as it turns away. Look for rejection wicks, candlestick patterns, or whatever confirmation you normally use.
Break and retest. Price closes through the zone, comes back to test it from the other side, and then continues. What was resistance is now acting as support.
Continuation. Price enters the zone and simply keeps going. The zone showed neither strength nor weakness — that is information too.
Liquidity grab and reversal. Price runs straight through the zone, takes out the orders sitting beyond it, and then quickly reverses back. The sweep is the point.
4. Confirmation is your job
The Sun Engine gives you the timing and the area. It does not tell you to buy or sell. Use your normal strategy to confirm the entry — candle pattern, structure, trend, whatever you already trade.
Not every zone gives a trade
Most of them will not. Price will pass through some without pausing and ignore others entirely. Waiting is the normal state, and passing on a zone that never set up is a decision, not a missed trade.
5. Manage the trade your way
Stops, targets, partials, trailing — all of it stays exactly as it is in your existing plan. The zones help you find high-probability areas to look at. They do not change how you size or manage anything.
The whole loop
| Step | What it means |
|---|---|
| Zone | A city's sunrise zone is an area of interest. Pay attention when price gets there. |
| Reaction | Watch how price behaves at the zone or the EQ line. |
| Confirmation | Apply your usual entry rules — candle pattern, structure, trend. |
| Trade | Execute and manage with your usual stop, target and risk rules. |
An analogy that helps
Think of the Sun Engine as a map: it tells you where the intersections are. Price action is the traffic — what is actually happening at that intersection right now. Your strategy is the turn signal: it tells you when to commit.
A map alone will not drive the car. But it is much harder to drive well without one.
Key takeaways
- The Sun Engine shows you where to look, not what to do.
- Each colored box is one city's sunrise zone.
- The dashed line is the EQ — the 50% midpoint of the zone.
- Look for a reaction at the zone or at the EQ.
- Use your own strategy for entries, stops and targets.
- Not every zone will give a trade. That is normal.
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This content is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice. The Sun Engine marks areas of interest; it does not tell you to buy or sell. Trading involves substantial risk of loss. See our risk disclosure for details.