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Not quite like that. This is the rule I use:

Strategy Pool: Like many other classes, hunters build up a pool of tokens they can use to power special abilities. A hunter uses strategy tokens, which are granted to non-hunters who take certain feats. However, a hunter is capable of using his tokens for a far wider range of effects.

You earn a pool of strategy tokens at the beginning of an encounter equal to one-half your hunter class level (round up). This represents the accumulation of hunter's lore you have gained through experience and can bring to bear on the battle at hand.

You may use strategy tokens in conjunction with any feats you may possess that use them, such as Analyze Opponents, Tactics of the Mind, or Warleader. However, you also gain unique token-based abilities, as described below. (See usual suite of hunter token abilities.)

At the end of the encounter, you lose any remaining tokens you have built up. Your pool of unspent strategy tokens cannot exceed 10 + your hunter level.

Hunter's Eye: You may gain strategy tokens by studying the battlefield. Make an Intelligence check. You gain a +5 bonus to the check for each feat mastery you have that grants access to a strategy token pool. In addition, you gain a bonus or penalty to your check depending on the type of action you use to gather tokens:

Action Type / Int Check Modifier
Free / -10
Move / -5
Standard / +0
Full-round / +5

You gain a number of tokens equal to your Intelligence check divided by 5 (round down).

[EDIT: Yes, this gives the hunter an obscene number of strategy tokens compared to other PCs, but I don't really find it a balance problem. It just effectively means that the hunter has access to Tactics feat abilities pretty much all the time, which makes them "core abilities" of the class, in essence.]