📊 ESTRATEGIA SMOOTHTREND | VELAS DE RANGO + 2 EMAS 12 PASO A PASO

Summary

The presenter teaches the SmoothTrend approach: two 12-period EMAs displayed as a cloud, paired with range candles. The session also emphasizes position sizing, trade management, and controlling emotional triggers. The performance examples are the presenter’s anecdotes, not independently verified results.

Strategy Setup and Entry Framework

• Instrument shown: MNQ (Micro E-mini Nasdaq futures). The presenter also discusses NQ. He says he uses 30-second, 2-minute, 15-minute, and 60-minute charts for separate funded-account trading.
• Chart: Use 100-range candles rather than time-based candles. The transcript also describes candles as representing 25 points; those details are not entirely clear in the subtitles.
• Cloud: Add one 12-period EMA applied to price, then a second 12-period EMA applied to the first EMA. The space between them forms the cloud.
• Directional checklist: For a long setup, the presenter looks for price above the cloud, a strong upward impulse, and a pullback toward the cloud followed by evidence that buying pressure is returning. Reverse the logic for shorts.
• Entry patterns described:
  1. After an impulse, price pulls back to the upper edge of the cloud and turns upward.
  2. Price pulls back to the lower edge, then reverses. The presenter calls a clear rejection and positive close an especially strong (“A+”) setup.
  3. A candle enters the cloud and then exits in the trade direction. He advises waiting for a small retracement before placing a trigger order rather than entering automatically at the close.
  4. In a strong trend, price may consolidate above the cloud without touching it. He describes entering on a range breakout, with a wider stop and fewer contracts.
• He also suggests experimenting with a 200 EMA as a filter: buy above it and sell below it. Other cloud settings and range sizes should be tested rather than adopted without backtesting.

Timing and Market Conditions

• The presenter identifies 9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. New York time as his preferred window for 100-range candles.
• For the lower-volume Asian session, which he says begins around 6 p.m., he suggests testing smaller ranges such as 50 or 60 and adjusting the EMA settings if needed.
• He says the strategy is less effective in choppy, range-bound conditions and cautions against trading around imminent news. He also warns that Fridays can be risky, especially after a strongly positive or negative week.

Risk Management and Trade Management

The presenter frames risk management, strategy, and emotional control as essential to staying in the market long enough to recover from losses.

• For real accounts, he describes 1–2% risk per trade as preferable and 5% as very aggressive. He also makes a much more aggressive claim that funded accounts can tolerate 10% risk; this is his opinion, not a generally safe standard.
• For funded accounts, he recommends defining a fixed loss amount in advance based on the account’s drawdown limit, and reducing risk after passing or funding an account.
• His examples include:
  • A supposed $150,000 challenge account with a $5,000 drawdown, initially divided into 10 days / $500 per day. He later says he increased risk to $700, then $1,000, to try to pass faster.
  • A supposed $50,000 funded account with a $2,500 Apex drawdown or $2,000 for another firm. Some related figures in the subtitles are garbled or internally inconsistent.
  • A stop of 25 points at $2 per point per contract would equal $50 per contract, or $500 for 10 contracts. He also discusses a 20-point stop, or $400 for 10 contracts. These calculations depend on the contract and point value.
• He favors roughly 1:1 and 2:1 risk-reward targets, protecting gains as price reaches successive reward multiples rather than allowing a profitable trade to return fully to breakeven. He says to take profits or use trailing stops if you cannot tolerate giving back open gains.
• He cautions against revenge trading and overtrading after losses, missed profits, personal stress, or travel-related anxiety. He recommends identifying personal triggers and stepping away when they arise.

Results and Claims Cited

• The presenter says the challenge account had a three-day losing streak but remained active. He describes being around breakeven after 10 days, and later says the account was about $700 short of passing. The subtitles make some account figures unclear.
• He claims the strategy often produces around 1:1, with some examples reaching 2:1 or more.
• He says he had made withdrawals using 1:1 and 2:1 trade management and mentions a withdrawal 15 days earlier. He also cites another trader’s account allegedly growing to over $240,000 using 1:1 trades since 2017. These are anecdotes, not verified performance data.
• In a personal example involving an Apple-related report, he says he had about $2,000 in gains, then lost roughly $800 of profits and another $800 from his real account after adding to a losing position.

Instruments, Firms, and Other References

• Futures: MNQ and NQ.
• Company/security mentioned: Apple (AAPL).
• Funding firms mentioned: Apex, Topstep, and My Forex Funded. The presenter says Topstep is more flexible about withdrawals, but the subtitles do not provide enough detail to verify this.
• Other trading concepts: EMA 200 filter, range candles, pullbacks, breakouts, and rally–base–rally structure.

Disclosures and Cautions

No explicit “not financial advice” disclaimer appears in the subtitles. The presenter shares educational trading opinions and personal results, but does not provide verified performance records. Several account sizes, drawdown amounts, and risk calculations are garbled or contradictory in the auto-generated subtitles; they should not be relied on without checking the original recording.

Presenter and sources: The presenter is identified in the session as Luis Viloria. He credits Jesús Mora with teaching him another strategy, references Cristian (described in the subtitles as “Cristian from on trading”), cites Mark Douglas’s Trading in the Zone, and mentions traders and friends Joseph and Alfredo Chaumer as examples.