--- title: 'Simple Trend Trading Strategy for Day Trading | Bollinger Bands' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-bEfuu3Lo' video_id: 'Pz-bEfuu3Lo' date: 2026-07-23 duration_sec: 1478 channel: 'Wall Street Invest' --- # Simple Trend Trading Strategy for Day Trading | Bollinger Bands > Source: [Simple Trend Trading Strategy for Day Trading | Bollinger Bands](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-bEfuu3Lo) ## Summary This video provides a market analysis of global indices, commodities, and Brazilian assets, followed by a day trading tutorial on using Bollinger Bands and moving averages to trade trends. The presenter, Marcos Maçuda, reviews the day's price action and teaches a simple pullback strategy for beginners. ### Key Points - **Market Overview** [00:02] — Global markets are up, with S&P 500 +0.44%, Nasdaq +0.94%, Germany's Dax +1.36%, and European index +1.62%. Gold recovered +0.68% to $4,074, silver +1.73%, oil up 2.15% to $90.87, Bitcoin +1.75%. Brazil's Bovespa is slightly positive at 0.02% to 173,365. - **Brazilian Stocks Performance** [01:40] — Vale +0.67%, Petrobras +1%, Itaú +0.50%, Bradesco +0.76%, Banco do Brasil +2.88%. The Bovespa index is slightly positive at 0.02% to 173,365. - **Mini-Index Analysis** [02:38] — The mini-index opened with an upward gap near the previous day's VWAP, but was choppy in the morning. At 11 AM, a sharp drop of 1836 points occurred, followed by a lazy reversal back to VWAP. The day's metric reflected the 1800-point drop. - **Timeframe Comparison** [05:03] — Shorter timeframes (2-minute) offer more entry points but are riskier; longer timeframes (5-minute) provide fewer, more cautious entries. The choice depends on the trader's profile. - **Mini-Dollar Analysis** [07:15] — The dollar opened with a downward gap and traded sideways with very small movements (5-17 points). It was difficult to trade; the presenter suggests using mean reversion or the 'hit outside, hit inside' strategy with reduced standard deviation. - **International Markets** [08:24] — S&P 500 recovered overnight, traded sideways, then rose from 10:30 AM to the pivot. Nasdaq rose driven by Asian tech stocks. Europe also rose strongly, with a 50% pullback before surging. Gold is near the second pivot resistance. Oil reached $92, causing concern. - **Tutorial: Trading with the Trend** [13:33] — The presenter teaches a simple trend-following strategy using Bollinger Bands (20 periods, 2 deviations) and a 20-period moving average. In an uptrend, buy at the moving average and sell at the upper band. In a downtrend, sell at the moving average and exit at the lower band. Use previous tops/bottoms for stop loss. - **Renko Chart Application** [20:13] — Renko charts (7R) provide cleaner signals. The same pullback strategy works: enter at the moving average, exit at the band, with stop loss at previous low/high. - **Beginner Advice** [22:22] — The presenter emphasizes that this week's strategies are for practice in a simulator, not for real accounts. Beginners should practice buying and selling to avoid pressing the wrong button. Screen time, risk management, and discipline are crucial. ### Conclusion The video combines a daily market recap with a beginner-friendly tutorial on trading trends using Bollinger Bands and moving averages. The key takeaway is to trade in the direction of the trend, using the 20-period moving average as an entry trigger and the bands as exit targets, while practicing in a simulator before going live. ## Transcript United States and Iran. The situation remains turbulent and difficult to navigate. But today was much better than yesterday, right? In the international market, driven by sharply, and the American and European markets also followed this upward trend and are all showing positive results. Here in Brazil, the index opened higher, but remained quite choppy sideways during the morning. Starting at 11 am, a sharper drop began , reaching a fall of 1800 points, almost at the second band. And from midday onwards, a lazy reversal, but it returned to VAP, giving entry points for for bubblebacks. The dollar opened with a downward gap, remaining quite sideways, making it very difficult to trade. Then all that's left is the good old average return scalping, which I recommend to you, but those who trade dollars already have some knowledge, okay? dollars already have some knowledge, okay? In this scenario, the S&P 500 is up 0.44% and the Nasdaq is up 0.94%. Germany's Dax is up 1.36 and the European index is up up 1.36 and the European index is up 1.62. Gold also recovered, 1.62. Gold also recovered, rising 0.68 to 4.074, and silver climbed 1.73. Brint crude oil continues to rise, significantly complicating the outlook. Up 2.15% to $90,870. It hit 92 today, okay? Iron ore fell 0.34 and Bitcoin rose 1.75. While in Brazil the portion of the stocks also went down. So the market became more sideways. In this scenario, Vale rose 0.67%, Petrobras 1%, Itaú 0.50%, Bradesco 0.76%, and Banco do Brasil, which saved today's gains, rose almost 2.88%. With that, the Bovespa index is slightly positive, at 0.02% to 173,365, and the slightly positive, at 0.02% to 173,365, and the minister is also up 0.02% at 174,650. So let's take a look at today's entries . And in today's tip, continuing This week I'm working with simple strategies for you to practice buying and selling operations in the simulator . Yesterday we traded today we'll cover how to trade when the price starts to rise or starts to fall, trading in favor of the trend. Hi trader, how are you? Marcos Maçuda and today's class with two important announcements. Today, Tuesday, the live online course on the American and international markets begins, okay? information is in the description of this video. Next week, the highly anticipated day trading immersion course, which is fully booked, will also be held. So I opened an extra class for August 25th to 28th . Hurry over there, several spots are already filled. Secure your video. We are here at the mini-index on the 5-minute chart. Well, in this scenario of the war returning on its 10th day, the market becomes more cautious and hesitant. Today dawned with an upward gap, just as I predicted for the index today; it rose with a gap opening near the previous day's VOAP level . But in the morning the market was very choppy and difficult to trade in. Starting at 11 AM, a almost reaching the second band. This drop here, taking the high and the low, reached a fall of 1836 points. From midfield, a reversal occurred and it returned wanted. That return was pretty lazy, but whoever had the patience caught a good target there, and now it's broken through the VOAP and is heading towards, who knows, maybe even the first band. But very slowly, very sluggishly, in that movement. The day's metric reflected that drop of 1800 points in the morning. Remember that historically Santa Cruz has scored between little below my usual level of movement, but compared to yesterday when I was mostly inbound passes. Let's take a look here, it 's at the intersection of the 5- minute averages, right? He even placed a purchase order here, at 11 o'clock, but he was stuck to the VAP (a type of gas station attendant) and that's dangerous. So, on the return trip, it caught that wind inflow, managed to catch it there, even just targeting the day's low, or those who had more higher target, and on the return trip, that's when a buying opportunity arose. There was a band there causing trouble. Even so, those who were patient got R$200 points, R$40. Those who were even more patient waited and got there, look. It took quite a while, almost an hour and a half to get there, all the way to the first VAP, right? Good target. The operations there were time-consuming, but the operation was successful and not stopped. That's what matters, right? Uh, uh, so at 2 minutes, at the 2-minute mark today, remember that at 2 minutes I use the 521 crossover? In the last 5 minutes, it's 3.9. At 2 minutes, it's So, since I have a lot more detail in those 2 minutes , right? The graph is much more... it has more details because its formation is faster, right? He made other entries, for example, he made this entry here, managing to catch a short target up to VAP and then a better target here, looking for the better target here, looking for the 173 750 line over there, right? 400 points, okay? On the return leg, he also caught that entry, getting over 200 points there, uh, it's with a target there, right? Like, getting there, almost reaching 250, okay? Then the difficult, but then it moved and reached the band, okay? Then, at 2 also very dangerous to operate, so a lot of caution was needed, right? So, that's how it is, see? Which one is better? Is it time for minute 2, 5:21, or 5:39? It will depend on on a shorter timeframe I have more entry points, but they are also riskier entries. On a longer timeframe, like five minutes, I have fewer entries, and I need more cautious entries, okay? It doesn't mean it's going to be nothing, it's 100%, okay? So you will choose your timeframe according to your operational profile, your trading style. If there were trends, even truncated ones, there were entries through PUBEC. Let's take a look here at the Renco 7R and the shockwave setup , okay? Let's go! In the morning, the best time was here, starting at 10:30 AM, entry via PBEC or breakout. He made some good honest, right? It almost didn't catch, so it took a second and a third attempt. On Wednesday it took a stop loss, then the price reversed, it managed to get another entry here on its upward trend, but on the next entry it took a stop loss again. So, when it was like that, the market was starting to form a trend, but at that time the market was still moving sideways, very similar to yesterday. It was only later , around 11 o'clock, that things started to look a little better. That's when he made some good entries here and then in his reversal. It's a shame that the return leg was so slow, very slow. So, there were entries through purchases, yes, but entries took a very long time to happen, 10, 15, 20 minutes to get there with targets of 150, 200 points. So, yeah, it's not a Remember that PBEC is good when the price quickly rises 45 degrees; that's when it's a good time to trade the pullback, OK? So today at PBEC wasn't such a good day for trading. There were good moments, but interspersed with a lot of stop-loss orders, making trading quite difficult , okay? Even with a trend of 2000 points today, the scenario wasn't so easy to trade in. OK? Hey trader, are you enjoying today's analysis? So don't forget to give the video a like, okay? And if you're not subscribed, please any of the videos. Turn on notifications to be alerted, because every day you get three videos here, at 8 AM, see today's index. In two and a half minutes, I'll give you a scenario that could happen in the minute today, right? At 11 AM, this super live stream that I always do every day, and at 5:30 AM this trend analysis video today. And here's a special tip for you: subscribe, like, share with your friends, and leave a comment telling me which tip I should record this week, okay? Let's take a look at the mini dollar, then, folks. Mini dollar. the dollar opened with a gap down, right? An 11-point downward gap. And then the dollar is trading, right? Very small movements there, look, 14 points, 17 points, 12, 10, 5, nothing. When I got there, from 11:45 until 2:00 AM, the market simply stopped. Then he fell and stopped again. So, it's difficult to trade the dollar today. Lateral scenario, crossing doesn't work, backflip doesn't work. Who knows, maybe there are a few entries there, either for mean reversion or that strategy from yesterday, which is to trade like that, you know, the "hit outside, hit inside" strategy. OK? Well, but a bad trading scenario, for example, let's take a rank 3R and yesterday's lesson, right? If you didn't watch it, you take hit" scenario, the "hit outside" and " hit inside" triggers, okay? And the movement was so weak , so we had to reduce the standard deviation of the bands to 1.5, right? So the dollar is difficult to trade these days. Let's take a look at the international markets. I'm here on the TradingView platform from Easy Market, right? And first, the main asset of the American market, the SP500, right? The SP500 today, well, last night it already recovered from the drop it had in the afternoon, right? Well, in the early morning, the market was very sideways, choppy, it dropped in the morning, very messy, very choppy, only from 10:30 am onwards, with coverage of the stocks, did the SP500 rise and go all the way to the pivot. Look how the pivot point acts as support and resistance, right? So, always pay attention to the indicators, entries through PUBEC, entries through cross-referencing as well, OK? Well, the market is just sitting there, waiting for your next moves, okay? The Nasdaq was also driven by technology companies, especially in Asia, which rose sharply overnight; Korea and Taiwan even climbed by 4%, driven by semiconductor companies, right? And Japan also rose by almost 3%. So, uh, uh, uh, the Nasdaq, which includes technology companies, also ended up riding that wave of growth, okay? Well, Nasdaq is up almost 1%, same scenario, it went up last night, traded sideways overnight, and then went up again around 10:30 AM and now it's stalled up there . The Dow Jones moved a little more, okay? At 11 o'clock it had a couldn't recover that momentum, so today it climbed stronger, but now it's corrected itself, okay? And it could just be a pullback before this upward trend continues. Europe also went up strongly, didn't it? It was already going up last night, then it corrected, a basic 50% pullback, and then surged. Let's even draw a Fibonacci retracement here to see how far this movement went. A here. Oh, where's the Fibonacci retracement? Let's give it a try! Okay, now that's more like it. Look there, look. Movement. Oops, initial leg movement, retraction. It broke through here at 50. It went up to 61.8 and almost reached 127. 61 is still a long way off , isn't it? But who knows, right? Germany can go up there and leave. OK. Let's go. European index. The activity is nice too , isn't it? Oh, it went up, corrected, it went up. Who likes a Fibonacci retracement, a retracement, a moving average crossover, a pullback, right? Breakout from the top on the I also quite like, provided good entry points in those Gold prices have also made a nice comeback, you know. He had a strong uphill climb during the night, it corrected a little, but now he's recovered and now he's recovered again, okay? important resistance region, which is exactly at the second pivot. Hey, you could break through, go all the way to the third pivot and then back to the 420, okay? Silver, which is also more volatile, rose 1.78, a nice increase, but it's more choppy today. Oil is in a complicated situation; it reached almost 92 barrels during the morning's surge, and now it's slightly trying to moment, causing considerable concern with a high of 2.48. normal period it fell and corrected, and after the pre-market it fell again pre-market it fell again here and at this moment is negative 0.34, okay? The important thing today was to monitor the DXY, which measures the strength of the dollar, and the 10-year interest rate complicating the scenario for Brazilians here, right? So, in the end, foreigners mostly wait and see what happens. So it's negative. Today during the live stream I reinforced this point quite a bit, okay? And reinforced this point quite a bit, okay? And there, our student Sara, I'm going to be studying about the DI (Interbank Deposit Rate) to bring you all the information that can help you, you know, in your operations trading minido (mini-contract futures). OK? Let's take a look here, if main assets from all over the world, because here, in addition to the DXY, I have access to the EWZ, and at 5 AM I already know what the EWZ is doing, which is the Bovespa index when I say here in the index today, "ah, it's going to open close to the previous day's VOAP," out there, right? So that's the advantage of having real-time access to assets from all over the world, right? And I also have access here to Vale, the ADR of Vale, same thing, the pre-market starts at 5 AM. I'm already checking the prices of these assets before the stock market opens at 10 AM , you know. So, trade at the market opening, I would have much more information to base my decision on, you know, and make a buy or sell decision within a market opening strategy. Who knows about the angle bangle, right? OK. And I also have access to other Asian indices, uh, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and especially I also have access to all the stocks that form magnificent sets, right, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Nvidia, and I also included Facebook, Nvidia, and I also included AMD, MU which is Micron Technology, and also applied materials, which is MAT, right, which are assets linked to software for artificial intelligence, sorry, hardware, right, linked to artificial intelligence, right, on the American stock exchange. So I'm always movement of the SP500 and what it might affect here in Brazil. If you also want access to the world's leading assets in real time, I'll leave a link in the video description to this free TradingView platform so you can access assets in real time through EasyMark. And in today's tip, continuing the classic day trading strategies series, this week I'm bringing you simple strategies to practice buying and selling. So this week's series is for you, the beginner trader, who is still practicing, because the biggest mistake beginner traders make is buying when they should sell That is to say, he presses the wrong buy and sell button. Therefore, it's extremely important to use sell button. Therefore, it's extremely important to use the classic "hit outside, hit inside," which is actually a dangerous strategy, known as counter-trend. Since yesterday's scenario was largely sideways, that strategy waits for the price to move away from the band and then catches its return to the average. Operations against the movement. Today we're going to learn how to trade with the trend, which is the most recommended approach, okay? So when an upward trend or today at 11 am when the price dropped and then at noon the price rose, that's when you 'll practice buying and selling. So I'm going to use the same indicator as yesterday, which is the Binger Bands, but you can switch to a counter-channel, you can switch to a price action channel, or even an LTLTB, which is an uptrend or downtrend line. But to simplify things even further, let's use the same indicator as yesterday, which is a classic called Bollinger Bands. OK? Let's go. So, I'm here on the mini- index, on the 5-minute chart. Look here. Let's put the indicator back. Indicator. More indicators. back. Indicator. More indicators. Bollinger Bands Insert. OK. Let's tweak the colors a bit to make it look nicer here, shall we? Let's leave it there. Ah, detour two indeed. Let's leave 20 periods. Appearance. I'm going to leave the bands in fuchsia so they're more visible, right? Thickness three. And, and it's values, closure and appearance here of, of the average. Let's leave it here, uh, on, uh, also with a thickness of three here, see, apply. OK, great, now it's more visible, right? So, yesterday, uh, I made trades when the market was sideways, doing some outside and inside bets. When the price starts a trend, what do you notice? Come on, let's look at today, okay? Instead of 5 shorter timeframe. This trend strategy is best used with shorter timeframes, because the shorter the timeframe, such as 1 or 2 minutes, or a 5, 6, or 7-minute timeframe, the faster the timeframes are. So, for example, on a 1-minute chart, each he'll start making these zigzag movements, making it easier for you, uh , giving you, uh, it's not easier, giving you more opportunities to OK? So I'm going to grab a 1- minute chart here, but then I'll switch to the renco chart. Look here. That's today's the day, okay? So, for example, a downward trend began, what is the signal? He's starting to make descending tops and bottoms , okay? Oh, my dear, how do you set up that tops and bottoms indicator? Look here. You come here, look, indicators, more indicators, type the word "tops" in the search bar and choose the indicator called "tops and bottoms detector". You're going to insert this indicator up here, OK? This indicator, I'm even and bottom here, see. Let's take away my top and bottom. Okay, I took it off. When I added this orange line appeared. I selected the orange line, it's here in going to do? The parameter leaves two periods , right? Regarding the design options, I'm going to just include the label, the letters T and F. And for the appearance, since I have a dark background, let's use a yellow color here. A yellow color. Thickness doesn't matter. Apply. OK. Okay, now my tops and bottoms are making descending tops and bottoms, I mean, what would descending tops and bottoms be , right? This top here is smaller than this top here. This top here is smaller than that one, and that top is smaller than that one . This fund is smaller than that one, and that fund is smaller than that one. So I have descending tops and bottoms, okay? When the price is trending down or up, what do you notice? So the price won't break through that green line again, which is the 20-period moving average, right? The average of 20 is equal to the average of 21 that I use, okay? It's the same thing. So what do you realize? The 20-period moving average is an important pullback average. I mean, what? The price attempts to break through this average and has great difficulty in trending movements, whether downward or upward. When it's sideways, when the market is sideways, sideways, when the market is sideways, it constantly breaks through this 21-period moving average, not respecting this average here. Now, when a trend begins, it can't break through that average. Oops. If the price fails to break through that average, I entry trigger, right? So, this is what you're going to do here. So, for example, I could have sold here and caught this drop, remember yesterday's band, which is that line that's the lower band? Yesterday I was using the whole " hit outside, hit inside" thing as an entry trigger. OK? Now I'm trading, which was a was dropping and I was going to buy it here to get the return trip. Most dangerous operation. Not today. Today I'm going to do the opposite. I'm going to enter at the average of 20, and where am I going to end up? I'm going to leave the band. So I use the average of 20 as a trigger. In this case, with a downward trend, where do I go short and exit? In the lower band. I went in short, I'm leaving on the bottom side. And so I'm going to collect these little appetizers here. When the price reversed, look what happened here. reversed, look what happened here. At this point, the price broke through the 20-period moving average and an upward trend has now begun . So now I can use this as an entry trigger, right? Today, at this very moment, it turns here, okay? Because he didn't actually knock here. What can I do see if things improve here. Arithmetic type. Exponential. Apply. OK. Let's see. turned out a little better here, look. Making a down payment, look. Bought R$30 here in 2 minutes. You bought it here, right? Almost R$40 in 3 minutes. It didn't hit here. It got really hot here, did n't it? It almost got stopped, but then it worked out . But it took 40 minutes, right? So, as long as the trend is going well, you can trade in favor of the trend. So, in an upward trend, I buy at the 20-period moving average and sell at the upper band. When a downtrend begins, I sell now at the 20-period moving average and exit, you know, at the lower band, right? OK. So, uh, then in the 1-minute chart or the 2-minute chart, let's take the 2-minute chart confusing. Even though it took 2 minutes, that lap was better, right? This lap here was even better than the one on the 1-minute chart, okay? Now, a good chart to use for trading, Renko chart, right? Let's take a Renco 7R here, which is compatible with the minute gauge. Look at this, see. Look at the difference. What is a characteristic of a Renko chart ? It's a cleaner graph because the lines are bricks. It 's no longer about timing, it's about price fluctuations. So you came in here already sold, and you took it. It got a little warm here, but it caught on. This is the target here, R$40 until the band. It sold here, it got a little hot, but then it came to R$ 30. And here there were several other entries here too, look. Okay? Oh, there was another little entry here too . Then here he took a stop that he reversed. It reversed, oh. He took this entrance here, this second entrance. That third entry, a fourth here on Thursday, it got hot, but then came a sixth, a seventh, and then it was over. So pullback strategy by trading only here, using the average as an entry trigger and the band as an exit. If it's high, it exits in the upper band. If it's low, it exits in the lower band. And where does the stop loss, you idiot, place it ? Always place the previous bottom on top. For example, if I bought something here, I had to update my profit here. Now yes. If I bought here through PUBEC, my stop loss is below the previous low and the target is there, right? The target is right there in the band, okay? Oh, it came back bought again little further away, it was a little more expensive here, and the target, you know, reached the band. So you'll be using the tops and bottoms as stop losses and using the bands as exit points, OK? This is a technique for you to practice buying and selling. Again, pay attention to this and attentive to this information. This this week isn't for use in a real account, okay? This is for you to start practicing buying and selling, okay? Yes, this strategy is operational, but you need to more robust. For example, how do I implement this strategy here? I operate with three moving averages, which is the setup, Shock Wave, right? Oh, I'll get the shock wave and also, if I want, then yes, I can put the Boniger band on for the output of the operation. So, look, I get on at 21, I get off with the band, okay? And here I have other tools, but Maidi or estoca can help. So you have this more elaborate strategy, right? Today I just want you to learn how to do simple operations here, okay? This is for you to practice buying and selling. So the idea is, if it starts to go up, you only buy, always trading in favor of the trend. It started to fall, you just sell and use the 20-period moving average as an entry trigger, term "pullback" mean? Okay, just so you understand, the term "pullback" translates to " reprique" (rebound). What is a "repique"? Oh, the price hits that average and bounces back up, it starts to rise again. It hits the average of 20 and then goes back up, does the rebound, does the pullback, okay? This is the classic pullback entry. So, it enters at average 21, exits at... uh... on the channel of... uh... on the Biger band, okay? So, if you want to be a little more cautious, you wait for it to hit the 20th and make a green brick, and then you only enter the next one, okay? Just go to the next one, see if it 's more effective for you to practice buying and selling, okay? So, two classes there. Yesterday's lesson was about trading sideways markets, against the trend, which is more dangerous. Today's lesson is about trading with the same downtrends. Hey trader, did you like today's tip? Remember that I like to focus this channel on you, the I also share a lot of advanced content, but my main goal is for you, the beginner trader, who is I want you to get off to a good start , okay? Understand price movements, understand that news is important, understand that emotions make up 95% of trading, and that without good risk management and a solid trading plan, you can't trade. And without discipline, this business won't move forward. And only screen time will give you the confidence to operate, right? Understanding the context to operate more safely, OK? So, important thing, but before you get to a real account, you have to go through the simulator process, practice exhaustively, especially buying and selling, so you get used to clicking the buy button when you want to buy and sell, okay? In tomorrow's class, I'll bring you more tools to help you on your journey, in your day trading operations, trading mini-index and mini-dollar, OK? If you enjoyed this lesson, give it a like, share it with your topic I should cover next in this super tip. Big this super tip. Big hug and see you in the next class.