From engineering to trading: New LATAM Exness Team Pro Hiram Medina on how simplicity became his trading edge

Exness has added Latin American trader and educator Hiram Medina to its Team Pro ambassador programme, extending the broker's push to reach trading communities across the region. Medina, an electronics engineering graduate who previously ran several businesses, said the partnership gives him a wider platform for education focused on mindset, discipline and risk control.

Before trading, Medina studied engineering — a path he says was largely chosen by his father — and went on to build companies that at one point employed around 15 people. The birth of his son highlighted how little time he had for family, and after his online ventures faltered and the businesses wound down, he moved closer to the coast to start over. A brother introduced him to trading there. The freedom appealed to him, but he quickly found the work demanded preparation and discipline.

Teaching while still learning

Medina began sharing his knowledge online after giving up his income too quickly and hitting a difficult financial stretch. Requests for lessons followed, and teaching helped support his family while he continued studying. Much of the useful material was in English while many traders across LATAM needed it in Spanish; translating complex ideas, he said, also deepened his own understanding.

His approach is deliberately narrow. After buying numerous courses and trying a range of indicators, strategies and markets, he stripped his process back in 2020. Today he concentrates on market structure, support and resistance and a handful of setups, primarily trading the Nasdaq 100 around the New York open. He generally takes no more than one trade a day and limits risk to roughly 0.5% to 1% of the account — closing the platform after a loss rather than attempting to win money back.

Medina also stressed accountability, noting that his private community sees his trades, including losing ones, along with his analysis and post-trade reasoning. On LATAM education, he argued content is shifting away from cars and easy-money promises toward the real process of losses, emotions and decision-making. On the Exness tie-up, he cited the broker's responsiveness to trader feedback on spreads, withdrawals and platform performance as a point of value.