Pivex Guides
Guides and explainers for funded traders:
challenges, risk, payouts, and market literacy.
Understanding Order Flow Trading: Strategies and Insights
Order flow trading studies completed trades and resting orders to understand how buying and selling pressure is changing now. Instead of asking only what a candle looks like, it asks who is…
The Ultimate Pre-Market Routine for Day Traders
A pre-market routine turns market information into a limited plan before trading begins. It should check the calendar, define market conditions, build a small watchlist, mark entry and exit levels,…
Understanding Revenge Trading: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention
Revenge trading happens when a trader uses the next order to repair the feeling created by a previous loss. The new trade may resemble a valid setup, yet its real purpose is emotional recovery.…
Understanding the Risk of Ruin in Trading
Survival is the useful starting point.
Understanding the Risk Reward Ratio: A Comprehensive Guide
The risk reward ratio compares the loss planned for a trade with its potential gain. If the stop is 10 points from entry and the target is 20 points away, the risk reward ratio is 1:2. The first…
Scalping vs Day Trading: A Detailed Comparison
Scalping and day trading both close positions before the session ends. Their main difference is how they allocate attention. A scalper makes many brief decisions around small price changes. A day…
A Deep Dive into Smart Money Concepts: Strategies and Insights
Smart money concepts organise price action into a testable sequence. The sequence links liquidity, market structure, order flow, and reaction zones. Traders use the framework to form a testable…
A Comprehensive Guide to Supply and Demand Zones in Trading
Supply and demand zones are chart areas where a sharp imbalance previously pushed price away. A supply zone marks an area where selling overwhelmed buying. A demand zone marks an area where buying…
Support and Resistance Trading: Essential Strategies for Success
Support and resistance trading uses price zones where buying or selling pressure has previously changed direction. Support is an area where declines have stalled. Resistance is an area where…
Swing Trading vs Day Trading: A Comprehensive Comparison
The clearest answer to swing trading vs day trading is a choice between two kinds of exposure. A day trader closes every position before the session ends. A swing trader keeps positions through…
Mastering Trading Discipline: Strategies for Success
Trading discipline is the ability to run the same decision protocol when the market is quiet, fast, favourable, or painful. It is built through prepared defaults, small pauses, and visible records.…
The Trading Expectancy Formula: Your Key to Successful Trading
The trading expectancy formula estimates the average result of one trade across a recorded strategy sample. Multiply the win rate by the average win. Then subtract the loss rate multiplied by the…