Pivex Guides
Guides and explainers for funded traders:
challenges, risk, payouts, and market literacy.
Understanding Breakout Trading Strategies: Techniques for Success
Price spends most of its time going nowhere. A breakout trading strategy is a plan for the minority of moments when that stops being true. You define a boundary, wait for price to leave it with…
Can You Make a Living Day Trading? A Comprehensive Guide
Start with the bill, not the dream. A person who trades for a living covers rent, food, insurance, tax and platform costs from one account. That account goes down as often as it goes up. So can you…
Can You Trade Crypto on Weekends? Understanding the Dynamics
Yes. You can trade crypto on weekends, because the crypto market runs around the clock, every day of the year. Saturday and Sunday are ordinary trading days on spot and derivatives venues. No bell…
Candlestick Patterns for Day Trading: Strategies and Insights
A candle is a record of an argument. Buyers and sellers spent five minutes disagreeing, and the shape left behind tells you who ran out of conviction first. That is all a pattern is. Only a handful…
CFDs vs Futures: Understanding the Key Differences
Both instruments let a trader take a leveraged position on a price without owning the asset. The split is structural. A futures contract is a standardised, exchange-traded agreement with a fixed…
Understanding cTrader Prop Firms: A Complete Guide
A cTrader prop firm is a funded-account programme that runs its evaluations on the cTrader platform. You pay to attempt a trading challenge on simulated capital. You trade inside a published risk…
Understanding Fair Value Gaps in Trading
A fair value gap is a three-candle imbalance on a price chart. It shows up when the middle candle moves so fast that the first candle and the third candle never share any price. The untouched band…
FOMO in Trading: Understanding and Managing the Fear of Missing Out
Watch a chart run away without you and something uncomfortable happens. FOMO in trading is the fear of missing out on a move, and it pushes traders into positions they never planned to hold. The…
Forex vs Crypto Trading: A Detailed Comparison
Forex is the older, deeper and more tightly supervised market. Spreads are narrow and the weekly clock is fixed. Crypto never closes, travels further in a single day, and sits under a rulebook that…
How Long Does It Take to Become a Profitable Trader?
There is no honest number. The time it takes depends on four things. How often you trade. How carefully you record results. How much you risk per trade. And whether you can repeat the same process…
How to Backtest a Trading Strategy: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learning how to backtest a trading strategy comes down to one discipline. You write the rules down, replay them against historical data exactly as written, record every simulated trade, and then…
How to Keep a Trading Journal: A Step-by-Step Guide
A trading journal is a structured record of every trade you take. You write it close to the moment you take it. Each entry captures the instrument, the setup, the size, the entry and exit, the…