Pivex Guides
Guides and explainers for funded traders:
challenges, risk, payouts, and market literacy.
How to Set a Stop-Loss Order: A Complete Guide
Setting a stop-loss takes four decisions. Choose the exit price first. Choose the order type. Size the position from that distance. Then place the order and leave it alone. A stop-loss order is a…
How to Stop Overtrading: Essential Strategies for Traders
You stop overtrading by capping how many trades a session may contain. Then you make that cap physically hard to break. Set a maximum trade count and a maximum loss count before the market opens.…
How to Trade Indices: A Step-by-Step Guide
An index is a number that summarises a basket of shares. You cannot buy the number. So learning how to trade indices means learning how to take a position in a product that tracks it. That means an…
How to Trade Silver: A Comprehensive Guide
Silver sits in an awkward and interesting place. It behaves like a precious metal when investors are nervous, and like an industrial input when factories are busy. That double identity is the whole…
Mastering ICT Trading Strategies: A Comprehensive Guide
Strip away the jargon and an ICT trading strategy is a timetable attached to a rule set. ICT stands for Inner Circle Trader, the label attached to a family of intraday methods built on smart money…
Is Day Trading Gambling? Exploring the Fine Line
Day trading is not gambling by definition, but it becomes gambling in practice for a lot of people. The difference is not the speed of the trade. It is whether the position rests on a tested edge…
Is Forex Trading Worth It? An In-Depth Analysis
Worth it compared to what? That is the question hiding inside the question. Forex trading is a legitimate, heavily traded market, and it is also one of the fastest ways to lose money if you arrive…
Is Swing Trading Profitable? Insights and Strategies
Ask ten people whether swing trading pays, and you will hear ten answers. Here is the honest one. Holding a position for several days instead of several minutes does not make profit easier. It…
A Comprehensive Guide to Liquidity Sweep Trading
A liquidity sweep is a fast push through an obvious high or low. It triggers the resting stop orders sitting there, then price snaps back inside the old range. Traders call it a stop hunt because…
Understanding Mean Reversion Trading: Strategies and Insights
Prices wander, and they also tend to come home. Mean reversion trading is built on that second habit. When a price stretches far away from its own average, the trader bets the gap will close. The…
Order Block Trading: Strategies, Techniques, and Insights
Order block trading is a price action method built around one idea. The last opposing candle before a strong directional move often marks a zone where large orders were absorbed. Traders draw that…
Understanding Prop Firms for US Traders: A Comprehensive Guide
A prop firm supplies the trading account. The trader does not have to fund one personally. For traders based in the United States, almost every current arrangement is evaluation-based. You pay a…