Pixi help

Trade with a plan,
not a hunch.

Pixi keeps the important numbers close: what you are risking, what leverage changes, how a position is protected and what happened after fees. This guide turns those controls into simple habits.

Before every trade

  1. 1Choose a loss you can accept.
  2. 2Check exposure, fees and leverage.
  3. 3Set protection before emotion arrives.

A calmer routine

Four useful habits

Plan the downside

Set your daily stop first. Then size each trade so one idea cannot decide your whole result.

Add protection

Use optional TP and SL controls when opening a position. Check the chart levels after the order fills.

Read context

Use candles, trend, Bollinger bands and volume together. One touch or one colour is never the whole story.

Review the result

Activity and Stats help separate a repeatable process from a lucky outcome. Include fees in every review.

Your automated trader

Let Pixi watch. Stay in control.

Pixi AI looks for opportunities and manages trades using the balance you choose. It is available to every user, with no API key needed. Start small enough that a loss is manageable—not with money you need for essentials.

01

Enable it in Settings

Turn on Pixi AI, then open its portfolio card. Set up the separate AI account and transfer the amount you want it to manage.

02

Confirm before trading starts

Choose Let Pixi trade when you are ready. Pixi can open, resize and close positions automatically, subject to market and risk checks.

03

Check in and keep your limits

Review positions and results, adjust your profit reserve, and stop AI trading when you want its positions closed. You can move unused cash while it runs.

Pixi AI can lose money. Leverage amplifies losses, protections cannot guarantee an exit price, and past results do not promise future returns.

Open Pixi AI settings

Leverage without the fog

A multiplier, not free money.

Leverage lets a smaller amount of margin control a larger market position. That can make capital more flexible, but gains, losses and fee impact all move against the larger exposure.

Your margin$10
×
Leverage
=
Approx. exposure$30

A 5% move in the market is roughly a 15% move on that margin before fees and slippage. A move against you also brings liquidation closer.

Where leverage can help

It can provide useful exposure without committing all available cash, leaving room for other positions or a cash buffer.

Where leverage can hurt

It magnifies mistakes, reduces room before liquidation and makes repeated fees more important. Higher leverage is not the same as a better opportunity.

Reading Bollinger bands

Use the bands as context.

The middle line is a moving average. The outer bands widen when recent price movement is more volatile and narrow when it is calmer.

CalmerWider movement
A band touch is not an instruction.

Price can keep walking along an outer band. Look for trend, candle behaviour, volume and your planned risk.

A squeeze can precede a larger move.

Narrow bands show lower recent volatility, but they do not tell you which direction comes next.

Timeframe changes the picture.

A 5-minute setup can look very different on 1-hour candles. Check the timeframe that matches your plan.

Spreading risk

Different names can still be the same bet.

Diversification is about what drives the positions, not just how many lines appear in a list. Several crypto assets may fall together; a group of technology-linked markets can react to the same news.

01

Leave a cash buffer

Available USDC gives you room for volatility, fees and deliberate changes. “Max” uses that room; it does not create safety.

02

Check total effective leverage

Pixi’s Total card compares combined notional exposure with current equity. It can reveal portfolio risk that looks small one position at a time.

03

Limit one-theme exposure

Ask what could make several positions move together. Smaller, genuinely different positions can reduce concentration, though diversification cannot prevent loss.

Wallet security

Your strongest control is the one only you know.

Pixi encrypts the primary wallet key in your browser using your passkey. The seed phrase and plaintext private key stay on your device. Pixi cannot restore a phrase you lose.

Read the security answers ↓
  • Use a device passcode and biometricsYour passkey relies on the security of your device account.
  • Keep the seed phrase offlineNever share it with support, Pixi or anyone offering to “help”.
  • Verify withdrawal addressesCheck the full destination and network before approving with your passkey.
  • Pause when a message creates urgencyReal security does not ask you to reveal a seed phrase to stop an emergency.

Questions, answered

The useful details

Short answers for the moments when you want to check one thing and get back to your plan.

How do I sign up for Pixi Trader?

New accounts require a unique invite link issued by a Pixi admin. Each link expires 14 days after it is issued and can be used for one signup. You can open it multiple times before completing signup; opening the link does not use it up. If your link has expired or already been used, ask an admin for a new one. Existing accounts can sign in or recover their wallet without an invite.

What is Pixi AI, and how do I start?

Pixi AI is Pixi’s automated trader, available to every user. It uses a trained model to assess opportunities and manage trades. Open Settings, enable Pixi AI, then open its portfolio card to set up and fund your separate AI account. Confirm Let Pixi trade when you are ready. You do not need a ChatGPT subscription or an API key. Enabling the feature alone does not start trading or move money.

What does Pixi AI do with my allocation?

Pixi AI looks for eligible opportunities, opens positions, adjusts their sizes and manages exits. It may leave money unused when trading costs, market conditions or risk checks do not pass. You can see its positions in the portfolio and its results in Stats. Automation is not a guarantee of profit, and leveraged positions can lose money quickly.

Will Pixi AI close a trade that stops making progress?

Yes. Once an AI trade has been open for at least 4 hours, Pixi can close it if it has stayed outside the top 40 markets ranked by absolute 24-hour price movement for at least 90 minutes, made little progress in its direction over the last 90 minutes, and shown weakening momentum on both the 15-minute and hourly charts for at least 30 minutes. Little progress means no more than a quarter of recent average true range, a measure of typical price movement. A recent recovery delays the exit, and a return to the top 40 restarts the absence timer. Pixi uses completed candles and fresh observations; missing data is not evidence that a trade has stalled. This is a risk-control rule, not a precise prediction of recovery. It can realize a gain or a loss, and normal fees, slippage and re-entry cooldowns still apply. Take-profit and stop-loss protection continues while the trade is open.

If markets are noisy, how can Pixi AI find opportunities?

Price and volume history is noisy, so it is a weak predictor on its own. Pixi AI tries to improve the odds in three ways. It estimates price movement over the next six four-hour bars, a 24-hour forecast horizon that puts less emphasis on short-lived fluctuations. It focuses on recently active, high-volatility markets instead of treating every instrument as equally relevant. It also learns from completed trades, adjusting its risk-to-reward ratio and using average true range—the market’s typical recent price movement—to set more realistic take-profit and stop-loss distances. The aim is for gains on successful trades to outweigh losses and trading costs across many trades; a high win rate alone is not enough. Pixi can also abstain when the signal, costs or risk checks are not good enough. These filters may improve expected results, but market regimes change, leverage magnifies mistakes, and no model can guarantee a profit. Pixi AI can lose money, so never allocate more than you are willing to lose.

Can I stop Pixi AI or move my money?

Yes. Turning off AI trading asks Pixi to close its positions, so wait for closure to be confirmed. You can transfer money in or transfer unused cash out while Pixi keeps running; money committed as position margin is not transferable until it is released. Pixi AI uses a separate account with an encrypted trading key managed by Pixi’s backend so it can trade while you are away. Your main wallet’s key remains protected by your passkey on your device.

What happens after I approve a withdrawal?

Approve your withdrawal once with your passkey. Pixi then shows its progress, moves any needed available AI funds to your main trading account, and sends one withdrawal towards your saved Base address. Normal confirmation delays are checked automatically—you do not need to press Resume or start again. The amount and destination stay fixed. Confirmation of the trading-account transfer does not mean Base delivery is already complete; Circle finishes that step automatically. If the exchange confirms a withdrawal failed before sending funds, Pixi asks you to review and approve a new attempt. A device restart before submission may require approval again because Pixi does not store your unlocked main-wallet key.

How does Pixi AI set aside trading profits?

By default, 25% of new realized-profit highs is reserved rather than reused as trade margin. Deposits are not profits. Change that share or the maximum trading balance in Settings; any balance above the cap is also reserved, separately for each account. The Trading profits row shows reserved funds. In the withdrawal dialog, Profits selects only the profits currently available from both accounts, with exchange holds already deducted and no second profit-share deduction. Any unavailable amount stays reserved for later. Reserved funds remain in the trading account, not a separate protected wallet. Open-position gains are not yet realized profits.

What does Pixi do before, during and after a trade?

Before a trade, Pixi shows the margin, leverage, estimated instrument quantity, venue fee and maximum slippage. You can add optional take-profit and stop-loss protection. While a position is open, Pixi keeps the current value, fee-adjusted P&L, protection levels and risk progress visible. Afterwards, Activity keeps a simpler record of buys, sells, deposits and withdrawals, with six-month CSV and PDF exports.

What is the difference between margin and exposure?

Margin is the money set aside for the position. Exposure, sometimes called notional, is the market value controlled after leverage. For example, $10 of margin at 3× creates about $30 of exposure before fees and price movement. Pixi labels the order amount as margin and floors the estimated quantity to the instrument’s valid lot size.

How does the daily stop work?

Your daily stop resets at midnight in your selected timezone, using the combined equity of your main and Pixi AI accounts. With $1,000 at midnight and a 20% stop, the starting stop level is $800. You can also choose a fixed dollar allowance. Deposits and withdrawals move the equity floor without counting as trading profit or loss. Pixi includes estimated exit costs when checking the stop. A breach pauses new trading and asks Pixi to close both manual and AI positions. Closing must finish before trading resumes. AI trading stays off unless you turn it back on or enable Automatically extend stop after cooldown in Pixi AI settings. With that setting on, Pixi waits 4 hours after your positions close, extends the stop, and resumes AI trading if it was on before the stop. This repeats after each breach while the setting is on. Fast markets and execution slippage can carry losses beyond the stop.

What happens when I extend or reduce the daily stop?

Near the stop, you can extend it so the current daily loss uses no more than 75% of the active allowance, leaving 25% as headroom. As the loss recovers, you can reduce the extension towards today’s default stop. Extensions normally expire at the next local midnight. If removing one would leave less than 25% headroom, Pixi retains enough extension to preserve that room. Changing the stop in Settings also preserves this headroom. An extension allows a larger loss; it does not make a trade safer.

Does midnight reset my weekly or monthly progress?

Your profit target can run over a day, week or month independently of the daily stop. Percentage daily targets compound across the days remaining in that period; fixed dollar targets add equal daily amounts. At midnight, the tracker’s daily starting point moves with the stop, while weekly or monthly P&L and days ahead or behind continue across the whole period. The green P&L delta under the balance always reports the entire selected period. The profit target is a planning guide, not an automatic stop or a promise of returns.

What are take-profit and stop-loss protections?

They are optional Pixi protections attached to a position. Take profit asks Pixi to close when a gain reaches your chosen level; stop loss does the same when a loss reaches its level. They are monitored by Pixi’s backend rather than placed as Hyperliquid TP/SL orders. Fast markets, price gaps, connectivity and execution slippage can still produce a different final result, so protection reduces risk but cannot remove it.

What is liquidation protection?

Pixi can show both the venue liquidation level and a separate protection level on a position chart. The protection level is intended to reduce exposure before the venue liquidation threshold is reached. Treat both as danger lines, not targets. If either is close to current price, reducing leverage or position size gives the trade more room.

Why can a market order fail even when I have enough margin?

A venue can reject an order because the market has reached an open-interest cap, the instrument is temporarily unavailable, the minimum order size is not met or the requested quantity is outside its allowed lot size. These limits come from the venue and can change. Pixi surfaces the venue’s message so you can decide whether to wait, choose a smaller valid order or use another market.

What are institutional-compatible capital constraints?

Pixi applies the same kind of capital and liquidity discipline as size grows. Small orders can fill immediately when the venue permits; larger orders are checked against the instrument’s live volume, maximum position size, leverage and available margin, then filled progressively to reduce market impact. The technical term for that progressive execution is TWAP (time-weighted average price). Pixi handles it automatically, so the experience stays simple as you scale from small positions to larger capital.

How current are the numbers and charts?

Pixi uses live market and account updates while the app is visible, and refreshes current account data after the app returns from the background. A chart’s current candle can still change until its timeframe closes. When checking a sensitive decision, look at the displayed update, order preview and protection levels together instead of relying on one animation.

How does Pixi protect my wallet?

Your primary wallet key is encrypted in your browser with your passkey. Your seed phrase and plaintext private key are not sent to Pixi. Sensitive actions such as adding or deleting a withdrawal address, withdrawing funds or revealing the private key require fresh passkey verification. Pixi’s delegated risk authority is separately scoped for protective actions rather than general access to your wallet.

What should I do with my seed phrase?

Write it down in the original order and keep it offline somewhere only you can access. Never put it in chat, email, a screenshot or an unfamiliar website. Pixi cannot recover it for you. Recover the wallet through Pixi rather than assuming another wallet app will display the same address.

Do fees and slippage matter on a small trade?

Yes. Entry and exit fees reduce the result, and the execution price can move between preview and fill. That effect is more noticeable on frequent or highly leveraged trades. Pixi shows an estimated venue fee, maximum execution slippage and fee-adjusted P&L so the cost is easier to see.

Keep learning

Good tools still need good judgement.

Pixi’s limits, warnings, protection and fee-aware reporting can support a disciplined process. They cannot predict a market, guarantee execution or remove the chance of losing money. This guide is general education, not personal financial advice.