APEXIVE
Creative Studio · Trading & Fintech

Creative that
actually
converts.

Graphics and copy for prop trading firms, funded account platforms, and fintech brands. We know this industry — the psychology, the language, the pressure your audience is under.

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Copywriting Graphic Design Email Campaigns Ad Creatives Email Lifecycle Landing Pages Social Graphics Brand Storytelling Seasonal Campaigns
Copywriting Graphic Design Email Campaigns Ad Creatives Email Lifecycle Landing Pages Social Graphics Brand Storytelling Seasonal Campaigns
Brands we've worked with
Top One Trader
Top One Futures
FXIFY
Hydra Funding
Axestreet Capital
XPIPS
Prop Firms Ranking
$55K
Revenue from a single email lifecycle in month one
Hydra Funding
2–3x
Average CTR lift on ad creatives across campaigns
Top One Futures · FXIFY
7x
ROAS maintained weekly across all ad graphics
Top One Futures
$10K
Average revenue per non-promotional email sent
Top One Trader
Selected Work

The work
speaks.

Case studies and portfolio pieces from our work with prop trading firms and fintech brands. Real briefs, real budgets, real results.

01
Hydra Funding — Email Lifecycle Campaign
Email LifecycleUpsell Strategy$55K Month One+

Hydra Funding had a large base of smaller account holders who had gone dormant after their initial purchase. The brief was to design an email lifecycle that reactivated these traders and upsold them to larger funded accounts. The campaign had to speak to traders who understood the product but had not taken the next step.

The strategy was built around a progression of psychological triggers: reactivating their original motivation, surfacing the gap between their current account size and what was possible, then making the upgrade feel like the logical next move rather than a hard sell. In month one of deployment, the lifecycle generated $55,000 in revenue.

$55K
Revenue in month one
Month 1
First lifecycle deployment
Upsell
Small to large accounts
02
Top One Trader — Archimedes Campaign
Conceptual CopywritingEmail Campaign+

Top One Trader needed emails that converted their subscriber list into funded account sign-ups to an audience that had heard every trading pitch imaginable. The brief required genuine intellectual engagement before any commercial case was made. The Archimedes email used a 2,200 year old principle of leverage to explain why skilled traders with small accounts stay stuck — and why a funded account is the only logical solution.

$10K
Avg revenue per email sent
4
Campaign emails written
100x
Return difference illustrated
03
Top One Trader — Market News Campaigns
Reactive CopywritingReal-Time Conversion+

Rather than scheduled promotional emails, these campaigns used breaking market events as real-time conversion triggers. When Silver crashed 30% in a single session — the worst drop since 1980 — the email hit inboxes within hours, turning a volatile news moment into a compelling funded account pitch. When the Fed cut rates, the macro event was tied directly to the funded account proposition. The emails felt like urgent intelligence, not promotions.

$10K
Avg revenue per email sent
<24h
News to send time
$500M
Market event referenced
04
Top One Trader — Trader Hall of Fame
StorytellingSocial Proof Email+

Social proof in prop trading is everywhere — payout screenshots and leaderboards are saturated. This campaign made it human. Three real trader stories — a 5-year grinder kept going by his son, a trader who failed 11 challenges before passing, a $500 comeback story — reframed failure as tuition and persistence as the only real edge. The CTA was a natural conclusion, not a hard sell.

$10K
Avg revenue per email sent
3
Real trader stories featured
11
Failed challenges before success
05
FXIFY — Social Captions & Ad Copy
Social CaptionsAd CopywritingBrand Voice+

FXIFY needed caption copy across social media and paid ads that matched the premium, ambitious tone of their visual brand. The brief was technically demanding: write captions that stop the scroll without relying on emojis, hype language, or generic trading clichés. Every caption had to do genuine work — establishing a tension, posing a question, or making a declaration strong enough to push the viewer through to the creative below it.

Captions were written in pairs with each graphic — copy and visual treated as a single unit from the start, not assembled separately and matched up at the end. The result was content that felt deliberate rather than filled in.

3
Campaign types: seasonal, sale, brand
Copy+
Captions written to pair with each graphic
0
Generic hooks used — every line earned
Flash Sale — Ad Caption

The gap between where you are and where you want to be isn't skill. It's capital. Flash Sale ends midnight. Don't be the trader who watched this pass.

Brand Post — Social Caption

Discipline first. Freedom after. Every payout starts the same way — a trader who decided the process was worth the patience. You're next.

Christmas Seasonal — Caption

Most traders will end this year the same way they started it. Not because the markets weren't there. Because they weren't ready. New year, new capital. FXIFY.

06
Top One Futures — Ad Creative Copywriting
Ad Copywriting7x ROAS WeeklyPaid Creative+

Top One Futures' ad graphics were generic — the kind of creative any firm could run without changing a single word. The copy was interchangeable: discounts, challenge sizes, percentage splits. Nothing that could only be said by Top One Futures, and nothing that gave a trader a reason to stop scrolling over any other prop firm ad they'd seen that day.

The shift was from product-led copy to identity-led copy. Instead of leading with what the account offered, the ads led with how the trader would feel, what they'd prove, and who they were becoming by taking the challenge. The result was creative that felt proprietary to the brand — and a sustained 7x ROAS maintained week over week across all graphics.

7x
ROAS maintained weekly across all ad graphics
0
Generic hooks — every line unique to the brand
All
Graphics sustained performance, not just top performers
7x
ROAS maintained weekly — all graphics
The shift

From product-led copy (discounts, splits, account sizes) to identity-led copy that only Top One Futures could run. Every graphic was written so a trader could see themselves in it — not just a feature list they'd already scrolled past ten times that week.

The result

A 7x ROAS sustained week over week across every graphic in the campaign — not just the top performers. Consistency at scale is the harder achievement. This was it.

07
XPIPS — Social Growth & Email Marketing
Social MediaEmail Marketing0 to Thousands+

XPIPS came in with no following and a new product to launch — a $9.99 funded account entry point, the lowest in the industry. The brief covered two tracks simultaneously: build a social media presence from zero and drive conversions through a weekly email. Both had to work together, with social building brand trust and email converting it.

Social content was built on a rotating framework of market hooks, trader psychology, product proof, and brand identity to keep the feed from going stale. Weekly emails used a different narrative angle each send so subscribers had a reason to open after months on the list. The $9.99 account launch was the centrepiece — positioned not as a cheap option but as the lowest barrier to serious capital in the space.

15K+
Total social following built from zero
300K+
Organic impressions in 90 days
$9.99
New account launch — lowest entry point in the industry
Market Hook — Daily Post

The DXY just broke a level it hasn't touched in 8 months. If you're not positioned for what comes next, you're watching someone else's opportunity.

Trader Psychology — Daily Post

The best traders aren't waiting for perfect setups. They're waiting for their setups. There's a difference. Know yours.

Weekly Email — Opening Hook

This week in markets: three things happened that most traders missed. Two of them matter for the next 30 days. Here's what to watch.

08
Prop Firms Ranking — Social Media Management
Social MediaPlatform CopyComparison Content+

Prop Firms Ranking is an independent comparison platform that evaluates and ranks prop trading firms. The content brief had a specific constraint most social media doesn't face: the brand had to be credible to both sides — to traders who trusted it for unbiased rankings, and to firms who knew their scores were being published. Every post had to feel editorially independent, not promotional.

Content was structured around three pillars: educational content about how to evaluate prop firms, timely coverage of industry news and firm changes, and engagement-led posts that turned follower opinion into signal. The tone was always analytical and neutral — the voice of a platform that had done its homework, not a brand trying to win favour.

Ed.
Editorial tone — credible to traders and firms alike
3
Content pillars maintained across all posts
0
Promotional bias — independent voice throughout
Educational — Evaluation Post

Most traders compare prop firms on price alone. The real question is: what happens after you pass? Payout speed, scaling rules, and drawdown resets matter more than the challenge fee.

Industry News — Timely Post

Three firms adjusted their max drawdown rules this week. If you're mid-challenge with any of them, here's what changed and what it means for your account.

Top One Futures — Feature Ad
Top One Futures — Feature Ad
Top One Futures — Neon Campaign
Top One Futures — Neon Campaign
Top One Futures — Lifestyle
Top One Futures — Lifestyle
FXIFY — Brand Creative
FXIFY — Brand Creative
Top One Futures — Seasonal
Top One Futures — Seasonal
Top One Futures — Halloween
Top One Futures — Halloween
FXIFY — Christmas Campaign
FXIFY — Christmas Campaign
FXIFY — Flash Sale
FXIFY — Flash Sale
Top One Futures — Christmas Campaign
Top One Futures — Christmas Campaign
Top One Futures — Mirror Ad
Top One Futures — Mirror Ad
What We Do

Two services.
One edge.

You brief us once. We deliver assets that convert. No hand-holding, no industry education, no budget wasted explaining the space to people who should already know it.

01
Copywriting
$10K
Average revenue per non-promotional email sent — Top One Trader

Most trading brands write feature lists when they should be writing to trader psychology. We write to the fear of failing a challenge, the relief of a clean payout, the desire to prove something. The words that make someone stop, read, and click.

Landing PagesAd CopyEmail SequencesEmail LifecycleCampaign Launches
02
Graphic Design
2–3x
Average CTR lift on ad creatives across client campaigns

Trading audiences respond to dark, high-contrast, data-rich visuals. We produce ad creatives, social assets, and brand work that looks intentional rather than assembled. Every piece adds to your brand identity — none of it dilutes it.

Ad CreativesSocial GraphicsCampaign BannersSeasonal CampaignsEmail Headers
+
Monthly Retainers
48h
Standard turnaround from brief to first draft on all retainer work

For brands who need consistent creative output without rebuilding the brief every month. We work on a fixed retainer with defined deliverables — and the longer we work together, the sharper the work gets because we stop guessing about your brand and start knowing it.

Flexible ScopeDedicated TeamProject or Retainer
How It Works

Clean process.
No surprises.

Designed for marketing teams who've been burned by agencies that move slowly and ask too many questions. Four steps, clear ownership at each stage, and nothing that surprises you mid-brief.

Step 01
Discovery Call

30 minutes. We understand your brand, your audience, your creative gaps, and what success looks like. No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation about whether we're the right fit.

Step 02
Creative Brief

We send a structured brief template. You fill it in once — brand voice, visual direction, messaging priorities. This brief gets sharper and more refined every month we work together.

Step 03
Production & Review

Assets delivered within the agreed timeframe. You review, give feedback, we revise. Two rounds of revisions included on every deliverable as standard. No surprises.

Step 04
Delivery & Iteration

Final assets delivered in your required formats. If you share performance data with us — what ran, what converted, what didn't — it goes straight into the next brief. The work gets more accurate over time, not less.

Our Edge

Why brands
choose us.

Every agency will tell you they'll learn your space quickly. What that means in practice is your budget funds their education. We already know this world.

Your audience feels things a generic agency will never understand. That gap is costing you conversions every day.

A trader who's 0.1% from a breach at 2am thinks differently to any other consumer on the planet. A fintech brand pitching to sceptical retail investors needs copy that builds trust in three sentences. A prop firm marketing across four continents needs creative that speaks to a universal psychology without losing local relevance.

We understand those distinctions because we've lived inside these spaces. That's what makes the work perform differently.

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  • 01
    Results we can point to

    A single email lifecycle for Hydra Funding generated $55,000 in revenue in month one. Top One Trader emails averaged $10,000 in revenue per send. Top One Futures ad creative sustained a 7x ROAS week over week across all graphics. These aren't outliers — they're the standard we hold ourselves to.

  • 02
    AI-augmented output

    We use AI in the groundwork — research, audience analysis, pre-production — so more thinking happens before the brief is written. The creative moves faster and arrives better considered. Final work is always reviewed and refined by someone who knows this industry.

  • 03
    Creative that improves every month

    Most agencies reset the brief every month. We build on it. Performance data from the previous month shapes the next round — which hooks to push harder, which angles to drop, what the audience is actually responding to. The longer the engagement, the stronger the output.

  • 04
    Clean scope, predictable output

    We produce the assets. Your team publishes them. No account management overhead, no strategy meetings that produce slide decks instead of work. You know exactly what you're paying for and exactly what arrives.

  • 05
    IP ownership stays with you

    Everything we produce belongs to you. Every asset, every file — fully transferred on delivery. No licensing complications. No dependency on us to use your own work. Permanently yours from day one.

AI-Augmented Creative

Human strategy.
Machine
velocity.

We use AI across research, ideation, and pre-production — not to generate final work, but to do more groundwork before production begins. The output moves faster. The thinking doesn't get cut.

Copy Ideation
Audience Research
A/B Variants
Creative Briefs
Market Intelligence
Visual Concepts
01
Speed without shortcuts
Research, audience analysis, and initial ideation that used to take days now happen in hours. We spend that saved time on the thinking that actually matters — strategy, angle, tone.
02
More angles explored before production
We test more creative directions before a brief is written. Different hooks, different framings, different emotional angles — so what goes into production is already the strongest option, not just the first one.
03
The output is still ours
Nothing ships without a strategist signing off on it. AI handles the groundwork. The judgment — what angle fits this brand, what a trader will actually respond to — that part doesn't get automated.
FAQ

Questions
answered.

Straight answers to what most people ask before deciding whether to reach out. If yours isn’t here, email us directly — we respond within 24 hours.

Yes. We work with multiple brands across the trading and fintech space. We maintain strict confidentiality between clients — no strategies, creative concepts, or business information are ever shared between accounts.
You do. Every asset we produce — copy, design files, source files — is fully transferred to you on delivery. No licensing arrangements, no dependency on us. It's yours permanently from day one.
Retainer clients start with a 3-month initial term, then move to rolling monthly. This gives our team enough time to genuinely learn your brand and produce work that compounds in quality. One-off projects have no minimum commitment.
Every deliverable includes two rounds of revisions as standard. We'd rather get it right than deliver something you're not proud to publish. If something still isn't right after two rounds, we'll work through it.
No — and intentionally so. We produce the creative assets. You or your team handle scheduling and posting. This keeps our scope clean, our quality high, and our focus on the work that requires genuine specialist expertise.
After a discovery call and scope agreement, onboarding takes 3–5 working days. First deliverables are typically ready within the first two weeks of engagement.
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Tell us what
isn't working.

Where is your creative falling short? What are you trying to fix? Tell us that, and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help. We respond within 24 hours and will set up a call before proposing anything. No decks. No hard sell.

Email
info@apexivestudio.com
Response time
Within 24 hours
Based in
South Africa · Serving global clients
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