# Why EveryX? (positioning vs. other platforms)

### No market makers

On traditional order-book platforms, users mostly trade against professional market makers who often have:

* more information
* faster systems
* and incentives to profit from small edge cases

On EveryX:

* All trades go into each Event’s outcome pools
* Probabilities are set by everyone’s money combined, not by a special desk on the other side of your trade

You trade against the crowd, not a privileged counterparty.

### Always-on liquidity for events

Because we use Event pools:

* Events do not require a perfect match between buyers and sellers at the exact moment of each trade
* Money can flow into one side first (e.g. “YES”), and the other side can arrive later

This allows EveryX to:

* Run Events that would be hard to support with a traditional order book, and
* Offer leverage even when an Event is small or niche

### Simple, probability-first UX

EveryX hides most of the trading machinery and keeps the user focused on:

* Probability
* How much to risk
* Where to place the stop-loss

There is no need to understand:

* order books
* maker/taker fee tables
* or complicated derivatives jargon

This makes EveryX easier to explain to:

* KOLs and partners,
* non-expert users,
* and communities who are used to thinking in chances and outcomes, not candlesticks.

### Clear economics

EveryX focuses on a single, transparent platform fee taken from the losing side, rather than multiple overlapping fees. There are:

* No interest charges on leverage
* No hidden funding rates
* No complex fee ladders
