Trading Rules

Every account in every phase can hold positions overnight. The only forced flatten before the close is a position expiring that day.

How long you stay in a trade is your call, and we keep it that way.

The Evaluation is a single one-time fee: $569 (Strix 100K), $419 (Strix 50K), $299 (Strix 25K), $179 (Strix 10K), $339 (Express 100K), $229 (Express 50K), $179 (Express 25K), $119 (Express 10K).

An Evaluation bought today does not renew and does not rebill: one payment covers your run, and Evaluations never expire, so you can take the time you need to pass.

If your Billing page shows a monthly amount and a next billing date, you are on an older monthly Evaluation plan: it renews each month until you cancel it, and you can cancel at any time from that page.

Passing Evaluation is what unlocks Funded. One funded activation fee then turns the Funded account on, charged when you activate it. It is not a fee to start an Evaluation.

The funded activation fee is $149 (100K accounts), $119 (50K accounts), $89 (25K accounts), or $69 (10K accounts), charged upfront at activation and non-refundable. It is the only charge between passing and trading Funded capital.

One payment opens the account, then the 80/20 split runs from day one while you focus on structure, discipline, and risk management.

The Strix Plan carries Level 5 options approval: undefined risk is allowed, and you can build spreads and multi leg structures, from verticals and butterflies to iron condors, calendars, diagonals, and beyond.

The Express Plan trades long premium only: single leg calls and puts, bought to open.

Options can only be traded on approved symbols. An order on any ticker outside the whitelist is blocked automatically. Email support@strixoptionsfunding.com if there is a symbol you would like added.

Any position still open at 4pm on its expiration day is closed automatically at that time.

The auto close keeps surprise assignment off your account and keeps every account inside the rules.

Two rule packages are in force, and your account follows exactly one of them, decided by the moment you bought it and fixed from then on. The boundary is an instant on a single day, not the day itself: an evaluation bought at or after 11 September 2026 at 5:35 PM ET (21:35 UTC) carries no consistency rule in any phase, and one bought before that instant keeps the consistency package it was sold. If you bought on 11 September 2026 and are not sure which side you landed on, compare the time you bought your original evaluation with that instant; once the account is funded, your own Payouts page settles it.

On an account bought today, what a Funded payout cycle has to contain is 8 qualifying winning days. A qualifying day is a trading day that closes with realized profit at or above your plan's floor: $200 on a $100K account, $150 on a $50K account, $100 on a $25K or $10K account.

They can land in any order, and nothing you do in between takes one back. A losing day, a flat day, a green day under the floor, and a day you never open the platform all leave the tally exactly where it was, so 8 winning days spread over two months count the same as 8 in a row.

Example on a Strix Plan $50K, where the floor is $150: a cycle closing +$400, +$180, +$900, -$600, +$150, +$2,100, a flat day, +$155, +$310, +$260 contains 8 days at or above $150, so the cycle qualifies. The losing day and the flat day cost nothing, and the +$2,100 day is not capped.

On an account bought before 11 September 2026 at 5:35 PM ET (21:35 UTC), consistency is measured per payout cycle instead: no single day may be a larger share of that cycle's gains than the Max Daily Gain figure for the plan, and the figure goes back to 0% whenever a payout is paid or a payout request is rejected. Those accounts carry no fixed winning-day count and no per-day floor, but the share itself decides a minimum. A single winning day is 100% of its own cycle, so a cycle cannot come in under the cap until it holds at least 4 winning days on the Strix Plan and 2 on the Express Plan.

Example on one of those accounts at 30%: a best day of $1,200 needs total cycle gains of at least $4,000, because $1,200 is 30% of $4,000. Going over on one day disqualifies nothing; the cycle simply has to grow until the big day fits under the share.

Once your account is funded, your Payouts page shows the requirement your own account is measured against, and that is the one we hold you to.

No lock applies during Evaluation. From Funded onward, the trailing floor climbs with each new equity high until it reaches the lock balance, which equals your starting capital.

After the lock, the floor holds still and no longer trails. Until then, the Strix Plan floor steps up once per day at the market close, while the Express Plan floor tracks your equity peak live through the session.

Trade with control and the account gets safer as it grows, leaving you more room to operate the longer you perform.

Your first payout switches this rule on: from then on, your balance at request time must be at least $1 above the balance you last requested a payout at, less any amount your payout cap prevented you from taking, up to the size of that payout.

Example: you request payout one at a balance of $52,000 and the cap does not limit it, so your next request needs a balance of $52,001 or above.

Where the cap did hold money back, that amount comes off the bar, up to the size of the payout itself. You are never asked to re-earn what the cap refused to pay you, and the same profit never funds two payouts.

The rule keeps accounts moving forward and rewards structure, discipline, and steady risk management.