Strix Options is joining SafePropFirms

Strix Options is joining SafePropFirms, a comparison site where traders research proprietary trading firms side by side. Our firm page there goes live shortly. If you are building a shortlist and want to know how much weight a third party listing deserves, this post sets out what that listing will cover, what it will not cover, and which of our own pages carry the terms you are actually held to.

One disclosure first, because it should change how you read the listing. SafePropFirms is an affiliate partner of Strix Options. They earn a commission when a trader reaches us through their link or uses a code posted on their page. That does not change your price or your terms, and it does not mean anyone was paid to write a particular sentence, but a page you reach through a commercial partnership is not an independent audit and it should not be read as one. Read it for orientation, then read our rules.

What a SafePropFirms listing is, and what it is not

SafePropFirms publishes firm write ups, side by side comparison tools, current offer information, and educational articles for traders choosing between funding programs. It is a media and comparison property rather than a prop firm, so nothing on it funds an account or holds a position.

The site runs two tiers. Firms that complete its deeper review can carry a SafePropFirms Vetted badge and an SPF Score. Everything else appears as a standard listing. Strix Options will appear as a standard, non vetted listing. We do not carry the Vetted badge, we do not have an SPF Score, and nothing on that page will constitute vetting or endorsement by SafePropFirms. If we complete that review later, the badge will appear there and we will say so here.

That is worth being blunt about, because the difference matters when you are comparing firms. A listing means a firm is visible on the platform. A badge means the platform has examined it. Those are not the same signal and a comparison table will not always make the distinction obvious.

Where a third party listing should sit in your research

Treat any comparison page as an index, not as the contract. It is useful for the first pass, when you are narrowing twenty firms to four and you want a neutral summary of account sizes, splits, and headline rules. It is not useful as the document you rely on when a rule is applied to your account, because comparison sites summarise, they go stale between updates, and they are not the party you bought from.

The documents that bind us are on our own domain. Our rules page carries the profit target, the trailing drawdown, and the conditions that end an evaluation. Our payouts page carries the withdrawal cycle, the minimums, the caps, and the balance rule. Our how it works page walks the same program in order. If a comparison page and our rules page disagree, our rules page is the one that governs your account, and we would rather you found the discrepancy before you paid than after.

What we offer options traders

We built Strix Options for options specialists rather than for futures or forex traders who also touch options. That shows up in four places.

Strategy access

Our accounts carry Level 5 options access. That covers credit and debit spreads, iron condors, butterflies, calendars, diagonals, straddles and strangles, ratio spreads, complex multi leg structures, and naked calls and puts. Undefined risk is permitted. There are no strategy restrictions layered on top, which matters if your edge depends on a structure that many firms quietly disallow.

Overnight and weekend holds are allowed. For anyone running calendars, diagonals, or anything where theta is the trade, a firm that flattens you at the close is not a firm you can use, and we do not.

Cost

An evaluation bought today is a single one time fee. It does not renew and it does not rebill. Monthly evaluation plans sold before August 2026 do still renew until they are cancelled, so if you are on one of those, that is the exception and it predates the current pricing.

If you pass, there is one funded activation fee charged when you turn the passed evaluation into a funded account: 149 dollars on 100K accounts, 119 dollars on 50K, 89 dollars on 25K, and 69 dollars on 10K. It is billed to the card on file at activation, it is never deducted from a payout, and it is charged only after you have passed. Current prices and any live offer are on our pricing section.

Time

There is no deadline on an evaluation and no minimum number of trading days. Nothing caps how much of the target a single session can provide. If your approach is to wait for a specific setup and sit out the weeks that do not offer one, no clock is working against you.

Execution

The evaluation is simulated. Our execution environment is built to track live market conditions, including multi leg fills and order handling, so that passing is a meaningful rehearsal rather than an exercise against a friendlier book.

How the payout path actually works

This is the section where comparison pages are thinnest, so here is the shape of it in plain terms.

Once you are funded, your share of net profits is 80 percent. That number is flat across plans. There is no ladder and no tier you climb to reach it.

Withdrawals run on a cycle, and a cycle has to hold 8 qualifying winning days before you can request from it. A qualifying winning day is a trading day that closes with realised profit at or above your plan's floor, which is 200 dollars on 100K accounts, 150 dollars on 50K, and 100 dollars on 25K and 10K. Those days can land in any order. A losing day, a flat day, and a day you never opened the platform all leave the tally where it was. The tally resets only when a cycle closes, and a payout closes the cycle whether it is paid or rejected. Accounts funded before the September 2026 cutover are not held to that count and keep the rules they were sold.

Requests also carry a minimum and a per payout cap. On a 100K account the minimum is 2,000 dollars and the cap starts at 2,000 dollars, rising to 3,000, then 4,000, then 6,000 as you get paid. Smaller accounts run the same structure at lower numbers. So the cap is real and it is published: it scales as your payout history builds rather than staying fixed, but it is a cap, and you should size your expectations against the published ladder on the payouts page rather than against a headline split.

On eligible account sizes there is a live stage beyond funded, where withdrawals are not capped and the minimum drops to 100 dollars. It is not offered at every size, and on the sizes where it is not, funded is the top of the program.

How to compare us against another firm

If you are running a real comparison rather than collecting marketing lines, five questions separate firms quickly.

First, which options levels are permitted, and is undefined risk allowed or only defined risk. Second, can positions be held overnight and over a weekend, without exception. Third, is the evaluation fee charged once or monthly, and what is charged after you pass. Fourth, what has to be true before a payout can be requested, counting winning days, minimums, caps, and any balance rule, not just the split percentage. Fifth, what ends an account, and whether those conditions are written down in one place you can read before you buy.

Ask those of us and of everyone else on your shortlist. Our answers are on the rules page and the payouts page, and if something there is unclear, our team will answer it before you buy rather than after a rule has been applied to your account.

Frequently asked questions

Is Strix Options vetted by SafePropFirms?

No. We will hold a standard listing on SafePropFirms and have not completed their vetting process, so we do not carry a Vetted badge or an SPF Score. A listing means we are visible on the platform for traders to find and compare. Vetting is a separate and deeper review that we may go through in the future.

Does Strix Options pay SafePropFirms?

Yes, through an affiliate arrangement: they earn a commission on traders who reach us through their page. It does not change what you pay or the terms you trade under, and we would rather state it plainly than let a listing read as a neutral verdict on us.

What profit split do funded traders receive?

Funded traders keep 80 percent of net profits, flat across plans. Requests run on a cycle that has to hold 8 qualifying winning days, with a published minimum and a per payout cap that scales as you get paid. The full figures for each plan are on the payouts page.

Can I trade complex structures and hold overnight?

Yes. Level 5 access covers credit and debit spreads, iron condors, butterflies, calendars, diagonals, straddles and strangles, ratio spreads, complex multi leg structures, and naked calls and puts, including undefined risk. Overnight and weekend holds are allowed.

Are there monthly fees during the evaluation?

Not on an evaluation bought today. It is a single one time fee that does not renew or rebill. Monthly plans sold before August 2026 still renew until cancelled. After you pass there is one funded activation fee, charged at activation and never taken out of a payout.

How long do I have to complete the evaluation?

There is no deadline and no minimum number of trading days, which is what makes time based structures such as calendars and rolls practical to run inside an evaluation.

Where do I find the current offer?

On our own pricing section, which is the live source for what a plan costs today and for any offer running against it. If you see a different figure on a comparison page, ours is the one that will be charged.

Before you start

Read the rules and the payout terms in full, decide whether the structure fits how you actually trade, and then choose a plan on the pricing section. When our page on SafePropFirms goes live you can read how the listing frames us there, with the affiliate relationship above in mind.

Trading involves risk and options can produce rapid losses. Trade only with capital and a risk plan you can sustain. Nothing here is financial advice.