Two tiers. Zero promises of profit.
Free is a real trading environment, not a teaser. Pro unlocks the capabilities that only matter once you’re serious — and even then, paying never buys a strategy past the grade gate.
Free
Everything you need to learn the platform and test yourself, on paper.
- Demo trading with the full Pro Terminal
- 10 backtests per month, with honest A–F grading
- One broker connection (demo)
- Paper auto-trading with circuit breakers and a kill switch
- Journal view, plus 30-day export
Pro early
Early pricing while we build out the surface. Locks in for early subscribers; cancel any time.
- Everything in Free
- Live-broker connect — still grade-gated per strategy
- Unlimited backtests
- Deep grade: PSR, cost-stress and Monte-Carlo validation
- Auto-trading on live-eligible sleeves
- Multiple broker connections
- Full journal export
The grade gate outranks your credit card.
Every strategy on Strix is graded A–F — walk-forward, after realistic costs. A strategy that grades F cannot trade live money, on any tier. Our own flagship directional model is publicly graded Fand is locked out of live trading on our own platform.
What would Pro have to earn to be worth paying for?
This is a hurdle, not a forecast. Every number below is division: the subscription price over your working capital. It tells you what your account would have to clear before Pro has paid for itself — and for most account sizes the honest answer is “more than you should count on”.
- $348
- What Pro costs for a year ($29 × 12). It comes off the top of whatever your trading earns — or adds to whatever it loses.
- 10.9%
- The hurdle on a $3,200 account: $348 ÷ $3,200. Your capital has to clear that every year before the subscription has broken even — before you have made a single dollar for yourself.
- 3.5%
- The same hurdle on a $10,000 account: $348 ÷ $10,000. Somewhere around here the subscription stops dominating your P&L. Below it, the fee is the biggest position you hold.
We’d rather you not pay us than pay us to lose.
Under roughly $10k? Stay on Free. Trade paper, run your 10 backtests a month, and build the habit of killing bad ideas cheaply.
Is a 10.9% hurdle realistic? We can no longer tell you it is.This page used to answer that with our own best backtest — a regime-gated crypto cash-and-carry sleeve at +11.1%/yr, Sharpe 1.73, −2.2% maximum drawdown on a held-out slice — and cited two sources for it. On 2026-08-06 we withdrew that claim, and the sleeve's grade with it. Neither source exists: the analysis file is in no commit of our code history, and neither is the script said to reproduce it. We are not claiming the work was never done. We are telling you we cannot show it to you, and a number we cannot show you is not a number you should price a decision on.
We then did the work properly. Our grader now runs over three years of public Binance funding data, and our best sleeve earns a C — marginal edge, paper only: it beats a random null, but not once we correct for how many variations were tried. That C holds only at about 8 basis points of trading cost — it breaks even at 30, and grades F at the ~40 we have actually measured elsewhere. So the honest answer to the hurdle is that we cannot clear it on evidence we trust, and live trading stays locked for every strategy here. You can re-derive that C from our repository with one command. The sleeve is paper-only and has never traded live money; during our last twelve-day live soak its funding-regime gate kept it flat and it earned nothing at all. Three other candidates from the same programme were killed outright. Trading CFDs and other leveraged products involves substantial risk of loss; most retail accounts lose money. No feature of this platform is a promise of profit.
Ready when you are. Demo-first, always.
Sign up in the app, trade paper for free, and upgrade only if the hurdle above makes sense for your account.