Trade a simulated $25K options account on DXTrade with up to 20 contracts per leg. Keep 80% of profits, paid weekly. Your savings never on the line.
Your funded options account on DXTrade: live chains, institutional routing, and weekly payouts against your simulated P&L.
If you've only traded your own brokerage account, this is the part most prop firms don't bother to explain. Three plain-English sentences:
It looks and behaves like a real brokerage screen, with live options data and institutional fills. The capital is simulated, so you're not risking your savings to access it.
Hit the published profit target without breaking the loss limits, and you can request a real-money payout against your simulated P&L. Up to 80% of profits, paid weekly.
Sustained, risk-managed performance earns a path to T3 Global, a real institutional desk with real firm capital and real fills. Audition-based, not the default.
The point: you prove you can trade with someone else's risk, then we put real firm capital behind you when you do.
A $0.50 winner on 2 contracts is $100. The exact same read, same timing, same setup, on 20 contracts is $1,000.
Your edge isn't the problem. Your contract count is. And a retail account will never give you the size to make the math matter.
It's not your reads. Not your strategy. Not your screen time. The single biggest thing holding most retail options traders back is something almost nobody talks about, and it has nothing to do with skill.
Same read, same timing, same $0.50 move. The only variable is contract count. Hypothetical, for illustration only, not a performance claim. Funded accounts are simulated.
You trade a simulated $25,000 options account with up to 20 contracts. The buying power is simulated. The money you take out is real.
Desk traders don't size down out of fear. Not because they can stomach bigger losses, but because the capital on the line was never their own savings.
Same edge. Real size. Your savings stay home.
It's not just about size. It's about time.
The slow grind doesn't have to be your only path.
Most talented options traders don't fail for lack of skill. They run out of runway before their edge can compound into real contract size.
Every month spent grinding 2 contracts up is another month of capped upside.
Every clean setup you under-size because the account's too small is money left on the table.
TradeFundrr doesn't just give you size.
It gives you back your time.
Start day one with a simulated $25K options account and up to 20 contracts, skipping the years most traders spend grinding a retail account up to that size. Payouts run on a weekly schedule, and you never put your own trading capital on the line, just a one-time evaluation fee.
The red path is the best case: a steady, profitable run with no blow-ups. The numbers below show how rarely that happens. Illustrative; individual results vary.
And almost no one comes close. Here's what actually happens.
Barber, Lee, Liu & Odean — study of 130,000+ Taiwanese day traders (1992–2006). A separate Brazilian study (Chague, De-Losso & Giovannetti, 2020) found 97% of those who kept trading past 300 days still lost money.
TradeFundrr doesn't just hand you size. It hands you back the years you'd spend grinding to reach this contract count.
It gives you back your time.
The question that keeps you up at night isn't "what could I make?"
It's "what happens if I lose it all?"
Trade your own account and a bad stretch isn't just a red number on a screen. That account was supposed to go toward a down payment. Your kid's braces. The car you've been putting off. Now it's funding your contracts, where one bad week could wipe it out.
And even if you grind it up, you're trading with everything on the line, your savings and your safety net, where a single bad month can erase years of work.
Put up an evaluation fee, trade a simulated $25K options account with up to 20 contracts starting now, and your own trading capital never goes on the line.
Your only cost is the one-time evaluation fee. Standard platform and data fees apply.
Same trade. One downside has no bottom. The other, you'd already measured.
On Options Express, you put up the evaluation fee. Pass, reach your first payout, and every dollar comes back, with your 80% split on top. Watch it net out to zero.
The $1,000 payout request is an illustrative example, not a guarantee; payouts depend on your trading and you keep 80% under the standard split. Net cost is $0 only if you pass and reach your first qualifying payout. The evaluation fee is retained only if you don't pass and choose not to retake it. Standard platform and data fees apply. Funded accounts are simulated.
Pass once, reach your first payout, and the full fee comes back, plus your 80% split on top. TradeFundrr exists to remove the capital barrier, not add to it.
You've been trading options 1 or 2 contracts at a time on a retail account.
The edge is there.
The size isn't.
Most retail options traders never escape that gap.
The strategy is identical, only the contract count changed. That's the gap TradeFundrr closes, with simulated size you don't have to risk your savings to access.
Your edge works. Your 2 contracts don't.
Illustration of how contract count affects the same per-contract move. Hypothetical and for illustration only, not a performance claim or guarantee; returns depend on your trading. Funded accounts are simulated.
Two ways in. Pick the path that fits how you want to start, both put you on a simulated $25K options account.
Express funds you immediately. You're trading a simulated $25K options account with up to 20 contracts from day one, no evaluation to clear.
Growth is the two-step route. You prove you can manage risk and execute consistently through a structured evaluation, then you're funded, trading up to 10 contracts per leg.
Either way, once you're trading your edge finally has room to breathe, on institutional-grade infrastructure, not your savings. Make profitable trades and you keep 80%. This is your business, you keep the lion's share.
Three plain-English steps:
DXTrade looks and behaves like a real brokerage screen, with live options chains and institutional fills. Up to 20 contracts per leg, and the capital is simulated, so you're not risking your own savings to access it.
Hit the published profit target without breaking the loss limits, then request a payout against your P&L. Up to 80% of profits, paid weekly.
Sustained, risk-managed performance earns a path to T3 Global: real firm capital, real institutional routing, real fills. Audition-based, not the default.
Simulated funding pays you real money right away, but staying there isn't the finish line. The traders who prove a sustained, risk-managed edge earn something rare: a personal invitation to trade real capital at the T3 Global desk. Not automatic. Not for everyone. Reserved for the few who earn their seat.
The T3 desk path is reserved for top-performing traders and is subject to T3 Global review and audition. Not all traders qualify.
Every program below, so you can compare and decide with full information. No hidden tiers. No bait pricing.
The complete parameter sheet. Everything is published before you pay, and it doesn't change after you pass.
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| Parameter | Options Growth | Options ExpressPopular | Express 10k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account & fees | |||
| Account size (simulated) | $25,000 | $25,000 | $10,000 |
| Initial fee | $399 | $1,499 | $999 |
| Activation fee (after you pass) | $149 | — | — |
| Reset fee | $99 | — | — |
| Monthly fee | $99 | $99 | $99 |
| Risk rules | |||
| Max contracts | 10 | 20 | 10 |
| Max drawdown (hard breach) | $3,000 | $3,000 | $1,500 |
| Daily loss limit | $1,000 | $1,000 | $500 |
| Breach rule | Hard breach | Soft breach | Soft breach |
| Profit target | $1,250 | $1,250 | $625 |
| Trading rules | |||
| Min hold time | 15 seconds | 15 seconds | 15 seconds |
| Max position | 10 contracts | 20 contracts | 10 contracts |
| Consistency rule | 30% | 30% | 30% |
| Consistency days | 5 days @ $250 | 5 days @ $250 | 5 days @ $125 |
| Min trading days (eval) | 5 days | — | — |
| Min trading days (funded) | 5 days | 5 days | 5 days |
| Payouts | |||
| Minimum time to first payout | 10 days | 5 days | 5 days |
| Payout cycle | Weekly | Weekly | Weekly |
| Profit split | 80 / 20 | 80 / 20 | 80 / 20 |
| Payout cap (% of overall profit)* | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| Minimum payout | $250 | $250 | $250 |
| Payout caps (per cycle → max) | $1,000 → $1,500 → $2,000 → $5,000 up to $25,000 | $2,000 → $2,500 → $3,500 → $5,000 up to $25,000 | $500 → $750 → $1,000 → $2,500 up to $15,000 |
*Payout cap is a percentage of overall profit per request; the full 100% of profit becomes payable from payout cycle 7 onward. All three programs are simulated funded accounts; standard platform and data fees apply. Earning a qualifying payout depends on your trading performance and is not guaranteed.
Plain-English definitions for every term used on this page. Click any term to expand.
If the pricing or the rules left a question open, it's probably here.
If you want the lowest upfront cost and don't mind a hard breach on the daily loss limit, start with Growth ($399, plus a $149 activation after you pass). If you'd rather skip the evaluation, trade the funded account from day one, and have a softer safety net, choose Express ($1,499) for the full $25K account and up to 20 contracts. Want instant funding at the lowest entry point? Express 10k ($999) is the same soft-breach setup on a smaller $10K account with up to 10 contracts.
A hard breach (Growth) means hitting the daily loss limit ends the account for that evaluation; you'd pay $99 to restart from Stage 1. A soft breach (Express) means hitting the daily loss limit just pauses your session for the day. Your account stays open, you come back tomorrow, no reset, no starting over. Picture a rough morning where you hit the limit: on Growth the eval is over; on Express you're simply done for the day and back at it tomorrow.
No single trading day can account for more than 30% of your total profit when you request a payout. So if you've made $2,000 total, no one day can have contributed more than $600 of it. It confirms you're trading consistently, not getting lucky once and cashing out.
Each payout request is capped, and the cap rises as you complete more payout cycles, from $1,000 early on up to $5,000 per request from cycle 7+ on the $25K programs (lower on Express 10k). There's also a lifetime ceiling per account: $25,000 on the $25K programs, $15,000 on Express 10k. Once you're consistently hitting those, you've outgrown the sim, and that's exactly when the path to a real-money seat at T3 Global opens, where the cap comes off.
All three options programs are simulated funded accounts. The buying power is simulated and you trade on DXTrade with live options data, but the capital itself isn't real money. Your payouts, however, are real, paid against your simulated P&L. Graduating to T3 Global is different: proven traders earn a real-money seat with institutional leverage and infrastructure through T3 Global's desk.
Yes, but it's earned, not automatic. The T3 path is reserved for traders who show sustained, risk-managed performance over time. T3 Global operates within the T3 group, which includes a regulated SEC broker-dealer and FINRA/SIPC member. This isn't a marketing line; it's a real desk for traders who prove a real edge, and it's invite-only by design.
Fair question, and asking it means you're thinking clearly. TradeFundrr is a real company with a real address (88 Pine St, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10005), real reviews on Trustpilot, and real payouts documented publicly. The business model is on this page in plain sight: eval fees fund the payouts, and the real upside is graduating top traders to T3's institutional desk. The simulated-capital model is standard in prop trading; what's different here is the real T3 partnership with real regulatory credentials.
You can't lose the account balance the way you're picturing, because the account is simulated buying power, not your money. If you breach the account rules (like the max drawdown), the account pauses or closes depending on your program, but your personal savings are completely unaffected. The only money at stake is the fee you paid to start, not your trading capital.
With Express and Express 10k, the earliest you can request a first payout is after 5 trading days that meet the profit target. With Growth, you first pass the 2-stage evaluation, so a first payout takes a bit longer, as few as 10 days.
If we're paying real money against simulated trading, where's it coming from? The honest answer has two parts.
Some traders pass, some don't. Those fees cover the infrastructure, platform, market data, support, and the payouts going to the traders who make it through. Straightforward.
When a trader proves a sustained edge and earns a seat at T3 Global, they trade real firm capital and we share in the long-term performance. One good trader is worth more to us than a hundred who don't make it.
The eval fees fund the payouts. Our real upside is graduating traders to the institutional desk. We win when you win, scaled. That's why the rules are strict, the targets are real, and the T3 path exists. We're looking for the traders who'll earn firm capital.
The same strategy at three different sizes. Same edge. Wildly different math.
Start at 20 contracts. Earn your way to live desk capital.
"Earn your way to a T3 seat" only means something if you know who T3 is, and how the pieces fit together.
T3 Global is the institutional trading firm and live-capital path for top-performing TradeFundrr traders. This is the desk you earn your way to, by invitation.
T3 Trading Group is the T3 group's registered broker-dealer, one of the largest active-trader desks in the U.S. T3 Global is built on the same technology, platforms, and compliance. We leverage that foundation; it just isn't where you graduate to.
T3 Global and T3 Trading Group are separate business units within the T3 group of companies. The SEC, FINRA, and SIPC registrations belong to T3 Trading Group only and do not apply to T3 Global, the entity TradeFundrr traders graduate to. T3 Global is not itself a registered broker-dealer.
When a TradeFundrr trader proves a sustained, risk-managed edge, the path to a real-money seat runs through T3 Global's infrastructure: real firm capital, real fills, real desk oversight. By invitation, reserved for top performers.
Sim is sim. Live is live. T3 is live.
Reserved for top-performing traders. Subject to T3 Global review. Not all traders qualify. SEC, FINRA, and SIPC registrations refer to T3 Trading Group, a separate entity within the T3 group of companies, and do not apply to T3 Global or to TradeFundrr's simulated funded accounts.
Real names. Real reviews. Verified on Trustpilot, we don't curate them.
Reviews are real and shown verbatim from Trustpilot. Individual results vary. Trading outcomes described are not typical and are not a guarantee of future performance.
Your funded options account runs on DXTrade, the same institutional execution stack a professional desk uses, with live chains and real fills.
Built by the same development team behind tastyworks and thinkorswim. The pro-grade options order ticket, with institutional routing instead of payment for order flow.
One funded options account on DXTrade. Real chains, real fills, real size.
The funded account doesn't change your watchlist or your playbook. Same underlyings you pull up every morning, same setups you already run, just with real contract size behind them instead of your own savings.
Hundreds of the most liquid US symbols are available in the options program, including SPX, SPY, QQQ, IWM, TSLA, and NVDA.
Both sides of the chain on the most liquid names you already follow. Nothing exotic to learn, the same options you trade today.
Trade outright or build the structure. We publish every constraint up front, the way we publish every rule.
Traders get a full suite of strategies, such as spreads, iron condors, and butterflies, and credit-based positions are allowed up to the account buying power. Bottom line: you can trade the options you trade today, with the intraday strategy you already run, under simple published rules, a 15-second minimum hold, intraday positions only (no overnight), plus the daily loss limit and drawdown.
And that's by design. Be honest with yourself, here's who this is built for, and who it isn't.
If the left column sounds like you, you're in the right place.
Get funded today →Three things most funded-trader programs can't say, and back up.
Drawdown limits, profit targets, and payout cycles are all published before you pay, and they don't change after you pass.
Prove your edge and you graduate to a real-money seat at T3 Global, with real firm capital and real fills. Most firms just hand you a bigger simulated account and call it "live capital." We don't. Sim is sim. Live is live.
Real people on phone and email who know the platform, the rules, and your account, not a tier-1 ticket queue.
"Your edge is real. Our job is to make sure your account size doesn't stop you."
For the first time in 25 years, the Pattern Day Trading (PDT) rule and its $25,000 day-trading minimum are going away. It's the biggest shift in retail day trading in a generation, and it still doesn't solve the thing that actually holds you back.
The PDT rule and its $25,000 day-trading minimum end June 4, 2026 (phased in by broker through 2027). Sub-$25K accounts can finally day-trade without restriction, on real-time intraday margin.
Your account is still your account. A small balance trading 1 or 2 contracts, even unrestricted, is still small, and it's still your own money on every trade. The barrier was never just the rule. It was the size.
The rules got easier. The contract count didn't.
FINRA's amended day-trading margin rules take effect June 4, 2026, with broker implementation phased through October 2027; timing varies by broker. The $2,000 minimum to open a margin account is unchanged.
Keep grinding 2 contracts the slow way, or give yourself a simulated $25K options account with up to 20 contracts and trade at the level you're already capable of.
$25K simulated options account · up to 20 contracts · keep 80% of profits · your savings never on the line.
