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Algaroud Center, 2nd Floor, Office 101-05, Dubai, UAE

3 Place Ville-Marie, Montréal, QC H3B 4W8

Sean Bainton

Matt L

United Arab Emirates

Canada

2021

2022

• 1 Step Nano: up to weekly
• 2 Step Nano: bi-weekly
• Other products: 14 days

• 3-Step, 1-Step Career: Every 14 days or 7 days with add-on (+30%)
• Instant: First payout on demand, next every 30 days

Payouts processed within 24 business hours (Mon 9 AM – Fri 5 PM Dubai time). If they miss this window you automatically receive a 100% profit split on that payout (no Blue Guardian cut). Delays caused by compliance checks, risk reviews or pending KYC do not qualify.

Most payouts processed in under 6 hours; allow up to 3 business days.

2 Step Nano: 2% of the initial balance per payout ($500 on $25K, $1,000 on $50K, $2,000 on $100K and $4,000 on $200K).

$100 in crypto, $500 via Rise (bank transfer). On 1 Step Standard and Instant accounts, once you reach 6% profit and the trailing drawdown locks at breakeven, a 1% buffer must remain in the account.

$100 minimum across all programs.

Riseworks: $40

100%

110%

• 3-Step, Instant: 50:1
• 1-Step Career: 30:1

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• 3-Step, 1-Step Career: 20:1
• Instant: 50:1

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• 3-Step: 20:1
• Instant, 1-Step Career: 10:1

• 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 2:1

• 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1

Surrender Account (3-Step Program)

75% discount code that allows you to restart your journey from Phase 1

• Your account must not have used more than 75% of the permitted drawdown — essentially, your loss cannot exceed 3.75%.
• You must not have taken a loss greater than 1% on any single position.
• All open positions must be closed before the surrender is submitted.

Smart Restart Guarantee (1-Step Career Evaluation)

To receive a free restart, both of the following must be met during your first attempt:

• No individual trade may incur a loss greater than 1% of the account balance.
• Your maximum overall drawdown must remain better than −5%

1-Step Max
Up to 3 free evaluation restarts. Surrender before breach, with drawdown within 5% and no trade risking more than 1%.

• Improved profit split 90% (+20%)
• Hold over weekend (+10%)
• Stop Loss (+10%)
• Weekly Payouts (+30%; 1-Step Max: +20%)

1-Step Career

• Monthly Simulated Salary
• Smart Restart Guarantee
• Free 30-day standard TradingView subscription
• Access to in-house TrackAlpha trading software

• Instant, Guardian X, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Nano, 2 Step Pro, Crypto: Trailing
• 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Classic, 2 Step Nano, 3 Step: Static

3-Step
5% Max Static Drawdown Limit.

1-Step Career
7% Max Drawdown Limit (static).

Instant
8% Max Trailing Drawdown (based on highest recorded closed balance). Locks at initial balance once account reaches 8% gain or after first payout.

1-Step Max
Static in evaluation and funded stages; the threshold does not trail upward.

• Existing 1, 2 and 3 Step programs: 85%
• 1 Step Nano and 2 Step Nano: up to 100%
• Instant: 80%
• Instant Starter: 90%
• With add-on: 90%

3-Step
80% (90% with add-on purchased at checkout).

1-Step Career
80% (90% with add-on purchased at checkout).

Instant
90%.

Based on highest value between balance and equity

3-Step
No daily loss limit.

1-Step Career
5% Daily Loss Limit, calculated from previous day closed balance at 5 PM EST.

Instant
5% Daily Loss Limit, calculated from previous day closed balance at 5 PM EST.

Same-type funded accounts can be merged up to $400,000 ($200,000 cap on Instant). Cross-merging different types (e.g. 2 Step Standard with 2 Step Pro) is NOT allowed. Both accounts must be at break-even (no profit, no loss) at merge time. Beyond the merge cap, the Scaling Plan can take total allocation up to $2,000,000. Guardian X and Instant accounts are NOT eligible for scaling.

No limit

Unlimited

1 Step Nano: no minimum during the evaluation; 5 days when funded.

0

• Instant, 2 Step Standard, Guardian X: 5 days with 0.5% profit or more
• 1 Step, 2 Step Classic, 3 Step, Crypto: 3 days with 0.5% profit or more
• 2 Step Classic: 4 days with 0.5% profit or more

Hedging is allowed within a single account. Hedging across multiple accounts (yours or others') is NOT allowed.

This rule doesn't apply when buying the add-on at the check-out (+10%)

Minimum holding time of 2 minutes. Trades closed in under 2 minutes are flagged as tick scalping and count as a rule violation, whether closed manually or by automated systems. Average trade duration should stay above 1–2 minutes. Scalping itself is allowed as long as you stay above the 2-minute floor.

1-Step Max: maximum 1% combined open risk per symbol, not across the entire account. Positions on different symbols have separate 1% limits. During evaluation, symbol-risk, missing-stop-loss and maximum-position-risk violations share one counter: warnings on strikes 1 and 2; hard breach on strike 3. On funded accounts, the first violation is a hard breach. The purchased no-stop-loss add-on exception still applies.

Manual copy trading is allowed ONLY between accounts legally owned by the same person (e.g. between your own Evaluation and Funded accounts, or between your Blue Guardian account and external accounts in your name). NOT allowed:

• Copying trades from other traders' accounts.
• Third-party copiers that involve accounts not legally yours.
• Having a third party manage your trades.

Instant Funding users may also use third-party copiers, provided all accounts belong to the same user.

Allowed between Lark Simulated Funded Accounts. Not allowed between Evaluation Accounts

News trading is allowed on Challenge, Guardian X and Instant Starter.

It is NOT allowed on Instant Standard and Funded accounts. On those, do not open or close trades within 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after a red folder (high-impact) release. Profits made during that window or significantly influenced by the news will be removed, even without an account violation. Same 5-minute window applies around FOMC speeches, statements and news events on Funded accounts.

Note: Instant Standard accounts purchased after November 13, 2025 cannot do news trading at all.

Consistency rule applies to: 1 Step Nano evaluation and funded (50%), 2 Step Nano funded (50%), 2 Step Pro funded (25%), Guardian X and Instant Standard funded (20%), Instant Starter funded (15%), $300K and $400K Instant funded (15%).

Does NOT apply to: 2 Step Nano evaluation, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Classic, 3 Step funded accounts, nor to any other challenge phase.

Calculation: a single trading day cannot equal or exceed the threshold of total profits in the payout cycle. If exceeded, the payout button is blocked until the highest day drops below the threshold. Violating it does NOT terminate the account.

It is necessary to buy the add-on at the check-out (+10%

• Platform or data freezing exploits (using a Demo Server error).
• Use of delayed data feed or trading on delayed charts.
• Tick scalping (trades closed under 2 minutes), high-frequency trading, arbitrage bots.
• Reverse arbitrage, latency arbitrage, hedge arbitrage and any emulators.
• Hedging between accounts (within one account is fine).
• Password changes (the password sent by email is the only one accepted).
• Gambling: any trading where margin usage exceeds 80% on running trades.
• Shared devices, VPS or accounts: each trader must use only their personal device. Shared usage across accounts results in payout disqualification, suspension or termination.
• Bypassing copy-trading or signal-trading rules using VPN/VPS.
• Account inactivity: at least 1 trade every 30 days (otherwise breach).

• All-or-nothing
• Gambling
• Ideally no more than 20% margin or 1.5% of the balance per trade
• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Hedging & Arbitrage Between Accounts
• Holding a demo Single Share Equity CFD position into an earnings release