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Bahnhofstrasse 21, 6300, Zug, Switzerland
3 Place Ville-Marie, Montréal, QC H3B 4W8
Alan Sanchez
Matt L
Switzerland
Canada
2022
2022
Liquidity Provider
5% processing fee on crypto payouts. Only TRC20 USDT supported.
Riseworks: $40
123456Password7cZy-gEoServerRLCrates-Live-PasswordDemoCFT1LH_C00009PasswordLH_NewPW2023!F$LH_C00009Passwordgjt6n6jfr5F$1-Phase and 2-Phase: after at least 15 traded days or every 30 calendar days; the Weekly Payout add-on reduces this to 7 traded days. Break: on demand with no minimum traded days after passing, paying the activation fee and meeting the 40% consistency rule. Instant: Withdrawal & Upgrade at 10% profit with no minimum days; earlier withdrawals follow the standard conditions.
- 3-Step, 1-Step Career: Every 14 days or 7 days with add-on (+30%)
- Instant: First payout on demand, next every 30 days
$5,000 per transaction (crypto)
100%
110%
Most payouts processed in under 6 hours; allow up to 3 business days.
$100 minimum across all programs.
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 30:1
- 3-Step, Instant: 50:1
- 1-Step Career: 30:1
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 30:1
- 3-Step, 1-Step Career: 20:1
- Instant: 50:1
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 30:1
- 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 20:1
- 3-Step: 20:1
- Instant, 1-Step Career: 10:1
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 5:1
- 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1
- CFT Platform and MetaTrader: Advance accounts 100:1; Student accounts 5:1.
- Bybit evaluations: up to 100:1, depending on the instrument and the limits available on Bybit.
- 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 2:1
If your final-stage account is suspended, you can request a reset within 30 days as long as:
- Every trade had a stop-loss.
- No trade lost more than 2%.
2-Phase (size -> reset)
- $5,000 -> $180
- $10,000 -> $345
- $25,000 -> $760
- $50,000 -> $1,140
- $100,000 -> $1,880
- $200,000 -> $3,620
1-Phase (size -> reset)
- $5,000 -> $198
- $10,000 -> $380
- $25,000 -> $840
- $50,000 -> $1,255
- $100,000 -> $2,079
- $200,000 -> $3,980
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%.
1-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%) and 90% Profit Split (+20%). 2-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%), 90% Profit Split (+20%), 6% Daily Drawdown (+15%) and 12% Maximum Drawdown (+25%).
- 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
Only Instant account can be scaled. Request a withdrawal after 10% profit to double the size of your account up to a max of $1,280,000.
- CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases and Instant use a static maximum loss; 1 Phase uses trailing drawdown.
- Bybit: 1-Phase and Break use a balance-based trailing loss limit that locks at the initial balance after sufficient profit. 2-Phase, Ascend and Instant use fixed maximum-loss limits.
Exact limits are shown in each challenge.
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.
- Instant: 50% at the starting level, then 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% as the account scales.
- 1 Phase and 2 Phases: 80% in the Final Stage, with an optional 90% add-on.
- Break: 80% in the Final Stage.
3-Step
80% (90% with add-on purchased at checkout).
1-Step Career
80% (90% with add-on purchased at checkout).
Instant
90%.
If your final-stage account is suspended with virtual profits, you can still receive up to 50% in performance rewards if:
- Every trade had a stop-loss.
- No single trade lost more than 2%.
- You traded for at least 15 days.
- CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases, 1 Phase, Instant and Ascend use balance-based daily drawdown.
- Bybit: daily drawdown is calculated from equity using the account balance at 00:05 UTC. Break accounts do not have a separate daily-loss limit.
Exact limits are shown in each challenge.
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.
Standard Final Stage allocation is capped at $300,000. Instant accounts are separate and can scale to $1,280,000. Break and Ascend accounts also have separate allocation limits.
Unlimited
Unlimited
- 1-Phase, 2-Phase and Break: no minimum trading days to pass the evaluation.
- Instant: no evaluation phase and no minimum days.
- Ascend: 5 trading days in evaluation.
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Expert Advisors and automation are allowed when used for normal trading. EAs designed for high-frequency trading, tick scalping, arbitrage, reverse trading or exploitation are prohibited.
This rule doesn't apply when buying the add-on at the check-out (+10%)
Normal scalping is allowed. Tick scalping, high-frequency trading and latency exploitation are prohibited.
Simulated profit is capped at $10,000 per trading day and per trade. Trades closed in parts or opened together as one strategy may be treated as a single trade.
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.
Copy trading is allowed under the firm's general rules. Break evaluations may be copied only between the same trader's own Break accounts. Copy trading is prohibited in Break Final Stage and between different traders, third parties or coordinated accounts.
Allowed between Lark Simulated Funded Accounts. Not allowed between Evaluation Accounts
Ascend
During the two minutes before and after high-impact news or market open, traders must not open or add new positions, nor increase or combine their maximum theoretical loss beyond 2% of the account's initial balance.
Only Break Final Stage accounts apply a consistency rule: no single trading day may represent more than 40% of total profits. It is checked only when requesting a payout and does not breach the account.
Crypto futures trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and positions may remain open overnight and over weekends.
It is necessary to buy the add-on at the check-out (+10%
High-frequency trading, tick scalping, latency or price-feed exploitation, arbitrage, gambling or all-in trading, abusive hedging, reverse trading across accounts and coordinated trading are prohibited. On Bybit, unauthorized deposits into the subaccount, modifying or disconnecting the API, spot trading, options and non-USDT pairs are also prohibited.
- 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
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