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30/1, Kenilworth Court, Sir Augustus Bartolo Street, Ta’Xbiex , Malta

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

Gary Mullen

Matt L

Malta

Canada

2023

2022

• Challenge fee credited back after passing and claiming first reward (Classic and One-Phase)
• Pro Challenges are not eligible
• Full refund available for mistaken purchases within 14 days if no trades were placed

• Standard: bi-weekly (14 days) for Challenge and Instant Funded accounts
• "First Reward in 7 Days" add-on available on Classic and One-Phase
• Typically processed within 24 hours on business days (average 8 hours)

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

$100 minimum for reward requests on all account types.

$100 minimum across all programs.

Liquidity Provider

Riseworks: $40

100%

110%

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

Classic & Pro Challenge

• 1:100

One-Phase Challenge

• 1:50

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

• 1:30

Instant Account

• 1:30 (1:20 with News Trading Add-On)

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

Classic & Pro Challenge

• 1:30

One-Phase Challenge

• 1:10

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

• 1:10

Instant Account

• 1:10 (1:5 with News Trading Add-On)

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

Classic & Pro Challenge

• 1:30

One-Phase Challenge

• 1:10

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

• 1:10

Instant Account

• 1:10 (1:5 with News Trading Add-On)

• 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1

Classic & Pro Challenge

• 1:30

One-Phase Challenge

• 1:10

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

• 1:10

Instant Account

• 1:10 (1:5 with News Trading Add-On)

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

Classic & Pro Challenge

• 1:5

One-Phase Challenge

• 1:3

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

• 1:2

Instant Account

• Not available

• 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1

Classic & Pro Challenge

• 1:2

One-Phase Challenge

• 1:2

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

• 1:1

Instant Account

• 1:2 (1:1 with News Trading Add-On)

• 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 2:1

• Challenge reset available at any time via dashboard for a fee
• Challenge Upgrade feature available during Phase 1 of Classic and Pro (30% discount on upgrade price)

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%.

• First Reward in 7 Days: available on Classic and One-Phase
• 90/10 Profit Split: available on Classic and One-Phase
• No Minimum Trading Days: available on Classic
• Swing Account: available on all challenge types (Classic, One Phase, and Pro)

• 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

• Achieve 10% profit target each trading month for 3 consecutive months
• Account balance increased by 50%
• Continues until account reaches $5 million

Challenge Accounts

• Fixed percentage of initial balance for the lifetime of the account

Instant Account

• 6% trailing drawdown based on EOD Equity or Balance (whichever is higher)
• Drawdown trails upward with profits until reaching the initial account balance
• Once reaching initial balance, drawdown becomes static and fixed

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.

• Standard: 80% on all withdrawals
• 90% available via add-on on Classic and One-Phase

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

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

Instant
90%.

Challenge Accounts

• Daily Drawdown calculated on account starting balance at 5 PM EST snapshot
• Equity cannot drop below the allowed daily percentage

Instant Account

• 3% based on EOD Equity or Balance (whichever is higher)
• Measured at 00:00 GMT+3 server time
• Does not reset intraday; resets at start of next trading day

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.

No maximum time limit to complete the Challenge.

Unlimited

Classic, Pro and One-Phase

• Minimum trading days apply (exact count available on dashboard)
• "No Minimum Trading Days" add-on available on Classic

Instant Program

• 5 profitable simulated trading days required
• Each day must achieve at least +0.5% simulated profit
• Days do not need to be consecutive
• Loss or breakeven days do not count

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• Instant Program requires 5 profitable trading days with at least +0.5% profit each
• Days do not need to be consecutive

• Expert Advisors (EAs) and trading bots are permitted
• You must own your EA/bot
• Must not exploit technical inefficiencies or manipulate latency
• Third-party EAs not allowed on Instant unless you own the source code

Permitted only within the same trading account. Hedging across multiple accounts is not allowed.

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

Instant Account

• Maximum 2% risk per trade idea
• Margin usage must not exceed 80% across all asset classes at any time

Challenge Phase

• No margin cap or maximum lot size enforced

Funded Account

• Margin rules apply

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.

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

Challenge Phases

• Allowed in all challenge types (Classic, Pro, One-Phase)

Funded Accounts

• Only permitted with Swing Add-On

Instant Account

• Restricted by default
• Only allowed with News Trading Add-On
• 2-minute window rule applies (no opening within 2 minutes before/after major news)

• 30 consecutive days without placing or closing a trade results in automatic account failure
• Applies to Challenge, Instant, and Funded Stage accounts
• No refunds or renewals for inactivity breaches

30 days

Classic Challenge

• Phase 1: No consistency rule
• Phase 2: No consistency rule

One-Phase Challenge

• 40% max daily profit of total

Pro Challenge

• Phase 1: 45%
• Phase 2: 45%

Funded Stages

• No consistency rule

Instant Account

• 15% max daily profit of total

• Rule is equity-based (unrealised profit included)

• Even if account is in loss, the rule still counts towards highest profit day

Challenge and Funded Accounts

• Only allowed with Swing Add-On
• Without Swing Add-On: all trades including crypto must be closed by Friday 16:30 EST

Instant Account

• Overnight and weekend holding allowed by default

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

• Martingale and grid strategies
• Excessive lot sizing and aggressive loss recovery
• High-frequency trading (HFT)
• Latency arbitrage, scalping arbitrage, and gap exploitation
• Flooding the market with small pip trades
• Intentional weekend/overnight gap exploitation
• Account rolling or lot-sizing techniques to bypass drawdown controls

• 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