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2026-10

2022

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

Matt L

Canada

No refund after credentials are sent; support may authorize exceptions if no trades were placed. No fee refund for passing is published.

Every 14 days. One and Two: first payout after 14 days. Instant: first after qualifying profitable days. Signature: 14-day waiting period for each payout. Paid via Rise or crypto; store credit is also available, irrevocable and expires after one year.

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

Signature: maximum 3% of balance per payout.

1% of balance on Instant, One and Two; Signature does not publish a specific minimum.

$100 minimum across all programs.

Liquidity Provider

Riseworks: $40

100%

110%

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

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

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

• 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1

• 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

Liquidity-provider commissions vary by instrument and platform; check specifications.

Payout Protector: +25%. Remove Lock on Payout: +25%, only One and Instant. Optional; table prices exclude add-ons.

• 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

Static on One, Two and Signature. Instant: trailing on the highest end-of-day balance; retains its pre-payout level unless Remove Lock on Payout is purchased. One also retains its pre-payout level. Instant requires a 5% non-withdrawable buffer.

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.

Based on balance; monitor the breach level in the dashboard.

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 fixed count; the $1 million limit is shared across evaluations, funded accounts and markets.

No evaluation deadline; the inactivity limit applies.

Unlimited

Checkout specifies no fixed minimum evaluation days; consistency may require additional days.

0

Instant: 7 days. One and Two: 4 days with at least 0.25% daily profit. Signature: no specific requirement is published.

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%.

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

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

Instant
90%.

The FAQ permits proprietary automation subject to restrictions, but the checkout catalogue flags EAs as disallowed. Obtain written confirmation for the selected plan and platform before using automation.

Permitted within one account. Coordinated opposing positions across accounts or firms are prohibited.

Tick harvesting, full porting and sub-minute positions at or near the contract limit are prohibited.

No universal per-trade percentage is published; gambling, all-in and abuse of margin, leverage or contract limits are prohibited.

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.

Only between accounts owned by the same trader. Signals, passing services, group trading and EAs facilitating copy trading are prohibited.

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

Existing positions may remain open. No opening or closing within 3 minutes before or after high-impact news. Consequences include P&L removal, reduced leverage or account termination.

Account closes after 30 consecutive days without trading.

30 days

One: 50% in evaluation and funded. Signature: 50% funded only. Instant: 18%. Two: no consistency rule. The best day cannot exceed that share of total profit; continue trading until compliant.

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

Cross-account arbitrage, latency or pricing-error exploitation, insider trading, front-running, third-party passing strategies and changing strategy between evaluation and funded trading. All-in, gambling and excessive exposure are prohibited. Trading is reviewed before funded account issuance.

• 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

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