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Sublot 40, Level 3, Block A2, Saradise Kuching, Off Jalan Stutong, 93350, Kuching, Malaysia

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

Dixon Teo

Matt L

Malaysia

Canada

2023

2022

Liquidity Provider

Riseworks: $40

100%

110%

• Forex Evaluation: Bi-weekly (every 14 calendar days). Instant first payout.
• Instant Funded X: Every 30 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

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

Instant Funded X: Greater of $100 or 1% of starting balance.

$100 minimum across all programs.

• 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

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%.

Instant Funded X: Weekend flat fee add-on and up to 90% profit split add-on available.

• 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

Forex Evaluation (X-1 & X-2 Step)
6% static drawdown from starting balance. Does not trail.

Instant Funded X
8% trailing drawdown. Trails upward with account growth. Once 8% profit is achieved, drawdown locks permanently at starting balance. After withdrawal, drawdown permanently locks at original starting balance.

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.

• Forex Evaluation: 80%
• Instant Funded X: 80% (up to 90% with add-ons)

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

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

Instant
90%.

Forex Evaluation & Instant Funded X: 5% daily max loss. Calculated from the higher of: prior day's end-of-day balance or equity. Resets at 5:00 PM EST.

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.

• Forex: $400,000
• Instant Funded X: $100,000
• Max $1M in active evaluations per person
• Maximum one evaluation per specific account size and plan type simultaneously across all platforms

• Case-by-case. Only possible when multiple assessments of identical product tier, step, and platform are passed simultaneously.
• Not permitted across different platforms, steps, or rule sets.

No time limit. Infinite evaluation duration.

Unlimited

0 minimum trading days across all plans.

0

Monthly competitions with free evaluation prizes.

• EAs are allowed, but third-party or off-the-shelf strategies marketed to pass challenge accounts are banned.
• Strategy switching between evaluation and funded phases is also prohibited.

• Hedging/reverse trades are permitted within a single account.
• Cross-account hedging is strictly prohibited.

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

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 allowed if you own all accounts involved.
• Group trading, signal services, and mirror trading across multiple accounts are banned.

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

• Opening positions within 3 minutes before or after news events is prohibited.
• Violations may result in position closure, P&L removal, leverage reduction, or account breach.

Accounts with zero trading activity for 30 consecutive days are hard breached.

30 days

• Best trading day cannot exceed 45% of total profit target.
• If breached during evaluation, profit target adjusts upward.
• In funded phase, applies to withdrawal eligibility.
• Instant Funded X: No consistency rule.

• Forex Evaluation: Weekend holding allowed.
• Instant Funded X: All trades must be closed by 3:45 PM EST on Friday, or they are automatically closed (soft breach). Weekend holding add-on available.

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

• Exploiting pricing/latency errors
• Front-running trades
• Using non-public/insider information
• Arbitraging across company or third-party accounts
• News event trading (within 3 minutes before/after)
• Excessive leverage/"all-in" trades resembling gambling
• Group hedging/reverse trading across multiple accounts
• Third-party strategies marketed for challenge accounts
• Strategy switching between evaluation and funded phases

• 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