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Headquarters

Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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

CEO

Jakub Rož

Matt L

Country

United Arab Emirates

Canada

Foundation

2023

2022

Banned Countries
Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, Bangladesh, North Korea, Russian Federation, Belarus, Cuba, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, United Arab Emirates
Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, Russia, Belarus, Quebec
Assets
Forex, Commodities, Indices
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Brokers

Liquidity Provider

Liquidity Provider

Refund
Yes

Pay After Pass: pay activation fee only after passing. No traditional refund.

No
Payout Fee
  • Crypto ($100 – $399): $25
  • Rise ($400 or more): $50

Riseworks: $40

Platforms
Metatrader 5, cTrader, TradeLocker
DXTrade, cTrader, MatchTrader
Instruments
Forex (majors, minors, exotics), Commodities (CFDs), Indices (CFDs), Energies (CFDs), Metals (CFDs)
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Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto, Rise
Rise
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, Transfer
Card, Crypto
Payout Frequency

Every 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
Payout Guarantee

48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split

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

Minimum Withdrawal
  • Minimum: $100 in For Traders wallet
  • Maximum per cycle (bi-weekly): $15,000 on most accounts
  • Withdrawal fees:
    · $100-$399 (crypto): $25
    · $400+ (Rise: bank/local/crypto): $50

$100 minimum across all programs.

Demo Account
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DXTrade
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GooeyTrade
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Stop Out Level
No data

100%

Margin Call Level
No data

110%

Forex
  • Challenge accounts (evaluation phase): 1:125
  • Master accounts (Fast/Classic/Strike): 1:30
  • Master accounts (Fast Static): 1:20
  • Master accounts (Instant Pro): 1:10
  • 3-Step, Instant: 50:1
  • 1-Step Career: 30:1
Metals
  • Challenge: 1:40 (gold/silver part of FX leverage 1:125)
  • Master: 1:10
  • 3-Step, 1-Step Career: 20:1
  • Instant: 50:1
Energies
  • Challenge: 1:40
  • Master: 1:10
  • 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1
Indices
  • Challenge: 1:20
  • Master: 1:10
  • Instant Pro: 1:5
  • Fast Static: 1:10
  • 3-Step: 20:1
  • Instant, 1-Step Career: 10:1
Stocks
No data
  • 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1
Crypto
No data
  • 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 2:1
Forex
3 / lot
7 / lot
Metals
3 / lot
7 / lot
Energies
3 / lot
0 / lot
Indices
0
0
Commission-Free Option
No
No
Stocks
No data
0.02 / lot
Crypto
No data
0
Swap Free
No
No
Account Reset
No data

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%.

Add-ons
No
Yes
  • Improved profit split 90% (+20%)
  • Hold over weekend (+10%)
  • Stop Loss (+10%)
  • Weekly Payouts (+30%; 1-Step Max: +20%)
Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes

1-Step Career

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

Scaling unlocked through the Loyalty Program (5 tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Pro, VIP, Legend). Increments depend on tier. Applies to all account types.

No
Two Steps
Yes
No
Max Drawdown
  • Forex Fast: 6% trailing
  • Forex Fast Static: 6% balance-based static
  • Forex Classic: 8% or 10% (depending on order)
  • Forex Strike: 5% from initial balance
  • Forex Pay After Pass: 6% trailing
  • Forex Instant: 5% trailing
  • Forex Instant Pro: 6% trailing

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.

Profit Split
  • Forex evaluation products (Fast, Fast Static, Classic, Strike and Pay After Pass): 80% or according to the selected order
  • Forex Instant: starts at 70% and increases by 5% with each reward, up to 90%
  • Forex Instant Pro: starts at 60% and increases by 10% with each reward, up to 90%

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

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

Instant
90%.

Free Trial
No
No
Daily Drawdown
  • Forex Fast/Fast Static/Strike/Pay After Pass: 3% (Fast: from previous day equity; Fast Static: from previous day balance/equity; Strike: fixed from initial)
  • Forex Classic: 4% or 3% (depending on order)
  • Forex Instant: 3% of starting balance
  • Forex Instant Pro: none

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.

Three Steps
Yes
Yes
Max Allocation

$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.

600,000
Merge Accounts
No
No
Maximum Trading Days
  • Three Step: 60 per phase
  • Rest of accounts: No limit

Unlimited

Minimum Trading Days
No data

0

Monthly Competition
Yes
No
Minimum Profitable Days
  • Forex Fast: 3 profitable days (0.5% of starting balance each)
  • Forex Classic: 3 profitable days per phase
  • Forex Strike: 3 profitable days per phase
  • Forex Instant: 7 profitable days
  • Forex Instant Pro: not required
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Expert Advisor (EA)
No

EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.

Yes
VPN
Yes
Yes
Hedging
No

Cross-account hedging (opposing positions on the same instrument across accounts) is forbidden.

Yes
Requires Stop Loss
No
Yes

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

Scalping
Yes

Manual scalping allowed with a minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT are forbidden.

Yes
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
Yes
Yes
Martingale
No

Martingale strategies (doubling position size after losses) are classified as gambling and forbidden.

No data
Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

Open trades: maximum 3% risk on a single position.

Limited

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
No

Outbound copy trading (from your For Traders account to external accounts) is allowed. Inbound copy trading from external sources is strictly forbidden.

Yes

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

News Trading
Limited

Forex: no new positions within 5 minutes before/after high-impact news events. Existing positions can be held through news.

Yes
Inactivity Rule
  • Forex Fast / Fast Static / Classic / Strike / Pay After Pass (Challenge & Master): 30 days
  • Forex Instant / Instant Pro: 7 days

Days counted from the moment a position is CLOSED, not opened. Minimal 0.01-lot trades to game the rule don't count.

30 days

Consistency Rule
Yes
  • Forex Fast: no consistency rule on Challenge; consistency on Master varies.
  • Forex Pay After Pass Master: best day cannot exceed 20% of total profit.
  • Forex Instant: best day cannot exceed 15% of total profit.
  • General gambling rule: passing via a single trade exceeding 70% of profit target is forbidden.
No
Hold Weekend
Yes

Weekend holds are unrestricted across all account types.

Yes

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

Prohibited Strategies
  • Arbitrage (latency, reverse, statistical)
  • HFT (High Frequency Trading)
  • Grid trading
  • Tick scalping
  • Fully autonomous bots/EAs
  • Cross-account hedging
  • Gambling behaviors (overleveraging, all-in trades > 70% of profit target)
  • Martingale
  • Inbound copy trading and signal services
  • Group/signal trading from Telegram, Discord etc.
  • 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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