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Lark Funding logoLark Funding
Headquarters

The Sotheby Building, Ground Floor, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, SW18 1TA, St. Lucia

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

Country

St. Lucia

Canada

Foundation

2023

2022

Banned Countries
Russia, Cuba, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, North Korea, Libya, Vietnam
Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, Russia, Belarus, Quebec
CEO

Matt L

Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Brokers

Liquidity Providers

Liquidity Provider

Refund
✓
✗
Platforms
MatchTrader, cTrader, TradeLocker, Volumetrica, MetaTrader5
DXTrade, cTrader, MatchTrader
Payout Methods
Transfer, Rise, Crypto
Rise
Payment Methods
ApplePay, Korapay, Card, GooglePay, PayPal, Crypto, Skrill, IMPS
Card, Crypto
Payout Frequency
  • Biweekly
  • Evaluation accounts can be purchased with an add-on to get the first payout On Demand with 40% profit split
  • Standard Instant Funding have 'Triple payday' rewards, allowing traders to withdraw profits every 10 days.
  • Instant Premium: every 10 days
  • Instant HERO: 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

If the payout takes longer than promised (2 business days), the trader automatically receives an extra $500 reward, guarantee.

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

Crypto Weekend Trading
✓
Maximum Withdrawal

For the first two reward requests, traders can withdraw a maximum of 6% of the initial account balance.

Minimum Withdrawal

$100

$100 minimum across all programs.

Payout Fee

Riseworks: $40

Demo Account
DXTrade
ID:LH_C00009
Password:LH_NewPW2023!F$
GooeyTrade
ID:LH_C00009
Password:gjt6n6jfr5F$
Stop Out Level

100%

Margin Call Level

110%

Forex
  • Evaluation phases: 100:1
  • Funded phase: 50:1
  • 3-Step, Instant: 50:1
  • 1-Step Career: 30:1
Metals
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
  • 3-Step, 1-Step Career: 20:1
  • Instant: 50:1
Energies
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
  • 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1
Indices
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
  • 3-Step: 20:1
  • Instant, 1-Step Career: 10:1
Stocks
  • Evaluation phases: 5:1
  • Funded phase: 5:1
  • 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 5:1
Crypto
  • Evaluation phases: 2:1
  • Funded phase: 2:1
  • 3-Step, Instant, 1-Step Career: 2:1
Forex
5 / lot
7 / lot
Metals
5 / lot
7 / lot
Energies
0
0 / lot
Indices
0
0
Stocks
0
0.02 / lot
Crypto
0
0
Account Reset

If you don’t complete a challenge, you can restart it at any time with a 12% discount. You’ll also get a single-use coupon that gives you 10% off any program.

Reset: buy a Reset to continue from the phase where you breached instead of starting over — it issues a new account at that phase (Funded reset gives a new Funded account, no re-evaluation). Available any time, or within 14 days of a breach. Each phase can be reset once. Price is a % of the original Challenge: Phase 1 −7%; Phase 2 +45–50%; Phase 3 +80%; Funded +50–175% (Instant: −7%).

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%
Add-ons
✓
✓
Instant
✓
✓
One Step
✓
✓
Account scaling
✓
✗
Two Steps
✓
✗
Max Drawdown
  • 1-Step, 2-Step, 3-Step: Static
  • Instant Funding: Trailing
  • Instant Premium: EOD high-watermark; not recalculated intraday or downward

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.

Profit Split

Profit split varies by product; see challenges. Add-ons may offer a higher split.

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
✗
✗
dailyDrawdown

Most models: highest balance or equity recorded at end of day (EOD high-watermark).

  • Instant HERO: daily starting balance at 5 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.

Three Steps
✓
✓
Max Allocation

$400,000 on every country except Pakistan, where the maximum is $50,000

600,000
Merge Accounts
✓
✗
Maximum Trading Days

Unlimited

Unlimited

Minimum Trading Days

Instant HERO: 6 non-consecutive valid trading days before payout, with at least 0.5% profit each.

0

Points Reward Program

The GOAT Points Program rewards traders for both purchases and trading activities:

  • You earn 1 point for every $1 spent and can gain additional points by completing trading tasks.
  • Points are credited instantly and can be tracked in your Trader Dashboard. You can redeem them for valuable perks such as free accounts, extra leverage, increased drawdown, and account size boosts.
  • There's no limit to how many points you can earn, and all GFT traders are automatically enrolled.
Monthly Competition
✗
✗
Minimum Profitable Days
  • 3 days with 0.5% profit on all phases of evaluation accounts
  • 5 days with 0.5% profit on all Instant Funding accounts
  • Instant Premium: 5 days with 0.5% profit (not necessarily consecutive)
Expert Advisor (EA)
✓
✓
VPN
✗
✓
Hedging
✗
✓
Requires Stop Loss
✗
✓
Scalping
✓
✓
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
✓
✓
Maximum Risk Limit
✓
✗
Copy Trading
~
✓
News Trading
~
✓
hasInactivityRule

30 Days

30 days

Consistency Rule
✓
✗
Hold Weekend
✓
✓
Prohibited Strategies
  • All or nothing
  • Exploit broker/platform errors
  • Use insider/non-public info
  • Front-run other trades
  • Excessively risky strategies
  • Hedging across accounts
  • Third-party EAs/strategies
  • Switch strategies post-assessment
  • Martingale/grid strategies banned
  • 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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