Minimum Trading Days

• None across all programs

Stop Loss Rule

• If you fail to place a stop loss at the time of placing an order or executing a trade, the system will automatically close the trade - soft breach

News Trading

• News trading is allowed, but opening large positions around high-impact news events is prohibited and may violate their terms under the All-or-Nothing prohibited trading strategy

Expert Advisor

• EA's except those that are designed for HFT or arbitrage trading.

Copy Trading

Allowed

• Allowed between Lark funded/Instant funding accounts, Other prop firms and personal accounts owned by the same person.
• Copy trading from an external account (other prop firm or personal accounts) is allowed, but only to a single evaluation account at a time
• Copy trading from a Lark funded/Instant funding accounts to a single Lark evaluation account is allowed.

Not Allowed

• Copy trading between multiple evaluation accounts is not allowed.
• Copy trading from accounts not owned by the same person is strictly prohibited

Lark funding's partnership with PropFirm One enables you to extend your copy trading capabilities even further. PF1 allows traders to seamlessly copy trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities. This means that, in addition to Lark funding’s internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching Lark funding’s core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com

Inactivity

• Traders must execute at least one trade every 30 days to avoid account inactivity and breach.

Gain Limit

Daily and/or per-trade gains exceeding $10,000 (calculated at 5 PM EST) trigger the following actions:

• Challenge Accounts: One violation results in restarting Phase 1 with no refund but a free evaluation.
• Simulated Funded Accounts: Gains above $10,000 are excluded from payouts. Three violations lead to account breach with no payout.
• Trades executed at similar times or partially closed count as a single trade.
• Gains made across multiple phases on a single day will be considered toward the daily gain limit.

Risk Limit

• Maximum risk per simulated trade idea is 1.5%

Margin Limit

• Overall margin utilization must not exceed the following limits: Forex, 50%; Metals, 50%; Indices, 75%; Oils, 75%; Crypto, 75%; Stocks, 75%.

Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading On Weekends

• Not allowed except purchased with hold over the weekend add-on
• Crypto temporary break between 5-6 pm EST and a 4-hour break from 9 am-1 pm EST on Saturday mornings

All-or-nothing trading

• This refers to a style of trading where a trader could breach or come close to breaching the drawdown limits in a single trade due to the large volume of positions, lots executed or margin utilization, this practice is prohibited

Holding Into Earnings, Dividends, or Other Corporate Actions

• Holding Single Share Equity CFD positions through earnings releases, dividends, or any corporate action is strictly prohibited. All such positions must be closed by 3:50 PM ET on the day of the event (or the prior trading day if the event is pre-market). Violation results in an immediate hard breach and any gain or loss on the position will be removed.

More on Prohibited trading strategies

• All-or-Nothing & Gambling-Based Trading, High-Frequency Trading, Reverse Trading(between different accounts) / Group Hedging,Unauthorized Copy Trading, Holding Into Earnings, Dividends, or Other Corporate Actions

See details: https://helpdesk.larkfunding.com/en/articles/8243502-prohibited-trading-strategies

VPN/VPS Policy Explained

• https://helpdesk.larkfunding.com/en/articles/7174234-can-i-use-a-vpn

1 - Step Smart Restart Guarantee

• Each Evaluation comes with 4 attempts. If your first attempt fails but you traded within the risk parameters, you get a free restart — no cost.

To qualify:

• No single trade loss greater than 1% of account balance
• Overall drawdown stays better than -5%

A "Surrender Account" button appears in your dashboard once eligible. Clicking it surrenders the account and generates a 100% discount code for a new Evaluation.

Key notes:

• Can be used up to 3 times per purchased Evaluation
• If drawdown briefly exceeds -5% but recovers, you may still qualify as long as no single trade exceeded 1%
• Discount code is valid once per purchased Evaluation

Lark Funding Special Futures Explained

• https://helpdesk.larkfunding.com/en/collections/5518409-special-features