Howdy Lark Traders. This is Lark Digest, the trading newsletter that crashes into your mailbox faster than XAUUSD moves on NFP.

Today we’ve got:

• Why we never deny payouts ❌ 

• Some juicy plans to help Lark Traders in 2024 🚀 

• Some fun weekend resources 🙂 

IT’S BEEN 583 DAYS SINCE JUNE 1ST, 2022

What were you doing summer of 2022? Dreaming of pips? Running on the beach? Getting into trouble?

Maybe it was all of the above but for me, I was busy launching Lark Funding. I had been trading full-time for over two years and running my YouTube channel for about 9 months.

At the time, FTMO and 99% of other companies still had time limits, and 1-stage challenges still weren’t really a thing. I wanted to change that.

I’m always adamant about never risking more than 1% and taking a long-term approach. That meant needing to make 10% in 30 days (AKA gamble) just didn’t align with me.

Well, it’s been 583 days since we launched and beyond changing the lives of some traders (like Joe who earned over $30,000), I think our greatest accomplishment is having never denied a payout.

With a new prop firm opening up every single week, from the outside, it might seem like the business is easy. But it’s not. The hardest and most difficult part is building trust. Trust that you’ll receive great support. Trust that you’ll receive a payout.

And that’s what our #1 goal is.

It’s not to have the biggest prop firm.

It’s to be one of the most trusted.

OUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS 🎉

The entire “build in public” approach on Twitter seems to be great for accountability. So, rather than keeping all of our cards close to our chest, here are some goodies that we’re working on.

1/ NEW DASHBOARD

We’re working hard on building out our new dashboard. I know you guys like our 1990s-looking one, but it would be nice to have something from this century.

2/ CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT

Our goal starting February 1st is to post 3x a week on our YouTube channel. At a minimum, twice a week.

We’re also building out our team to deliver short-form content for all of you TikTok addicts (you know who you are).

We’ve also got this newsletter, which I’m particularly psyched about. If you haven’t heard, Lark Digest will be popping into your inbox every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

And last but not least, let’s not forget Twitter (or X, sorry Elon). We’re about to cross 30,000 traders over there. Join us if you haven’t yet.

3/ COURSES?

If you haven’t yet realized, your trading guru who’s running around with his diamonds and Lambo is probably a scammer. We’re sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

But do you know what doesn’t lie or scam?

Data.

And thankfully, we have data on tens of thousands of traders.

• What works

• What doesn’t

• Who gets paid

• Who doesn’t

• And everything in between

And in 2024, we’re working on finding the best way to share all of this data with you.

Since Day 1 of my trading journey, I’ve also been obsessed with Fundamental Analysis (AKA how the market really moves). This is an area that’s massively lacking in the industry, and it’s probably the most difficult topic for new traders to tackle.

Interest rates, FED policy, unemployment, sentiment analysis, risk-on versus risk-off, my goodness, I’m getting a headache just thinking about it.

So we’re looking into seeing what we can do for traders. For free.

WEEKEND RESOURCES 🍪 

Throughout my trading journey, I’ve found the most value in consuming content outside of trading that can still be applied to trading. After all, 90% of traders fail, so I don’t want to be consuming the same stuff as everyone else.

Here are a few of my favourite resources that I still revisit:

• Forexlive.com | Amazing for staying up to date with market news.

• Zerohedge.com | A news site I visit daily.

• Peace Is Every Step | Written by the great Thich Nhat Hanh. I travelled to one of his Buddhist monasteries a few years back —an amazing book to improve your approach and trading psychology.

• My First Million | A great way to make more money from trading is not needing to make money from trading. That can happen if you have a business. This is the only business podcast I listen to.

That’s all for this week. We’ll be back on Monday with more tips for more pips.

Have a great weekend,
Matt | CEO

PS: Have you seen our new promos? You can now get a $5,000 Evaluation for only $29 or a 2-Stage $100,000 one for only $367.