Blue Guardian
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Key Highlights:
- High Profit Split
- Significant Funding Options
- No Time Limits on Challenges
- Challenge Duration: No Time Limit
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Instant Payouts
Variety of Evaluation Models
Strong Community and Support
Cons summary:
Poor Customer Support Reports
Presence of "Hidden" Rules
Risk of Unjustified Breach
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Key Trading Rules and Risk Policies
In Blue Guardian understanding the following rules is essential for success. The policies are designed to encourage consistent and responsible trading.
Blue Guardian News Trading Rules
The rules for trading during high-impact news events vary significantly depending on your account type:
- No Restrictions: News trading is fully permitted without any restrictions on all Evaluation programs, Guardian X accounts, and all Instant programs.
- Restrictions Apply: For other funded account types, you are not allowed to execute trades within a 5-minute window (before and after) of a high-impact news event.
Blue Guardian Copy Trading Policy
Copy trading is permitted, but it is strictly limited to copying trades between your own personal accounts only.
Prohibited Trading & Risk Practices
To ensure fair and sustainable trading, several strategies and behaviors are prohibited:
- Excessive Risk: Risking 3-4% of your account on a single trade idea, especially without a stop-loss, is against the rules.
- "All or Nothing" or "Boom or Bust" Approaches: Strategies that rely on a few high-risk trades, often tied to news events, to pass or fail are not allowed.
- Strategy Switching: You may not use one distinct trading strategy to pass the evaluation and then switch to a completely different strategy on the funded account.
Minimum Trade Duration
In Blue Guardian A minimum holding time of 2 minutes per trade is required. Trades closed in under 2 minutes may be flagged as prohibited tick scalping.
30-Day Inactivity Rule
Your account will be deactivated if no trades are placed for a period of 30 consecutive days.
Drawdown Adjustment Rule
This rule applies to 1-Step, 2-Step Pro, Guardian X, and Instant accounts. After your trailing drawdown locks at your initial balance, you must maintain a 1% profit buffer above this locked level to continue trading. Withdrawing all profits down to the initial balance will result in account closure.
Guardian Shield (Automated Risk Manager)
Guardian Shield is an auto-close feature that acts as a soft breach to protect your account from a hard breach. The loss threshold varies:
- Blue Guardian Instant & Guardian X Accounts: Open trades are auto-closed if they incur a floating loss of 1% of the initial balance.
- Blue Guardian All Other Accounts: Open trades are auto-closed at a 2% floating loss of the initial balance.
Consequences of a Guardian Shield Breach:
- 1st Breach: Your profit split is permanently reduced to 50%.
- 2nd Breach: The account is considered fully breached and will be closed.
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"For a quick comparison of these regulations with other firms, please see our main prop firm rules summary page."
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Payout Rules and Frequencies by Account Type
Blue Guardian offers a variety of payout conditions tailored to each specific account program. A $100 minimum withdrawal amount applies to all accounts unless stated otherwise.
Accounts with On-Demand Payouts
- 2-Step Classic: This account features a flexible first payout, which is available on-demand. All subsequent payouts can be requested every 14 days.
- Instant Standard: This account offers fully on-demand payouts. A 20% Daily Consistency Rule applies to all withdrawals.
Accounts with Bi-Weekly Payouts
The following accounts are eligible for payouts every 14 days, each with its own specific conditions:
- Non-Instant Programs: Standard 14-day payout frequency with no additional consistency rules for withdrawal.
- 2-Step Pro: Requires adherence to a 25% Daily Consistency Rule for payouts.
- Guardian X: Requires adherence to a 20% Daily Consistency Rule for payouts.
- Instant Starter: This account has a 15% Daily Consistency Rule and a maximum withdrawal limit of 5% of the initial account size per payout.
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Blue Guardian Profit Consistency Rules by Account Type
To encourage steady profitability, a "best day" profit rule is applied at the time of withdrawal. This rule limits how much of your total profit can come from a single trading day, with the specific threshold varying for each account:
- For Blue Guardian Instant Standard and Guardian X accounts, the profit from your single best trading day must not equal or exceed 20% of your total profits.
- The 2-Step Pro account offers a more lenient rule, allowing your best day's profit to be up to 25% of the total.
- The Instant Starter account has a stricter requirement, where your best day's profit is capped at 15% of the total profits made.