Blue Guardian account sizes & per-size rules

The full Blue Guardian size ladder

Prop pricing scales sub-linearly with account size — roughly the square root of the size ratio — so the biggest account is almost never the best value per dollar of usable buffer. Each line below shows the modelled list price, the first-phase profit target and the loss buffer expressed as a percentage of the account.

Read the buffer column first. On a static drawdown, the dollar buffer is the only number that limits your position size; the account label is marketing. A trader risking 1% per trade on the 200k account is taking the same dollar risk as one risking 20× that percentage on the smallest.

• 10k — $60 ($39 with the public code), 10% target = $1k, 10% buffer = $1k of loss room
• 25k — $95 ($62 with the public code), 10% target = $2.5k, 10% buffer = $2.5k of loss room
• 50k — $130 ($85 with the public code), 10% target = $5k, 10% buffer = $5k of loss room
• 100k — $185 ($120 with the public code), 10% target = $10k, 10% buffer = $10k of loss room
• 200k — $265 ($172 with the public code), 10% target = $20k, 10% buffer = $20k of loss room

Which Blue Guardian size is actually the best value

Cost per dollar of loss buffer is the honest comparison. 10k costs 0.060 per dollar of buffer; 25k costs 0.038 per dollar of buffer; 50k costs 0.026 per dollar of buffer; 100k costs 0.018 per dollar of buffer; 200k costs 0.013 per dollar of buffer. The cheapest ratio is where the firm is subsidising you the most, and it is usually a mid tier rather than the flagship.

The second filter is your own stop distance. Work out the worst-case dollar loss of a normal trade at your usual size, multiply by five consecutive losers, and buy the smallest account whose buffer absorbs that without breaching. Buying above that point is paying for headroom you will never trade into; buying below it guarantees a reset fee.

What the 25k and 50k tiers mean in practice

The small tiers are where most traders start and where most resets happen, because the dollar buffer is small enough that a single mis-sized position ends the account. On a forex account, one standard lot on EURUSD moves about $10 per pip — on a 25k account, a 40-pip stop on two lots is already a meaningful share of your buffer.

The larger tiers change the psychology more than the maths. Same rules, same percentage targets, bigger dollar swings — which is why traders who pass consistently on a small account often breach the first week on a large one. Scale the account only after you have taken at least two payouts at the size below.

• Static drawdown on flagship CFD plans: Rather than trailing your equity high, the maximum loss on Blue Guardian's core plans is commonly cited as a fixed 8% from the starting balance — meaning banked profit adds permanent buffer instead of raising the stop-out floor.
• Forbidden-strategy clauses: Blue Guardian's terms explicitly restrict certain high-frequency, arbitrage and latency-based strategies; a single violation can void the account regardless of otherwise-compliant performance. Read the current strategy restrictions before deploying anything automated.
• Dual product line: CFD and futures: The firm runs separate evaluation products for forex/CFDs and for futures, each with its own rule specifics — confirm which product you're buying rather than assuming rules are shared across both.

Rules that stay the same at every size

Firms rarely vary the rulebook by account size — they vary the dollar limits. On Blue Guardian the constants are the static drawdown, the 90% profit split, the on demand payout window and the consistency position (none on the standard evaluation).

• News trading: conditionally allowed — Allowed, with restrictions around tier-one releases on some funded plans.
• EAs: conditionally allowed — Automation permitted, but explicit forbidden-strategy clauses exclude HFT, arbitrage and latency systems.
• Weekend holding: conditionally allowed — Depends on the CFD vs. futures product purchased — verify per plan.
• Time limit: none — No deadline on the standard evaluation.

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