Blue Guardian rules explained

The drawdown mechanic — read this twice

Blue Guardian uses a static drawdown. The maximum-loss level is fixed from the starting balance and does not move as you make money. This is the trader-friendly model: your buffer is knowable on day one and a profitable run genuinely increases the distance to your stop-out.

Whatever the model, size your risk against the buffer rather than the account size. The practical rule we use: never let a single campaign risk more than a third of the distance between current equity and the breach level.

Consistency and payout-eligibility rules

Consistency rules are where traders lose money they have already made. On Blue Guardian the stated position is: None on the standard evaluation. That leaves the payout gate mostly to the drawdown and minimum-days requirements.

The mechanic to watch is the single-best-day percentage. Where a firm caps one day at a share of total profit, a single outsized win can push a payout out by weeks because you must grind additional smaller days to bring the ratio back inside the cap. If you scalp news or trade one high-conviction setup a week, that mechanic will hurt you far more than a slightly lower profit split.

Full rule matrix

Each flag below is read off Blue Guardian's public rulebook and paired with the actual mechanic, because "allowed" means very different things from firm to firm.

• News trading: conditionally allowed — Allowed, with restrictions around tier-one releases on some funded plans.
• Expert advisors / algos: 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.
• Overnight holding: allowed — Overnight positions permitted on the standard plans.
• Copy trading: conditionally allowed — Own accounts only.
• No time limit: allowed — No deadline on the standard evaluation.
• Crypto pairs: allowed — Crypto CFDs available on the multi-asset feed.
• No consistency rule: allowed — No consistency rule on the standard evaluation.

Rules that end accounts in practice

Beyond the headline limits, these are the clauses Blue Guardian actually enforces.

• 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.

Rule stability

Blue Guardian does not currently appear in our rule-change register, meaning we have not logged a material rulebook revision for it in the tracked period. Re-check before each payout anyway — firms are not obliged to announce changes prominently.

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