Blue Guardian Futures now takes a 3% processing fee on every payout, up from 2% in early August. Its late-payout guarantee shrank from $1,000 to a 10% bonus, and its Express accounts got new limits on September 2. There was no big announcement for any of it. So which rules apply to the account you’re about to buy?
Table of Contents
- Which Blue Guardian Futures account models can you buy now?
- What resets and reactivations cost
- What changed at Blue Guardian Futures since August?
- Which accounts keep the old rules?
- How do the drawdown and consistency rules work?
- The consistency rule sets a minimum number of days
- How much profit do you need before the first full payout?
- What changes after the first payout
- What the Live account changes
- What does the Blue Guardian Futures copier policy allow?
- The hedging and ownership rules around it
- Three places trade copiers trip Blue Guardian’s rules
- Funded scaling rejects copied size
- One signal, four rulebooks
- The clock: 4:10 PM ET and seven days
- Is TradingView automation allowed on Blue Guardian?
- Strategy rules every setup must follow
- Setting up PickMyTrade the monitored way
- Where Blue Guardian’s own rule pages disagree
- Frequently Asked Questions
- The short version
Blue Guardian Futures is the futures prop-firm program of Blue Guardian, run separately from its forex and CFD accounts. It sells four one-time-fee account models from $25K to $150K, pays a 90% profit split and lets you copy trades between accounts you own. We analyzed every rule page on September 14, 2026 and compared it with saved copies from August 4.
This guide covers all four account models, what changed since August and the payout math. It also shows where copiers and TradingView automation trip the rules.
Key Takeaways
- Blue Guardian Futures pays a 90% split, minus a 3% processing fee that was 2% on August 4.
- Copying is allowed only between accounts you own, with five funded accounts live at most.
- Fully automated bots are banned. Semi-automated trading needs you watching.
- Reserve and Express funded accounts start at reduced contract limits.
Which Blue Guardian Futures account models can you buy now?
Blue Guardian sells four models, Standard, Reserve, Express and Direct, in sizes from $25K to $150K. The first three use a one-phase evaluation with a 6% profit target, and Direct skips the evaluation. Every model runs an end-of-day drawdown, allows news trading and pays 90% of profits. Where they differ is in the daily loss limits, the consistency rules and how often you’re allowed to take money out.
| $50K account | Standard | Reserve | Express | Direct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation | 1 phase, $3,000 target | 1 phase, $3,000 target | 1 phase, $3,000 target | None |
| Max drawdown (EOD) | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 |
| Daily loss limit | $1,000, soft breach | None ($1,200 add-on) | $1,000, soft breach | $1,250, soft breach |
| Consistency rule | 40% on funded | 50% on evaluation | 40% on evaluation | 20% to 30% on payouts |
| Max contracts | 4 minis, flat | 4 minis; funded starts at 2 | 4 minis; funded starts at 2 | 4 minis, flat |
| Payout rhythm | 3 days after first trade | Every 5 winning days | Daily | After each profit goal |
| Price, one account | $133 | $98 | $113.40 | $315 |
Why pay $315 for Direct when Reserve costs $98? Direct skips the evaluation, along with the reset fees that failing one can bring. Prices are one-time fees with no subscription or activation charge. The figures above already include the bundle page’s standing 40% discount, and a fifth account in one order is free. You can hold unlimited evaluations, but only five funded accounts can trade at once.
What resets and reactivations cost
A breached evaluation can be reset instead of bought again. On a $50K account, a reset costs $141 on Standard, $104 on Reserve and $121 on Express, and discount codes don’t apply to it.
A funded account breached before its first payout can be reactivated up to twice, within 30 days of the breach. At $50K that’s $750 on Standard, $600 on Reserve and $649 on Express. Once an account has paid out, reactivation is off the table.
What changed at Blue Guardian Futures since August?
We compared Blue Guardian’s rule pages on September 14, 2026 with saved copies from August 4, and we found 12 rule changes. Two affect every funded trader. The processing fee rose from 2% to 3%, and the late-payout guarantee dropped from $1,000 to a 10% profit-share bonus.
| Rule | August 4, 2026 | September 14, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Payout processing fee | 2% | 3% |
| Late-payout guarantee | $1,000 compensation | Extra 10% profit share on that payout |
| Reserve max drawdown, $25K / $100K / $150K | $1,500 / $3,500 / $5,000 | $1,000 / $3,000 / $4,500 |
| Reserve daily loss add-on, $25K / $50K / $100K | $500 / $1,000 / $2,000 | $600 / $1,200 / $1,700 |
| Standard $25K max drawdown | $1,500 | $1,000 |
| Express daily loss limit, $50K / $100K / $150K | 2% of balance: $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 | $1,000 / $1,250 / $1,750 |
| Express max drawdown, $100K / $150K | $3,500 / $5,000 | $2,500 / $3,500 |
| Express daily payout cap, $100K / $150K | $2,200 / $3,300 | $1,500 / $2,500 |
| Reactivated accounts keep the same terms | Stated on three rule pages | Sentence removed |
The guarantee change is bigger than it looks. A late $2,000 payout used to earn you $1,000. Now it earns $200, and weekends, compliance reviews, Rise onboarding and pending documents all pause the 24-hour clock.
The table lists nine. Express added the other three: a $25K size, a minimum payout per size and a rule that each new payout needs fresh profit worth half the last one. All three apply only to Express accounts bought on or after September 2.
Which accounts keep the old rules?
Most rules key off the purchase date. Express accounts bought before September 2 keep the limits they were sold with. Reserve accounts bought before July 27, 2026 keep the original payout rules, and Direct accounts bought before July 21 have no daily loss limit. Accounts on the older Rapid, Pro, Instant Standard or previous Standard plans are legacy accounts with their own rules.
The last row is the quiet one. Between September 11 and 14, the sentence promising reactivated accounts the same payout structure disappeared. Does that mean reactivated accounts get different terms now? The pages don’t say, so ask before you pay a reactivation fee, and screenshot your rules page on the day you buy.
How do the drawdown and consistency rules work?
Every Blue Guardian model uses an end-of-day trailing drawdown, which moves with your closing balance and ignores intraday peaks. It stops trailing once it reaches your starting balance. After any payout, the floor locks at starting balance plus $100, which is $50,100 on a $50K account.
Direct accounts work differently. If you bought one on or after July 27, 2026, the drawdown goes static once the balance clears its initial trail level or you request a first payout.
Daily loss limits are soft breaches on every model that has one. Hit the limit and the system flattens your positions and disables the account for the rest of the day. It comes back at the next session.
The consistency rule sets a minimum number of days
A consistency rule is a cap on how much of your total profit a single trading day can supply. Blue Guardian applies 40% on Standard funded accounts, 50% on Reserve evaluations (51% with a 1% cushion) and 40% on Express evaluations. Direct uses 20%, then 25%, then 30% across payouts. Breaking the rule never fails an account. You keep trading until your best day drops back under the line.
How many days does that take? Each percentage sets a floor, even when every day earns exactly the same, and we worked it out for each rule.
Direct’s first payout is the slowest path, at six equal days. The rule text blocks a best day equal to 20%, while the firm’s own worked example lets exactly 20% pass, which would make it five. Plan for six. For the other conditions that stall money after a pass, see why prop firm payouts get denied after you pass.
How much profit do you need before the first full payout?
On a $50K Blue Guardian Futures account, the largest first payout takes $3,000 to $4,600 of profit, depending on the model. Two mechanics create that spread. Standard and Express make you hold a funded buffer, profit that has to stay in the account. Reserve, meanwhile, pays out only half of your profit per request.
Here’s how each number builds. Standard needs its $2,100 buffer plus the $2,500 first-payout cap. Reserve pays 50% of profit up to $2,000, so you need $4,000 and five winning days of at least $150.
Express needs the same buffer and then pays up to $1,100 a day. Direct sets a $3,000 profit goal in front of its $2,000 cap, which is why it needs the least profit of the four. Express looks quickest on the chart, but is it? Anything above its $1,100 daily cap waits for the next day.
What changes after the first payout
Later payouts add conditions. Reserve accounts bought from July 27 need $750 of net profit since the last payout, for payouts two through five. Express accounts bought from September 2 must earn half the previous payout before the next request. Direct’s profit goal drops to $2,000 after the first payout.
Then come the deductions. A $2,000 request pays you 90%, or $1,800, and the 3% fee trims that to about $1,746 if it comes off your share. Payouts go out by Rise or crypto within 24 business hours, and KYC has to be done first.
What the Live account changes
A fifth payout puts you in a review pool for a Live account with real CME execution. Promotion isn’t automatic, and a Live account can’t be bought. It starts at a $0 balance with daily, uncapped payouts, no consistency rule and no daily loss limit. News trading is banned there. Breach one, and you wait 28 days before buying another evaluation.
What does the Blue Guardian Futures copier policy allow?
Blue Guardian allows copy trading, third-party copier software included, as long as every account in the chain is legally yours. That covers your other Blue Guardian accounts, up to 5 funded at once, and your own accounts at other firms. Copying another trader, a signal provider or a trade group is banned and can end in termination.
The hedging and ownership rules around it
Two neighbouring rules catch traders who think they’re compliant. The first is hedging, which Blue Guardian defines as opposing positions in the same or highly correlated instruments across one or more accounts. Long NQ on one account and short ES on another can count, even when you own both. Penalties run from a breach to removed profits and action on linked accounts. Our guide to why prop firms ban cross-account hedging covers how firms spot it.
The second is ownership. Only the account owner may trade an account, and coordinated trading with other people is banned even without software. Copier tools, PickMyTrade’s included, will route to any account you connect. That makes keeping client and family accounts out of the chain your job, not the software’s. Purchases also need a card in your own name, and each person gets one verified KYC profile.
Five funded accounts at the $150K size add up to $750K. A sixth funded or Direct account sits inactive until a slot opens.
Three places trade copiers trip Blue Guardian’s rules
Reserve and Express funded accounts start at 25% to 50% of their evaluation contract limit, and that’s where copiers break first. The other two traps are mixed rulebooks and the clock. None involves breaking a policy on purpose. Each can still cost you a payout or an account.
Funded scaling rejects copied size
Pass a $100K Reserve evaluation trading 8 minis, and the funded account starts you at 3. It rises to 4 minis after $1,500 of profit held through the close, then 5 at $2,000 and 8 at $3,000. Orders above your current limit are rejected automatically. If the end-of-day balance slips back below a trigger, the tier drops too.
A copier sized for the evaluation will send 6 minis into a 3-mini account. What happens then? The order bounces. Set a separate quantity multiplier or risk percentage for each account, then revisit it whenever a tier changes. If a rejection still slips through, our guide to order rejection errors, decoded will help you read it.
One signal, four rulebooks
Copying one signal into a Standard account and a Reserve account looks tidy. They won’t stay in sync for long. On a bad day, Standard’s $1,000 soft limit flattens the $50K account, while Reserve, with no daily limit, keeps the trade open.
Consistency cuts the other way. Same-size accounts copying identical trades from the same start date carry identical best-day ratios, so they tend to clear or stall on the same day. One outsized win can freeze every payout at once. Our 30-day walkthrough of one TradingView alert across five prop firms shows where firms split on the same signal.
The clock: 4:10 PM ET and seven days
Blue Guardian closes every open position at 4:10 PM ET, and the session reopens at 6:00 PM ET. The auto-close doesn’t count as a violation. It will still cut a copied swing trade mid-plan. Funded accounts also need at least one trade every 7 calendar days, against 30 for evaluations. Leave one account switched off in your copier for a week, and it breaches as inactive.
Is TradingView automation allowed on Blue Guardian?
Blue Guardian allows TradingView automation only in semi-automated form. It prohibits AI, bots and other fully automated trading on every account type, and it bans hands-off, day-and-night trading outright. Automated scalping systems running more than 200 trades a day are restricted too. Semi-automated trading is allowed when you actively monitor and manually manage each trade and understand what the system does.
So where does a TradingView webhook fit? The policy never mentions webhooks by name. Our reading is that an alert from a strategy you built, executed while you’re at the screen and able to step in, fits the semi-automated category. An unattended overnight bot doesn’t. Ask Blue Guardian support to confirm your setup in writing before it touches a funded account, and keep the reply.
Strategy rules every setup must follow
Four more rules shape the strategy itself. Less than 50% of your profits may come from trades held under 10 seconds. Your stop can’t risk more than five times your target, so a 10-tick target caps the stop at 50 ticks. You also can’t trade within 2% of a CME price limit, and martingale sizing is banned. Our breakdown of the bot behaviors that get prop firm accounts flagged shows how other firms police the same patterns.
Setting up PickMyTrade the monitored way
Pick Tradovate at checkout rather than Deepcharts. Blue Guardian’s Tradovate option includes TradingView and NinjaTrader access, and it’s the connection PickMyTrade supports. Deepcharts runs on dxFeed, which PickMyTrade can’t reach. Once the account is live, our TradingView webhook alerts guide covers the alert setup.
Then let the tool enforce the firm’s limits:
- Use trading time settings to stop new entries at 4:00 PM ET, and close anything still open before the firm’s 4:10 PM flatten.
- Add a daily loss limit below the firm’s soft limit, such as $800 on a $50K Standard account.
- Add a daily profit cap so one big day can’t dominate the consistency ratio.
- Give each funded account its own multiplier for its current contract tier.
- Connect only accounts in your own name.
PickMyTrade costs $50 a month, and every plan includes unlimited connected accounts. Start the 5-day free trial with no card on a Blue Guardian evaluation, watch a week of fills, then add your funded accounts.
Where Blue Guardian’s own rule pages disagree
We found seven places where Blue Guardian’s rule pages contradicted each other on September 14, 2026. The widest gap is the Express daily payout cap on a $150K account. The Express rules page says $2,500, while the Payout Policy page still shows $3,300, the figure Express used before September 2.
| Rule | One page says | Another page says |
|---|---|---|
| Express daily payout cap, $100K / $150K | $1,500 / $2,500 (Express rules) | $2,200 / $3,300 (Payout Policy) |
| Minimum withdrawal | $100 crypto, $500 Rise (Standard, Reserve, Express rules) | $500 either way (Payout Policy); $1,000 (Direct rules) |
| Standard processing time | 1 business hour (Standard rules) | 24 business hours (Payout Policy) |
| Scaling on Standard and Direct | “Yes” (both rule tables) | “Do not use scaling” (Contract Limits) |
| $25K Express evaluation size | 1 mini / 10 micros (Express rules) | 2 minis / 20 micros (Contract Limits) |
| $25K Standard and Reserve drawdown lock | Locks at $26,600 | Fits the old $1,500 drawdown, not today’s $1,000 |
| Best day exactly at the consistency limit (Standard, Direct) | Blocks the payout (“equal to or greater”) | Qualifies, per the same page’s worked example |
When two pages disagree, plan around the stricter number. Then get the other one confirmed by support before it costs you a payout.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Blue Guardian permits copy trading and third-party copier software between accounts legally owned by the same trader, including your own external accounts. Copying other traders or signal groups is banned, hedging across your own accounts is banned, and five funded accounts is the maximum. For contrast, see what gets an Apex account failed for copy trading.
Every funded account pays 90% to the trader. A 3% processing fee then comes off each payout, up from 2% on August 4, 2026. On a $2,000 payout, that leaves roughly $1,746 in hand if the fee applies to your share. Live accounts keep the 90% split and add daily, uncapped payouts.
Fully automated bots aren’t. The firm bans AI, bots and hands-off trading on all account types and restricts automated scalping above 200 trades a day. Semi-automated trading, such as TradingView alerts you monitor and manage yourself, is allowed. Confirm your specific setup with Blue Guardian support in writing first.
Payouts are processed within 24 business hours by Rise or crypto, once you’re eligible and KYC is complete. If the firm misses that window, you get an extra 10% profit share on the delayed payout. Weekends, holidays and compliance reviews pause the clock. Express accounts can request a payout every day.
It breaches. Blue Guardian requires at least one trade every 7 calendar days on funded accounts and every 30 days on evaluations. A copier that skips one account can lose it this way. On Standard, Reserve and Express, reactivation is possible only before the first payout, up to twice.
The short version
Blue Guardian Futures is one of the friendlier futures firms for copiers, as long as every account is yours and a person is watching. The catches sit in details that changed without fanfare: a 3% fee, a smaller late-payout guarantee, reduced funded contract limits and Express rules rewritten on September 2. Size each account for its current tier, respect the 4:10 PM ET close and the 7-day activity rule, and screenshot your rules on the day you buy.
Every figure in this guide passed a fact-check against Blue Guardian’s rule pages on September 14, 2026. Have a setup you’d like checked? Contact the PickMyTrade team or read more about who we are.
Disclaimer:
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