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 […]
Almost every Funded Futures Family guide online went stale on September 9, 2026. That’s the day the firm rewrote its Premier+ plan. It added a consistency rule where there wasn’t one, then cut how many contracts a funded trader can hold. If you bought a Premier+ account on September 8, none of this touches you.
FundingPips allows automated trading, but not freely. Third-party Expert Advisors are permitted only when they act as a trade or risk manager, not as an autonomous strategy engine, and any other use triggers denial of the evaluation and account closure. If you built the EA yourself, full automation is allowed with proof of ownership. Here
If you’re trading TopstepX or thinking about starting a Combine, three things decide whether the account survives and pays out: how the drawdown floor moves, how the payout split actually works, and whether your automation setup is even allowed. Get any one of those wrong and you can pass an evaluation and still lose the
The Topstep API costs $14.50 a month with the promo code. A market order takes exactly four HTTP calls: log in, find your account, find the contract, place the trade. So why do so many traders stall before the first order ever leaves their machine? Because the pieces live in three places. You buy the
Still searching for a way to connect Bulenox to ProjectX? That door closed months ago. Bulenox stopped issuing new ProjectX accounts on January 15, 2026, and stopped resetting existing ones the same day. Six weeks later, ProjectX itself went fully exclusive to Topstep, cutting off every other firm that had relied on it. If you’re
Ask three AquaFunded traders what the rules like drawdown limit is and you can get three correct answers. One’s on Instant Funding Standard with a single 3% trailing cap. Another’s on 2-Step Pro with a 5% daily line and a 10% trailing line. The third assumed their friend’s rules applied to their own account and
Every futures trader who pulls their first prop firm payouts from Apex, Topstep, or any other funded account eventually asks the same question: can I use the Section 1256 tax rule to cut what I owe? The one that taxes 60% of gains as long-term and 40% as short-term, regardless of hold time? It’s a
A TradingView bot doesn’t know what a “restricted instrument” is. It knows a ticker and a webhook. Point a strategy at the wrong symbol and it’ll route the order exactly like it would ES or NQ, right up until the broker rejects it or a risk team flags the account. That gap is where prop
Apex halted six metals in 2026 over volatility risk. See which prop firms restrict VIX, Bitcoin, and Treasury futures, and how to code around it.
