Futures
Blue Guardian Express
$25,000 account
Selected public offer only. Buyer eligibility and other variants are outside this comparison.
Sources checked 19 September – 11 November 2026. Reviewed by a site member and AI assistants. Release pfw-release-2026-11-11-pilot, approved 11 November 2026. Each source shows the date it was last checked.
Costs
List price
List price: $86 one-time
Conditions and limits. $86.00 for the $25,000 Express account, paid once: no subscription and no activation fee. The lower price on the plan page needs the BG25 code.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Checkout (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Introduction to Blue Guardian Futures (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. The advertised base price of the selected account and how it is billed. A temporary public offer, available without a code, is shown beside it with any conditions the firm states, while a recent check confirms it; codes, optional purchases and unverified buyer charges are excluded.
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Read the guide: What are you buying when you pay for a challenge?
Fee per $1,000 of opening risk
Fee per $1,000 of opening risk: $86.00
Conditions and limits. A one-time fee of $86.00: no subscription and no activation fee. An evaluation reset after a breach costs $72. A funded account breached before its first payout can be reactivated up to twice within 30 days, for $180.
How this is calculated. (List price × charges in a 30-day attempt + activation fee + platform and data fees), in US dollars, divided by the opening loss allowance and multiplied by 1,000.
- List price
- $86 one-time
- Charges in a 30-day attempt
- 1
- Activation fee
- None
- Platform and data fees
- None
- Opening loss allowance
- $1,000
- Result
- $86.00
Promotions, coupons and optional add-ons are excluded.
Final buyer charges such as taxes or payment fees are not verified.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Checkout (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Introduction to Blue Guardian Futures (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Blue Guardian Futures Trading Platforms (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. The advertised base cost of a 30-day attempt in US dollars, divided by the opening loss allowance and multiplied by 1,000. A cost scenario for comparing accounts, not an all-in price.
Activation fee
Activation fee: None
Official source: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Introduction to Blue Guardian Futures (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. A mandatory charge to activate a funded account after passing, if any.
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Platform and data fees
Platform and data fees: None
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Introduction to Blue Guardian Futures (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Blue Guardian Futures Trading Platforms (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. Mandatory platform or market-data charges on top of the list price, if any.
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Read the guide: What market data is included, and what costs extra?
Payout processing fees
Payout processing fees: A 3% processing fee on every payout. Payouts by crypto (up to $1,000 a request) or Rise.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Payout Policy (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Payouts (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. Charges deducted when a payout is sent, which depend on the payment method.
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Read the guide: How do payout processing fees affect cash received?
Evaluation & risk
Opening loss allowance
Opening loss allowance: $1,000
How this is calculated. Opening balance minus the opening total-loss floor.
- opening balance
- $25,000
- opening total-loss floor
- $24,000
- Result
- $1,000
Daily loss limits and any trailing of the floor after the opening are separate rules.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Checkout (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. How much the account can lose from its opening balance before the total-loss rule is broken, using the smallest allowance across the required evaluation phases. An account bought without an evaluation uses its funded account's allowance. It is not daily headroom, live capital or a pass probability.
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Read the guide: How do you calculate the opening loss allowance?
Difficulty ratio
Difficulty ratio: 1.50
How this is calculated. For each required evaluation phase, the profit target divided by that phase's opening loss allowance. The results are added.
- profit target
- 6% of $25,000 = $1,500
- opening loss allowance
- $1,000
- Result
- 1.50
This describes the shape of the evaluation; it is not a pass probability.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Checkout (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. Each required phase's profit target divided by that phase's opening loss allowance, added together. More target per dollar of allowed loss gives a higher number; an account bought without an evaluation has no target, so its ratio is 0. It describes the shape of the evaluation, not the chance of passing.
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Evaluation route
Evaluation route: Express $25,000, Blue Guardian: a one-phase evaluation, then a simulated funded account, read with the 40% consistency setup the plan page selects (50% is a priced option). Read for Tradovate; Tradovate (with NinjaTrader and TradingView) or DeepCharts is chosen at checkout.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Checkout (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Blue Guardian Futures Trading Platforms (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Home (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. The exact variant compared here and the stages between purchase and a funded account.
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Read the guide: What do one-step, two-step, three-step, and instant funding mean?
Profit targets
Profit targets: 6%
Conditions and limits. $1,500 (6%), with no time limit, with the 40% consistency rule of this setup: no single day may make 40% or more of the total profit.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Checkout (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. The profit each required evaluation phase must reach, as a share of the opening balance. An account bought without an evaluation has none.
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Read the guide: How does the journey from purchase to payout work?
Loss mechanics
Loss mechanics: A $1,000 maximum loss that trails the end-of-day balance: it starts at $24,000, rises with each higher end-of-day closing balance and never moves down. In the evaluation it never stops trailing; once funded it stops at $25,100 when the end-of-day balance reaches $26,100.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. How the maximum loss limit is set and how it trails or locks as the account grows.
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Read the guide: How do static, EOD, and intraday overall max loss differ?
Minimum days and time limits
Minimum days and time limits: No minimum number of days is stated (the plan page calls the 40% consistency setup a "3 Day Pass"), with no time limit. At least one trade every 30 calendar days keeps an evaluation active, and every 10 days a funded account (every 7 for accounts funded before 10 October 2026).
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Prohibited Trading Strategies (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. The minimum number of trading or profitable days each evaluation phase requires, including any minimum the firm states a consistency rule sets, any time limit for passing, and any inactivity period after which the account is closed.
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Read the guide: What counts as a minimum trading day?
Read the guide: Time limits and inactivity: which clock are you reading?
Daily loss and contract limits
Daily loss and contract limits: Daily loss limit: none in the evaluation and $500 once funded, a soft breach: below it all positions close and the account is disabled until the next trading day. Up to 1 mini or 10 micros in the evaluation; once funded 1 mini or 10 micros at first, rising with the end-of-day balance.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Contract Limits & Funded Scaling System (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. Two limits: any daily loss limit, and the most contracts the account may hold at once, counting minis and micros as the firm states.
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Read the guide: How do daily-loss rules compare across prop firms?
Read the guide: How does the firm count contracts toward the limit?
Payouts
First and later payouts
First and later payouts: Payouts can be requested every day once the profit is above the buffer; from the second payout, new profit of at least half the previous payout is needed first.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Payout Policy (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Home (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. When the first payout can be requested and how often later requests are allowed. Waiting periods, qualifying days, review and payment are separate clocks.
Payout minimums and caps
Payout minimums and caps: From $250 up to $600 a day, by crypto or Rise, from profit above the $1,100 buffer. Crypto payouts are limited to $1,000 a request; Rise has no maximum.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Payout Policy (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. The smallest request allowed and any limit on how much can be withdrawn per request or cycle.
Funded consistency rules
Funded consistency rules: None once funded.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures plans (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. Rules on how profit must be spread across days or trades before a funded payout, and any required profitable days.
After a payout
After a payout: The maximum loss locks at $25,100 after any payout. The next payout needs new profit of at least half this one.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Payout Policy (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. What changes on the account after a payout, such as how the loss limit resets or when the account closes.
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Read the guide: How do actual programs handle the post-payout threshold?
Published processing time
Published processing time: Eligible payouts are processed within 24 business hours; if one takes longer, the trader gets an extra 10% profit share on it. Weekends, bank holidays, compliance and risk reviews and Rise delays do not count.
Official source: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: 24 Hours Payout Guarantee (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. How long the firm says review and payment take after a request. These are published estimates, not measured times.
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Read the guide: What do “24-hour,” “instant,” and “on-demand” payouts mean?
Refunds
Fee refund with a reward
Fee refund with a reward: No refund of the fee with a payout is stated; the refund policy says all sales are final. A funded trader promoted to the Live account with no payout yet gets the evaluation fee refunded.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Refund policy (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: What is the Blue Guardian Futures Live Account? (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Prohibited Trading Strategies (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. Whether and when the challenge fee is paid back after a successful payout.
Cancellation refund
Cancellation refund: None: once the evaluation credentials have been emailed, no refund is given; all sales are final.
Official source: Blue Guardian · Refund policy (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. Whether a purchase can be cancelled and refunded, and on what conditions.
Trading rules
News and overnight holding
News and overnight holding: News trading is allowed in the evaluation and once funded. All open trades close automatically at 4:10 PM EST (16:10 New York time) each day, without a violation; trading reopens at 6 PM EST.News trading: allowed in both stages.Overnight and weekend holding: prohibited (our reading) in both stages.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Trading Hours (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Futures Instrument List & Codes (checked 9 November 2026).
News trading by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Allowed.
Official source: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026).
Overnight and weekend holding by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Prohibited (our reading).
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Trading Hours (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Futures Instrument List & Codes (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. Restrictions around scheduled news and whether positions can be held past the session close.
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Read the guide: How do futures programs handle session-to-session holding?
Expert advisors and copying
Expert advisors and copying: Fully automated trading (AI, bots) is prohibited; semi-automated tools are allowed only with active monitoring and manual management. Copy trading is allowed only between accounts the trader legally owns. Less than 50% of the profit may come from trades held under 10 seconds.Expert advisors: restricted in both stages.Copying your own trades: restricted in both stages.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Prohibited Trading Strategies (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026).
Expert advisors by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Restricted. Only semi-automated tools with active monitoring and manual management; fully automated trading (AI, bots) is prohibited.
Official source: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Prohibited Trading Strategies (checked 9 November 2026).
Copying your own trades by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Restricted. Only between accounts the trader legally owns; copying other traders, signal providers or groups, or letting a third party trade, is prohibited.
Official source: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Express Account Rules (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. Whether automated strategies are allowed and whether trades can be copied between your own accounts.
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Read the guide: Automation and copying: what actually needs permission?
Platforms & eligibility
Platforms
Platforms: Tradovate (with NinjaTrader and TradingView through Tradovate) or DeepCharts, chosen at checkout. DeepCharts includes CME Level 1 data; CBOT, COMEX and NYMEX Level 1 together cost $5 more, and Level 2 data is sold per exchange.
Official source: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Blue Guardian Futures Trading Platforms (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. The platforms the firm offers in this market, with any extra charge or country limit it states. It is the firm's list for all its accounts in the market.
Platform access and eligibility
Platform access and eligibility: Tradovate (with NinjaTrader and TradingView) or DeepCharts, chosen at checkout; DeepCharts includes CME Level 1 data and sells other data as upgrades. The accounts are simulated; up to 5 funded accounts at once; traders must be 18 or over.
Official sources: Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: Blue Guardian Futures Trading Platforms (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Home (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Futures help centre: How Many Funded Accounts Am I Allowed at once? (checked 9 November 2026); Blue Guardian · Terms and conditions (checked 9 November 2026).
About this rule. Who can buy the account: age, identity checks and country restrictions, and any platform limits by country.
Ratings
Not rated. Overall program scores and reliability ratings are not published yet; the figures above are measurements of stated terms, not a verdict.
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