Last reviewed and fact-checked: September 12, 2026
Futures arm of Blue Guardian · One-time fee, no activation fee · EOD trailing drawdown · NinjaTrader / Tradovate / DeepCharts
◎ Best for
Traders who want to pass without a consistency rule in the way, who would rather pay once than subscribe, who trade size needing more than a handful of contracts, and who value a firm putting a financial guarantee on its own payout speed.
⚠ Avoid if
You expect to withdraw large amounts quickly, because the $3,000 and $3,500 payout caps hold the balance back, or you want a firm whose review record speaks only to its futures product.
Blue Guardian Futures is the futures arm of Blue Guardian, trading CME listed contracts on accounts from $25,000 to $150,000. Blue Guardian Futures charges a one-time fee rather than a monthly subscription, adds no activation fee when you pass, and uses an end-of-day trailing drawdown. There is no consistency rule and no time limit in the evaluation, and you can pass in a single day.
This review covers the futures product only. Blue Guardian also runs a forex and CFD challenge, which we review separately at Blue Guardian. The two share a company and a Trustpilot profile but not their rules, platforms or payout terms.
Rating Breakdown
Weighted to 7.6 using our published weightings. Challenge Rules, Payout Reliability and Cost carry 20 percent each, Platform and Support 15 percent each, Transparency 10 percent.
How the Blue Guardian Futures Evaluation Works
Blue Guardian Futures sells four plan types, and they differ in payout cadence rather than in how hard they are to pass. Standard runs the fastest cadence with premium caps. Reserve is the flexible option and comes with or without a daily loss limit. Express pays daily. Direct skips the evaluation entirely and funds you immediately, with no shortcuts available after that.
The figures below are the Standard plan on the $100,000 account, read from the Blue Guardian futures pricing page on 8 September 2026.
| $100,000 Standard | Evaluation | Once funded |
|---|---|---|
| Profit target | $6,000 | None |
| Max drawdown | $3,500, end-of-day trailing | $3,500, end-of-day trailing |
| Daily loss limit | $2,000 soft breach | $2,000 soft breach |
| Max position | 8 mini or 80 micro | 8 mini or 80 micro |
| Consistency rule | None | 40% |
| Time limit | None | None |
| Profit split | Not applicable | 90% |
| Payout cap | Not applicable | $3,000 first, $3,500 after |
| News trading | Allowed | Allowed |
A soft breach on the daily loss limit matters more than it reads. On a hard breach the account is gone; a soft breach closes positions and stops trading for the day. For a trader who occasionally runs into a bad session, that difference is the account surviving rather than needing a reset.
The absence of a consistency rule in the evaluation is the other notable rule here. Most futures firms apply one at 30 or 40 percent through the challenge, which stops a trader passing on one strong day. Blue Guardian Futures does not, and states you can pass in a single day. The 40 percent rule then applies once you are funded, so the constraint arrives later rather than never.
Pricing
Blue Guardian Futures charges once. There is no monthly subscription and no activation fee on passing, which is the opposite of the model FXIFY Futures and FTMO Futures use.
| Account | List price | With code BG25 |
|---|---|---|
| $25,000 | $154 | $116 |
| $50,000 | $209 | $157 |
| $100,000 | $330 | $248 |
| $150,000 | $424 | $318 |
Blue Guardian Futures also runs a bundle discount that scales steeply: 30 percent off two accounts, 35 percent off three, 40 percent off four, and it advertises 100 percent off at five accounts. Read the fifth tier carefully before assuming it means what it appears to mean, because a free account at that volume is unusual enough to check against the terms at checkout.
Against a subscription firm the maths is straightforward. A $100,000 Blue Guardian Futures account costs $248 once. A subscription product at $89 a month costs that much by the third month and keeps charging.
Payouts
Blue Guardian Futures pays through Rise or crypto and states that approved payouts are processed in one hour on average. It also publishes a settlement guarantee: if a payout takes longer than 24 hours, the firm pays an extra $1,000. A firm putting a number on its own delay is a stronger signal than a page of promises about speed, because it is a commitment that can be held against them.
The payout caps are the offsetting constraint. The first payout on the Standard plan is capped at $3,000 and later ones at $3,500. A trader having a strong month on a $150,000 account will hit that ceiling and carry the balance forward rather than withdraw it, which is a real limit on how fast capital comes out even though the processing is quick.
Cadence depends on the plan. Blue Guardian Futures offers on-demand, weekly and bi-weekly depending on account type and add-ons, and the Express plan pays daily. Blue Guardian’s Trustpilot rating of 3.9 from 895 reviews covers both the CFD and futures businesses, so it is not a clean read on the futures product, and it is the main reason Payout Reliability sits at 7.5 rather than higher.
Trading Conditions
Blue Guardian Futures offers seven platforms: MT5, Match-Trader, NinjaTrader, TradeLocker, TradingView, Tradovate and DeepCharts. NinjaTrader, Tradovate and DeepCharts are the ones that matter for futures, and having all three plus TradingView charting covers most of how traders actually work. MT5 and Match-Trader are carried over from the CFD side.
Position limits are generous at 8 mini or 80 micro contracts on the $100,000 account. That is materially more room than the three contracts FXIFY Futures allows on its $50,000 Standard plan, and it means a trader scaling into a position is not constrained by the account before they are constrained by the drawdown.
News trading is allowed in both the evaluation and the funded account, which removes the most common source of accidental rule breaches in futures prop.
Blue Guardian Futures vs the Blue Guardian CFD Challenge
Blue Guardian runs both products under one company and one Trustpilot profile, and we score both 7.6, but the terms are not the same. If you came from our CFD ranking, this is what changes.
| | Blue Guardian Futures | Blue Guardian (CFD) |
|---|---|---|
| What you trade | CME listed futures contracts | Forex, indices, commodities, crypto |
| Platforms | NinjaTrader, Tradovate, DeepCharts, TradingView, MT5, Match-Trader, TradeLocker | MT5, TradeLocker, Match-Trader |
| Position sizing | Contracts, 8 mini or 80 micro | Lots |
| Drawdown | $3,500 end-of-day trailing | Percentage based |
| Payout caps | $3,000 then $3,500 | Not capped the same way |
| Our score | 7.6 | 7.6 |
The scores matching is a coincidence rather than a shared judgement. The futures product earns its 7.6 on generous rules and a one-time fee held back by payout caps and a middling review record. The CFD product earns the same number on a different balance of strengths.
You want to pass without a consistency rule in the way, you would rather pay once than subscribe, you trade size that needs more than a handful of contracts, and you value a firm that puts a financial guarantee on its own payout speed.
You expect to withdraw large amounts quickly, because the $3,000 and $3,500 payout caps will hold the balance back, or you want a firm whose review record speaks only to its futures product rather than to a CFD business attached to it.
Our Verdict
Blue Guardian Futures scores 7.6, which puts it in the upper half of our futures ranking. The rules are among the more generous in the category. No consistency requirement in the evaluation, no time limit, no minimum days, a soft-breach daily loss limit, an end-of-day trailing drawdown and 8 mini contracts of room is a combination most futures firms do not offer, and the one-time fee with no activation charge undercuts the subscription firms outright.
The payout caps are what stop this scoring higher on reliability. Processing in an hour with a $1,000 penalty clause for missing 24 hours is genuinely strong, and it is worth more than the marketing language most firms use. But a $3,000 first payout ceiling means a good month on a large account does not convert to cash as fast as the processing time suggests.
The review record is the other drag. Blue Guardian holds 3.9 from 895 reviews across both its businesses, which is a real sample rather than a thin one, and 3.9 is mediocre. We cannot separate futures sentiment from CFD sentiment in that number, so it constrains Support and Transparency for both products until Blue Guardian Futures accumulates its own.
Blue Guardian Futures is a reasonable first futures account for a trader who wants to pass on their own terms rather than around a consistency rule, and who would rather own the account outright than rent it monthly.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Blue Guardian Futures the same as Blue Guardian?
Blue Guardian Futures is the futures arm of the same company that runs the Blue Guardian forex and CFD challenge. They share a company and a Trustpilot profile but not their terms. Blue Guardian Futures trades CME listed futures contracts on NinjaTrader, Tradovate and DeepCharts with a dollar-denominated end-of-day trailing drawdown and payout caps. The CFD challenge trades forex and CFDs in lots on MT5, TradeLocker and Match-Trader with percentage drawdowns. Check the futures rules rather than assuming the CFD rules carry across.
Does Blue Guardian Futures have a consistency rule?
Not in the evaluation. Blue Guardian Futures applies no consistency rule while you are passing the challenge, and states you can pass in a single trading day. A 40 percent consistency rule then applies once you are funded, so no single day can account for more than 40 percent of the profit in a payout period. That is a later constraint rather than no constraint.
How much does Blue Guardian Futures cost?
Blue Guardian Futures charges a one-time fee with no subscription and no activation fee. List prices are $154 for the $25,000 account, $209 for $50,000, $330 for $100,000 and $424 for $150,000. Code BG25 takes 25 percent off, bringing the $100,000 account to $248. Bundle discounts scale from 30 percent on two accounts upwards.
How fast does Blue Guardian Futures pay?
Blue Guardian Futures states that approved payouts are processed in one hour on average, through Rise or crypto, and publishes a settlement guarantee paying an extra $1,000 if a payout takes longer than 24 hours. Cadence is on-demand, weekly or bi-weekly depending on the plan, and the Express plan pays daily. Payouts are capped at $3,000 for the first request and $3,500 after.
What is a soft breach on the daily loss limit?
On a soft breach Blue Guardian Futures closes your open positions and stops you trading for the rest of the day, rather than terminating the account. The $2,000 daily loss limit on the $100,000 account works this way. That is a meaningful difference from firms where hitting the daily limit ends the account and requires a reset.
Rules, pricing and payout terms read from blueguardian.com/futures on 8 September 2026. Trustpilot figure is Blue Guardian’s combined profile, which covers the CFD business as well as futures. Prop firm terms change often, so check the firm’s own pricing page before you pay.
⚠ Prop trading risk
Challenge fees are money at risk. Most participants never reach a payout, and funded accounts are usually simulated capital rather than live funds. Rules and pricing can change at any time, so confirm them on the firm’s own site before you pay. Nothing in this review is financial advice.
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