Blue Guardian is one of the modern prop firms which has made quite an impact in the whole prop firm space, Blue Guardian was established in June 2021 and based in Dubai, UAE.

Blue Guardian was founded by led by CEO Sean Bainton who is also the Co-Founder of Aqua Funded. Since it’s start, Blue Guardian has paid over $10 million and has over 25,000 funded traders on their platform. Blue Guardian provides maximum capital allocation of $800,000 with the scaling plan which can scale the account up to $2,000,000 in funding.

Company Information

Company Name : Blue Guardian

Company Legal Name and Registration No. : Iconic Exchange FZCO

Company CEO : Sean Bainton

Company Address : Dubai Silicon Oasis, DDP, Building A2, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Challenge Details

Blue Guardian provides 4 different types of Challenge Programs. Unlimited, Elite, Rapid and 3 Step programs.

Unlimited Challenge :-

Prices :

$10,000 : $78
$25,000 : $158
$50,000 : $238
$100,000 : $398
$200,000 : $798

Rules:

Profit Target(Phase 1): 8%
Profit Target(Phase 2): 4%
Total Loss: 8%
Daily Loss: 4%
Profit Share: 85%
Drawdown Type: Static
Time Limit: Unlimited
Leverage: 1:100 on Forex, 1:20 on Indices and Commodities , 1:2 on Crypto.
Max Lot Size: no limits
Payout Frequency: 14 Days
Allows Copy Trading: Yes
Min Trading Days: 3 Days

Elite Challenge :-

Prices :

$10,000 : $112
$25,000 : $224
$50,000 : $320
$100,000 : $496
$200,000 : $960

Rules:

Profit Target(Phase 1): 10%
Profit Target(Phase 2): 4%
Total Loss: 10%
Daily Loss: 4%
Profit Share: 85%
Drawdown Type: Static
Time Limit: Unlimited
Leverage: 1:50 on Forex, 1:10 on Indices and Commodities , 1:2 on Crypto.
Max Lot Size: no limits
Payout Frequency: 14 Days
Allows Copy Trading: Yes
Min Trading Days: 3 Days

Rapid Challenge :-

Prices :

$10,000 : $78
$25,000 : $158
$50,000 : $238
$100,000 : $398
$200,000 : $798

Rules:

Profit Target: 10%
Total Loss: 6%
Daily Loss: 4%
Profit Share: 85%
Drawdown Type: Static
Time Limit: Unlimited
Leverage(In Evaluation Phase): 1:100 on Forex, 1:20 on Indices and Commodities , 1:2 on Crypto.
Leverage(In Funded Phase): 1:50 on Forex, 1:10 on Indices and Commodities , 1:2 on Crypto.
Max Lot Size: no limits
Payout Frequency: 14 Days
Allows Copy Trading: Yes
Min Trading Days: 3 Days

3-Step Challenge :-

Prices :

$10,000 : $59
$25,000 : $139
$50,000 : $219
$100,000 : $349

Rules:

Profit Target(Phase 1): 6%
Profit Target(Phase 2): 6%
Profit Target(Phase 3): 6%
Total Loss: 8%
Daily Loss: 4%
Profit Share: 85%
Drawdown Type: Static
Time Limit: Unlimited
Leverage(In Evaluation Phase): 1:100 on Forex, 1:20 on Indices and Commodities , 1:2 on Crypto.
Leverage(In Funded Phase): 1:50 on Forex, 1:10 on Indices and Commodities , 1:2 on Crypto.
Max Lot Size: No Limit
Payout Frequency: 14 Days
Allows Copy Trading: Yes
Min Trading Days: 3 Days

Scaling Plan

Blue Guardian offers a simple scaling plan, To be eligible for scaling up , trader must make at least 12% profit in 3 months of time period, after meeting this criteria, the account size will be increased by 30%.
Constantly making 12% profit in every 3 months will increase the account size up to $2 million.

Spreads and News Trading Rules

Spreads

Blue Guardian offers Raw spreads.

News Trading Rules

Blue Guardian allow trading only in evaluation phases. after being funded, traders are not allowed to trade before and after 2.5 minutes of a high impact news or red folder event. Profits made during this 5 minutes window will be removed. This will not lead to any violation.

Other Important Rules :-

Daily Drawdown Calculation

Daily Drawdown is calculated based on the account balance or equity whichever is higher at the end of the day and based on the higher value the drawdown amount will be calculated, In simple terms this is equity based drawdown and the drawdown amount can grow and shrink based on the current balance or equity.

Countries Banned from Purchasing

Blue Guardian has no restriction when it comes to who can purchase or not.

Prohibited Strategies

Blue Guardian prohibits few strategies :

Use of platform or data freezing due to a Demo Server error.
Using Delayed Data feed
Gap Trading
High-Frequency Trading
Reverse Arbitrage
Latency Arbitrage
Spamming Order Books
Tick Scalping
Hedging
Hedge Arbitrage
Server Execution
Copy Trading and management by a third party vendor.
Using any emulator.

Payout Methods :

Blue Guardian offers two methods for payout -

Riseworks - For payout above $500, Payout can be withdrawn in crypto or transfer straight to the bank.
Crypto - For payout below $500.

Trading Commissions :

Commissions are set to $5 per lot for forex and commodities. For crypto and indices, the commissions are set to $0.

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