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Algaroud Center, 2nd Floor, Office 101-05, Dubai, UAE

RAG Tower, Al Barsha 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sean Bainton

Michal Król

2021

2025

Liquidity Provider

Institutional liquidity providers not publicly identified.

The fee is fully refunded with the second successful funded payout.

• 1 Step Nano: up to weekly
• 2 Step Nano: bi-weekly
• Other products: 14 days

First payout 14 days after becoming funded; every 14 days thereafter.

Payouts processed within 24 business hours (Mon 9 AM – Fri 5 PM Dubai time). If they miss this window you automatically receive a 100% profit split on that payout (no Blue Guardian cut). Delays caused by compliance checks, risk reviews or pending KYC do not qualify.

Approved requests are released to the payment provider within 24 hours. If Dolvero misses this deadline, it automatically adds a 10% bonus.

2 Step Nano: 2% of the initial balance per payout ($500 on $25K, $1,000 on $50K, $2,000 on $100K and $4,000 on $200K).

No maximum.

$100 in crypto, $500 via Rise (bank transfer). On 1 Step Standard and Instant accounts, once you reach 6% profit and the trailing drawdown locks at breakeven, a 1% buffer must remain in the account.

$50

Bank wire: no fee. PayPal: no fee for withdrawals over $100. Crypto: network fee only.

Cryptocurrency CFDs must also be closed over the weekend unless the Weekend Holding add-on is purchased.

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

There is no paid reset within a failed evaluation; a new one must be purchased.

2-Step: Weekend Holding, 90% split, Relaxed Risk and removal of the per-trade limit. 1-Step: Weekend Holding and 90% split.

25% increase after 3 consecutive profitable months, up to $200,000 in the standard program. Larger allocations are invitation-only.

• Instant, Guardian X, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Nano, 2 Step Pro, Crypto: Trailing
• 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Classic, 2 Step Nano, 3 Step: Static

It is static on 2-Step and trailing on 1-Step and Instant. The trailing floor only rises when equity reaches a new high and never moves down.

• Existing 1, 2 and 3 Step programs: 85%
• 1 Step Nano and 2 Step Nano: up to 100%
• Instant: 80%
• Instant Starter: 90%
• With add-on: 90%

2-Step and 1-Step: 80%, upgradeable to 90% with an add-on. Instant: 70% on the first payout, 80% on the second and 90% from the third onward.

Available on request from support.

Based on highest value between balance and equity

Includes realized and unrealized losses. It resets at midnight MT5 server time (EET/EEST).

Same-type funded accounts can be merged up to $400,000 ($200,000 cap on Instant). Cross-merging different types (e.g. 2 Step Standard with 2 Step Pro) is NOT allowed. Both accounts must be at break-even (no profit, no loss) at merge time. Beyond the merge cap, the Scaling Plan can take total allocation up to $2,000,000. Guardian X and Instant accounts are NOT eligible for scaling.

Funded accounts can be merged by contacting support.

No limit

No time limit.

1 Step Nano: no minimum during the evaluation; 5 days when funded.

2-Step and 1-Step: 5 qualifying days per phase, each with at least 0.5% profit. Instant: 10 profitable days before the first payout, also with at least 0.5% each.

• Instant, 2 Step Standard, Guardian X: 5 days with 0.5% profit or more
• 1 Step, 2 Step Classic, 3 Step, Crypto: 3 days with 0.5% profit or more
• 2 Step Classic: 4 days with 0.5% profit or more

Up to 3 funded accounts at the same time. Multiple simultaneous evaluations are allowed.

EAs require prior approval, normally within 24–48 hours.

VPNs, proxies and Tor are prohibited. A private VPS with a dedicated IP may be used for an approved EA with prior authorization.

Hedging is allowed within a single account. Hedging across multiple accounts (yours or others') is NOT allowed.

Minimum holding time of 2 minutes. Trades closed in under 2 minutes are flagged as tick scalping and count as a rule violation, whether closed manually or by automated systems. Average trade duration should stay above 1–2 minutes. Scalping itself is allowed as long as you stay above the 2-minute floor.

Tick scalping and strategies exploiting latency or feed delays are prohibited.

2-Step and 1-Step: maximum realized loss of 2% of current balance per trade idea; it is a hard breach. Instant has no such limit. On 2-Step it can be removed with an add-on.

Manual copy trading is allowed ONLY between accounts legally owned by the same person (e.g. between your own Evaluation and Funded accounts, or between your Blue Guardian account and external accounts in your name). NOT allowed:

• Copying trades from other traders' accounts.
• Third-party copiers that involve accounts not legally yours.
• Having a third party manage your trades.

Instant Funding users may also use third-party copiers, provided all accounts belong to the same user.

News trading is allowed on Challenge, Guardian X and Instant Starter.

It is NOT allowed on Instant Standard and Funded accounts. On those, do not open or close trades within 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after a red folder (high-impact) release. Profits made during that window or significantly influenced by the news will be removed, even without an account violation. Same 5-minute window applies around FOMC speeches, statements and news events on Funded accounts.

Note: Instant Standard accounts purchased after November 13, 2025 cannot do news trading at all.

Trades cannot be opened during the 30 minutes before or after any high-impact news event. Existing positions may be held and closed. A 15% add-on removes the restriction.

30 days

Instant only: automatic closure after 7 calendar days without a trade. 2-Step and 1-Step evaluations have no inactivity rule.

Consistency rule applies to: 1 Step Nano evaluation and funded (50%), 2 Step Nano funded (50%), 2 Step Pro funded (25%), Guardian X and Instant Standard funded (20%), Instant Starter funded (15%), $300K and $400K Instant funded (15%).

Does NOT apply to: 2 Step Nano evaluation, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Classic, 3 Step funded accounts, nor to any other challenge phase.

Calculation: a single trading day cannot equal or exceed the threshold of total profits in the payout cycle. If exceeded, the payout button is blocked until the highest day drops below the threshold. Violating it does NOT terminate the account.

Instant only: no day may exceed 15% of the sum of profitable-day gains when requesting a payout. It does not apply to 2-Step or 1-Step.

Only with the Weekend Holding add-on (+15%). Without it, all positions must remain closed over the weekend.

• Platform or data freezing exploits (using a Demo Server error).
• Use of delayed data feed or trading on delayed charts.
• Tick scalping (trades closed under 2 minutes), high-frequency trading, arbitrage bots.
• Reverse arbitrage, latency arbitrage, hedge arbitrage and any emulators.
• Hedging between accounts (within one account is fine).
• Password changes (the password sent by email is the only one accepted).
• Gambling: any trading where margin usage exceeds 80% on running trades.
• Shared devices, VPS or accounts: each trader must use only their personal device. Shared usage across accounts results in payout disqualification, suspension or termination.
• Bypassing copy-trading or signal-trading rules using VPN/VPS.
• Account inactivity: at least 1 trade every 30 days (otherwise breach).

Copy trading and external signals, hedging on identical or correlated instruments, one-sided or oversized betting, arbitrage, tick scalping, HFT, account coordination, platform exploitation, martingale, grid, layering and third-party account management.