Trading styles allowed at Blue Guardian Futures and FundedNext Futures

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

Office No. 7, AI Robotics HUB, C1 Building, AFZ, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Sean Bainton

Abdullah Jayed

2021

2022

2% processing fee on all withdrawals (Riseworks).

Up to 3.5% processing fee on all withdrawals.

After completing the evaluation and trading consistently on a Simulated Funded Account, the Risk Management team may invite traders to Live. There is no fixed timeline; each trader is evaluated individually. From 28/09/2026, all eligible funded accounts merge into one Live Account at transition. Their starting Live drawdowns add together: five $50K accounts provide $10,000 of combined drawdown. The $15,000 cap applies to new purchases after 28/09/2026. Contract limits scale with the combined drawdown, up to 10 minis / 100 micros. At each live profit milestone of 0.5x, 1x and 1.5x the starting drawdown, 25% of that drawdown is deposited into the Live balance as a bonus. The bonus becomes withdrawable after five winning days with the account in profit. Instead of trading Live, the trader may choose a one-time Live Buyout of 50% of the combined starting drawdown at transition. It is available once per trader, with a 28-day cooldown afterward. Live accounts use end-of-day drawdown with no daily loss limit. CME professional data, trade commissions and platform fees are deducted from the balance. Contract limits may increase with consistent performance.

Available after $100K Total Active Profits. 80% of simulated profit splits: 50% settlement, 25% live deposit (max $50K), 25% reserve (auto-refills). Auto liquidation at 20% of deposit (locks at deposit after first withdrawal). Withdrawals: 80/20 split, $100 min, 2-5 days processing.

• Standard: every 3 days, from 3 days after the first trade
• Reserve: instant payout once eligible (5 winning days)
• Express: daily payouts
• Direct: instant payout from day one

Withdrawal eligibility is confirmed by the end-of-day (EOD) dashboard update. Once the withdrawal button is enabled, a request can be submitted at any time without waiting for the next EOD update.

• Flex: Reward withdrawals every 5 days once eligible
• Legacy: Reward withdrawals every 5 benchmark days
• Rapid: Reward withdrawals every 3 days
• Bolt: Daily rewards from day one of eligibility

Payouts processed within 24 business hours. If Blue Guardian misses that window through a delay on their end, you receive an extra 10% profit share on that payout. Does not apply on weekends or bank holidays, nor to delays from compliance or risk reviews, Rise onboarding or a pending trader response.

Brand Promise: Performance Reward processed within 24 hours, or $1,000 extra added to your reward.

$500 across all account types.

$250 minimum for all withdrawal methods.

• USDT (TRC20 / ERC20) or USDC (ERC20) via RiseWorks: up to $1,000 per withdrawal
• USDT (ERC20) / USDC (ERC20) without RiseWorks: up to $1,000,000 per withdrawal

Rapid FundedNext Account (per cycle, lifted after 5 withdrawals)

• $25K: $800
• $50K: $1,500
• $100K: $2,500

Legacy FundedNext Account (before 30 Benchmark Days: max 50% of profit)

• $25K: up to $3,000
• $50K: up to $6,000
• $100K: up to $6,000

After caps are lifted, withdraw 100% of profits with no limit.

Flex FundedNext Account (per cycle; account concludes after 5 Performance Reward withdrawals)

• $50K: up to 50% of profit, max $1,500
• $100K: up to 50% of profit, max $2,500
• $150K: up to 50% of profit, max $4,000

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Evaluation accounts can be reset at 30% off the original price. After failing the evaluation, the trader has 7 days to decide whether to reset. Funded accounts cannot be reset.

Unlimited resets at no additional cost. Resets within 7 days keep the same Challenge Account; resets after 7 days provide a new one.

Reserve challenges are configurable at checkout. Traders can choose a Daily Loss Limit or no Daily Loss Limit, combined with a 40% consistency rule (3-day pass) or a 50% consistency rule (2-day pass). The price varies depending on the selected combination.

Express challenges offer an optional 50% evaluation consistency add-on instead of the standard 40% rule, allowing traders to qualify after as few as 2 green days.

Scaling applies to funded Reserve and Express accounts only. Standard and Direct keep flat contract limits from start to finish.

On Reserve and Express you get full contract size during the evaluation, and funded limits start lower and grow with the account balance. Updated at end of day (EOD) on the closing balance; if the EOD balance drops below a trigger, the tier can go back down.

Starting funded limits

• $25,000: 1 mini / 10 micros
• $50,000: 2 minis / 20 micros
• $100,000: 3 minis / 30 micros
• $150,000: 3 minis / 30 micros

Scaling triggers ($25K / $50K / $100K / $150K)

• +$1,500: 2/20 · 3/30 · 4/40 · 4/40
• +$2,000: — · 4/40 · 5/50 · 5/50
• +$3,000: — · — · 8/80 · 8/80
• +$4,500: — · — · — · 12/120

Flat limits (Standard and Direct)

• $25,000: 1 mini / 10 micros
• $50,000: 4 minis / 40 micros
• $100,000: 8 minis / 80 micros
• $150,000: 12 minis / 120 micros

1 mini = 10 micros; contracts can be mixed within the limit.

Trailing end-of-day (EOD) on all plans. Values per plan and size:

• Standard $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,500 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000
• Reserve $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500
• Express $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,000 / $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,500
• Direct $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,500 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $4,500

Once the trailing drawdown reaches the starting balance, it locks and stops trailing.

On Direct the drawdown becomes static after the account exceeds the initial trail balance or after the first payout request. After any approved payout the drawdown floor locks at starting balance + $100 on every plan.

Trailing end-of-day (EOD) system. Locks at the initial account balance and never decreases.

90% on all funded accounts and plans.

A payout delayed beyond the 24-business-hour guarantee adds an extra 10% profit share on that payout.

• Flex: 95% Reward Share by default for new and existing accounts, with no paid add-on.
• Other Futures challenges: 80% Reward Share.

Soft breach on every plan: open trades are closed automatically and the account is disabled for the rest of the day, then reinstated the next trading day.

• Standard $25K: none. $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000
• Reserve: configurable at checkout. Traders can choose no daily loss limit or a soft DLL of $600 / $1,200 / $1,700 / $3,000 on $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K. The price varies depending on the selected option
• Express challenge $25K: none. $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,000 / $1,250 / $1,750
• Express funded $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $500 / $1,000 / $1,250 / $1,750
• Direct $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,000 / $1,250 / $2,500 / $3,000

Daily loss limit only on Bolt Challenge ($1,000 soft breach for $50K account). Flex, Legacy and Rapid have no daily loss limit.

Standard — Funded Buffer

• $25,000 → $1,600
• $50,000 → $2,100
• $100,000 → $3,600
• $150,000 → $5,100

Payouts are only available from profits earned above the buffer, and the buffer must stay intact when submitting a request.

Express

• $25,000 → $1,100
• $50,000 → $2,100
• $100,000 → $3,600
• $150,000 → $5,100

Payouts are only available from profits earned above the buffer.

Reserve

• No buffer to reach before a payout, but after any withdrawal the drawdown floor locks at starting balance + $100.

Direct

• No profit buffer requirement.

• No minimum trading days on evaluation. Standard can be passed in as little as one trading day
• Express with the optional 50% consistency add-on can qualify after 2 green days
• Funded: one trade every 7 days to keep the account active

No activation

Free. No activation fee or recurring charges on the FundedNext Account.

• Standard: no minimum. First payout 3 days after the first trade
• Reserve: 5 winning days before each payout, with a minimum of $100 / $150 / $200 / $250 profit per day on $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K. Winning days reset after every payout
• Express: no minimum
• Direct: no minimum

Rapid FundedNext Account

• No Benchmark Day requirement. First withdrawal eligible after 3 days if conditions are met.

Legacy FundedNext Account

• Minimum 5 Benchmark Days before first withdrawal.
• Benchmark Day profit thresholds: $100 ($25K account) / $200 ($50K and $100K accounts).
• After 30 Benchmark Days: withdrawal cap and 50% profit limit are removed.

Flex FundedNext Account

• 5 Benchmark Days per withdrawal: $200/day ($50K and $100K) / $250/day ($150K).
• Minimum $500 profit in the current cycle.

One-time fee

One-time fee (no monthly subscription).

No time limit. Trade at your own pace until the profit target is met.

EAs and trading bots are allowed on both Challenge and FundedNext Accounts. No support is provided for setup or troubleshooting. Strategies exploiting system vulnerabilities (latency abuse, order flooding) remain prohibited.

Microscalping (trades held seconds with minimal profit margins) is prohibited. Automated scalping systems that exceed 200 trades per day are not allowed. Exploiting tight brackets or the simulated market's absence of slippage is forbidden.

Max risk-to-reward ratio: 5:1. For every $100 of profit target, your initial stop loss cannot exceed $500. Mental stops are accepted but excessive risk-taking can lead to warnings or payout disqualification. Adjusting stops to add risk goes against policy; only move stops forward to trail and protect profits.

Additional risk guardrails:

• Trade within 2% of any CME price limit is prohibited.
• Trading without clear risk management, excessive sizing, inconsistent contract sizes or "all-in" strategies may be considered gambling and lead to account review.
• Holding a position into the daily 16:10 EST auto-close is fine; the auto-close itself doesn't breach the account.

Allowed on both challenge and funded accounts, on every plan. Traders can open, manage and close positions during high-impact news. Blue Guardian warns that slippage and spread widening may occur.

At least one trade every 7 days on funded accounts.

A single trading day cannot equal or exceed:

• Standard: 40%, on the funded account only
• Reserve: configurable as 40% (3-day pass) or 50% (2-day pass), on the evaluation only
• Express: 40% on the evaluation by default; an optional 50% evaluation consistency add-on allows qualification after as few as 2 green days
• Direct: 20% on the first payout, 25% on the second, 30% from the third onwards

Calculation: Highest Net Profit Day / Total Account PnL. On evaluation accounts, passing is delayed until the ratio complies with the selected threshold. On funded accounts, payouts are blocked until the ratio drops below the applicable threshold. Violating the rule does NOT terminate the account.

Challenge Phase

• Rapid Challenge: No consistency rule.
• Legacy Challenge: Daily profit cannot exceed 40% of the total profit target. If exceeded, the profit target increases accordingly (new target = highest daily profit / 40%).

FundedNext Account

• Rapid Account: 40% consistency rule applies (highest single-day profit must be ≤ 40% of total profit).
• Legacy Account: No consistency rule (for challenges purchased or reset after November 21, 2025).

• Automated scalping systems exceeding 200 trades per day.
• AI, bots and fully automated trading mechanisms (all account types).
• Hands-off, continuous day-and-night trading or complete automation.
• Placing multiple limit orders at the same price to manipulate fills.
• Strategies aimed at exploiting isolated fills in low-liquidity or gapped markets.
• Using tight brackets or absence of slippage in the simulated market for favorable fills.
• Trading during tier 1 economic data releases.
• Coordinated trading across unconnected accounts (identical or opposing strategies).
• Microscalping (trades held seconds with minimal margins).
• Trading within 2% of a CME price limit.
• Trading without a stop loss, relying on the trailing threshold to close trades.

• Platform error exploitation
• Account sharing
• Account rolling
• Multi-order spam / coordinated trading exploits
• Abusing slow data feed
• Account flipping / inconsistent contract execution
• Spoofing
• Layering / order book shaping
• Exploiting bracket strategies (tight brackets / no slippage)
• Grid trading
• Wash trading
• Latency arbitrage
• Reverse hedging
• Hedging with correlated instruments
• Trading in gapped or illiquid markets
• Trading within 2% of CME price limits
• Unauthorized copy or group trading

All positions must be closed by 3:10 PM CT (11:10 PM GMT+2 / 3:10 AM GMT+6) each trading day. Unclosed positions are automatically closed by the system. Trading resumes at 5:00 PM CT.