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Blue Guardian Futures
Hyperticks FuturesAlgaroud Center, 2nd Floor, Office 101-05, Dubai, UAE
Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sean Bainton
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
2021
2025
Algaroud Center, 2nd Floor, Office 101-05, Dubai, UAE
Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sean Bainton
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
2021
2025
2% processing fee on all withdrawals (Riseworks).
Rise: $35
- 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
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.
$500 across all account types.
- Beginner and HYPER: $250
- Instant Pro Plus and Instant Flex: 1% of the starting balance
- 25k account: $1,100
- 50k account: $2,000
- 100k account: $3,000
2% processing fee on all withdrawals (Riseworks).
Rise: $35
- 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
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.
$500 across all account types.
- Beginner and HYPER: $250
- Instant Pro Plus and Instant Flex: 1% of the starting balance
- 25k account: $1,100
- 50k account: $2,000
- 100k account: $3,000
Round-trip commissions vary by instrument.
The official instrument table publishes the exact round-trip cost for each contract.
Round-trip commissions vary by instrument.
The official instrument table publishes the exact round-trip cost for each contract.
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.
- Beginner: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
- HYPER: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
- Instant Pro Plus: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
- Instant Flex: 4% intraday trailing drawdown; it moves to break-even after the first payout
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.
Current profit split: 90%.
Applies to:
- Beginner
- HYPER
- Instant Pro Plus
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
- Beginner: soft daily loss pause
- HYPER: no daily loss limit during evaluation; a limit applies when simulated funded
- Instant Pro Plus: soft daily loss pause
- Instant Flex: no daily loss limit
- 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
Beginner and HYPER have no additional minimum trading days.
The profit targets and applicable consistency requirements must still be met.
No activation
No activation fee.
- 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
The number of qualifying days depends on the program and payout.
- Beginner: 5 winning days
- HYPER: 5 winning days
- Instant Pro Plus: 10 / 8 / 6 / 5 qualifying days from the first through fourth payout
- Instant Flex: 6 qualifying days
The required daily profit varies by program and account size.
One-time fee
One-time purchase.
- No monthly subscription
- No activation fee on the current catalog
No time limit on evaluations.
HTP is Hyperticks' internal loyalty coin for community rewards, services and discounts.
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.
- Beginner: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
- HYPER: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
- Instant Pro Plus: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
- Instant Flex: 4% intraday trailing drawdown; it moves to break-even after the first payout
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.
Current profit split: 90%.
Applies to:
- Beginner
- HYPER
- Instant Pro Plus
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
- Beginner: soft daily loss pause
- HYPER: no daily loss limit during evaluation; a limit applies when simulated funded
- Instant Pro Plus: soft daily loss pause
- Instant Flex: no daily loss limit
- 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
Beginner and HYPER have no additional minimum trading days.
The profit targets and applicable consistency requirements must still be met.
No activation
No activation fee.
- 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
The number of qualifying days depends on the program and payout.
- Beginner: 5 winning days
- HYPER: 5 winning days
- Instant Pro Plus: 10 / 8 / 6 / 5 qualifying days from the first through fourth payout
- Instant Flex: 6 qualifying days
The required daily profit varies by program and account size.
One-time fee
One-time purchase.
- No monthly subscription
- No activation fee on the current catalog
No time limit on evaluations.
HTP is Hyperticks' internal loyalty coin for community rewards, services and discounts.
At least one trade every 7 days on funded accounts.
- 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.
- Repeated microscalping
- Fully automated trading
- External signal mirroring
- Price-feed, latency or fill exploitation
- Simultaneous orders intended to manipulate queue priority
- Hedging correlated instruments
- Gambling or random trading
- Risking more than 2% on one trade idea
- Bypassing contract limits across instruments
At least one trade every 7 days on funded accounts.
- 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.
- Repeated microscalping
- Fully automated trading
- External signal mirroring
- Price-feed, latency or fill exploitation
- Simultaneous orders intended to manipulate queue priority
- Hedging correlated instruments
- Gambling or random trading
- Risking more than 2% on one trade idea
- Bypassing contract limits across instruments
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