Blue Guardian rules explained: a trailing floor on an instant account
Blue Guardian’s instant accounts skip the evaluation entirely, which removes the part most traders fear and keeps the part that actually ends accounts. The drawdown here trails your best close rather than sitting at a fixed level — a mechanic borrowed from futures firms and unusual on a CFD account.
Prop firms change their terms, and rules differ by plan size, phase and promotion. Blue Guardian’s own rules page is authoritative — always check it against the plan you hold before you trade.
Blue Guardian at a glance
Where a row says “set per plan size”, the firm states that limit in dollars per account rather than as a single percentage — read it off your own account and enter it when you set the account up.
The maximum drawdown is 6%, and — this is the part to read twice — the floor trails your end-of-day balance. The floor keeps trailing for as long as the account is open — profit permanently raises it, and it never freezes. Most CFD firms fix that line to your opening balance. Here it follows your highest end-of-day balance upward, so profit does not simply add room. It also raises the level at which the account dies.
The consequence is a giving-back problem that static-drawdown traders never have to think about. Run the account up over three good sessions, then give the same amount back over the next three, and you are not where you started: the floor climbed with the closes and stayed there. Round-tripping a profitable week can fail an account that never once had a bad day.
Why end-of-day trailing is still the kind you want
Of the two trailing designs, this is the forgiving one. It reads the close, not your screen — an unrealised spike that gives itself back before the session ends never moves the line, so holding a runner does not tighten the account the way it does at an intraday-trailing firm. The line ratchets once a day, deliberately and visibly, which at least makes it something you can plan around.
The daily limit reads equity
The daily loss limit is 3%, measured on equity, so an open position counts against it in real time, and the day turns at 5:00 p.m. America/New_York. Pair that with the trailing floor and the two rules pull in opposite directions: the daily limit punishes you for holding a loser, and the trailing floor punishes you for banking a winner and giving it back.
The behaviour that satisfies both is the same one that is hard to execute — take losses quickly and keep gains. What does not work is the common compromise of holding losers and cutting winners, which is penalised twice here rather than once.
Instant funding is a purchase, not a pass
There is no minimum number of trading days on this rule set, and no evaluation to clear. Skipping the evaluation removes the rehearsal, and the rehearsal is where most traders find out that their sizing does not survive the rule set. On an instant account, the first time you learn that is on the account you paid for.
The split is 85/15.
What most often ends a Blue Guardian account
- Round-tripping a good week. The floor followed the closes up. Giving the profit back is not returning to the start — the start moved.
- Assuming a CFD account means a static floor. This one trails, which is the assumption most worth checking before your first trade.
- Buying the account instead of earning it, then sizing as though you had earned it. No evaluation means no dress rehearsal for the rules.
Tracking a Blue Guardian account
The reason these rules are worth reading closely is that none of them are checked by your platform. Your broker shows you a balance; the firm is watching a floor, a daily limit and a share of profit that your balance alone does not tell you about. Edgekeeper loads this rule set onto an account and does the arithmetic on every trade you log: how much daily loss room is left right now, where the drawdown floor currently sits, how many qualifying days you have, and whether one big day has put the consistency rule between you and a payout.
It also warns you before you write the trade, not after. The point is not to be a scoreboard — it is to be the thing that says "this trade takes you inside the last third of your daily loss" while you can still decide something about it.
Prop firms revise their rules regularly, and they differ by plan size, by phase and sometimes by promotion. Everything above is the rule set Edgekeeper loads for Blue Guardian, checked against the firm's own published rules on the date at the top of this page — but Blue Guardian's own page is the authority, and every field is editable on your account, so if your plan differs you can change it and the app will judge you by your numbers rather than these.
Blue Guardian rules: common questions
Is the Blue Guardian drawdown trailing or static?
Trailing on this rule set — the floor trails your end-of-day balance, which is unusual for a CFD firm. The floor keeps trailing for as long as the account is open — profit permanently raises it, and it never freezes. Profit therefore raises the level at which the account fails, so giving back a good week is not a return to your starting position.
What is the Blue Guardian maximum drawdown?
6% on the Instant Funding rule set, applied to the highest end-of-day balance rather than to your opening balance.
What is the Blue Guardian daily drawdown?
3% on this rule set, measured on equity, so a floating loss counts against it before you close anything. The day resets at 5:00 p.m. America/New_York.
Do Blue Guardian instant funded accounts have a minimum trading day count?
Not on this rule set, and there is no evaluation to clear either. The trade-off is that an evaluation is where most traders discover their sizing does not fit the rules, and an instant account moves that discovery onto the account you paid for.
Track a Blue Guardian account in Edgekeeper — free
These are the exact rules Edgekeeper loads. Create the account and every trade you log updates your daily loss room, your live drawdown floor, your qualifying days and your payout eligibility — and warns you before a trade takes you past a limit. One prop account is free, forever, no card.
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