Blue Guardian100K Instant Standard plan

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 closed balance rather than sitting at a fixed level — a mechanic borrowed from futures firms and unusual on a CFD account.

Rules verified as of 24 September 2026Blue Guardian’s own rules

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

Max drawdown: 6% of starting balance
Daily loss limit: 3% of starting balance
Drawdown basis: Trails your closed balance
Day resets: 5:00 p.m. America/New_York
Consistency rule: 20% of total profit in one day
Min trading days: 0
Profit split: 80/20

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 closed balance. The floor stops rising once it reaches your starting balance, and everything you make above that is buffer you cannot lose back to the trail. Most CFD firms fix that line to your opening balance. Here it follows your highest closed balance upward until it locks, so early 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. Bank a few good trades, then give the same amount back, and you are not where you started: the floor climbed with the closes and stayed there. Before the lock, round-tripping a profitable week can fail an account that never once had a bad day.

What moves the line, and what does not

The trail reads closed trades, not your screen. An open winner that runs and gives itself back never moves the line, so holding a runner does not tighten the account the way it would at an intraday-trailing firm. Closing one does: every new high in the closed balance is a new high for the floor, until the floor reaches the starting balance and stops.

The daily limit reads equity

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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 behavior 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 penalized twice here rather than once.

Instant funding is a purchase, not a pass

There is no evaluation to clear. Skipping it 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.

What a payout asks for

5 qualifying days before a payout request on this rule set. A day counts only if it books at least $500 in profit — a flat day, a losing day and a scratch day all count for nothing. No single day may make 20% or more of the period's profit; breaking that does not fail the account, but the payout stays locked until the other days catch up. The split is 80/20.

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.

Check the firm before you trade 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 closed balance, which is unusual for a CFD firm. The floor stops rising once it reaches your starting balance, and everything you make above that is buffer you cannot lose back to the trail. 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 100K Instant Standard rule set, measured from the highest closed balance rather than from your opening balance. The floor stops rising once it reaches your starting balance, and everything you make above that is buffer you cannot lose back to the trail.

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 to get funded — there is no evaluation. A payout request needs 5 qualifying days on this rule set. A day counts only if it books at least $500 in profit — a flat day, a losing day and a scratch day all count for nothing.

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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