Blue Guardian Futures Rules: Drawdown, Consistency Rule and Scaling Plan for Every Account

Blue Guardian Futures rules for the Standard, Reserve, Express and Direct accounts, with the rules that end accounts or hold up payouts first. Every current account uses an end-of-day (EOD) trailing drawdown that locks at the starting balance + $100, a 4:10 PM ET flat rule and a 7-day inactivity breach once funded. The daily loss limit, the consistency rule, contract limits and the payout gate change by model and by stage. Pick your model below, then use the dollar tables, the consistency and drawdown calculators and the worked examples before you trade.

Blue Guardian Futures Rule Checks

Blue Guardian Futures Models Side by Side

All four current models come in $25K, $50K, $100K and $150K sizes, have no monthly or activation fee, pay a 90% profit split and pay out by Rise or crypto. The table shows the $50K version of each; the per-size tables follow in each model section.

Sources: Standard Account Rules, Reserve Account Rules, Express Account Rules, Direct Account Rules, Contract Limits & Funded Scaling System, Futures plan selector on blueguardian.com/futures, all checked October 11, 2026.

Blue Guardian Futures Standard Rules

Standard is the only current model that can pass in a single day: it has no consistency rule in the Challenge. The trade-off is a 40% consistency rule on every funded payout cycle and a funded buffer you cannot withdraw. Contract limits stay the same from the Challenge to the funded account.

Worked example ($50K Standard, funded). You start the funded account at $50,000. Nothing is withdrawable until the balance is above $52,100 (the $2,100 buffer). At $54,000 you have $1,900 available ($54,000 – $52,100), under the $2,500 first-payout cap. If your best day in that cycle was $1,500, the 40% rule needs total cycle profit of at least $3,750 ($1,500 / 0.40), so $4,000 of profit clears both gates. Once the payout is approved, the drawdown floor locks at $50,100 for the life of the account.

Sources: Standard Account Rules, Payout Policy, Futures plan selector on blueguardian.com/futures, all checked October 11, 2026.

Blue Guardian Futures Reserve Rules

Reserve is the configurable model. At checkout you choose a daily loss limit or none, and 40% or 50% Challenge consistency. The plan selector labels the 40% option “3 Day Pass” and the 50% option “2 Day Pass”, and marks the DLL version as lower-priced. Funded Reserve accounts have no consistency rule and no buffer, but each payout is limited to half of your profit and needs five winning days.

The 1% cushion. On the 50% option your best day may be up to 51% of total profit. At exactly the $3,000 target on a $50K, that is a best day of $1,530 instead of $1,500. The cushion is a percentage, not a fixed dollar figure, so it grows with your total. The help article describes the cushion for the 50% rule only.

Net-profit rule. For Reserve accounts bought on or after July 27, 2026, payouts 2 to 5 also need net profit since the last approved payout: on a $50K, $900 of winning days and a $300 losing day is $600 net, short of the $750 required, so you keep trading. The payout amount is still 50% of total accumulated profit up to the cap. Accounts bought before July 27 keep their original rules.

Worked example ($50K Reserve, funded). With $3,000 of profit you may request $1,500; with $4,000, $2,000; with $5,000, still $2,000 because of the cap. Five days of at least $150 must come first. After the payout, the floor locks at $50,100, the winning-day count resets, and on a $52,000 balance you have $1,900 of room before the account is breached.

Sources: Reserve Account Rules, Reserve Plan explainer on the Blue Guardian blog (September 18, 2026), Contract Limits & Funded Scaling System, Futures plan selector on blueguardian.com/futures, all checked October 11, 2026.

Blue Guardian Futures Express Rules

Express trades the Challenge at full size with a 40% consistency rule (the plan selector also sells a 50% “2 Day Pass” version), then switches to daily payouts with no consistency rule once funded. The funded account has a buffer, a minimum payout and a daily cap. Several Express limits changed for accounts bought on or after September 2; older Express accounts keep the limits that applied when they were bought.

From payout 2 (accounts bought on or after September 2): you must make new profit of at least 50% of your previous payout before the next request. Withdraw $1,100 on a $50K and you need $550 of new profit first.

Worked example ($50K Express, funded). The balance must exceed $52,100. At $53,000 you have $900 above the buffer, which clears the $500 minimum and sits under the $1,100 daily cap, so you can request $900. At $52,400 you have only $300, below the $500 minimum, so no request is possible yet.

Sources: Express Account Rules, Contract Limits & Funded Scaling System, Payout Policy, Futures plan selector on blueguardian.com/futures, all checked October 11, 2026.

Blue Guardian Futures Direct (Instant Funding) Rules

Direct skips the Challenge: you sign the trader agreement and trade a funded account straight away, with full contract limits from day one and no buffer. Instead, each payout needs a profit goal and a consistency rule that loosens with each payout. The help article lists no reset or reactivation for Direct.