Blue Guardian Futures is the futures-branded side of Blue Guardian, operated at blueguardianfutures.com by Iconic Exchange (the footer lists Iconic Exchange FZCO in Dubai’s IFZA Business Park; the checkout terms call it Iconic Exchange Limited). It sells three kinds of accounts: a one-step Elite evaluation, Instant accounts that skip the evaluation, and Direct accounts. The rules are permissive on style, with no time limit or minimum day count. The restrictions that matter are the trailing drawdown on the Elite and Instant Starter accounts, a 40% consistency rule that applies only once you are funded, and a long list of prohibited multi-account and latency practices. When we checked Companies House on 13 November 2026, company number 12087566, ICONIC EXCHANGE LIMITED, which the checkout terms still quote as the England and Wales registration, was listed as dissolved.
Who operates Blue Guardian Futures
The footer of the futures site lists two companies: Blue Guardian Limited in Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia, and Iconic Exchange FZCO in the IFZA Business Park, Dubai, which provides the educational products and payment processing. The checkout terms still name the operator as Iconic Exchange Limited trading as Blue Guardian, “registered in England and Wales under company number 12087566”. Companies House lists that company as dissolved, so the UK registration quoted in those terms is no longer live. The futures site and the sister brand, Blue Guardian (blueguardian.com), share a name, the same payout methods, the same 1 hour firm-reported processing time and the same $47M+ firm-reported payout total. That total is one figure for the Blue Guardian name as a whole, covering both brands together rather than the futures accounts alone.
The two brands differ in what they offer. Blue Guardian’s CFD side offers leverage of 1:100 on forex, 1:50 on CFD indices, 1:24 on commodities and 1:2 on crypto. Blue Guardian Futures caps leverage at a flat 1:30. If you came for high forex leverage, that belongs to the other brand. If you want futures plus CFD access under tighter leverage, this is the relevant account.
Programs and costs
The four programs comprise eight accounts. Prices below are given discounted first: a 30% code applies to the Elite program, and the discounted figures are roughly 70% of the one-time list price (for example, $108 against $154 on the $25K Elite). All fees are one-time, not monthly subscriptions. This matters for budgeting, because many futures evaluations bill monthly until you pass.
Elite: the two-step evaluation
Elite is the one-step evaluation and the program with the fullest published terms. It comes in $25K, $50K, $100K and $150K sizes, with these terms:
- Profit target: $6,000
- Daily loss: $2,000, a soft breach
- Max loss: $3,500, end-of-day (EOD) trailing
- Profit split once funded: 90/10
- Time limit and minimum days: none
- Consistency: none during evaluation, 40% in the funded phase
The PT:DD ratio of 1:0.58 is simply $3,500 divided by $6,000. You have to make $6,000 before you give back $3,500 measured from your trailing high, which is a demanding ratio.
The discounted Elite fee per dollar of account falls as size rises:
| Elite size | Discounted fee | Fee per $10K of account |
|---|---|---|
| $25K | $108 | $43.20 |
| $50K | $146 | $29.20 |
| $100K | $231 | $23.10 |
| $150K | $297 | $19.80 |
Instant Starter and Instant
The Instant Starter $5K costs $19 discounted ($27 list). It has no profit target and a $150 daily loss with a $250 max loss on a trailing drawdown, not the EOD trailing used on Elite. Its profit split is 90%, with instant payouts. The $250 trailing limit leaves very little room, though. A single futures position held through a fast move could use most of it.
The Instant $100K costs $436 discounted ($623 list), with a split of up to 90% and on-demand payouts. One recent Trustpilot reviewer described buying a larger Instant account advertised with 6% daily and 12% total drawdown, then being caught by a rule called “Guardian Shield” that they say appeared only in the FAQ. That is one person’s account of their experience, not a confirmed pattern.
Direct
Direct accounts come in $50K ($55 discounted, $79 list) and $150K ($188 discounted, $269 list), with instant steps and instant payouts. On price alone they are the cheapest route to a large account in the lineup.
Terms to confirm before buying. Several conditions are unclear on the product pages. Elite carries the same $6,000 target, $2,000 daily loss and $3,500 max loss on every size. If that holds, a $150K account gives more notional buying power but no extra room to lose, and trading more contracts against the same cushion raises the risk per trade. The lower fee per $10K is also better value only if the limits scale with size. The Instant $100K and both Direct accounts do not state their loss limits or drawdown type, and Direct does not state its split. The firm-level payout policy mentions a 7-day frequency without naming the program, possibly Elite. The exact formula behind the 40% funded consistency rule changes how much you need to trade before withdrawing. On instant products in particular, rules can sit in help-center articles rather than on the product page, so check the checkout page and the funded-account rules before paying.
Trading rules
How the drawdown types differ
The two drawdown types behave differently:
- EOD trailing (Elite): the loss floor is recalculated from your end-of-day level. An intraday spike that you give back before the close does not raise the floor. Only a higher closing level moves it up.
- Trailing (Instant Starter): the floor follows the account’s peak as it is reached. A position that runs up and then reverses can lift the floor and leave you closer to a breach, even if the trade closes flat.
For an active intraday trader, EOD trailing is the more forgiving of the two.
Daily loss as a soft breach
The Elite daily loss of $2,000 is marked as a soft breach. In prop-firm usage, a soft breach stops trading for the session without failing the account, while the max loss is the hard limit that ends it. The practical effect is that a bad day on Elite costs you the day, but crossing the $3,500 trailing max loss costs you the account.
The 40% consistency rule
There is no consistency requirement during the Elite evaluation. Once funded, every program carries a 40% consistency rule. Consistency rules of this kind usually limit how much of your total profit can come from a single day.
A hypothetical example shows how it would work as a best-day cap. If your largest winning day were $2,000, you would need at least $5,000 in total qualifying profit before that day stays under 40% ($2,000 / $5,000 = 40%). Under this design, one outsized day can delay a payout until other days catch up.
What styles are allowed
- News trading: allowed
- Expert advisors (EAs): allowed
- Copy trading: allowed
- Weekend holding: allowed
- High-frequency trading: not allowed
- Time limit: none
For futures traders, unrestricted news trading and weekend holding stand out, since some futures evaluations restrict both.
Prohibited practices
The prohibited list covers three broad groups.
Exploiting the platform or data feed: data freezing, exploiting platform errors, trading on delayed charts, gap billing, arbitrage, tick scalping, high-frequency trading, and any software, AI, ultra-high-speed or mass data entry tool that gives an unfair advantage.
Hedging and offsetting: opening opposite positions at the same time, and hedging trades between accounts.
Multi-account and signal sharing: copying the same trades onto an evaluation account and an external account at the same time, running the same strategy on multiple evaluation accounts, and sharing or disclosing live trades with third parties.
The multi-account rules interact with the “copy trading allowed” line in a way that can trip people up. Copy trading is permitted in general, but copying an evaluation account to or from an outside account is prohibited. Running one strategy across several evaluation accounts is also prohibited. If you plan to buy more than one Elite evaluation and trade them identically, that counts as a violation.
Platforms, markets and leverage
Seven platforms are named on the site: MetaTrader 5, Match-Trader, NinjaTrader, TradeLocker, TradingView, Tradovate and DeepCharts. Futures traders will mostly care about NinjaTrader and TradingView. MT5, Match-Trader and TradeLocker are the usual front ends for CFD trading.
Tradable assets are forex, CFD indices, CFD commodities, CFD crypto and futures, all under a 1:30 maximum leverage. On futures, the practical limit on position size usually comes from contract limits and the dollar drawdown rather than a leverage ratio. On the CFD side, 1:30 caps how much exposure a small balance can carry.
Payouts
Payout terms are tied to programs as follows:
- Elite: 90/10 split; payout frequency not stated
- Instant Starter: 90% split, instant payouts
- Instant $100K: split up to 90%, on-demand payouts
- Direct: instant payouts, split not stated
Processing time is firm-reported at 1 hour. Withdrawals go through Rise or crypto. There is no bank wire or card option, so you need to be comfortable with one of those two methods.
The $46,000,000 firm-reported total places Blue Guardian Futures 18th among the 50 firms on our tracker that publish a payout total. For scale, Topstep reports $1.5 billion and Lucid Trading $700 million.
Reputation on Trustpilot
When we read the profile on 13 November 2026, Trustpilot showed a 3.6/5 score from 1,580 reviews. About 57% are five-star and about 28% are one-star, with very few in between. That is a split distribution: most reviewers are either clearly satisfied or clearly not.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths:
- One-time fees instead of a monthly subscription, with a low entry price on the $5K Instant Starter
- Permissive trading rules: news, EAs, copy trading and weekend holding allowed, with no time limit or minimum days
- No consistency rule during the Elite evaluation
- EOD trailing drawdown on Elite, which ignores intraday peaks
- A broad platform list, including NinjaTrader and TradingView for futures
- Firm-reported 1 hour payout processing, with instant or on-demand payouts on the instant products
Trade-offs:
- Elite has a $3,500 max loss against a $6,000 target on every size, a tight ratio
- A 40% consistency rule applies once funded, which can delay withdrawals after a large single day
- Instant Starter uses real-time trailing with a $250 max loss
- Instant $100K and Direct do not publish their full loss limits
- Withdrawals only through Rise or crypto
- The payout track record is shared with the CFD brand
How we checked Blue Guardian Futures
We visited blueguardianfutures.com on 13 November 2026, connecting from Estonia. The address did not stay put. It forwarded us to the futures page on the main Blue Guardian site, so everything we read sits under blueguardian.com. We scrolled to the footer, opened the About and Terms and Conditions pages, and followed the “Start Challenge” button. The footer names Blue Guardian Limited at The Sotheby Building in Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia, and Iconic Exchange FZCO at IFZA Business Park in Dubai. It also lists Blue Guardian Marketing LLC among related entities described as non-operational support and administrative offices.
Prices were easy to find. The Elite program, labeled a 1-step evaluation, showed $154.00 for the 25K account and $424.00 for the 150K, each with a lower figure ($116.00 and $318.00) printed beside it. The rules panel listed a $6,000 profit target, a $2,000 daily loss marked as a soft breach, a $3,500 end-of-day max drawdown, and a 40% consistency rule for the funded phase only. “Start Challenge” took us to a checkout page asking us to select a payment method. We stopped there, so we cannot say whether an account is created before payment. That page names Iconic Exchange Limited and quotes company number 12087566.
On the same day we searched Companies House, the UK company register, for that number. It returned ICONIC EXCHANGE LIMITED, number 12087566, a private limited company incorporated 5 July 2019 with an address in Solihull. Status: Dissolved. The site’s terms separately state that Blue Guardian is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
The Trustpilot profile, which we read on 13 November 2026, showed 3.6/5 from 1,580 reviews. The Wayback Machine’s first capture of the domain dates to 2024-07-29. We could not verify the payout claims, including the $47M+ total and the 1 hour average processing time, because we did not buy an account or request a withdrawal. We also could not load the archived home page from a year ago.
Who it may suit
Blue Guardian Futures fits a trader who wants one-time pricing, trades around news or holds over weekends, and can work within a fixed dollar trailing drawdown. The $5K Instant Starter suits someone who wants to test the firm’s payout process at low cost before committing to a larger account. It is a weaker fit for anyone who plans to run identical strategies across several evaluations, relies on high-frequency or tick-scalping methods, or needs bank withdrawals.
Alternatives
| Provider | Score | Fee | Split | Payouts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.7/10 | $59 | 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live | Day one | Review | |
| 7.3/10 | $11 | up to 100% | On demand | Review | |
| 6.9/10 | $660 | 80% | 15 days or 30 calendar days | Review |