Blueberry Funded is a CFD prop firm tied to the broker Blueberry Markets. It sells 1-step, 2-step and instant funding accounts on MetaTrader 5 and TradeLocker, with an 85% split on Flex 1-Step and bi-weekly payouts. Its rules set it apart: a per-trade risk cap, a news blackout window and a strict line on automation. Those three decide whether the account fits a trader’s style more than the price or the split does.
Who operates Blueberry Funded
The legal entity behind the firm is Blueberry Markets (SVG) LLC, registered in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The firm launched in August 2024 and is backed by the CFD broker Blueberry Markets. Some third-party summaries place it in Vanuatu, but the entity name points to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the jurisdiction to check if contract terms or dispute handling matter to you.
Accounts trade on MetaTrader 5 and TradeLocker. As a CFD prop firm, it offers broker-style instruments rather than exchange-cleared futures contracts.
Programs and what they cost
Blueberry Funded runs several program families. Their profit splits differ:
- Instant Lite and Instant Elite: instant funding, 80% split
- Flex 1-Step: one evaluation phase, 85% split
- 1-Step: one evaluation phase, 80% split
- Prime 2-Step: two evaluation phases, 80% split
- Synthetic: synthetic index plans, 80% split
The Flex 1-Step $25K challenge has these terms:
- 12% profit target
- 3% daily loss limit
- 12% maximum loss
- no minimum trading days
- unlimited time
It costs $330, currently discounted to $231; the $490 price, discounted to $343, belongs to the $50K Flex account. The 1-Step $100K account costs $605, with no discount shown on our visit. Fees are one-time payments.
With a 12% target and a 12% maximum loss, Flex 1-Step has a 1:1 ratio of profit needed to drawdown available. Many two-step structures split a larger total target across phases. Flex asks for the full 12% in one phase, with no deadline.
Several features are sold as add-ons rather than included by default. These include a higher per-trade risk limit on standard programs and faster payout schedules.
Leverage by asset class
Leverage depends on both the program type and the instrument:
| Asset class | Instant | 1-Step | 2-Step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forex | 1:30 | 1:30 | 1:50 |
| Metals | 1:10 | 1:10 | 1:10 |
| GAU | 1:50 | 1:50 | 1:50 |
| Indices | 1:10 | 1:10 | 1:10 |
| Crypto | 1:2 | 1:2 | 1:2 |
| Other commodities | 1:10 | 1:10 | 1:10 |
| Synthetic | n/a | n/a | 1:30 |
The 2-step program has the most forex leverage at 1:50. Crypto is capped at 1:2 everywhere, so a crypto position needs half its notional value in margin. Leverage sets how much margin a position ties up, but on most setups the per-trade risk cap below limits position size first.
Core trading rules
Risk per trade idea
This rule shapes day-to-day trading more than any other. Blueberry Funded does not only cap daily or total loss. It also caps the loss on a single trade idea.
A trade idea is your initial position plus any positions you open:
- in the same direction,
- on the same instrument,
- within 10 minutes after closing a losing trade.
The combined loss on all of those positions is measured against the initial account balance, not current equity. The limits differ by program:
- 1-Step (funded), Instant Lite and Instant Elite: 1.5% of initial balance. A violation is a hard breach, which closes the account. An add-on raises the limit to 2%.
- Flex 1-Step: 1% of initial balance, in both evaluation and funded stages. The first violation is a soft breach: positions are closed, the breach is recorded and the account continues. The second violation is a hard breach and the account is closed. Soft breach counts are kept separately for each phase and reset when you pass the evaluation, so an evaluation soft breach does not follow you to the funded account.
Here is a hypothetical example on a $25K Flex 1-Step account. The cap is 1% of $25,000, which is $250 per trade idea. Suppose you lose $180 on a EUR/USD long. You then re-enter long on EUR/USD within 10 minutes and lose another $90. The combined $270 counts as one idea and exceeds $250.
The 10-minute link targets revenge re-entries after a loss. A re-entry after waiting longer, or in the opposite direction, falls outside the definition as written.
News trading windows
High-impact news restrictions also differ by program:
Instant Lite, Instant Elite, 1-Step and Prime 2-Step:
- You cannot open or close trades from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after a high-impact (“red folder”) release.
- This applies to both evaluation and earning accounts.
- It covers automatic closes too. A take-profit that triggers inside the window counts, even if the trade was opened earlier.
- Exception: a stop-loss hit inside the window is allowed if the position was opened more than 6 hours before the release.
Flex 1-Step:
- The window is wider: 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after.
- It covers scheduled releases and unscheduled market-moving events, such as major political speeches.
- Holding a position through news is allowed. Opening or closing inside the window is not.
- Violations are recorded whether the trade won or lost, and penalties escalate:
- Strike 1: the profit is deducted.
- Strike 2: the profit is deducted and the split drops from 85% to 60%.
- Strike 3: the account is closed as a hard breach.
- Strikes are cumulative and carry over from evaluation to funded. A trader who collects two strikes while passing the challenge starts the funded account at a 60% split, one strike from closure.
Flex 1-Step profit concentration
Flex 1-Step has no minimum trading days. It does have a concentration check instead. If a single trade idea makes more than 60% of the profit target during the evaluation, the funded account must log 4 profitable days of at least 0.5% each before the first payout.
On the $25K Flex account, the 12% target is $3,000, so 60% of it is $1,800. Pass the challenge mainly on one $2,000 trade and you will need four winning days on the funded account before you can withdraw. At 0.5% of a $25,000 balance, each of those days needs at least $125 of profit (this assumes the percentage is measured on the initial balance).
Instant account drawdown after withdrawals
On instant accounts, the maximum drawdown does not reset after a withdrawal. Once the maximum loss level has locked, withdrawing most or all of your profit shrinks the distance between your balance and the loss limit, sometimes to almost nothing. Instant traders often keep part of their profit in the account for that reason.
Inactivity, strategies and automation
Inactivity: you must close at least one trade every 30 days, or the account is automatically breached.
Prohibited methods:
- martingale and grid strategies
- latency arbitrage
- external hedging
- high-frequency trading
- tick scalping
- toxic trading flow
- bad-faith trading
- copy trading with third parties
- third-party account management
The firm also sets a minimum stop-loss distance, and orders placed closer than that can be rejected.
Expert advisors: EAs are allowed only when you make the trading decisions and the EA assists with execution or management. Examples include:
- position sizers
- risk calculators
- partial-close managers
- self-built EAs whose logic you control (you must be able to prove you own the source code)
Any EA that generates its own signals or places trades on its own logic is banned. This applies to every commercial and third-party EA, paid or free, regardless of settings.
Copy trading: allowed between your own personal accounts. The firm has an internal copy feature and a partnership with a cross-firm copy-trading tool for traders who run accounts at several prop firms.
Some terms need confirming before you buy. The strategy rules were revised with a list effective from March 12, 2026, so traders who passed under older terms should read the current version. The 15% consistency rule applies to Instant Lite accounts purchased from 17 August 2026, synthetic accounts carry a 25% rule once funded, and every other account, Flex 1-Step included, has none.
Synthetic plans
Synthetic plans trade the firm’s synthetic indices, a set of 24 instruments, instead of real-market CFDs. These plans now use the same 1-Step, 2-Step and Instant structures as the other programs, with their own targets, daily limits, loss limits and trading-day requirements. They also carry extra conditions:
- a 5-minute minimum holding time on each trade
- a 25% consistency rule
- an 80% profit share
- bi-weekly payouts with no faster schedule available as an add-on
- a $200 minimum payout, higher than the other programs
Payouts
The standard schedule is bi-weekly. On Instant Lite, Instant Elite, 1-Step, Flex 1-Step and Prime 2-Step, weekly or on-demand payouts are available as a paid add-on.
The firm reports processing times of less than 24 hours. Payout methods:
- credit/debit card
- crypto
- NGN bank transfer
- GCash
Minimum payout amounts by program:
| Program | Minimum payout |
|---|---|
| 1-Step, Instant Lite, Instant Elite, Prime 2-Step | $100 |
| Flex 1-Step | 1% of initial balance ($250 on a $25K account) |
| Synthetic | $200 |
Blueberry Funded reports about $9,000,000 paid to traders in total. The figure is self-reported and has not been independently verified.
Payouts can also be held back by the rules above, such as the four-day requirement after a concentrated Flex pass or a news strike deduction.
Strengths and trade-offs
What works in its favor:
- Broker backing from an established CFD broker, Blueberry Markets.
- No time pressure on Flex 1-Step, with no minimum days or time limit.
- Highest split on Flex: 85%, against 80% on the other programs.
- Fast reported processing, under 24 hours, including regional options such as NGN bank transfer and GCash.
- A second chance on Flex: a first per-trade risk violation is a soft breach.
- Two platforms: MT5 and TradeLocker.
What costs you flexibility:
- Per-trade risk caps of 1% to 1.5% of initial balance rule out large single bets and fast averaging after a loss.
- News rules count early take-profit fills inside the window, and Flex strikes follow you to the funded account.
- Instant drawdown shrinks your buffer with every withdrawal.
- Narrow automation rules. Signal-generating EAs are banned outright, commercial ones included.
- Paid upgrades for faster payouts and higher risk limits.
- A single-phase hurdle. Flex 1-Step demands a full 12% gain, equal to the drawdown.
How we checked Blueberry Funded
Our visit to blueberryfunded.com took place on 13 November 2026, connecting from Tallinn, Estonia. The home page opened without trouble. Down in the footer, under “Legal,” small print says the site is owned and operated by Blueberry Markets (SVG) LLC (2090 LLC 2022), with an address in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and that treasury services are facilitated by BBF Treasury Pty Ltd. From there we opened the About page, headlined “A broker backed prop firm: your trading edge,” and then read the help center articles on the 1.5% risk per trade idea rule and on account resets.
Prices were easy to find. On the home page, Flex 1 Step at the 50,000 size was listed at $490 and shown at $343.00 with a 30% off code, FLEX30. The Prime 2-Step Elite 5,000 account was listed at $69, shown at $48.30. Clicking “Get Funded →” under Prime 2-Step Elite took us straight to a checkout page with prices on it. We saw no sign-up step before that page, but we stopped there and bought nothing. The checkout named MT5 and Tradelocker as platforms. One rule in the trading rules section of the help center stood out: an account with no closed trades for 30 days is automatically breached.
No licence number or regulator statement appears on the site. We found no risk warning either. Because the firm claims no licence in a register we can query, there was no register check to run. The figure 2090 LLC 2022 sits next to the company name, though nothing presents it as a licence.
On Trustpilot, read 13 November 2026, the firm scored 3.4/5 from 1,760 reviews. The split is sharp. Of those reviews, 53% gave five stars and 35% gave one, and the company had replied to all 8 of the newest. The earliest Wayback Machine capture of the domain is dated 2024-07-17. Since we did not trade or request a withdrawal, we cannot confirm the “Over $9M Paid Out” claim or how quickly payouts actually arrive.
Who it may suit
Blueberry Funded’s rules favor discretionary traders on MT5 or TradeLocker who already size each trade at around 1% of their account and avoid trading through red-folder releases. The Flex 1-Step suits traders who want the higher split and no deadline, and who can spread a 12% gain across several trades rather than one large win.
It is a poor fit for:
- traders who run third-party or commercial EAs
- traders who use grid or martingale systems
- traders who scale into losing positions
- traders who trade high-impact news
Alternatives
| Provider | Score | Fee | Split | Payouts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.7/10 | $231 | 90/10 | every 3 days | Review | |
| 5.2/10 | $40 | Up to 100% | Weekly Available | Review | |
| 8.1/10 | $596 | Up to 90% | 14 days from the first day of trading | Review |
Sources
- help.blueberryfunded.com/en/articles/10622848-how-to-request-a-payout-
- help.blueberryfunded.com/en/
- help.blueberryfunded.com/en/articles/11329566-is-a-synthetic-plan-righ
- help.blueberryfunded.com/en/articles/16390565-why-can-t-i-request-a-pa
- help.blueberryfunded.com/en/articles/11874076-instant-elite-complete-g
- help.blueberryfunded.com/en/articles/16387829-how-do-payouts-work-on-a