A Dubai forex funder with a broad plan ladder (1/2/3-Step, Rapid, Instant) and an 85% split scalable to 90%, plus a 24-business-hour payout guarantee. The defining trap is an equity-based daily drawdown that breaches on floating losses and uses the higher of balance-or-equity at the 5 PM EST reset — so a winning day tightens tomorrow's floor.
A flexible plan menu with a fast payout guarantee — but the equity-based daily drawdown that breaches on floating losses makes it less forgiving than it looks.
Pros
Wide model choice (1/2/3-Step, Rapid, Instant) and a deep account ladder to $400k
85% split scalable to 90%; Rapid pays every 3 days
24-business-hour payout guarantee — miss it and you get 100% of profits
EAs and trade copiers (across your own accounts) allowed; weekend/overnight holding allowed
Watch out
Daily drawdown is equity-based — an open floating loss can breach you without closing the trade
The daily floor uses the higher of balance-or-equity at 5 PM EST, so a winning day tightens tomorrow's limit
News window silently voids profits on funded accounts; consistency rule locks the payout button (15–25% by plan)
Best for: Intraday traders who manage floating risk tightly and want a fast, guaranteed payout cycle — and who pick the right plan's daily/max drawdown combination.
Bottom line: Good payout mechanics and plan variety, but the equity-based daily drawdown is the rule that catches most traders — size positions for the floating-loss check.
Quick facts
Account sizes
$5K – $400K (scales to $4M)
Profit split
85% – 90%
Max scaling
$4,000,000
Platforms
MT5, Match-Trader, MT4
Instruments
Forex, Indices, Metals, Crypto
Payouts
Bi-weekly (Rapid every 3 days); 24-business-hour guarantee
Typically 4% of initial balance (3% on Instant/1-Step Pro/Guardian X). At the 5:00 PM EST reset, Blue Guardian takes the HIGHER of your balance or equity, then subtracts a fixed % of the INITIAL balance to set that day's floor. It is then monitored on live equity including floating P&L — so an open losing position can breach you intraday without being closed.
Gotcha: Because the floor is set from the higher of balance-or-equity, a winning day raises tomorrow's bar against you — and unrealized losses count immediately.
Calculated as a % of the initial balance and checked on equity (including floating P&L). 2-Step Standard and 3-Step use an 8% STATIC floor; Rapid and Instant use a 6% line; 2-Step Pro a 10% line. On trailing variants the line follows your equity high and locks at the starting balance once you're ~6% in profit.
Gotcha: Static vs trailing varies by plan — confirm which you bought, because the 8% static 2-Step/3-Step behave very differently from the trailing Instant/Rapid lines.
Applies to Instant Standard & Guardian X (20%), Instant Starter (15%) and 2-Step Pro (25%): no single day's profit may be ≥ that share of total payout-period profit. The standard challenge plans (1/2/3-Step Standard) have NO consistency rule.
Gotcha: Breaching it doesn't void the account — it disables the payout button until your best day's share drops back below the threshold.
Allowed during evaluation. On funded accounts, opening or closing trades within ~2 minutes before/after a high-impact (red-folder) release is restricted — Instant Standard cites a 2-minute window. Profits from trades violating the window are removed, but the account is not necessarily breached.
Gotcha: The penalty is silent — your trade isn't voided, just its profit, so funded gains can quietly disappear.
Holding overnight and over weekends is allowed on the forex product, subject to plan rules. (The separate Blue Guardian Futures product does NOT allow overnight holds.)
EAs implementing your own strategy are allowed and encouraged; trade copiers (including across your own accounts) and VPS are allowed. Prohibited: using EAs/copiers to bypass rules on copy/group/signal trading, and copying other users' signals or group-buy services.
Gotcha: Copying your own accounts is fine; copying someone else's signals is not.
2-Step Standard needs 5 trading days (a valid day = ≥0.5% profit; days need not be consecutive). 3-Step needs 3 days per phase. Pro, Rapid and Instant plans have no minimum days to pass.
85% base split, scalable to 90% (Instant Starter is lower, ~50%). Standard funded pays every 14 days; Rapid every 3 days. Requests accepted Mon–Fri before 3 PM CST, processed within 24 business hours — and if an eligible payout misses that window you receive 100% of profits. First payout needs ≥6% of starting balance (then ≥4%); $500 minimum. KYC required (before trading on Instant).
Gotcha: The '24-hour' guarantee is 24 BUSINESS hours and the request must land before 3 PM CST on a weekday — weekend requests don't start the clock.
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