A genuinely broker-backed firm (by Blueberry Markets) with simple static drawdown, no consistency rule, and a loosened post-March-2026 ruleset. The real traps are a strict no-close-during-news policy and an aggressive 1.5%-per-trade-idea loss cap on funded accounts.
Broker-backed credibility, simple static drawdown and no consistency rule — but the strict no-close-during-news policy and the 1.5% per-trade-idea cap on funded accounts are the real traps.
Pros
Backed by Blueberry Markets, a real regulated broker — rare in prop
No consistency rule on any plan (challenge or funded)
Static (non-trailing) max drawdown on 1-Step and 2-Step — the floor never moves
Low 3-day minimum to qualify; weekend/overnight holding allowed on all plans
Watch out
Funded accounts carry a hard 1.5%-per-'trade-idea' loss cap (with a 10-min re-entry trap)
Strict news policy — you generally can't even CLOSE in the window, and 3+ news trades voids a payout
Instant Lite/Elite use a trailing-lock drawdown and aren't eligible for scaling
Best for: Swing/intraday traders who want simple static drawdown and no consistency rule, and who don't scalp, news-trade or run HFT/arbitrage.
Bottom line: A credible broker-backed pick for clean discretionary traders; just respect the 1.5% per-trade cap and the news window.
Quick facts
Account sizes
$5K – $200K
Profit split
80% (→90% via scaling)
Max scaling
$2,000,000
Platforms
MT4, MT5, DXtrade, TradingView
Instruments
Forex, Indices, Metals, Crypto
Payouts
Every 14 days (7-day/on-demand add-ons); ≥$100 + min days
1-Step 6% and 2-Step 10% are STATIC, measured from the initial account size — the floor never moves. Instant Lite (4%) and Elite (10%) use a 'trailing-lock' that trails up to the starting balance, then locks permanently. Breach is on either equity or balance touching the floor.
Gotcha: On Instant accounts a floating-equity spike can put the daily limit below the locked max-DD, breaching you on a close even with a small profit (per Blueberry's own examples).
1-Step 4%, 2-Step 5%, Instant Lite 2%, Instant Elite NONE — a fixed dollar amount based on the higher of balance or equity at the start of the day. Resets at 5:00 PM EST.
Gotcha: It's anchored to the day's opening higher-of figure (not a live trailing number), and resets at NY close, not local midnight.
No consistency rule on any plan (challenge or funded) — no best-day cap, no profit-distribution requirement. You can make most of your profit in one trade or day.
Gotcha: 'Bad faith trading' (end-of-challenge outsized-risk inflation) can still be judged manually even without a hard consistency %.
On funded/Instant accounts (NOT during the challenge), no single 'trade idea' may lose 1.5% or more of the initial account size — e.g. $1,500 on a $100k. A 'trade idea' bundles a single trade, split positions on the same idea, AND any new same-direction position opened within 10 minutes of closing a loser.
Gotcha: The 10-minute re-entry aggregation is the trap: re-entering the same direction after a loss stacks the loss toward the 1.5% cap — and reaching it exactly (not just exceeding) is a hard breach = immediate closure.
No opening OR closing trades 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after high-impact news, in challenge AND funded — including pending-order triggers and TP/SL fills. Exception: a position opened >6 hours before whose stop-loss hits in the window is fine. Restrictions extend across correlated instruments (USD news restricts gold, oil, US indices, BTC/ETH).
Gotcha: You generally can't even CLOSE in the window. On funded accounts, news-trade profits are removed at payout — and 3+ news trades in one payout request VOIDS the entire payout and resets the account to the starting balance.
EAs are allowed for normal strategies (no HFT, tick-scalping or news-sniping bots). Copy trading between your OWN Blueberry accounts is allowed; copying from third-party accounts/signal services or handing over login is a hard breach. Hedging is allowed within a single account but prohibited across two accounts or external brokers.
Gotcha: Granting login access to anyone or any service is immediate termination, and cross-account/external hedging is a hard breach.
Prohibited at all stages: all arbitrage (latency, long-short, reverse), HFT, tick scalping (holding seconds for minimal moves), external hedging, toxic order flow and bad-faith trading.
Gotcha: 'Tick scalping' is broadly defined — consistent very-short-hold scalping can be flagged even if profitable. On Instant Sim accounts there are NO warnings: any violation = immediate termination.
Min trading days: 1-Step & 2-Step need 3 active days (per phase and per payout cycle); Instant needs 5 (reducible to 3 via add-on). A day counts only if you book ≥0.5% REALIZED (closed) profit. Inactivity: 30 consecutive days without a completed (open+close) trade is a breach/auto-closure on all plans.
Gotcha: The 0.5%-realized-profit requirement is unusual — small scalps or floating-but-unclosed gains don't qualify a day.
Funded split 80% flat, paid every 14 days (7-day or on-demand via add-ons), once you've booked ≥$100 realized profit and your required active days. Scaling (evaluation plans only — Instant NOT eligible): ≥10% net profit over 3 consecutive months + ≥4 payouts → split up to 90%, balance +25% every 3 months, max $2M allocation.
Gotcha: Instant accounts get no scaling, and a news-trading violation can void an entire payout and reset the account (see news rule).
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