Blue Guardian

News-Trading Policy

1. Accounts where news trading is allowed:
• News trading is fully allowed during challenge phases and on Instant Starter accounts.

2. Accounts where news trading is prohibited:
• Funded Accounts.
• Instant Standard accounts purchased after November 13, 2025.

3. Restrictions and time window for affected accounts:
• Opening or closing positions is prohibited from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after a high-impact Red Folder news release.
• The restriction also covers FOMC speeches and announcements.

4. Penalties for a breach:
• Profit deduction: any profits generated during the restricted 10-minute window will be removed.
• Note: This does not close the account and is not treated as a violation unless repeated malicious attempts to circumvent the system are identified.

Summary:
On a funded or Instant Standard account, avoid all trading activity—opening or closing positions—within 5 minutes before and after a high-impact news event to prevent profit deductions.

Payout policy for all evaluation account types

Payouts are available bi-weekly
A weekly payout add-on can be enabled at checkout.
You receive 85% of your profits.
A 90% profit split add-on can be enabled.
Minimum payout: $100.

Instant Standard Payout Policy

Payouts are available on demand after meeting the conditions below:
Meet the 20% Consistency Rule.
Meet the minimum trading-day requirement.

You receive 80% of your profits; a 90% profit split add-on can be enabled at checkout.
Minimum payout: $100.

Overnight and weekend holding is allowed on all accounts.

The account can scale up to $4 million.

Achieve 12% profit or more in a month and submit a scaling request to increase the account size by 30%.
Profits remain yours and are not deducted for scaling.

Instant accounts are not eligible for scaling.

Account Merging Rules

1. Account Merging:
• Maximum combined allocation: funded accounts of the same type may be merged up to a total of $400,000.
• Instant accounts: the maximum combined allocation is $200,000.
• Break-even requirement: the accounts must be at break-even, with no profit or loss, when the merging request is submitted.

2. Merging Restrictions:
• Cross-type merging is not allowed. Different account types cannot be merged; for example, a Two-Step Standard account cannot be merged with a Two-Step Pro account.

If the account remains without any trade for 30 days, it will be permanently closed.

Copy Trading Rules

1- What Is Allowed:
• Copy trading is allowed only between accounts legally owned by the same person.
• You may copy between your own Evaluation and Funded accounts.
• You may copy between Blue Guardian accounts and external accounts that you personally own.
• Instant Funding account holders may use an external trade copier, provided all connected accounts are owned by the same person.

2- Strictly Prohibited:
• Copying trades from accounts owned by other traders is prohibited.
• Using trade-copying tools that include accounts you do not legally own is prohibited.
• Third parties may not manage your accounts.

3. Tools and Platforms:
• The firm does not provide an internal trade copier, but third-party software may be used.
• You must ensure that the selected tool complies with the firm's policies and supports the required account types.

Summary:
You may copy your own trades across all accounts you legally own. Copying from other traders or allowing anyone else to manage your account is strictly prohibited.

Are EAs and Trade Copiers Allowed?

1. Expert Advisors (EAs):
• Yes, they are allowed.
• You may use EAs that you configure yourself to suit your own strategy or trading style.

2. Trade Copiers:
• Yes, they are allowed.

3. VPN and VPS Usage:
• These services are generally allowed.
• They must not be used to circumvent rules concerning copying other traders, group trading, or signal trading.

4. Consequences:
• If these services are misused to breach the agreement or Terms of Use, the account will be deemed failed and closed immediately.

Summary:
Automated tools and copying are permitted when they relate to your own strategy and accounts. Using a VPS to disguise trades that are not yours is strictly prohibited.

National ID, passport, or driving licence.
Selfie photo.

Hedging is allowed within the same account.
Martingale is allowed.

Rules for the $300K and $400K Instant Funding Accounts

1. Consistency Rule:
• A 15% Consistency Rule applies to these accounts.
2. Initial Reward Cap:
• Each of the first two reward requests is capped at $10,000.

3. Removal of the Cap:
• After the first two payouts are successfully completed and processed, the $10,000 cap is permanently removed.
• No additional payout caps apply after that, provided all other trading rules are followed.

Summary:
Initially, each of your first two payouts is capped at $10,000. After both are completed successfully while complying with the Consistency Rule, future payouts are uncapped.

What Is Guardian Shield?

The firm's analysis shows that exceeding the maximum daily drawdown is the leading cause of account breaches, accounting for more than 73% of all breached accounts.

The data also shows that the most profitable traders cut losses quickly and allow winning positions to run. Guardian Shield is therefore designed to encourage proper risk management and support more stable, sustainable profitability.

This feature applies only to funded Two-Step accounts.

If the floating loss on open positions reaches 2% of the account, or 1% on an Instant account, Guardian Shield will, in most cases, automatically close all open positions across all instruments and symbols.

This is treated as a soft breach, and trading may resume immediately after the positions are closed.

Example:
Example: You have a $100,000 funded account with three open positions. If the combined floating loss reaches $2,000, equal to 2% of the account, Guardian Shield will automatically close all open positions.

You may then continue trading normally.

Guardian Shield is an important risk-management tool that helps protect traders from losing funded accounts and encourages more stable profitability through better risk control.

Consequences of Triggering Guardian Shield:
• First trigger: the profit split is reduced to 50%.
• Second trigger: the account is permanently breached.

Important Note:
Guardian Shield does not reset after it is triggered, and the previous profit split cannot be restored. These changes are permanent and cannot be reversed.

A profitable day is a day in which you earn at least 0.5% of the account size. Profitable days do not need to be consecutive.

Scalping and Tick-Scalping Rules

1. Definition of Tick Scalping:
• Opening and closing trades in less than two minutes.
• The firm considers this an unfair attempt to exploit the system, especially when positions are repeatedly closed within seconds.

2. Policies and Restrictions:
• Minimum holding time: any trade closed in less than two minutes is classified as Tick Scalping.
• Manual and automated trading: this rule applies to manual trade closures and automated systems such as EAs.
• Penalties: repeated violations may lead to the removal of profits generated by these trades and may result in permanent account termination.

3. Permitted Practices:
• Normal scalping is allowed as long as trades are consistently held for more than two minutes.

4. Tips to Avoid Violations:
• Extend trade duration: keep positions open for longer than one to two minutes on average.
• Manage execution intervals: avoid opening many trades within very short periods and closing them immediately. Combining smaller lots into larger positions with a wider time horizon is preferable.
• Use caution with TP/SL: trades that hit targets within two minutes may be reviewed if this occurs excessively, even when the exits are automated.

Summary:
To protect the account, ensure that the average trade duration exceeds two minutes and avoid high-frequency strategies that close orders within seconds.

Anti-Fraud and Unfair-Trading Rules

1. Prohibited Exploitative Strategies:
Any strategy that exploits the demo nature of the accounts to generate unrealistic profits is prohibited, including:
• Exploiting platform freezes or demo-server errors.
• Trading from delayed data feeds or charts.
• Arbitrage in all forms, including reverse, latency, and hedge arbitrage, or the use of simulators.
• Rapid scalping, including Tick Scalping and high-frequency trading (HFT).
• Hedging is allowed within one account but strictly prohibited across different accounts.

2. Gambling Rule:
• The firm applies a strict policy against all-or-nothing trading.
• Technical definition: trading activity is considered gambling when margin usage on open positions exceeds 80% of the account balance.
• The purpose is to exclude traders who lack risk management and rely on oversized one-sided positions.

3. Account Activity and Password:
• Account inactivity: at least one trade must be placed every 30 days; otherwise, the account is considered inactive and will be closed.
• Password: the password sent by email must not be changed and must be used as provided to access the platform.

4. Market-Volatility Note:
• Slippage and delayed synchronisation during high-impact news may produce different outcomes, and the firm does not guarantee profits during these volatile periods.

Summary:
The firm expects you to trade responsibly as if the account were live. Avoid technical exploitation, keep the account active each month, and do not exceed 80% margin usage.