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Blue Guardian Futures is the futures desk of Blue Guardian. The official futures help center (July 2026 introduction + account-model collection) now sells four current models:
That is not the old Instant / 1-Step / 2-Step / 3-Step seed language still sitting in our firm JSON. Official wins. The marketing homepage at blueguardian.com/futures still shows Instant / 1-Step / 2-Step cards that read like the shop mixed into a futures URL — do not buy off that picker without matching the article name.
Verification: PENDING. Our structured catalog still only prices a $100K Standard example ($467 list). Official articles publish rules for $25K–$150K across four models. Checkout dollars for most SKUs are PENDING here.
Current promo: Official futures page showed BG25 — 25% off. Confirm at checkout. Affiliate link in catalog points at the official futures page.
Official: no daily loss limit by default; optional DLL add-on (soft breach) at $600 / $1,200 / $1,700 / $3,000 on $25K–$150K. Challenge consistency 50% with a 1% cushion (largest day up to 51%). Funded: 5 winning days ($100 / $150 / $200 / $250), request up to 50% of profit with caps $1,000 / $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000. No buffer.
Purchases on/after July 27, 2026: payouts 2–5 also need net profit since last payout ($500 / $750 / $1,000 / $1,250). Pre-July 27 Reserve keeps original payout rules for the life of the account.
Size
Target
Max DD (EOD)
Eval max size
Reset
Reactivation (pre-first-payout, max 2, 30 days)
$25K
$1,500
$1,500
2 / 20 (then scaling)
$75
$300
$50K
$3,000
$2,000
4 / 40
$104
$600
$100K
$6,000
$3,500
8 / 80
$167
$750
$150K
$9,000
$5,000
12 / 120
$312
$900
Official lock examples while trailing: $26,600 / $52,100 / $103,600 / $156,100 — then lock at start after trail completes; after payout, lock at start+$100.
Min withdrawal: $100 crypto / $500 Rise. Instant payout after winning-day (and post-July 27 net-profit) rules.
Official: pass in as little as one day. 6% target. Soft DLL 2% of initial except $25K has no DLL. Consistency 40% on funded only. Payouts 3 days after first trade. Buffer required.
Size
Target
DLL
Max DD
1st cap / 2nd+ cap
Funded buffer
Reset
Reactivation
$25K
$1,500
None
$1,500
$1,500 / $2,000
$1,600
$104
$450
$50K
$3,000
$1,000 soft
$2,000
$2,500 / $3,000
$2,100
$141
$750
$100K
$6,000
$2,000 soft
$3,500
$3,000 / $3,500
$3,600
$223
$900
$150K
$9,000
$3,000 soft
$5,000
$4,000 / $4,500
$5,100
$286
$1,200
Conflict with our JSON: seed still shows a $100K Standard at $6,000 target / $6,000 drawdown / $3,000 DLL / 40% and Instant Guardian "first $15,000 at 100%" language. Official Standard table is $3,500 max DD and $2,000 soft DLL on $100K. Instant Guardian first-$15K is legacy — see the help center's "Legacy Account Models" article, not a current purchase.
Official Standard processing line says 1 business hour (other models say 24 business hours). We are not merging those into one number — confirm the article for your model.
Official Express table we fetched lists $50K / $100K / $150K (no $25K row on that overview). 6% target. Soft DLL 2%. Challenge consistency 40%. Daily payout caps + buffer. Instant payout once eligible.
Size
Target
DLL
Max DD
Daily payout cap
Buffer
Reset
Reactivation
$50K
$3,000
$1,000
$2,000
$1,100
$2,100
$121
$649
$100K
$6,000
$2,000
$3,500
$2,200
$3,600
$191
$999
$150K
$9,000
$3,000
$5,000
$3,300
$5,100
$261
$1,499
A separate payout-policy article also lists a $25K Express daily cap $550 / buffer $1,600. That $25K row was not on the Express overview table we fetched — treat $25K Express as confirm-live.
Official: no profit target, no eval. Sign the trader agreement and trade.
Size
DLL (on/after Jul 21, 2026)
Max DD
Max size
1st goal / later
Caps 1–3 / 4+
$25K
$1,000
$1,500
1 / 10
$1,500 / $1,000
$1,000 / $1,000
$50K
$1,250
$2,000
4 / 40
$3,000 / $2,000
$2,000 / $2,500
$100K
$2,500
$3,500
8 / 80
$6,000 / $3,500
$2,500 / $3,000
$150K
$3,000
$4,500
12 / 120
$9,000 / $4,500
$3,000 / $3,500
Dated official exceptions:
Purchased before July 21, 2026: no DLL
$50K purchased July 21–26, 2026: DLL stays $1,500
Drawdown rewrite: purchases on/after July 27, 2026
Consistency scales: 20% first payout, 25% second, 30% third+. No buffer. Min withdrawal $1,000 (Rise and crypto). DLL is soft. News allowed. Full instant comparison: instant funding 2026.
Direct checkout prices: PENDING on our structured table.
Is Blue Guardian Futures the old Instant / 3-Step firm?
Those names are legacy on the official account-model collection. Current help: Reserve / Standard / Express / Direct.
Does Direct skip the evaluation?
Yes — official Direct article.
Is news allowed?
On the four current futures model articles: yes. Our JSON newsTrading: false is stale — official wins.
What is code BG25?
Public 25% language on the official futures page when we checked. Confirm checkout.
Blue Guardian Futures is a four-SKU shop if you read helpfutures. It is a trap if you read the mixed homepage or our old Instant/1-2-3 seed blurb. Direct is a real skip-eval path with July 2026 DLL/drawdown dates. Reserve/Standard/Express are the evals. Until we restructure the JSON fee table, treat checkout as PENDING and the help articles as the rulebook.
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