Which Blue Guardian Futures Plan to Pick? Standard, Reserve, Express or Direct With Coupon Code BRIDGE (November 2026)

Quick answer: Blue Guardian Futures sells four plans: Standard, Reserve, Express (one-step evaluations with a 6% target) and Direct (instant funded). With coupon code BRIDGE (25% off all 16 accounts, tested at checkout on 13 November 2026) they run from $79.50 (Express $25K) to $618.00 (Direct $150K). Pick by how you trade, not by price alone. Every price, checked daily, is on the Blue Guardian Futures coupon code page.

Which Blue Guardian Futures plan to pick with coupon code "BRIDGE": Standard vs Reserve vs Express vs Direct

Blue Guardian Futures promo code "BRIDGE": 25% off, tested at checkout on 13 November 2026

Blue Guardian Futures discount code "BRIDGE": same rules, lower one-time fee

BRIDGE is independently verified: Akash Mane tests it by hand at Blue Guardian Futures' own checkout every day. On the checkout test, a $100K Direct account showed a $659 subtotal, a $164.75 reduction and a $494.25 total.

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Four plans, four sizes: sixteen accounts. The cheapest is not always the right one. This guide compares the plans on what the site's data records: price, target, drawdown, daily loss limit, contract limits and payout rules. The fee is one-time with a $0 activation fee, and the split is 90%.

What are the four Blue Guardian Futures plans?

Blue Guardian Futures plans with discount code "BRIDGE": the one-line version of each

How do the plans differ in one table?

Which plan is the most conventional?

Standard. It has flat contract limits (1, 4, 8 and 12 minis by size), an end-of-day trailing drawdown, a 40% consistency rule and a buffer before payouts. If you want the rules to be predictable, start here.

Where do micros fit?

Ten micros equal one mini on the contract limits. MNQ moves $2 per point and MES $5 per point, against NQ at $20 per point and ES at $12.50 per tick, so micros let you size inside a small drawdown.

My experience: I read the rules page of each plan before I tested the code. The names sound alike, the rules are not, so I now compare them in a table first.

Blue Guardian Futures price and loss room by plan and size

Blue Guardian Futures price with coupon code "BRIDGE": every account, loss room and target

What does cost per $100 of drawdown tell you?

It shows how much you pay for each $100 of room to be wrong. Express $50K is the lowest at $5.14. Direct is the highest because you pay for skipping the evaluation. Our price for every account size article ranks all sixteen.

What does the evaluation target cost in time?

A 6% target is $1,500 on $25K, $3,000 on $50K, $6,000 on $100K and $9,000 on $150K. Your trading days and consistency decide how long that takes. Direct has no target, only a payout goal.

My experience: the table surprised me: the middle sizes of Reserve and Express give the most loss room per dollar, not the smallest accounts.

Which plan if you want the lowest fee?

Blue Guardian Futures promo code "BRIDGE": the cheapest routes

Express $25K at $79.50 or Reserve $25K at $82.50?

Both give $1,000 of drawdown on a $25K account. Express costs $3 less and is built around business-day payouts with a funded buffer and a $1,100 daily cap. Reserve needs five qualifying winning days of at least $100 and pays up to 50% of profit per request subject to a cap. With a $1,000 drawdown on either, one oversized NQ trade can end it.

Is a bigger cheap account better?

Express $50K at $102.75 doubles the drawdown to $2,000 for $23.25 more than Express $25K, which is why it has the best cost per $100 of room. The $50K Reserve at $115.50 is the same room for $12.75 more.

What does the cheapest route not include?

It does not include lower rules. Targets, consistency and micro-scalp limits still apply. The fee is the smallest part of a failed attempt compared with the time spent.

My experience: I keep a note: the cheapest plan is only cheap if its payout rule fits the way I trade.

Which plan if you want the least friction at the first payout?

Blue Guardian Futures Standard coupon code "BRIDGE": predictable rules

Why Standard suits rule-followers

Standard has flat contract limits and a clear first payout path: three days after the first funded trade, then the target, the buffer ($1,600 / $2,100 / $3,600 / $5,100) and 40% consistency. The first caps are $1,500 / $2,500 / $3,000 / $4,000. After a payout, the drawdown locks at the starting balance plus $100. The rules are on the firm's Standard account rules page.

Why Reserve suits steady, small winners

Reserve rewards five qualifying winning days (minimum $100 / $150 / $200 / $250) and has no funded consistency rule or payout buffer. Funded contracts start at 1, 2, 3 and 3 minis and scale with end-of-day profit, so size grows only after profit. Accounts bought after the late July 2026 update face net-profit requirements in cycles two to five. Rules: Reserve account rules.

How the 40% and 50% consistency rules differ

Standard applies 40% in the payout cycle; Reserve applies a 50% rule with a 1% cushion in the evaluation only. With a 40% rule, a $1,000 best day needs $2,500 of total profit. With a 50% rule, it needs $2,000.

My experience: the sticky-note exercise helped: write the buffer, the cap and the consistency ratio side by side before choosing.

Which plan if you want to skip the evaluation?

Blue Guardian Futures Direct discount code "BRIDGE": instant funded from $230.25

What do you pay for with Direct?

Direct is instant funded: $230.25 ($25K), $370.50 ($50K), $494.25 ($100K) and $618.00 ($150K) with BRIDGE. You trade the funded account from day one, with a soft daily loss limit of $1,000 / $1,250 / $2,500 / $3,000 and flat contract limits of 1, 4, 8 and 12 minis.

How do Direct payouts work?

On demand once the payout goal, consistency (20% / 25% / 30% by cycle) and risk conditions are met, with no buffer. The first three caps are $1,000 / $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000 and from the fourth $1,000 / $2,500 / $3,000 / $3,500. The drawdown locks after the first payout. See our payout rules article.

Is skipping the evaluation worth the extra fee?

Compare the Direct $100K at $494.25 with the Standard $100K at $247.50. The difference is $246.75. The Direct drawdown is the same $3,500, with a lower first payout cap ($2,500 against $3,000). The extra money buys time, not room.

My experience: the comparison that stuck with me was that Direct and Standard share the same $3,500 drawdown at $100K, so the extra fee buys the skipped evaluation and nothing else.

Which plan if you trade with a daily loss limit in mind?

Blue Guardian Futures coupon code "BRIDGE": daily loss rules by plan

What are the daily loss limits?

What does soft mean?

A soft limit closes positions and disables trading until the next trading day. A hard breach, such as the maximum drawdown, ends the account.

Why does the end-of-day trailing drawdown matter?

It is measured on the closing balance, not tick by tick, so intraday swings do not move the floor the way a real-time trailing drawdown would. The floor still rises with profit until the lock after a payout.

My experience: reading soft versus hard in the rules saved me a wrong assumption: a soft limit pauses the day, it does not end the account.

Which plan suits which trader?

Blue Guardian Futures promo code "BRIDGE": matching plan to trading style

What rules apply to every plan?

Overnight holding is allowed, weekend holding is not (window 5:00 PM to 3:10 PM CT). News trading is allowed on evaluation and funded accounts. Inactivity limits are 30 days on evaluation and 7 days funded. Expert advisors are allowed. Copying is allowed only between your own accounts. Less than 50% of profit may come from trades held under 10 seconds.

Platforms and costs

Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView (via Tradovate) and DeepCharts are supported. Per-side costs include ES and NQ $2.88, MES $0.80 and MNQ $0.95. Data: CME Level 1 is included on DeepCharts; other exchange Level 1 is $5 and Level 2 is $12.10 per exchange or $36.50 for the CME Group package.

My experience: I match plan to habits, not hopes: if I can not follow a rule on a quiet day, I should not pick a plan built on it.

How to apply BRIDGE and what to check before paying

How to use Blue Guardian Futures coupon code "BRIDGE" in 4 steps

1. Open Blue Guardian Futures and sign in.
2. Choose your plan and size.
3. Type BRIDGE in capitals in the code box.
4. Check the total dropped by 25%, then pay.

Does BRIDGE work if I have bought before?

The offer record is set for all customers with no new or returning split, so 25% should apply either way. For resets and data upgrades, check the checkout total. Our records also carry a second, larger BRIDGE row on the Express sizes that we have not confirmed at checkout, so on Express use the total you see.

Why do other coupon codes fail, and can I stack two?

Untested codes may be expired or lower. One code per order. See the coupon page, every price checked daily.

My experience: typing BRIDGE by hand, not pasting it, avoided a stray space each time.

Standard vs Reserve: the two classic evaluations head to head

Blue Guardian Futures coupon code "BRIDGE": which evaluation suits your trading days

Standard and Reserve both make you pass an evaluation with a 6% target before you are funded: $1,500 on the $25K, $3,000 on the $50K, $6,000 on the $100K and $9,000 on the $150K. After that the two programmes go in different directions. Here are the differences that change which one a trader should pick.

Pick Standard if

You want the larger drawdown on the $100K and $150K sizes ($3,500 and $5,000), you are happy to meet a buffer before payouts, and your profit tends to come in steady days rather than one big one. Standard's funded contract limit stays flat, so a trader who passed with four minis on the $50K can keep using four minis once funded.

Pick Reserve if

You trade part-time, you dislike daily loss limits, or you want the lowest fee among the two-step style programmes. Reserve is $33.00 cheaper than Standard at $25K, $41.25 at $50K, $61.50 at $100K and $19.50 at $150K. The catch is on the funded side: contract limits start low (one mini on the $25K, two on the $50K, three on the $100K and $150K) and each payout is limited to 50% of profit plus a cap. A trader who used eight minis to pass the $100K will have to trade at three to begin with.

The cost per $100 of drawdown

On Standard the $150K gives the best rate: $318.00 for $5,000, or $6.36 per $100. On Reserve the $25K is the most expensive per $100 at $8.25, and the $50K is the cheapest at $5.78 ($115.50 for $2,000), ahead of the $100K at $6.20 and the $150K at $6.63. Express beats both on this measure at every size, which is why it deserves its own comparison below.

My experience: the line that decided this comparison for me, reading the two rulebooks, was the funded contract limit on Reserve. It is easy to miss on a price table and it changes how the funded stage feels from day one.

Express vs Reserve: the two cheapest programmes compared

Blue Guardian Futures promo code "BRIDGE": frequent payouts or no daily limit?

Express and Reserve are the two cheapest programmes at every size, and they share the same drawdown: $1,000, $2,000, $3,000 and $4,500. With BRIDGE, Express is $3.00 cheaper at $25K, $12.75 at $50K, $14.25 at $100K and $39.75 at $150K. So the decision is not about price. It is about how you want to be paid.

Express in one paragraph

Express has a 40% consistency rule on the evaluation, a funded buffer to meet and keep, and payouts built around business days with a $1,100 daily payout cap as the site records it. At 90%, a request at that cap pays $990. We do not have a verified figure for the Express funded buffer or for any funded daily loss limit, so check both in the dashboard before you trade the funded account.

Reserve in one paragraph

Reserve has a 50% evaluation consistency rule with a 1% cushion, no standard daily loss limit, no funded consistency rule, and payouts after five qualifying winning days, each limited to 50% of profit plus a cap. For accounts bought after late July 2026, cycles two to five carry net-profit requirements.

Who should pick which

• You want small, regular withdrawals: Express.
• You trade three days a week or less: Reserve, because its winning days do not need to be in a row and there is no daily loss limit to plan around.
• Your profit comes in lumpy days: Reserve on the funded side, because it has no funded consistency rule. On the evaluation, both programmes have one, so neither escapes it entirely.
• You want to leave most of the profit in the account to build a cushion: Reserve's 50% limit does that for you. On Express you choose.

My experience: on paper these two look almost the same, and the prices are close. Reading the payout pages one after the other is what makes the difference clear: Express is about the pace of withdrawals, Reserve is about freedom on the trading days.

Direct vs an evaluation: when skipping the test is worth the price

Blue Guardian Futures discount code "BRIDGE": the break-even between Direct and a retry

Direct gives a funded account straight away with no evaluation. With BRIDGE it costs $230.25, $370.50, $494.25 or $618.00. The question every trader asks is whether that is cheaper than buying an evaluation and maybe retrying. Here is the arithmetic.

On the $100K, one Direct costs $0.75 less than two Standard attempts ($495.00). On the $25K, it costs about the same as two Standard attempts or almost three Express attempts. So the rule of thumb is simple: if you honestly expect to need more than two or three attempts to pass an evaluation, Direct is not more expensive. If you expect to pass in one or two, an evaluation is cheaper.

What Direct changes beyond the price

Direct has a soft daily loss limit ($1,000, $1,250, $2,500 and $3,000), no buffer, and consistency rules of 20%, 25% and 30% depending on the payout cycle. Its first three payouts are capped at $1,000, $2,000, $2,500 and $3,000 by size, rising to $1,000, $2,500, $3,000 and $3,500 from the fourth. The drawdown is $1,500, $2,000, $3,500 and $4,500 and locks after the first payout. A trader on Direct is under funded-account rules from the first day, with no practice period, which suits traders who are already consistent and want the evaluation out of the way.

My experience: the $100K line in this table is the one I find most useful. When one Direct and two evaluations cost the same to the dollar, the question becomes "would I rather have a funded account now or two tries at one?", which is a much more honest question than "which is cheaper?"

Pick the size from your stop, not from the profit target

Blue Guardian Futures coupon code "BRIDGE": a sizing table for every account

Most traders choose a size by looking at the profit they could make. A safer way is to start from the drawdown and ask how many normal losing trades it can take. The table below uses one common rule: risk no more than 10% of the drawdown on any single trade. That is a planning rule, not a rule of the firm, and you can use a smaller figure if you prefer.

Two things follow from this table. First, a trader who wants to trade one full ES contract with a 10-point stop ($500 of risk) needs at least the Standard $150K under this rule. Second, a micro trader with tight stops is well served by the $25K and $50K sizes, which are also the cheapest. Before you trade, check the firm's contract limit for your programme and how micros count toward it in your dashboard, because the limits are set in minis.

Use the soft daily loss limit as a second check

On Standard, the soft daily loss limit is $1,000 on the $50K, $2,000 on the $100K and $3,000 on the $150K; the $25K has none. On Direct, it is $1,000, $1,250, $2,500 and $3,000. If your risk per trade is $200 on the Standard $50K, five losing trades in a day reach the daily limit. Decide in advance how many losses end your day, and make that number smaller than the limit allows.

Our position size calculator does this arithmetic for any stop and instrument.

My experience: building this table changed my view of the $150K accounts. They are not only for big targets. They are the smallest accounts where one full-size contract fits a normal stop inside a careful risk rule.

Which Blue Guardian Futures plan for which trader: six profiles

Blue Guardian Futures promo code "BRIDGE": find the profile closest to you

1. New to futures, trading micros

Express $25K or $50K. The fees are the lowest in the lineup ($79.50 and $102.75 with BRIDGE), the drawdowns fit micro risk, and the frequent payout design rewards small, steady profits. Read the 10-second rule before you start: less than 50% of your profit may come from trades held under 10 seconds.

2. Part-time trader with a day job

Reserve $50K. No standard daily loss limit, winning days that do not need to be in a row, and a fee of $115.50 with BRIDGE. Keep one trade every seven calendar days on the funded account to avoid the inactivity rule.

3. Full-size ES or NQ trader with normal stops

Standard $150K at $318.00 with BRIDGE, for the $5,000 drawdown and a flat 12-mini limit. If that is too much money at once, the Express $150K at $258.75 gives $4,500 of drawdown.

4. Consistent trader who wants to skip the test

Direct, at the size that matches your normal risk. The Direct $50K at $370.50 has $2,000 of drawdown and a $1,250 soft daily limit. Remember the consistency rules of 20% to 30% by cycle, which favour very even profits.

5. Trader whose profit comes in a few big days

Reserve, for the funded stage with no consistency rule. On the evaluation, Reserve's 50% rule with a 1% cushion is still looser than the 40% rules on Standard and Express.

6. Trader running more than one account

Up to five funded accounts are allowed, with $750,000 of combined nominal allocation. Copying is allowed only between your own accounts. Two Express $50K accounts cost $205.50 together with BRIDGE, against $171.75 for one Express $100K, so splitting costs $33.75 more for two separate floors.

My experience: writing these out, I noticed that no single programme wins more than two profiles. That is a good sign for traders: the four programmes really are different, and the right pick depends on how you trade, not on which one is popular.

Mistakes traders make when choosing a Blue Guardian Futures plan

Blue Guardian Futures discount code "BRIDGE": avoid these before you pay

1. Choosing by profit target. A $9,000 target on the $150K sounds attractive, but the account is right only if your stop fits its drawdown.
2. Missing the Reserve funded contract limit. Passing with eight minis and being funded at three is a big change in how you trade.
3. Assuming Express has no funded daily loss limit. We do not have a verified figure for it. Check the dashboard before trading the funded account.
4. Forgetting the trading window. Trading runs from 5:00 PM to 3:10 PM CT, subject to product hours, and positions cannot be held over the weekend.
5. Treating Direct as a shortcut for an inconsistent trader. Its 20% to 30% consistency rules are stricter than the evaluation programmes, not looser.
6. Trading news on a Live account. News trading is allowed on evaluation and funded accounts but not on Live accounts.
7. Not confirming the price. BRIDGE takes 25% off all four programmes; check that the checkout total shows it before you pay. Some Express listings show an old 50% row, which is switched off. The code is 25%.

A two-minute decision checklist

Blue Guardian Futures coupon code "BRIDGE": answer these five questions in order

1. Do you want to skip the evaluation? Yes: Direct. No: go to 2.
2. Do you trade three days a week or less, or dislike daily loss limits? Yes: Reserve. No: go to 3.
3. Do you want small, frequent payouts? Yes: Express. No: go to 4.
4. Do you need the biggest drawdown for full-size contracts? Yes: Standard $100K or $150K. No: Express is the cheapest fit.
5. Which size? Use the sizing table above: the smallest size whose 10% risk figure covers your normal stop.

Then buy at Blue Guardian Futures with BRIDGE in the discount box, and confirm the total. Today's tested result is on the Blue Guardian Futures coupon page.

My experience: BRIDGE, the code I used at checkout, is independently verified: Akash Mane tests it by hand at Blue Guardian Futures' own checkout every day. The checklist above is the part that saves the most money, though, because it stops you buying the wrong account at any price.

Standard vs Express: same 40% rule, different pace

Blue Guardian Futures discount code "BRIDGE": when the cheaper programme is the better one

Standard and Express both use a 40% consistency rule on the evaluation and both ask for a funded buffer before payouts. That makes them easy to confuse. The differences are price, drawdown at the larger sizes, and how payouts are paced.

At $25K and $50K the drawdown is the same, so Express is simply $36.00 and $54.00 cheaper. At $100K and $150K, Standard costs $75.75 and $59.25 more and gives $500 more drawdown. Whether that $500 is worth it depends on your stop. For a trader risking $350 a trade, $500 is more than one extra losing trade of room. For a micro trader risking $60, it is eight more.

On payouts, Standard has fixed first payout caps ($1,500, $2,500, $3,000 and $4,000) and opens from three days after the first funded trade. Express is built around business-day payouts with a $1,100 daily cap as the site records it. A trader who wants one solid first payout may prefer Standard's caps; a trader who wants to withdraw little and often will prefer Express.

My experience: at the two smaller sizes I could not find a rule in the help pages that made Standard the better buy over Express for a typical micro trader. At the two larger sizes, the extra $500 of drawdown is a real reason to pay more.

The same trader on all four plans: a worked comparison

Blue Guardian Futures promo code "BRIDGE": one $50K trader, four sets of rules

To see how the plans differ in practice, take one example trader and run the rules for each $50K account. The trader risks $150 a trade on MNQ, trades four days a week, and in this example makes profit in uneven days: one day of $700 and several of $150 to $250. These are illustrations of how each rulebook reads the same pattern, not a prediction of results.

On Standard $50K ($156.75 with BRIDGE)

The evaluation target is $3,000. With a $700 best day, the 40% rule needs total profit of at least $1,750, which the target already covers, so the best day is not a problem on the evaluation. Funded, the soft daily loss limit of $1,000 allows six losing trades of $150 before it is reached. The buffer of $2,100 must be built before the first request, and a request is capped at $2,500.

On Reserve $50K ($115.50 with BRIDGE)

The 50% evaluation rule with a 1% cushion is the loosest of the four, so the $700 day causes no trouble. Funded, there is no consistency rule. Every winning day of $150 or more counts toward the five qualifying days, and the trader's $150 to $250 days all qualify. The catch: funded trading starts at a limit of two minis on the $50K, and each payout is half the profit plus a cap.

On Express $50K ($102.75 with BRIDGE)

Same 40% evaluation rule as Standard, same $2,000 drawdown, $54.00 cheaper. Funded, the buffer must be met and payouts can then be taken in smaller steps up to the daily cap. Check the funded daily loss limit in the dashboard before the first funded day, because we do not have a verified figure for it.

On Direct $50K ($370.50 with BRIDGE)

No evaluation. The soft daily loss limit is $1,250, and the drawdown is $2,000. The consistency rule runs at 20%, 25% or 30% depending on the cycle. At 25%, a $700 best day needs $2,800 of total cycle profit before a request; at 20%, it needs $3,500. For this trader's uneven pattern, Direct is the strictest of the four on payouts, even though it skips the evaluation.

For this example trader, Reserve or Express fits best, and Direct fits worst. A trader with very even days would get a different answer. That is the point of running your own pattern through each rulebook before you buy.

Rules that are the same on every Blue Guardian Futures plan

Blue Guardian Futures coupon code "BRIDGE": what does not change when you switch programme

Some rules apply whichever plan you pick, so they should not decide your choice, but you do need to know them:

• 90% profit split on funded payouts, paid by Rise or crypto, after KYC.
• End-of-day trailing drawdown, with the floor still enforced during the session.
• The 10-second rule: less than 50% of total profit may come from trades held under 10 seconds.
• Trading window from 5:00 PM to 3:10 PM CT, subject to product hours, and no weekend holding.
• Inactivity: at least one trade every 30 calendar days on an evaluation and every seven calendar days on a funded account.
• Automation: EAs are allowed, and copy trading only between your own accounts.
• Platforms: Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView and DeepCharts, with CME Level 1 data included on DeepCharts.
• Account limits: up to five funded accounts and $750,000 of combined nominal allocation.
• Fees: one-time, with no activation fee, and BRIDGE takes 25% off every programme and size.

Because these are shared, the real choice comes down to four things: drawdown size, daily loss limit, consistency rule and payout pace. The comparisons above cover each one.

Can you change plan later?

Blue Guardian Futures discount code "BRIDGE": switching, adding and upgrading accounts

Our record does not show a way to convert one programme into another after purchase, so plan as if the programme you buy is the one you keep. What you can do is buy a second account on a different programme, up to the five-account limit. Many traders start with one cheaper account to learn the rules and add a second once they know which rules suit them. With BRIDGE, a Reserve $25K at $82.50 and an Express $25K at $79.50 together cost $162.00, which is less than one Standard $50K at list price ($209.00). Resets and other extras are not covered by our offer record, so check the checkout total before buying one. If the firm changes any rule after you buy, we log it on our rule changes tracker.

My experience: the cleanest way to choose, after reading all four rulebooks, is to buy the plan that fits how you trade today, not how you hope to trade in six months. You can always add a second account later; you cannot easily undo the wrong first one.

Questions traders ask when choosing a Blue Guardian Futures plan

Blue Guardian Futures coupon code "BRIDGE": short answers from the rules

Which plan has the most room for a losing streak?

The Standard $150K, with a $5,000 end-of-day trailing drawdown. Among the cheaper programmes, the Express and Reserve $150K both give $4,500. At the small end, all four $25K accounts give $1,000, except Direct, which gives $1,500.

Which plan has no daily loss limit?

Reserve has no standard daily loss limit, and the Standard $25K has none either. Standard $50K and above, and every Direct size, have a soft daily loss limit. For Express funded accounts we do not have a verified figure, so check the dashboard.

Is there a plan with no consistency rule at all?

Reserve has no consistency rule on the funded account. Its evaluation still has a 50% rule with a 1% cushion. Every other programme has a consistency rule on the stage where it applies.

Which plan pays out first?

That depends on how quickly the account meets its conditions, not on the plan alone. Standard opens its first payout window from three days after the first funded trade, once the buffer and the 40% rule are met. Reserve needs five qualifying winning days. Express is built for frequent payouts once its buffer is met. Direct has no evaluation, so its first request can come sooner in calendar terms, subject to its consistency rule.

Does BRIDGE work on every plan?

Yes. Our offer record shows 25% off all four programmes at every size. Some Express listings show an old 50% row, which is switched off; the code is 25%. For resets, data upgrades and other extras, check the checkout total.

Can I hold trades overnight?

Overnight holding is allowed. Weekend holding is not. The trading window runs from 5:00 PM to 3:10 PM CT, subject to each product's hours.

Can I trade news?

Yes on evaluation and funded accounts. Not on Live accounts, which are offered at the firm's discretion after five payouts.

Can I use a trading robot?

EAs are allowed. Copying trades is allowed only between your own accounts, never to or from someone else's.

Which plan is best for a beginner?

For most beginners on micros, Express $25K or $50K, because the fees are the lowest and the drawdown fits small risk. Reserve $25K or $50K is the better choice for a beginner who trades only a few days a week.

Is Direct worth it?

On price alone, a Direct account costs about the same as two Standard evaluations or two to three Express evaluations of the same size. It is worth it for a consistent trader who wants to remove the evaluation and can work with 20% to 30% consistency rules. It is a poor fit for a trader whose profit comes in a few big days.

How the four plans line up on one page

Blue Guardian Futures promo code "BRIDGE": the whole choice in one table

If you read only one part of this article, read this table and then the sizing table above it. Between them they answer which programme and which size. Our Blue Guardian Futures review covers the firm itself, and the challenges page lists every rule by programme.

My experience: putting all four plans in one table showed me how little the prices matter next to the rules. The cheapest and the most expensive plan here differ by $538.50, but the wrong daily loss limit or consistency rule can cost more than that in a single week of trading.

What each $50K plan costs to run for a month

Blue Guardian Futures discount code "BRIDGE": fee plus trading costs, side by side

The fee is only part of the cost. Blue Guardian Futures publishes per-side trading costs, for example $0.95 for MNQ and $2.88 for NQ. A round trip is two sides. Here is one example month for each $50K plan, with the same trader making three MNQ round trips of two contracts each, on 16 trading days. That is 96 contract round trips at $1.90 each, or $182.40 of trading costs.

Two lessons come out of this. First, for an active micro trader, the trading costs are larger than the fee on every plan except Direct. Second, the gap between the three evaluation plans is only $54.00 from cheapest to dearest once trading costs are added, so the rules should decide between them, not the price. On Direct, the extra cost buys the removal of the evaluation, which is a different thing to pay for.

Data is the other running cost to plan for. DeepCharts includes CME Level 1. Other Level 1 data is listed at $5, and Level 2 at $12.10 per exchange or $36.50 for the CME package. Our offer record does not show BRIDGE on data, and it does not tell us how often these are billed, so check the checkout total and the firm's data page.

Signs you picked the wrong plan, and what to do

Blue Guardian Futures coupon code "BRIDGE": early warnings in your first two weeks

• You keep stopping early because of the daily loss limit. If you trade Standard or Direct and the soft limit cuts most sessions short, your risk per trade is too big for the size, or Reserve's lack of a standard daily limit would suit you better.
• Your best day is far above your average. On a 40% or tighter consistency rule, that pattern delays payouts. Reserve's funded stage has no consistency rule.
• You trade fewer than two days a week. Watch the seven-day funded inactivity rule on every plan, and remember Reserve does not need consecutive winning days.
• You are trading micros on a $150K. You are paying for room you do not use. A $50K with BRIDGE costs $102.75 to $156.75 on the evaluation plans.
• You are squeezing full-size contracts into a $25K. One NQ with a 25-point stop risks half the drawdown in one trade. Move up a size or switch to micros.

None of these needs a new account straight away. Most are fixed by changing size or risk per trade. If you do decide to add a second account on a different plan, BRIDGE takes 25% off that one too; check today's tested result on the coupon page.

How to read your chosen plan's rules in ten minutes

Blue Guardian Futures promo code "BRIDGE": what to look at first on the help pages

Once you have picked a plan, open its rules page on the firm's help centre, for example the Standard account rules or the Reserve account rules. Read it in this order, and write down one number for each line:

1. Drawdown for your size, and when the floor locks.
2. Daily loss limit, or confirm there is none.
3. Consistency rule on the stage you are on, and how it is measured.
4. Contract limit on the evaluation and on the funded account.
5. Payout conditions: buffer, winning days, minimum and cap.
6. Inactivity and the trading window.

Six numbers on one sticky note are all you need to trade any of the four plans safely. Keep the note next to your screen, and check it against the help page once a month, because firms update rules and an old number is worse than no number. When a rule changes, rewrite the note the same day rather than trying to remember the new figure. If you hold accounts on two programmes, keep two notes, one for each, so you never trade one account by the other's rules. If a number on the help page differs from this article, the help page wins, and we would like to know so we can update our record.

Quick answers by search

Which Blue Guardian Futures plan is cheapest: Express $25K at $79.50 with "BRIDGE".

Blue Guardian Futures instant funded: Direct, $230.25 to $618.00 with the promo code "BRIDGE".

Blue Guardian Futures Standard vs Reserve: Standard 40% consistency and buffer; Reserve five winning days.

Blue Guardian Futures discount code November 2026: "BRIDGE", tested 13 November 2026.

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