{"id":435031,"date":"2026-07-30T12:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/?p=435031"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:16:36","slug":"blueguardian-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/prop-trading-firms\/blueguardian-spreads-435031\/","title":{"rendered":"BlueGuardian spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>well trading the test-account with <a href=\"\/prop-firm\/blueguardian\">BlueGuardian<\/a> turned out to be alot more complex than anticipated as spreads and pricing offsets making this quite difficult.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>trading anything other than majors like EURUSD and .. well actually only EURUSD and maybe USDCAD in the US Session.<\/p>\n<p>trading a non major like BTCUSD or ETHUSD the price offset of almost 0,5% makes it almost impossible to manually place trades with the same TP\/SL set.<br \/>\nThis makes Scalping assets like crypto almost impossible due to the same offset problem and the spread itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_83.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-435032\" src=\"https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_83.jpg 559w, https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_83-512x317.jpg 512w, https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2026\/07\/Screenshot_83-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe screenshoot shows <a href=\"\/prop-firm\/blueguardian\">BlueGuardian<\/a> MT5 (connected to <em>BlueGuardian-Server<\/em>) ETHUSD M15 in the foreground with a spread of $4.07 while the chart in the background is cTrader with a <a href=\"\/prop-firm\/instantfunding\">InstantFunding<\/a> feed also showing ETCUSD M15 with a spread of $0.41, both brokers do not charge a commission on Crypto, but the massive spread of $40-90 on BTC makes scalping pretty much impossible. as $4 spread is 0.2% of the asset price as a whole.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Money Terms: when you breaking even on Instantfunding cTrader,<br \/>\nthe BlueGuardian account will still be 0.08% in a loss (same sizes and entries)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>well trading the test-account with BlueGuardian turned out to be alot more complex than anticipated as spreads and pricing offsets making this quite difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":435036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-435031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prop-trading-firms","tag-blueguardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435031"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435050,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435031\/revisions\/435050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}