Caution with Blue Guardian
Blue Guardian has the most aggressive fine print of any firm on this page. Their footer states that "payouts are discretionary, not guaranteed" - a direct contradiction of their marketing. Read every word carefully.
Blue Guardian has the most aggressive fine print of any firm on this page. Their footer states that "payouts are discretionary, not guaranteed" - a direct contradiction of their marketing. Read every word carefully.
Guardian Shield
The Guardian Shield (1% floating loss auto-close) permanently drops your profit split to 50% on first activation, and terminates the account on the second.
The Guardian Shield (1% floating loss auto-close) permanently drops your profit split to 50% on first activation, and terminates the account on the second.
The Drawdown Lock Trap
Blue Guardian's trailing drawdown locks at the initial balance once you reach +6% profit. This means: if you make 10% on a $100K account ($110K) and withdraw 8% ($8K, leaving $102K), your max loss is still calculated from the starting $100K - so you can only lose $2K more before breaching. Normal trailing drawdown would still give you 6% of $110K ($6,600) as buffer. The lock-in mechanism makes your risk buffer shrink with every withdrawal.
Blue Guardian's trailing drawdown locks at the initial balance once you reach +6% profit. This means: if you make 10% on a $100K account ($110K) and withdraw 8% ($8K, leaving $102K), your max loss is still calculated from the starting $100K - so you can only lose $2K more before breaching. Normal trailing drawdown would still give you 6% of $110K ($6,600) as buffer. The lock-in mechanism makes your risk buffer shrink with every withdrawal.
Note from SwingFish
Personal experience: signed up and paid for a Blue Guardian account. The registration form auto-filled the wrong country. Immediately emailed support asking them to correct the error. Instead of helping, they accused me of fraud, banned my account, and refused a refund. No warning, no opportunity to provide ID proof - just an immediate ban and loss of my fee. This behaviour is consistent with their "discretionary" payout policy: if they can deny a simple correction request and call it fraud, they can deny a legitimate payout request the same way.
Personal experience: signed up and paid for a Blue Guardian account. The registration form auto-filled the wrong country. Immediately emailed support asking them to correct the error. Instead of helping, they accused me of fraud, banned my account, and refused a refund. No warning, no opportunity to provide ID proof - just an immediate ban and loss of my fee. This behaviour is consistent with their "discretionary" payout policy: if they can deny a simple correction request and call it fraud, they can deny a legitimate payout request the same way.
