Apex Trader Funding vs Blue Guardian on TradersPost
Apex Trader Funding and Blue Guardian differ on 2 of 18 points TradersPost compares: automated trading and copy trading.
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Automated trading
Conditional
“Any type of hands-off, set-and-forget, or set-and-walk-away trading, including systems that run continuously 24 hours a day, is strictly prohibited.”
Conditional
“Futures: bots/EAs/algos prohibited; semi-auto with active management allowed. Automated scalping capped at 200 trades/day; HFT <60s prohibited.”
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Copy trading
Allowed
Set by the firm
Conditional
“Futures: bots/EAs/algos prohibited; semi-auto with active management allowed. Automated scalping capped at 200 trades/day; HFT <60s prohibited.”
Automation and copy trading rules are set by each firm and can change. Rules recorded May 21, 2026; confirm the current policy with the firm before you connect.
Apex Trader Funding rules from support.apextraderfunding.com.
Blue Guardian rules from help.blueguardianfutures.com.
Same on both 16
- Short selling
- Market orders
- Limit orders
- Stop orders
- Trailing stops
- Bracket orders
- Stop limit orders
- Day orders
- Good till canceled orders
- Immediate or cancel orders
- Fill or kill orders
- Trailing stop attached to entry
- Modify open orders
- Paper accounts
- Platform: Tradovate
- Authentication: OAuth
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Worth knowing about each
Apex Trader Funding
- Platform
- Tradovate
- Automated trading
- Conditional
- Copy trading
- Allowed
Blue Guardian
- Platform
- Tradovate
- Automated trading
- Conditional
- Copy trading
- Conditional