Blueberry Funded · 4 of 6 products · 4 consequences
One firm, 4 answers to the same question
Most of this site is about which rule ends an account. This page is about what “ends” means, and at Blueberry it means 4 different things depending on which of their products you bought — from a warning that leaves the account trading to termination regardless of intent.
The firm is not unaware of it. 3 of these rules name another Blueberry product as the contrast.
A warning, and the account survives (1)
The firm reserves judgement. A first or minor violation is a conversation rather than an ending.
Prime 2-Step · evaluation
Breach handling is graduated rather than automatic, unlike the Instant products: "Minor or first-time violations usually result in a warning... The account stays active."
A ladder, with the money taken first (2)
The account survives the first breach and the terms do not. One of these ladders deducts the profit and cuts the split before it closes anything.
Flex 1-Step · evaluation
Risk per trade idea is capped at 1% and enforced in BOTH the evaluation and the funded account, on a two-strike mechanism unique to this product: the first breach closes the positions and records a violation while the account continues, the second closes the account.
Flex 1-Step · evaluation
News trading uses a 5-minute window here against the firm’s general 2-minute policy, on a three-strike ladder that deducts the offending profit and can cut the profit split from 85% to 60% before closing the account.
Closed on the first breach (2)
Reaching the number is the ending. Blueberry state the absence of a ladder rather than leaving it to be inferred.
Instant Elite · instant funding
A flat 1.5% risk per trade idea measured from the initial account size, including merged and scaled accounts. Reaching it is a hard breach and closes the account immediately.
Instant Lite · instant funding
A flat 1.5% risk per trade idea, stricter than the Flex 1-Step’s two-strike version: "Reaching the limit is a hard breach and closes the account. There is no warning and no strike system."
Terminated, intentional or not (1)
The only rule here that addresses intent, and it addresses it to say intent does not matter.
Instant Elite · instant funding
Zero tolerance and no warning ladder, in contrast to Prime: "Instant Access accounts do not receive warnings for violations. Any breach results in account termination, whether or not it was intentional."
“Whether or not it was intentional”
That clause is worth reading on its own. Almost every firm on this site publishes what ends an account. Very few write down that intent is not a defence — and writing it down is the difference between a rule you might argue about afterwards and one you may not.
It is also, in its way, the more honest of the two ends. A product that says it will hear you out has told you nothing about when it will agree; one that says it will not has told you exactly where you stand.
A ladder is not leniency
The easiest thing to misread here is the strike ladder. Two strikes sounds like a second chance, and on the risk cap it is one: the first breach closes the positions and the account carries on.
The news ladder on the same product works differently. It deducts the offending profit and can cut the profit split from 85% to 60% before it closes anything, so the account survives all three strikes and the terms do not. A trader on the third rung is trading a materially worse product than the one they bought, with no breach recorded against them in the sense that word usually carries.
Which is the general shape: the number of chances a rule gives you is a different question from what each chance costs, and only one firm here publishes both.
What this does not measure
- · Enforcement. Everything above is a published rule. How Blueberry behave in a marginal case is not something any document says, and a graduated policy is worth exactly as much as the judgement behind it.
- · The other 2 products. They publish no breach-handling rule this reading found, which is not the same as being lenient.
- · Any probability. None of this is modelled. The figures elsewhere on this site count the losses that reach a cap; they have no notion of what happens when one is reached.
- · One rule the sweep caught and this page excludes. a warning printed at checkout about which markets are tradable, not a consequence of breaking a rule.
Where these rules were read
Blueberry Funded — help centre — read 2026-08-23
Questions
- What happens if you break a rule at Blueberry Funded?
- It depends entirely on which product you bought. Prime 2-Step: a warning, and the account continues. Flex 1-Step and Flex 1-Step: two strikes on the risk cap. Instant Elite and Instant Lite: closed on the first breach. Instant Elite: terminated, intentional or not.
- Which Blueberry account is the least forgiving?
- Instant Elite. Zero tolerance and no warning ladder, in contrast to Prime: "Instant Access accounts do not receive warnings for violations. Any breach results in account termination, whether or not it was intentional."
- Which is the most forgiving?
- Prime 2-Step. Breach handling is graduated rather than automatic, unlike the Instant products: "Minor or first-time violations usually result in a warning... The account stays active."
- Does a strike ladder cost anything before it closes the account?
- On one of them, yes, and it is the detail most easily missed. Blueberry's news-trading ladder on the Flex 1-Step deducts the offending profit and can cut the profit split from 85% to 60% before the account is closed at all. A ladder is not the same as leniency: it can take the money and leave the account.