How to Connect TradingView to Blue Guardian (MT5, 2026)

Yes, you can run TradingView alerts on a Blue Guardian account, and this guide covers exactly how. TradingView cannot place a trade at a prop firm directly, and it does not need to. A Blue Guardian account comes with a trading platform, so connecting the two means carrying your alerts across to that platform and executing them there. For Blue Guardian's CFD accounts that platform is MetaTrader 5, offered alongside Match-Trader and TradeLocker. Their platform rules add one restriction worth reading before you buy: US clients are limited to Match-Trader and TradeLocker, so MT5 is not available to them. Their rules state plainly that "EAs are allowed. You may use EAs (Expert Advisors) that you setup to suit your own strategy or trading style", which is all an automated setup needs.

The setup is the easy half. The part that takes attention is that Blue Guardian's maximum drawdown follows your closed trades rather than your live equity, which is a different shape from most firms and needs a different setting, and it stops trailing once the account is 6% up. Their daily limit resets at 5pm EST rather than midnight, and every model carries a two-minute minimum holding time. Funded accounts also run an automatic flatten they call the Guardian Shield, which fires at 2% floating loss, or 1% on the Instant models, and takes a permanent cut of your profit split the first time it does. Your own guard needs to sit inside it. This guide covers the setup and then each of those, with links to Blue Guardian's own help centre so you can check everything yourself.

Firm details verified against Blue Guardian's official documentation on 2026-08-31. Specifications change; the linked sources are authoritative.

The quick facts#

How PineHook fits in#

PineHook is an automation software service that connects TradingView to MetaTrader 5. When a TradingView alert fires, its webhook reaches our relay, which checks it and hands it to the PineHook EA attached to a chart in your MT5 terminal. The EA executes the order and reports back to your Signal Logs, and it handles the trade management side too: stops, targets and partial closes. Median relay time is under 25 ms, on our status page rather than on our word.

Two properties matter on a funded account. First, the EA runs on your machine, so Blue Guardian's servers see trades from your terminal, exactly as if you had clicked them. Second, PineHook never asks for your MT5 login or your Blue Guardian dashboard credentials. Your account stays yours.

Connecting TradingView to your Blue Guardian MT5 account#

Blue Guardian runs its own MetaTrader 5 licence and server rather than renting space on someone else's, which means the server name you type into MT5 is theirs and is issued with your account credentials after purchase. Use the name from that email. A server string copied from a forum belongs to a different firm's feed and will refuse your login.

From there the PineHook side takes a few minutes:

1. Log into the MT5 terminal with your Blue Guardian credentials.
2. Create a PineHook account, free during the beta, then install the PineHook EA and attach it to any chart, following the installation guide. Enable algorithmic trading in the terminal.
3. Create a license on the Licenses page of your dashboard and paste its key into the EA input.
4. In TradingView, create an alert whose webhook points at PineHook, and put your license key in the message using any of the command formats.
5. Send a test alert and confirm it lands in your Signal Logs and your terminal.

Do the first run on an evaluation account or an MT5 demo, before anything counts.

Symbols, leverage and sizing#

Blue Guardian publishes no contract-specification page, but their rules pages name instruments directly in the table of what each news release restricts, and that table is the closest thing they publish to a symbol list. The indices are the ones that differ from TradingView's tickers:

Gold, silver and the majors carry the ordinary names, XAUUSD, XAGUSD, EURUSD and so on, and US30 and UK100 match TradingView already. Crypto appears as BTCUSD and ETHUSD.

Read your own Market Watch before the first live alert even so, because a rules table is not a feed listing and prop-firm feeds often append a suffix marking the simulated environment on top of the base name. Whatever you find, PineHook's symbol mapping translates it once per license and your Pine Script keeps sending the TradingView ticker.

If the whole feed carries one affix, the prefix and suffix boxes handle every symbol at once and you never touch the rename table below them. Minimum lot and lot step are not published either; both are in each symbol's specification window in MT5, and they set the smallest size your alerts can ask for.

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The four index renames taken from Blue Guardian's own instrument table. Add any suffix your Market Watch shows to the right-hand column. Mapping is per license, so an account elsewhere with different names keeps its own list, and your alerts keep sending the TradingView ticker either way.

Leverage is worth checking before you size anything, because it changes by model rather than by stage, and it is lower than the headline figure most readers have seen. Per Blue Guardian's platform rules, FX runs 1:50 on every evaluation and funded account, while the two Instant models run 1:30. Indices and commodities are 1:20 on the 1 Step and 3 Step evaluations only. Every other account runs them at 1:10, the 2 Step models included, from evaluation onwards. Crypto stays at 1:2 throughout. Commission is $5 per lot on FX and commodities, and nothing on indices and crypto.

One rule turns that into a hard constraint on automated sizing. Blue Guardian classifies margin usage above 80% in any active position as gambling, and the consequence is a rejected payout or a closed account rather than a warning. A fixed lot comfortable on a 1:50 evaluation account is a much larger share of margin on a 1:30 Instant account: two lots of EUR/USD tie up about 6,700 at 1:30 against 4,000 at 1:50, and the stop-out level is 100%. Sizing by percentage or cash risked lets the EA work the volume out from your stop distance on the account it is actually trading.

Blue Guardian's rules, and how to automate inside them#

Two limits, and they differ by model#

Three legacy models, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Pro and 3 Step, still have rules pages of their own, so read yours rather than the nearest-looking row above.

Both limits are percentages of your initial account balance, and the daily figure is baselined on "the higher value between the account balance or equity at the time of the reset". PineHook runs the two as separate guards, checked once a second on your own terminal, so whichever you reach first blocks new entries, closes everything, or both, and the chart panel names which one fired. To work in cash rather than percentages, flip Limit Unit to $.

There is one combination to avoid. Leaving the overall mode on End of Day measures the day, which is the daily limit again, so PineHook will not run both that way. Pick the mode matching your model's drawdown shape, which is the next section and the most important setting on this page.

The drawdown follows your closed trades, not your equity#

This is where Blue Guardian differs from most firms, and where a plausible-looking setting is wrong. Their maximum drawdown "will remain at 6% trailing of your Highest Watermark Closing Trade made". Closing trade, not equity. A position sitting 3% in profit lifts nothing while it is open. Bank it and the watermark moves.

Most firms trail the equity peak, unrealised profit included, which is why most guides tell you to pick a floating trailing mode. Here that is stricter than the firm itself: it raises your floor on paper profit Blue Guardian has not counted, and refuses trades they would have allowed. Set Measured from to Trailing (closed), which tracks closed trades only and is their rule exactly.

The second half is the lock. Once the account reaches 6% profit from the initial balance, "your trailing Drawdown will lock in at your starting balance" and stops climbing for good. Lock Floor At Profit reproduces that freeze: set it to 6 and our floor stops where theirs does. BrightFunded's 1-Step and FTMO measure the same way, so the setting carries across.

That reproduces the shape, but it leaves no room. A guard armed at their 6% reaches the line at the same moment Blue Guardian does, and a guard that fires at the breach level is not protection, it is a second alarm on an account you have already lost. Ours closes positions with a market order at whatever the spread is when the level is hit, so the fill lands past the number that triggered it. For PineHook to stop the account rather than report it, both guards have to sit below the published figures, with enough room left for a close to complete. How much depends on the size you trade and how fast your instruments move, so that call is yours. Matching the firm's numbers looks correct and protects nothing.

Instant Starter is the row people copy wrongly, because its drawdown is 5% rather than 6% and its floor locks once the account is 5% up rather than 6%. Both numbers move together, so take them from your own model's page.

On the two Static rows the maximum is measured from your starting balance and never moves, so set the equity baseline to that balance as well. With the 2 Step Standard's 8%, a 100,000 account breaches at 92,000 whether that happens in week one or after you have grown it to 130,000.

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Both limits armed together, set here to Blue Guardian's own published 1 Step Standard figures. They are the firm's limits rather than a configuration we are recommending, and the paragraph below is about the margin you may want inside them. Every field on this panel, Lock Floor At Profit included, can be set per license, which matters because the lock figure follows the model rather than the account: a 1 Step Standard locks at 6 and an Instant Starter at 5. The reset hour is left at its default in this shot because the right value depends on your broker's server clock, which the next section covers.

A guard only helps if it acts before the thing it guards against. Enter Blue Guardian's exact percentage and our floor sits on the very level at which they close the account, with nothing between the two. Whether to leave a margin below their figure, and how large, is a decision about your own risk and strategy that we cannot make for you.

One payout detail sits beside this and is not a breach rule. Once the account is 6% up, a 1% buffer of the initial balance must remain when you request a payout. It governs what you can withdraw, not what closes the account, so keep it out of your drawdown figures.

The day starts at 5pm EST, not midnight#

Blue Guardian's daily limit resets at 5pm EST. PineHook's reset hour is set in your broker's server time, which is the clock in MT5's Market Watch, and it is usually hours away from both EST and the clock on your computer. Read the Market Watch clock, work out which server hour is 5pm EST that day, and set the reset hour to it. Get this wrong and nothing throws an error. It quietly measures your day against the wrong starting figure.

The reset also carries a detail people forget. Because the baseline is the higher of balance and equity, a winner held through the reset has its unrealised profit folded into your starting figure, so handing that profit back counts against the new day.

Note also how a trading day is counted, because it is not what the phrase suggests: a day counts only if you made at least 0.5% profit on it. Both 1 Step and 2 Step Standard need three such days (five if you bought a 2 Step before 20 August), both Instant models and the 1 Step Nano need five, and the 2 Step Nano sets no minimum. A strategy grinding out small wins can trade for a fortnight and satisfy fewer days than the calendar suggests.

Two minutes is the floor, on every model#

Every model's rules page carries the same line: the minimum holding time is 2 minutes, and a trade closed inside that may be flagged as tick scalping, which they list among prohibited practices.

This is the rule most likely to catch an alert-driven strategy out, because nothing about it is visible until someone reviews the account. Two ordinary setups trip it. A scalping strategy on a one-minute chart can exit within the same bar it entered. And any strategy where a stop sits close to entry can be stopped out seconds after filling, through no decision of yours.

A fast fill is not something you can automate away. The entry side is what you control: wider stops, higher timeframes, and not sending a close a minute after the open. If your average hold is measured in seconds, Blue Guardian is the wrong firm rather than a configuration problem.

Guardian Shield closes your trades before your own limit does#

On funded accounts Blue Guardian run an automatic flatten they call the Guardian Shield. When floating profit and loss on your open trades reaches a 2% loss it closes every open position across every symbol, and on the Instant models the trigger is 1%. The Standard and Instant pages all publish it; the two Nano pages do not list it in their summaries, so check yours rather than assuming either way.

They treat it as a soft breach, so you may carry on trading immediately, but the consequences stack and do not reverse. A first trigger cuts your profit split to 50% permanently, from the 85% most models start at. A second breaches the account for good.

This matters for how you set the daily guard, because the Shield fires on floating loss well before the daily limit does. On a 1 Step Standard account the Shield acts at 2% of open loss while the daily limit is 4%, so the firm's automation reaches your positions first and takes a permanent cut of your profit split with it. For your own guard to be the thing that acts, it has to be armed below their trigger rather than at their published limit. That choice is yours; the point is that the two numbers are not the same number.

News: the rule depends on your model#

On the evaluation models the rule is the common one. News trading is permitted through the challenge phases, and on a funded account you must refrain from opening or closing trades five minutes before and five minutes after red-folder high-impact news, with FOMC speeches, statements and events named separately.

The two Instant models sit at opposite ends of it. On Instant Standard, Blue Guardian state that they do not allow news trading on accounts purchased after 13 November 2025 at all, alongside the same five-minute wording, so check your purchase date before assuming the window is the whole rule. On Instant Starter the rules page says plainly that news trading is allowed.

The restriction is also per instrument rather than account-wide. Each rules page carries a table of which instruments each release affects, so a euro release restricts the euro pairs and GER40, and a US release restricts the dollar pairs along with gold, silver, US30, SPX500 and NDX100, plus BTCUSD and ETHUSD for FOMC. Trading something the release does not name is unaffected.

The consequence is gentler than most firms impose, and knowing that changes how you plan. Profits earned in the window, or significantly influenced by the release, are subject to removal "without any account violation". It takes an upside away rather than ending the account. Overnight and weekend holding carry no restriction on any account type.

That five-minute window is tedious to respect by hand and easy to automate. PineHook's news filter holds new entries inside a window you set on either side of a release, and its prop firm preset is five minutes each way, which is Blue Guardian's funded window exactly. On an Instant Standard account bought after their cut-off, a window is not enough on its own, since the rule is written as no news trading rather than as a window. Closes and cancels always pass through, because a filter that stopped you exiting during news would be worse than none.

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The calendar in your dashboard, evaluated against one license running Blue Guardian's published five minutes either side. High-impact releases are held and medium ones are not, because medium is the opt-in checkbox and their rule is about high-impact red-folder news. Set the window globally or per license, so a funded account can run it while an evaluation account, where news trading is permitted, runs without one.

Their wording covers closing as well as opening, which is where the filter stops being enough: it lets exits through by design, and a stop already resting on your account fills when price reaches it whatever the calendar says. So on a funded account, look ahead at the News Calendar in your dashboard, which flags each release your own filter would hold, and plan around the ones sitting near your open positions.

Hedging inside one account, never across two#

Blue Guardian permits hedging, and their prohibited-practices page draws the line at hedging between separate accounts, which is strictly prohibited. That distinction matters the moment you run more than one account through PineHook's trade copier. Mirroring one alert to several accounts is safe, since every account does the same thing. Running a long strategy on one account and a short strategy on another in the same instrument is the case the rule was written for.

The same page rules out tick scalping, high-frequency trading, arbitrage bots, reverse arbitrage, latency arbitrage, hedge arbitrage and trade emulators. None of those describe an EA that receives an alert and places the order you told it to place, but they are worth reading in full before you point a high-frequency strategy at a funded account.

Their terms and conditions say the same thing in wider language, naming hedging across accounts and offsetting positions as examples of using several accounts to gain an unfair advantage. Mirroring one alert is neither of those, since the accounts move together rather than against each other.

Copy trading, and why Blue Guardian is unusual here#

Most firms permit copying between your own accounts at that firm and stop there. Blue Guardian goes further, on every model's rules page rather than buried in one article. They provide no copier of their own, but you may use third-party copier software between your own Blue Guardian accounts, between your own Evaluation and Funded accounts, and between your Blue Guardian account and your own external accounts. Copying another trader, or letting a third party trade for you, is out: every copied trade must sit between accounts owned by the same person.

Hosting has a clear answer too, which is rarer than it should be. VPNs and a VPS are allowed outright. The prohibition is on using either to get around their rules on "copy trading, group trading or signal trading", and running your own terminal on your own VPS is not that. Naming the external-account case out loud is the most useful line in their rulebook, because it is the one most firms leave vague enough to argue about afterwards.

One number bounds the whole exercise. Funded allocation is capped at $400,000 across all your funded accounts, while the number of challenge accounts you may hold is uncapped, and their terms ask you to disclose every account you own to compliance if you hold more than one profile.

That permission maps directly onto PineHook's trade copier. It gives you a Copier ID in the same format as a license key, and you put it in your alert where the license key normally goes, so one alert reaches every account you attached without maintaining three sets of alerts.

Scaling is the part worth understanding, because these accounts are rarely the same size. Percentage sizing does most of the work: send size_pct=1 and every account risks one percent of its own balance, with no arithmetic from you. Each license then carries its own multiplier, and because it scales percentage sizing as well as fixed lots it is a risk dial rather than a lot dial. Set the account with the tightest drawdown to 0.5 and it takes half the risk of the others on the same alert.

When the numbers do not divide cleanly, a scaled value above a parameter's maximum is clamped so the trade still goes rather than that account sitting out, and a scaled lot rounding to zero is skipped and reported.

Nothing stops you running more than one copier, and separating them by firm is the reason to. Blue Guardian measures drawdown on closed trades and freezes the floor at 6% profit. Most other firms do neither, so a copier holding Blue Guardian accounts alongside accounts elsewhere is a copier whose targets need contradictory settings. One copier per rulebook keeps that straight, and each alert then goes to the group it belongs to.

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Two copiers on one account. The Blue Guardian group holds three of their models, so all three share the closed-trade drawdown shape and the 6% lock; the multiplier is what separates a 100,000 account from a 25,000 one. The second group spans six firms whose rules do not agree, which is why it is a second copier rather than six more targets on the first. Each group shows the same symbols at the same entry across its accounts, because each group received one alert.

One rule automation can quietly break#

Blue Guardian requires at least one trade every 30 days to keep an account active, and failing it means the account is "considered inactive and breached" rather than merely dormant. Trivial by hand, easy to fail on autopilot, because the ways automation stops are all silent: a terminal that stopped running, an expired alert, a strategy whose conditions have not been met since last month. Your Signal Logs are the cheapest place to notice it.

Who Blue Guardian will not accept#

Blue Guardian publishes its restricted list in the general information rules: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Cuba, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, the Philippines, Senegal, Syria and Vietnam. A purchase made from a restricted country is not refundable, so check the list before you buy rather than after.

FAQ#

Does PineHook work with my Blue Guardian account? Yes, on an MT5 account: Blue Guardian allows EAs you have set up for your own strategy. The exception is US clients, limited to Match-Trader and TradeLocker, neither of which runs an MT5 Expert Advisor.

Which drawdown mode should I use for Blue Guardian? Trailing (closed) on the 1 Step Standard and Instant Standard, with Lock Floor At Profit set to 6. Their drawdown follows your highest closed-trade balance and then locks at your starting balance once you are 6% up. The 2 Step Standard uses Static, because its 8% limit never moves.

Why do my TradingView symbols not match my MT5 symbols? Mostly on the indices: their instrument table names the Nasdaq NDX100 and the S&P SPX500, where TradingView says US100 and US500. Read your Market Watch for the exact spellings, then use symbol mapping to translate them once per license.

Can one alert trade my Blue Guardian account and my other accounts at once? Yes, and Blue Guardian permit it as long as every account is legally yours, your own external accounts included. Use the trade copier, and avoid opposite positions in the same instrument across accounts, which they prohibit.

Does the news rule apply to my account? On the evaluation models, only once the account is funded, where you must stay out of a five-minute window either side of high-impact releases and FOMC events. Instant Standard accounts purchased after 13 November 2025 are stricter: Blue Guardian say they do not allow news trading on those at all. Trading in the window costs you the profit rather than the account.

Will my strategy trip the two-minute rule? It might. Blue Guardian flag trades closed inside two minutes as possible tick scalping on every model. Low-timeframe scalping is the obvious risk, but so is any setup whose stop sits close enough to entry to be hit seconds after filling.

How fast do alerts reach my terminal? Median relay time is under 25 ms on our side. The status page publishes the measurements daily.

Try it on your evaluation first#

If you hold a Blue Guardian account, the sensible first step is also the cheapest. Attach the EA to your evaluation account's terminal, set the drawdown guard to Trailing (closed) with the lock at your model's figure, and send a test alert. PineHook is free during the public beta, with no card required. More guides for other firms are collected in our guides hub, and our prop-firms page covers the guardrail features in depth.

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