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Blueberry Futures Review 2026: Pros, Cons & Blackarrow Platform
Blueberry Futures
Overview
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What I Like & What Could Be Better
My Experience
I've been watching this firm since they announced it. When Blueberry Funded — the CFD prop side — started gaining traction with 15,000+ active traders and $4 million in payouts, it was only a matter of time before they entered the futures space. The backing from Blueberry Markets, an ASIC-regulated broker with 50,000+ clients worldwide, is what makes this different from yet another prop firm launched by some anonymous team with a Webflow template and a dream.
I've tested over 50 futures prop firms at this point. Most of them are variations of the same formula: Tradovate or Rithmic, trailing drawdown, monthly subscription, hope for the best. Blueberry Futures breaks that pattern in ways that actually matter — Blackarrow instead of Tradovate, commission-free trading built into the platform, one-time fees instead of recurring subs, and a genuine pathway to live funded trading. That combination got me interested enough to buy accounts.
First Impressions with Blackarrow
This is the first futures prop firm I've traded that doesn't use Tradovate or Rithmic. Blackarrow is a dedicated futures platform with 2 million+ users across 160 countries, so it's not some untested beta product. But if you're coming from Tradovate — like I was — the transition takes a minute.
The interface is clean. TradingView-style charts are built in, 100+ indicators available natively, and the free top-of-book Level 1 data means you're not paying $15-$30/month for CME data separately. That last point is underrated. Between data fees, platform fees, and routing charges on NinjaTrader or Tradovate, I've spent hundreds of dollars annually on costs that Blueberry simply eliminates by baking everything into the challenge fee.
Order execution felt responsive in my early sessions trading NQ. The volume analysis tools within Blackarrow are more robust than what I had on Tradovate without add-ons. But — and this is the trade-off — you can't use NinjaTrader indicators, Sierra Chart footprint tools, or any third-party software you might depend on. Your entire workflow lives inside Blackarrow. For traders with custom NinjaTrader setups built over years, that's a significant ask.
Where I Am Right Now
I'm in the early evaluation phase on both an Ascent 50K and an Accelerated 50K. Running them side by side to test how the EOD drawdown (Ascent) compares to the real-time trailing drawdown (Accelerated) in my NQ trading. The Ascent gives me more intraday breathing room — I can take a $1,200 hit midday and recover by close without the drawdown moving. The Accelerated is tighter but only requires 1 minimum trading day instead of 2.
I haven't reached funded status yet, so I can't speak to payout speed, the $2,100 buffer mechanics, or how the Pro vs Standard funded account choice plays out in practice. That experience will come. For now, the evaluation structure is clean, the Blackarrow execution is solid, and the absence of per-contract commissions is already improving my net P&L on micro scalps that would normally get eaten by fees on Tradovate.
The Trust Foundation
Here's what separates Blueberry Futures from any random new firm: the parent ecosystem has real credibility. Blueberry Markets has been operating as a regulated broker for years. Blueberry Funded has processed $4 million+ in prop trading payouts across 15,000+ traders. The futures arm inherits that operational infrastructure — payment processing, support systems, risk management frameworks — rather than building from scratch.
Does that guarantee Blueberry Futures will pay every trader flawlessly? No. But it means the pipes exist. The team exists. The track record of handling trader money at scale exists. When I compare that to futures firms that launched last year with zero operational history and no parent brand, the risk profile is fundamentally different.
Account Types & Pricing
Blueberry Futures keeps it simple: two one-step evaluations — Ascent and Accelerated — with identical profit targets, drawdown amounts, and contract limits across all sizes. The only difference is how the drawdown behaves.
Ascent vs Accelerated: Which One to Pick
Ascent uses end-of-day drawdown. Your trailing max loss only recalculates at session close based on your final daily balance. If NQ spikes $400 in your favor during the session and pulls back $300 by close, your drawdown only trails by $100. This is the safer, more forgiving option — and it's the one I'd recommend for most traders.
Accelerated uses real-time trailing drawdown. Your max loss tracks your highest equity throughout the session. That same $400 spike immediately moves your drawdown floor up by $400 — and if you give back $300, you've now permanently lost $300 of drawdown room. The benefit? Only 1 minimum trading day instead of 2. If you're extremely confident in a setup and want to pass in a single session, this is the path. But you're paying for that speed with tighter risk.
Pricing That Actually Makes Sense
With the current 60% off code FUTURES60, the $50K Ascent is $98 and the $50K Accelerated is $73.61. These are one-time fees — you pay once, you get 30 days, and there's no monthly subscription bleeding you while you figure out the strategy. If you breach, you buy a reset ($79-$125 on the 50K depending on type) or a new account. That pricing model is cleaner than the monthly recurring subscriptions at Tradeify ($159/month), Bulenox ($175/month), or TakeProfitTrader ($170/month).
What Happens After You Pass: Pro vs Standard Funded
Once you pass the evaluation, Blueberry offers two funded account paths. This is where the firm gets more structured than most competitors.
The Standard funded account is the obvious pick for most traders. No activation fee, 10 funded accounts allowed (vs 5 on Pro), more contracts (5 vs 4), and a more lenient 40% consistency rule. The lower profit target per cycle ($3,000 vs $4,000) also means faster payout eligibility. The Pro option only makes sense if you specifically want the tighter 30% consistency rule for your own discipline, which — honestly — most traders don't.
Trading Rules You Need To Know
Blueberry Futures keeps evaluation rules stripped down. No daily loss limit. No consistency requirement during eval. Just hit the profit target within 30 days while staying above the max drawdown. That's it.
The 30-Day Time Limit: Biggest Drawback
Let's address the elephant. Most serious futures prop firms — Lucid, TakeProfitTrader, Alpha Futures, Bulenox — offer unlimited evaluation time. You pay monthly, sure, but you're never forced to pass by a deadline. Blueberry Futures gives you 30 days. Period. Miss the target and you buy a reset or a new account.
For experienced traders who can pass in 5-10 sessions, 30 days is more than enough. For anyone still developing consistency, that clock creates pressure that leads to overtrading in the final week. I've seen this pattern destroy traders at every prop firm that imposes time limits. The one-time fee softens the blow — you're not paying monthly while the clock ticks — but the deadline itself is still a disadvantage.
The DCA Restriction
Only 2 add-ons allowed. If you're a trader who scales into positions — starting with 1 contract, adding at support, adding again at a secondary level — you're capped at 3 total entries (initial + 2 adds). For NQ scalpers running 1-2 contracts, this barely matters. For ES traders who build positions across key levels, it's a meaningful limitation.
Most competitors don't restrict DCA at all. Lucid, Tradeify, TakeProfitTrader, and Bulenox all let you add as many contracts as your max position size allows. Blueberry's restriction here is unusually tight and worth factoring into your strategy before you buy.
News Trading: Know the Window
Three minutes before and three minutes after red-folder (high-impact) news events — no new trades. You can hold existing positions through the event, which is better than firms that force you flat. But if your strategy depends on entering during CPI, NFP, or FOMC releases, you'll need to adjust your entry timing by 3 minutes in either direction. Most traders can work around this.
The Funded Account Buffer and Payout Cap
Once funded, you need to maintain $2,100 in the account at all times. If your balance drops below this buffer, the account gets closed and remaining profit splits 60/40 (60% to you). The max payout per cycle is $2,500 on the standard 50K, which means even if you make $5,000 in a cycle, you can only pull $2,500. This caps your income velocity early on — a limitation that more established firms like Lucid (no payout cap on Flex) and TakeProfitTrader (no payout cap above buffer) don't impose.
Platforms You Can Trade With
Blackarrow: The Only Game in Town
Why Commission-Free Matters More Than You Think
On Tradovate with Rithmic, you're paying roughly $5.76 per round-trip on an ES mini contract. On micros, it's around $1.82. Over 100 trades a month on micros, that's $182 in commissions alone. On Blackarrow through Blueberry Futures? Zero. Those costs are absorbed into the evaluation fee.
For scalpers running 5-15 micro contracts on NQ, commission savings compound fast. A trader taking 10 round-trips per day on 5 MES contracts pays roughly $91 per day on Tradovate. On Blackarrow, that same activity costs nothing beyond the initial challenge fee. Over a 30-day evaluation, that's potentially $1,800+ in saved commissions. Even accounting for slightly wider spreads (which I haven't noticed on NQ in my testing), the net cost reduction is significant.
The Platform Trade-Off
The flip side: you're locked into Blackarrow. No NinjaTrader. No Sierra Chart. No Bookmap. No Quantower. No Rithmic data feed for third-party tools. If your edge depends on NinjaTrader's ATM strategies, Sierra's footprint charts, or Bookmap's heatmap visualization, Blueberry Futures removes those tools from your workflow.
This is the biggest strategic decision you make when choosing Blueberry Futures. The commission savings and all-inclusive pricing are genuinely compelling — but only if your trading approach works within Blackarrow's native toolset. I trade primarily off price action with support/resistance levels and a few moving averages. Blackarrow handles that fine. An order-flow trader who needs DOM replay, cumulative delta, and reconstructed tape would struggle here.
Bulenox offers NinjaTrader, Sierra, Quantower, and Bookmap. TakeProfitTrader supports NinjaTrader, TradingView, and Sierra via Rithmic or CQG. Tradeify uses Tradovate. Alpha Futures runs AlphaTicks (also proprietary but with TradingView charts). Platform diversity is one of the few areas where Blueberry Futures genuinely trails the competition.
My Strategy To Regular Payouts
My core strategy stays the same regardless of firm: NQ scalps and day trades around the 9:30 AM ET open, targeting $300-$800 per session on a $50K account. Blackarrow's built-in charts handle this workflow without issues. The volume tools actually add value for identifying pre-market accumulation that I used to track through a separate NinjaTrader indicator.
The $2,000 drawdown on the Ascent 50K gives me roughly $2,000 of risk before breach. With 2 mini contracts on NQ (where 1 point = $20 per contract), that's a 50-point adverse move at full size. NQ can move 50 points in 10 minutes. Size conservatively: 1 mini or 5-10 micros keeps you alive through normal intraday noise.
Working the 30-Day Deadline
Here's how I approach the 30-day window. Week 1: small positions, learn Blackarrow's order entry mechanics, take $200-$400 per day. Week 2: increase to normal sizing, target $400-$600 per day. Week 3: compound gains toward the $3,000 target. Week 4: capital preservation if you're close — protect what you've built.
The math: at $400/day average on 15 trading days, you're at $6,000 — double the target. But that assumes no losing days, which is unrealistic. Factor in 5-6 losing days at $200-$300 average loss and you're looking at roughly $4,500 net over 15 sessions. Still above target, but only if you stay disciplined.
The mistake I see traders make with time-limited evaluations: they trade normally for 3 weeks, fall short, then start swinging for the fences in the final week. That's when breaches happen. If you're not within 60% of the target by day 20, consider resetting rather than gambling.
Funded Account Strategy: Consistency Over Speed
Once funded, the game changes. The 30%/40% consistency rule (Pro/Standard) means you can't make your entire payout target in one session. On a Standard $50K funded account with a $3,000 profit target per cycle, no single day can represent more than 40% of total profit. That's $1,200 max from your best day.
My approach: target $300-$500 per session across 8-10 sessions to hit the $3,000 target with consistency. Five of those sessions need to generate at least $150 each to meet the minimum profitable day requirement. This is methodical, boring, disciplined trading — exactly what prop firms want to see, and exactly what separates funded traders who get paid from those who breach.
Protecting the $2,100 Buffer
The buffer is your lifeline. If your funded account balance drops below $2,100, it's over — account closed, remaining profit split 60/40. That means on a $50K account starting at $50,000, you breach at $47,900 (the $2,000 max drawdown), but you also can't let payouts drain you to $2,100. Always keep enough cushion above the buffer to survive a bad week after requesting a withdrawal.
Trust & Legitimacy: What You Need To Know
Blueberry Futures doesn't exist in isolation. It's the third product in a connected ecosystem: Blueberry Markets (ASIC-regulated retail broker), Blueberry Funded (CFD prop firm with $4M+ in payouts), and now Blueberry Futures (futures prop firm). The same team that built and operates a regulated brokerage is running the futures prop arm through BBEducation Incorporated.
That matters. Most new futures prop firms are standalone entities with no broker backing, no existing payment infrastructure, and no regulatory relationship. Blueberry's parent broker holds an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) license — one of the stricter financial regulators globally. While Blueberry Futures itself isn't ASIC-regulated (no prop firm is), the operational expertise and compliance culture from the parent brand carries over.
What's Verifiable Right Now
The Blueberry Funded side has processed $4 million+ in payouts across 15,000+ active traders. Blueberry Markets serves 50,000+ clients with 661,000+ monthly website visits. The founders aren't anonymous — the Blueberry brand has corporate addresses, public leadership, and regulated entity registrations. The Discord community is active. Support is responsive 24/7 based on my initial interactions.
What's Not Verifiable Yet
Blueberry Futures launched in late 2025. The number of completed funded account payout cycles is minimal. Independent verification of futures-specific payouts is essentially non-existent at this point. The firm has only a handful of reviews anywhere online, and the ones that exist are too early to be meaningful.
My Assessment
Trust level: strong foundation, unproven execution. The Blueberry ecosystem gives me significantly more confidence than a standalone new futures firm would. The ASIC-regulated broker backing, the $4M+ in CFD payouts, and the public corporate structure all reduce counterparty risk. But futures prop trading has its own operational challenges — Rithmic/CME data feeds, sim-to-live transitions, futures-specific payout processing — and Blueberry hasn't proven those at scale yet. Start small. Let them build the track record. The signs are promising, but trust is earned through payouts, not promises.
How This Firm Compares To Other Ones
Blueberry Futures enters a mature futures prop space. Lucid Trading launched in early 2025 and rapidly built trust with ultra-fast payouts. Tradeify has $125 million+ in verified payouts. TakeProfitTrader has been operating since 2021 with a 20% trader pass rate. Alpha Futures carved a niche with its proprietary AlphaTicks platform and commission-free model. Bulenox offers the most platform diversity in the market. Blueberry brings broker-backed credibility and commission-free trading, but has to prove itself against firms with years of payout history.
Where Blueberry Futures Wins
Commission-free trading is a genuine competitive advantage. When Bulenox and TakeProfitTrader charge per-contract commissions that compound across hundreds of trades, Blueberry's all-inclusive model saves real money. Only Alpha Futures (also commission-free on AlphaTicks) matches this.
One-time evaluation fees. Every other firm in this comparison charges monthly recurring subscriptions that keep billing whether you're actively trading or not. Blueberry's pay-once model means you know your exact cost before you start.
90% profit split from day one. No tiered climb. Alpha Futures starts at 70% on Standard and takes 4 payouts to reach 90%. TakeProfitTrader starts at 80% on PRO. Bulenox offers 100% on the first $10K (then 90%), which is better — but Blueberry's flat 90% is the cleanest structure in the comparison.
Broker-backed infrastructure. Blueberry is the only firm in this comparison backed by an ASIC-regulated broker. That gives it a layer of operational credibility and payout reliability that standalone prop firms can't match structurally.
No daily loss limit and no consistency rule during evaluations. Combined with no DLL, this is one of the most permissive eval rule sets available. Lucid and Tradeify Select also skip the DLL, but both impose a 40% consistency rule. Bulenox Option 2 has a daily loss limit. TakeProfitTrader has a 50% consistency rule.
Where Blueberry Futures Loses
The 30-day time limit is the single biggest disadvantage. It's the only firm in this comparison with a deadline on evaluations. Every other firm gives you unlimited time. That pressure alone will cost some traders their accounts.
Platform lock-in. Blackarrow is the only option. Every other firm except Alpha Futures (also platform-locked to AlphaTicks) offers at least Tradovate or NinjaTrader. Bulenox offers the most flexibility with NinjaTrader, Sierra Chart, Quantower, and Bookmap.
DCA restrictions. Two add-ons maximum is tighter than any competitor. If scaling into positions is core to your strategy, this is a dealbreaker.
Payout caps on funded accounts. $2,500 max per cycle limits income potential compared to firms with no caps (Lucid Flex, TakeProfitTrader above buffer). The $2,100 buffer floor adds another constraint that most competitors either don't have or set lower.
News trading restrictions. Three minutes each side of red-folder events is more restrictive than Lucid (no restriction on Flex), Bulenox (no restriction), or TakeProfitTrader (1 minute each side on PRO/PRO+).
My Recommendation by Trader Type
Want the cheapest one-time entry with zero commissions? Blueberry Futures Accelerated at $73.61 (50K, with 60% discount) is hard to beat on pure cost.
Need platform flexibility and order flow tools? Bulenox or TakeProfitTrader give you NinjaTrader, Sierra, Bookmap — tools Blueberry can't offer.
Want the fastest, most proven payout experience? Lucid Trading's 15-minute payouts with no payout cap on Flex accounts is the benchmark.
Prioritize trust and established payout history? Tradeify with $125M+ in verified payouts has the deepest track record by a wide margin.
Want commission-free futures trading with a broker-backed firm? That's Blueberry Futures' specific niche, and they own it. If the 30-day time limit and Blackarrow-only platform don't bother you, this firm offers a genuinely differentiated entry point into futures prop trading.