Blue Guardian restricted countries: who can and can’t sign up

Quick answer: Pakistan is on Blue Guardian’s restricted-country list, so Pakistani traders can’t buy a Blue Guardian Futures account. India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and almost all of the EU are accepted. As of September 2026 the futures program blocks 57 countries and territories — the full list is below, along with the countries people ask about most, how the check actually happens, and where to look if you’re on the wrong side of it.

This applies to Blue Guardian Futures — the CME futures side of the firm, which is the program we review and test. Blue Guardian’s CFD program runs a separate list on its own help center; if you’re looking at the forex product, check that one rather than this page.

Is Pakistan restricted at Blue Guardian?

Yes. Pakistan is on the restricted list for Blue Guardian Futures. There’s no workaround the firm accepts: buying an evaluation from Pakistan gets you a sim account that fails identity verification the moment you request a payout, so the profit is never paid and the fee you spent on the evaluation is the cost of finding that out. If you’re trading from Pakistan, don’t buy — use the futures prop firms that accept Pakistani traders instead, all of which we’ve verified against the firms’ own eligibility lists.

Does Blue Guardian accept US clients?

Yes. The United States is not on the list, and neither is Canada. US traders get the same four account models — Standard, Reserve, Express and Direct — the same 90% split and the same payout rails (Rise or crypto) as everyone else. The only US-specific point is tax: payouts are income, so keep your own records from the first one. Our prop firms for USA traders page has the full roster if you want to compare.

The countries traders ask about most

Straight yes/no for the searches that land here, checked against Blue Guardian’s own futures list on 25 September 2026.

The full Blue Guardian Futures restricted countries list

All 57 entries from the firm’s futures help center, alphabetical. Crimea is a region rather than a country but is listed separately by the firm, so it’s counted here.

• Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola
• Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burundi
• Cambodia, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Crimea, Cuba
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Ecuador, Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel
• Jamaica
• Kosovo
• Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya
• Malaysia, Mauritius, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma)
• Nicaragua, North Korea
• Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea
• Russia
• South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria
• Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey
• Uganda, Ukraine
• Venezuela, Vietnam
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe

Three patterns explain most of it. The sanctioned set (Russia, Belarus, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, Crimea) is common to every prop firm. A second block follows payment-processor and AML risk ratings rather than sanctions — that’s why Pakistan, Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Ghana appear even though they’re active trading markets. The third group is small jurisdictions the firm simply doesn’t onboard (Andorra, Iceland, Mauritius, the Caribbean entries). None of these are about your trading; they’re about who the firm’s payment and identity partners will service.

Futures list vs CFD list — they’re different

Blue Guardian runs two programs with two help centers. This page is the futures list (helpfutures.blueguardian.com). The CFD/forex program keeps its own list on help.blueguardian.com, and the two don’t match line for line. If a YouTube review or a Discord message told you a country was fine, check which program it was talking about — a lot of the confusion around “is Blue Guardian allowed in Pakistan” comes from mixing the two.

How Blue Guardian actually enforces it

Nothing stops you at checkout. The check happens at KYC, which Blue Guardian runs before your first payout: government ID plus proof of address, matched against the name on the account. An account bought with a restricted-country ID or address doesn’t get paid, and the evaluation fee isn’t coming back. Two things follow from that:

• Don’t use a VPN to get around it. VPN use to misrepresent your location is on Blue Guardian’s prohibited list. Even if the sim account passes, the payout is where it ends — with your profit forfeited.
• KYC is about the documents you present. A Pakistani citizen resident in the UAE who can show UAE proof of address is, on paper, a UAE client — but that’s a question for Blue Guardian support before you pay, not something to assume. If you can’t document residence in an accepted country, treat yourself as restricted.

Our KYC guide for funded accounts walks through what every firm asks for and how to get it right first time.

Payouts in accepted countries: Rise and crypto

Being accepted is one question; being paid is another. Blue Guardian pays by Rise (a bank transfer in most countries) or by crypto, both with a 3% processing fee. Rise doesn’t reach every country, so traders in some accepted markets end up on crypto — which is fine, the minimum is lower ($100 vs $500 by Rise), but factor in the exchange step if you don’t already hold a wallet. The full payout mechanics by account model are in the Blue Guardian Futures review.

If you’re accepted: which account and which code

Once you’re through, the buying decision is the same as for anyone else: Reserve for the cheapest route to a funded account with no funded consistency rule, Express if you want daily payouts, Direct if you want to skip the evaluation, Standard for the highest caps. Code DGT always applies the largest discount Blue Guardian offers on each model — 25% on Standard, Reserve and Direct and the higher Express rate at the time of writing. Current prices with the code are on the Blue Guardian discount page, or go straight to Blue Guardian Futures and enter DGT at checkout.

If you’re restricted: what to do instead

Every futures prop firm keeps its own list, and they overlap far less than you’d expect. Pakistan is blocked at Blue Guardian but accepted at several firms we track; the same is true of Vietnam, Indonesia and Turkey. Our prop firms by country hub is a page per country that pulls each firm’s eligibility straight from the same records this post is built on, so it updates when a firm changes its list. Start there rather than trying firms one checkout at a time.