Aqua Funded vs BlueBerry Funded — Full Comparison 2026
Two firms. Both rated in the low 3s on Trustpilot. Both flagged for fake reviews. Both launched after 2022. Both with a Hidden Rules Meter of 5.1/10. The question isn't which one is great. The question is which one is less likely to ruin your month.
Full Aqua Funded Review — Full BlueBerry Funded Review
Quick Comparison Table
| Feature | Aqua Funded | BlueBerry Funded | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 | 🏆 Aqua Funded |
| Trustpilot Score | 3.1 ⭐ (1,406 reviews) | 3.2 ⭐ (1,510 reviews) | 🏆 BlueBerry Funded |
| 1-Star Review % | 27% | 37% | 🏆 Aqua Funded |
| Trustpilot Flag | Fake reviews removed | Fake reviews removed | Draw |
| Hidden Rules Meter | 5.1/10 | 5.1/10 | Draw |
| Trust Score | 3.4/5 | 3.3/5 | 🏆 Aqua Funded |
| Pass Rate | 7% | 13% | 🏆 BlueBerry Funded |
| Max Allocation | $200,000 | $200,000 ($2M scaling) | 🏆 BlueBerry Funded |
| Entry Price (smallest) | $60 (Instant $2.5K) | $25 (Instant $2.5K) | 🏆 BlueBerry Funded |
| Commissions | $3/lot | $5/lot | 🏆 Aqua Funded |
| Profit Split | 90% (100% add-on) | 80–90% | 🏆 Aqua Funded |
| Leverage | 1:100 (eval) / 1:50 (instant) | 1:100 | 🏆 BlueBerry Funded |
| Broker-Backed | No | Yes — Blueberry Markets (ASIC) | 🏆 BlueBerry Funded |
| News Trading | Restricted on funded only | Restricted on all accounts | 🏆 Aqua Funded |
| Copy Trading | Allowed — own accounts + external | Allowed — own accounts only | 🏆 Aqua Funded |
| Scaling Potential | $200,000 | $2,000,000 | 🏆 BlueBerry Funded |
Challenge Programs & Pricing
Aqua Funded
2-Step Pro Challenge — most popular model, no time limit
| Account Size | Fee | Phase 1 Target | Phase 2 Target | Daily Loss | Max Loss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,000 | $117 | 8% | 5% | 5% | 8% |
| $25,000 | $197 | 8% | 5% | 5% | 8% |
| $50,000 | $310 | 8% | 5% | 5% | 8% |
| $100,000 | $539 | 8% | 5% | 5% | 8% |
| $200,000 | $980 | 8% | 5% | 5% | 8% |
▪ Profit split: 90% default — 100% available via add-on
▪ Fee typically refunded on first successful payout
▪ Drawdown type: trailing
1-Step Challenge
▪ Profit target: 8–10% | Max drawdown: 8% | Daily loss: 2%
▪ Fees vary by size — typically $100–$500 before promotional discounts
Instant Funding (Standard & Pro) — no evaluation required
| Account Size | Fee (Pro) | Fee (Standard) |
|---|---|---|
| $2,500 | — | $60 |
| $5,000 | $115 | $210 |
| $10,000 | $155 | — |
| $25,000 | ~$310 | — |
| $50,000 | ~$465 | — |
| $100,000 | ~$905–$1,500 | — |
▪ No profit target — immediate funded access
▪ Max trailing drawdown: 6% | Daily loss: 3% | Leverage: 1:50
▪ Consistency rule — Standard: 40% daily cap (no single day >40% of total profits) | Pro: 15% daily cap
▪ Promo codes like AQUA or WELCOME typically reduce prices further — check live pricing on Aqua Funded
View all Aqua Funded challenges & prices
BlueBerry Funded
2-Step Evaluation — no time limit, scaling to $2M
| Account Size | Fee (approx.) | Phase 1 Target | Phase 2 Target | Daily Loss | Max Loss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,000 | ~$100 | 8–10% | 5–6% | 4–5% | 10% |
| $25,000 | ~$150 | 8–10% | 5–6% | 4–5% | 10% |
| $50,000 | ~$250 | 8–10% | 5–6% | 4–5% | 10% |
| $100,000 | ~$450–$500 | 8–10% | 5–6% | 4–5% | 10% |
| $200,000 | ~$900–$1,000 | 8–10% | 5–6% | 4–5% | 10% |
1-Step Evaluation
▪ Account sizes: $10,000–$100,000 | Fees: ~$50–$300
▪ Profit target: 10% | Max drawdown: 6% | Daily loss: 4%
Rapid Challenge
▪ Account sizes: $10,000–$100,000 | Fees: ~$50–$300
▪ Profit target: 5% | Max drawdown: 4% | Daily loss: 3%
Instant Lite & Instant Elite — no evaluation required
| Account Size | Fee (Lite) | Fee (Elite) |
|---|---|---|
| $2,500 | $25 | — |
| $5,000 | $40 | — |
| $10,000 | $70 | — |
| $25,000 | $160 | — |
| $50,000 | $300 | — |
| $100,000 | $600 | — |
▪ No profit target | Lite: 4% max DD, 2% daily | Elite: 10% max DD, no daily limit
▪ 7-Day Payout Add-on: +20% on base challenge price
▪ Profit split: 80–90%, scaling to $2,000,000
▪ Check live pricing at BlueBerry Funded
View all BlueBerry Funded challenges & prices
BlueBerry wins on program variety and entry price — four distinct models covering every trader profile, and the lowest instant entry on this comparison at $25 for a $2,500 account. Aqua Funded's 2-Step Pro is cleaner and more predictable, and the fee refund on first payout is a meaningful advantage for budget-conscious traders starting at higher account sizes.
🏆 Winner: BlueBerry Funded
News Trading
Aqua Funded
▪ Evaluation accounts: fully allowed — no restrictions during the challenge phase
▪ Funded accounts: restricted — no trading within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news
▪ Restriction applies to both opening and closing positions — exits count too
At least the evaluation phase is clean. Traders who rely on news during the challenge won't have a surprise waiting on the other side of passing.
BlueBerry Funded
▪ Evaluation accounts: restricted — no opening or closing trades within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news
▪ Funded accounts: restricted — same 2-minute window applies
▪ If your take profit is hit during that window, profits may be voided — even if you didn't touch the trade
▪ Exception: trades opened 6+ hours before the event that hit stop loss — allowed
That last point deserves a second read. Your trade closes automatically in profit during the window, you had nothing to do with it, and the profits may still be removed. The trade didn't break any rule. The clock did.
🏆 Winner: Aqua Funded
Drawdown & Risk Rules
Aqua Funded
| Model | Daily DD | Max DD | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-Step Pro | 5% | 8% | Trailing |
| 1-Step | 2% | 8% | Trailing |
| Instant Funding | 3% | 6% | Trailing |
▪ Wave Stop system — auto-closes all open positions when floating loss across trades reaches 2%
▪ First trigger: profit split reduced to 50% permanently
▪ Second trigger: account terminated
▪ Maximum floating loss per trade: 2% of account balance — drops to 1% on $300K and $400K accounts
▪ Breach of the per-trade limit: permanent account closure — no warning, no appeal
The Wave Stop sounds reasonable until you realize the first breach doesn't just warn you — it halves your cut permanently. The second one closes everything. A soft breach with very hard consequences.
BlueBerry Funded
| Model | Daily DD | Max DD | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-Step | 4–5% | 10% | Static / Balance |
| 1-Step | 4% | 6% | Static |
| Rapid Challenge | 3% | 4% | Static |
| Instant Lite | 2% | 4% | Static |
| Instant Elite | — | 10% | Static |
▪ A "trade idea" on funded accounts = the initial trade + any re-entries in the same direction within 10 minutes of a loss
▪ Combined loss across the trade idea cannot exceed 1.5% of the initial balance
▪ On Instant accounts, drawdown does not reset after withdrawals — withdrawing profits can leave the account with almost no remaining buffer
The 1.5% trade idea rule looks simple until you're mid-trade, considering a re-entry, and realize your entire risk budget for that idea is already halfway gone from the first attempt.
Static drawdown on BlueBerry's evaluation models is a structural advantage over Aqua's trailing drawdown — the floor never moves against you as you profit. Aqua's Wave Stop and permanent per-trade closure make its risk environment significantly less forgiving despite the higher drawdown percentages on paper.
🏆 Winner: BlueBerry Funded
Copy Trading
Aqua Funded
▪ Allowed between your own Aqua Funded accounts
▪ Allowed between funded accounts, evaluation accounts, and external accounts
▪ Copying trades from other traders: not allowed
BlueBerry Funded
▪ Allowed between personal accounts only
▪ Cross-platform copy trading: not permitted
Aqua Funded wins — copy trading between own accounts and external accounts is explicitly allowed, which is more permissive than most firms at any tier. BlueBerry limits it to personal accounts only, which is still reasonable but meaningfully narrower.
🏆 Winner: Aqua Funded
Consistency & Strategy Rules
Aqua Funded
▪ Strategy used during evaluation must match the strategy on the funded account — switching after passing is strictly prohibited
▪ All-in and high-risk strategies: prohibited at all times
▪ "Excessive risk" per trade and cumulative risk across overlapping trades: prohibited — but "excessive" is not precisely defined
▪ Instant Standard: 40% daily consistency rule — no single day can represent more than 40% of total profits
▪ Instant Pro: 15% daily consistency rule — significantly tighter
That undefined "excessive risk" clause is the problem. A rule with no clear boundary isn't a rule — it's discretion wearing the costume of a rule.
BlueBerry Funded
▪ No strategy consistency requirement between evaluation and funded accounts
▪ Rules are precise and explicit — no major ambiguity about what is measured
▪ Behavioral patterns and trade timing are monitored closely on funded accounts
🏆 Winner: BlueBerry Funded
Inactivity Rules
Aqua Funded
▪ Account is permanently deactivated after 30 days of inactivity
▪ Once deactivated, it cannot be restored
Permanent. No grace period. No reactivation. Taking a break here doesn't pause anything — it ends it.
BlueBerry Funded
▪ Account may be suspended after 30 days without placing a trade
"May be suspended" is meaningfully different from "will be permanently deactivated." There's at least the implication that suspension isn't necessarily the end of the road.
🏆 Winner: BlueBerry Funded
Forbidden Trading Practices
| Practice | Aqua Funded | BlueBerry Funded |
|---|---|---|
| News Trading (funded) | ⚠️ Restricted — 5-min window | ⚠️ Restricted — 2-min window, all accounts |
| Copy Trading | ✅ Own + external accounts allowed | ✅ Own accounts only allowed |
| Copy from other traders | ❌ Forbidden | ❌ Forbidden |
| All-in / high-risk strategies | ❌ Forbidden | Not specified |
| Excessive risk per trade | ❌ Forbidden — undefined threshold | ⚠️ 1.5% trade idea cap — defined |
| Strategy switching (eval to funded) | ❌ Forbidden | ✅ Allowed |
| Re-entries within 10 min (funded) | Not specified | ⚠️ Counted as same trade idea — 1.5% combined cap |
| 80%+ margin per trade | ❌ Forbidden — 80% cap | Not specified |
| Withdrawing profits (instant) | Allowed | ⚠️ Drawdown does not reset — leaves thin buffer |
| Inactivity 30 days | ❌ Permanent deactivation | ⚠️ May be suspended |
BlueBerry's 1.5% trade idea rule is more restrictive on paper, but at least it's a number. Aqua's "excessive risk" clause exists without a defined threshold — which means the firm decides what's excessive after the fact. That's the kind of rule that only becomes visible when it's already been applied.
At this point in the comparison, choosing between Aqua Funded and BlueBerry Funded feels like choosing between two apartments with structural issues. One has a crack in the foundation — visible, documented, potentially manageable. The other has a clause in the lease you only find on page 14. Both are real problems. The difference is which one you'd rather know about upfront.
Transparency & Hidden Rules
Both firms score 5.1/10 on our Hidden Rules Meter. Both have been flagged by Trustpilot for fake review removal. That's not a coincidence — it's a pattern.
Aqua Funded
▪ Clear gap between the rules advertised before purchase and the full conditions in the T&Cs and Funded Agreement
▪ Key details — Wave Stop system, per-trade permanent closure, strategy lock — are not prominently front-loaded
▪ Most traders discover the full picture after they've already committed capital
▪ Trustpilot: 3.1 ⭐ — 1,406 reviews — 27% one-star — profile flagged, fake reviews removed
BlueBerry Funded
▪ Discrepancies between rules shown before account purchase and the Terms & Conditions signed at onboarding
▪ The 1.5% trade idea rule — which aggregates re-entries within a 10-minute window — is not immediately obvious from the main challenge pages
▪ 37% of Trustpilot reviews are 1-star — the highest one-star ratio in our current rankings
▪ Common complaints: payout denials, accounts flagged after profitable trading sessions
▪ Trustpilot: 3.2 ⭐ — 1,510 reviews — profile flagged, fake reviews removed
Aqua Funded edges this on Trust Score (3.4 vs 3.3) and on one-star ratio (27% vs 37%). Neither number is something to frame and put on the wall.
🏆 Winner: Aqua Funded (marginally)
Pass Probability Analysis
Aqua Funded at 7%, BlueBerry Funded at 13%. A significant gap for two firms with identical Hidden Rules Meter scores. Check Aqua Funded trader reviews and BlueBerry Funded trader reviews for first-hand experience from the community.
These figures are based on our Difficulty Score formula, incorporating drawdown type, profit targets, daily loss limits, consistency rules, and time restrictions. They are estimates based on publicly available challenge parameters and community data — not guaranteed outcomes.
Aqua Funded — by model:
▪ 2-Step Pro: most accessible — but trailing drawdown, Wave Stop, and strategy lock add meaningful failure risk below the surface
▪ 1-Step: lower — tighter 2% daily loss on a single phase significantly compresses the margin for error
▪ Instant Funding: consistency rules (40%/15%) create a structural ceiling on how good any single day can look
BlueBerry Funded — by model:
▪ 2-Step: highest probability — 10% static max DD and no consistency requirement is a cleaner framework
▪ 1-Step: moderate — single 10% target with 6% max DD and static floor
▪ Rapid Challenge: lower — 4% max DD is the tightest evaluation drawdown in this comparison
▪ Instant Elite: no daily limit, 10% DD — more room to breathe but 1.5% trade idea cap and drawdown non-reset after withdrawals create hidden complexity
BlueBerry's static drawdown across evaluation models is the main structural reason for the higher pass rate. Aqua's trailing drawdown means the floor actively moves against you as you profit — and the Wave Stop means a single bad sequence can cost you half your split before you realize what happened.
🏆 Winner: BlueBerry Funded
Difficulty Score
| Firm | Difficulty | Pass Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Funded | High | 7% |
| BlueBerry Funded | Moderate–High | 13% |
Aqua scores harder: trailing drawdown across all models, Wave Stop soft breach that permanently halves your split, undefined "excessive risk" clause, strategy lock between evaluation and funded, and consistency caps on instant accounts. BlueBerry scores moderately hard: static drawdown on evaluations, trade idea aggregation rule, and the drawdown non-reset on instant accounts are all real friction points — but at least they're defined in advance.
Best For Each Trading Style
| Trading Style | Best Choice | Why |
|---|---|---|
| News Traders (evaluation) | Aqua Funded | Fully allowed during challenge with no restrictions |
| News Traders (funded) | Draw | Both restrict — Aqua at 5 min, BlueBerry at 2 min |
| Copy Traders | Aqua Funded | Own accounts + external allowed — more flexible than most firms |
| High Capital / Scaling | BlueBerry Funded | Scaling to $2,000,000 vs Aqua's $200,000 ceiling |
| Budget Entry (Instant) | BlueBerry Funded | $25 for $2,500 Instant Lite vs $60 for $2,500 at Aqua |
| Lower Commissions | Aqua Funded | $3/lot vs $5/lot — meaningful for high-frequency traders |
| Profit Split Priority | Aqua Funded | 90% default, 100% via add-on vs BlueBerry's 80–90% |
| Broker-Backed Structure | BlueBerry Funded | Blueberry Markets, ASIC-regulated execution |
| Structured / Deliberate Risk | BlueBerry Funded | Static drawdown, defined rules, no strategy lock between phases |
Final Score
| Category | Aqua Funded | BlueBerry Funded |
|---|---|---|
| Challenge Programs & Pricing | 7.5/10 | 8.5/10 |
| News Trading | 7.5/10 | 6/10 |
| Drawdown Rules | 6/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Copy Trading | 8.5/10 | 7/10 |
| Consistency & Strategy Rules | 5.5/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Inactivity Rules | 5/10 | 7/10 |
| Commissions & Profit Split | 8.5/10 | 7/10 |
| Scaling Potential | 6/10 | 9/10 |
| Broker-Backed & Infrastructure | 5/10 | 8/10 |
| Transparency | 5/10 | 5/10 |
| Hidden Rules Meter | 5.1/10 | 5.1/10 |
| Pass Rate | 7% | 13% |
| Trustpilot | 3.1 ⭐ | 3.2 ⭐ |
| Overall | 4/10 | 5/10 |
Final Verdict
Neither firm belongs in the top tier of prop trading. Both have Trustpilot profiles that tell a complicated story, both have rules that traders tend to discover after the fact, and both scored identically on transparency.
That said, if forced to choose: BlueBerry Funded edges ahead — primarily because of broker backing (Blueberry Markets, ASIC-regulated), a pass rate nearly double Aqua's, scaling to $2,000,000, and static drawdown on evaluation models that at least keeps the floor from moving against you while you profit.
Aqua Funded holds the edge on commissions ($3/lot), default profit split (90% standard, 100% add-on), news trading freedom during evaluation, and copy trading flexibility. But the permanent, no-appeal account closure on a single per-trade breach — combined with an "excessive risk" rule that nobody can quantify until it's already been applied — creates an environment where the rules only fully reveal themselves in real time.
The rule to read twice on each side: Aqua Funded's Wave Stop — first trigger permanently halves your profit split, second trigger closes the account, and the per-trade 2% loss cap results in immediate permanent closure with no warning or appeal. BlueBerry's trade idea aggregation — any re-entry in the same direction within 10 minutes of a loss counts toward a 1.5% combined cap. Neither rule is prominently displayed on the main challenge page. Both are enforced automatically.
If you're set on one of these two, BlueBerry is the slightly safer structural bet. If your budget and trading style allow more flexibility, firms like FXIFY, Fintokei, or Bright Funded offer a meaningfully cleaner experience for most trading styles.
