Today we added the Forex Bonus Calculator — a free tool that answers one question before you deposit: what pace of trading would it actually take to clear this bonus?
What it does
Enter the deposit, bonus percentage, cap, volume target in lots and days allowed. You get four results: the bonus credit after the cap, the trading balance, the lots per day needed to clear, and the bonus as a share of your deposit. The daily pace is the figure that decides realism — a target that looks easy in total can be punishing when divided by the window.
How to use it
- Open the bonus calculator.
- Copy percentage, cap and lots target from the offer's terms page.
- Set the days allowed, then read lots per day against your normal trade size.
- Estimate what clearing costs with the spread cost calculator.
As an example: a 25-lot target over 30 days is about 0.83 lots a day. Whether that is comfortable depends entirely on your account size — which is exactly the judgement the tool exists to support.
A worked example
Take a typical listing: a 100% match with the bonus capped at $500, and 25 lots required inside 30 days. On a $1,000 deposit the calculator returns a $500 bonus credit, a $1,500 trading balance and 0.83 lots a day. Hold the target at 25 lots and shorten the window to 14 days and the same requirement becomes 1.79 lots a day — the reward does not change, but the daily load more than doubles.
| Volume target | Window | Lots per day |
|---|---|---|
| 25 lots | 60 days | 0.42 |
| 25 lots | 30 days | 0.83 |
| 25 lots | 14 days | 1.79 |
Read the last column against your normal position size. If you already trade at that pace without the bonus, the target is realistic. If it is several times your usual volume, the bonus is effectively out of reach and the headline percentage decides nothing.
What it does not do
The calculator does not rank brokers, recommend offers or predict whether a bonus will be released. It converts published figures into a daily pace you can judge against your own account — the decision stays with you. Every output is illustrative: brokers set their own caps, windows and eligibility rules, and the terms on the offer's own page override anything typed into the tool.
Why we built it
Volume requirements are usually published, but rarely translated: a bare lot figure means little next to a headline percentage. We wanted a page that turns the requirement into a daily pace a trader can judge in seconds, with nothing sent anywhere. It joins the existing calculators on the tools index.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the bonus calculator work out?
Four things from the figures you enter: the bonus credit after any cap, your resulting trading balance, the lots per day needed to clear the volume target inside the window, and the bonus as a percentage of your deposit.
Where do I get the volume target?
From the offer's own terms page — brokers publish the lots required to release a bonus. If the target is not published before signup, treat that as a red flag and check the terms comparison first.
Is my data sent anywhere?
No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser tab. Nothing is submitted, logged or stored.
Which offers does it work with?
Any bonus whose terms publish a percentage match, a cap and a volume target. Enter the figures from the offer's own terms page — the tool does not care which broker the figures come from, and nothing about your numbers leaves the tab.
How accurate is the daily pace?
It is arithmetic on the figures you enter: total lots divided by days allowed. Brokers may count only qualifying trades on listed instruments, so treat the pace as a planning figure and confirm the counting rules in the terms before relying on it.