The average active forex no deposit bonus is $40, and the median is $40 (n=4 verified active offers). Active deposit-bonus turnover formulas run from 0.3 to 0.5 standard lots per $1 of bonus, 25% of active no deposit bonuses cap withdrawable profit (median cap: $100), and 3 of the 4 active no deposit bonuses carry a time limit (median window: 60 days). Those numbers — and every other figure on this page — are computed directly from the forex-bonus.com Broker & Bonus Matrix, our database of 92 bonus offers across 18 vetted brokers, with offer records verified against broker terms between June 3 and August 9, 2026, a full re-verification pass against official broker documents on August 7, 2026, and a status review on August 18, 2026.
As far as our research can establish, no other structured dataset of forex bonus terms exists publicly, so we publish the numbers with the sample size (n=) behind each one. Every stat is generated by a rerunnable script from the same database that powers our comparison pages — when the Matrix changes, the numbers regenerate. You are welcome to cite any figure here with attribution and a link.
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Availability note: Forex bonuses are banned for retail clients in the EU (ESMA), UK (FCA), Australia (ASIC), and the US. The offers behind these statistics are available only to traders in permitted markets — the geo-restriction section below quantifies exactly how those bans show up in offer terms.
The Dataset Behind These Numbers
Everything on this page comes from one source: the Broker & Bonus Matrix, the structured database our team maintains by reading broker terms documents, promotion pages, and official T&C PDFs.
| Dataset fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Bonus offers tracked | 92 |
| Brokers covered | 18 (all vetted per our review methodology) |
| Offer records verified | June 3 – August 9, 2026 |
| Latest matrix research date | August 7, 2026 (full re-verification pass) |
| Statistics computed | August 18, 2026, by script from the database |
Statuses matter for honesty: an offer is active only when we confirmed it against the broker’s own published terms; unverified means the terms were reported by credible sources but we could not confirm the offer against the broker’s own published pages — either because the site blocked direct confirmation (HTTP 403 walls are endemic in this niche) or because the offer is no longer published on the broker’s site at all; expired means we confirmed the offer ended, which requires a stated end date or a broker statement, not merely a missing page. For the narrative version of this dataset, see our annual State of Forex Bonuses report; this page is the raw, per-stat reference that report draws on.
How Many Forex Bonus Offers Are Actually Active in 2026?
40 of the 92 tracked offers (43.5%) are active and verified. 33 offers (35.9%) are unverified — advertised somewhere, but not confirmable against the broker’s own pages — and 19 (20.7%) are confirmed expired.
Two of those shares tell the market’s story. The unverified share (35.9%) means more than one in three forex bonus offers circulating on the internet cannot be confirmed against the broker’s published terms at any given moment. That share rose on August 18, 2026, when four JustMarkets offers (the $30 no deposit bonus and the 50%, 100% and 120% deposit tiers) moved from active to unverified: their recorded source URLs now return 404, the promotions index redirects to the homepage, and none of them appear in the broker’s own sitemaps. A sitemap is a static file served identically to every visitor, so absence there is not regional suppression — but it is still not the broker stating the offers are withdrawn, so they are recorded as unverified rather than expired. And the expired share nearly doubled between our June and August verification passes — from 10 to 19 offers — as the August 7 re-verification confirmed the withdrawal of several headline promotions (HFM’s 100% Supercharged, both Traders Trust bonuses, Vantage’s welcome and NDB offers, FXOpen’s $10 NDB among them). It is why every offer page on this site carries a verified date, and why our no deposit bonus tracker logs changes monthly.
Forex Bonus Offers by Type (n=92)
| Bonus type | Active | Unverified | Expired | Total tracked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deposit match | 13 | 9 | 6 | 28 |
| No deposit bonus | 4 | 5 | 8 | 17 |
| Cashback / rebate | 5 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| Loyalty program | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| Trading contest | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Referral / refer-a-friend | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| Other (VPS, insurance, perks) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Welcome bonus (deposit-gated) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Deposit matches are the industry’s workhorse — 28 of 92 offers (30.4%) — while the no deposit bonus, the most searched-for type, accounts for just 17 offers, of which only 4 are active and verified — and 8 (nearly half the category) are confirmed expired. If you want the full catalogue rather than the statistics, the no deposit bonus pillar and deposit bonus pillar list every live offer with terms.
What Is the Average Forex No Deposit Bonus?
Mean: $40. Median: $40. Mode: $30 (2 of 4 active offers). Range: $30–$50. (n=4 active verified offers: XM $50, Tickmill $30, Windsor Brokers $30, LiteFinance $50.)
The sample shrank twice in August 2026. First, Traders Trust’s $200 — the offer that used to pull the mean up to $61.67 — was withdrawn from the broker’s site. Then, on August 18, JustMarkets’ $30 no deposit bonus left the active set: it is no longer published anywhere on the broker’s site, so we could not verify it is running. What is left is a four-offer market split evenly between $30 and $50, which is why the mean and the median now sit at the same $40. In plain terms: the verified, claimable cash-style forex no deposit bonus in 2026 runs $30 to $50, not the $500–$5,000 figures that circulate on aggregator sites. One larger offer did verify on September 1, 2026: InstaForex’s StartUp bonus (up to $3,500) is genuinely credited on registration — but per its own agreement it converts to a demo account unless you deposit real funds within 7 days, which is why we class it as a credit-style trial rather than a claimable cash bonus. Other advertised amounts above $50 in our database (FBS’s $100 app program) remain unverified, region-locked, or expired — the full ranked list, including the headline offers and what is behind them, is in Biggest Forex No Deposit Bonuses by Amount.
What Is the Average Deposit Bonus Match?
Mean headline match: 78.9%. Median: 50%. Range: 15%–300%. (n=13 active verified deposit offers.)
The August 2026 passes reshaped this distribution: the two 100%-up-to-$50,000 flagships (HFM Supercharged, Traders Trust Convertible) are withdrawn, JustMarkets’ 50%, 100% and 120% tiers moved to unverified on August 18 when they stopped appearing on the broker’s site, while FreshForex’s reinstated 300% and 101% promotions and several smaller offers (15–30%) entered the active set — which is why the mean (78.9%) now sits well above the median (50%). Where an explicit maximum bonus is stated in the offer’s terms: median stated maximum $5,000, mean $14,060, range $500–$60,000 (n=10 active offers with a stated cap — the rest either publish no cap or cap per-tier). The largest stated ceilings are Windsor’s loyalty-tiered program (total bonus capacity up to $60,000 at the top tier, with a $10,000 active-bonus limit at any time) and Vantage’s 150%+25% structure (capped at $50,000 in total credit). The headline percentage is only the entry fee to the real question, which is the next statistic.
Turnover Required per Bonus Dollar: The Number That Decides Everything
This is the statistic no broker advertises, so we compute it: required trading volume (standard lots) divided by bonus amount ($). It measures how much trading stands between you and any withdrawal.
Across the 6 active offers where both figures are verified and parseable:
- Active no deposit bonuses (n=2): min 0.002, median 0.0177, max 0.0333 lots per $1
- Active deposit bonuses (n=4): min 0.3, median 0.325, max 0.5 lots per $1
- All 6 active offers: median 0.3 lots per $1
The heaviest active deposit-bonus formula is 1 standard lot per $2 of bonus (0.5 lots per $1): a $1,000 bonus on that formula demands roughly 500 standard lots of closed volume. It is now a minority formula among active offers — the four JustMarkets tiers that used to dominate this column moved to unverified on August 18, 2026 — but it remains the single most common formula across the whole database, including unverified offers. Inverted, the table below shows how many bonus dollars each lot of required trading “earns” you:
| Offer (active, verified) | Type | Lots per $1 of bonus | Bonus $ per lot traded |
|---|---|---|---|
| XM $50 NDB | No deposit | 0.002 | $500.00 |
| Windsor $30 NDB | No deposit | 0.0333 | $30.00 |
| InstaForex 30% deposit | Deposit | 0.3 | $3.33 |
| LiteFinance 60% deposit | Deposit | 0.3 | $3.33 |
| FreshForex 300% deposit | Deposit | 0.35 | $2.86 |
| Octa 50% deposit | Deposit | 0.5 | $2.00 |
The spread between the extremes is a factor of roughly 250: XM’s $50 no deposit bonus unlocks $500 of bonus value per lot of required trading, while the heaviest deposit formulas unlock $2. Offers with no lot-based requirement are excluded from this stat rather than guessed at — and that exclusion list grew in August 2026, because several re-verified official documents turned out to contain no volume requirement at all where third-party pages (and our own earlier records) had printed one: RoboForex’s $30 welcome, Vantage’s 150%+25%, HFM’s 20% Top-Up, Windsor’s restructured deposit bonus, InstaForex’s 100% tier, and FreshForex’s 101% drawdown credit all now record “none stated.” Several of them gate value differently, through proportional bonus removal on withdrawal. Rank-ordered analysis of every offer, including unverified and expired ones, lives in our lowest-turnover ranking, and you can run your own numbers in the turnover calculator.
What Percentage of No Deposit Bonuses Cap Your Profit?
25% of active no deposit bonuses (1 of 4) cap withdrawable profit. The cap is $100, and the cap-to-bonus ratio is 3.33 — the one live cap belongs to Tickmill, which allows up to $100 of profit on its $30 credit. (Two tighter caps left the active sample in August 2026: Traders Trust’s $200-on-$200, withdrawn from the broker’s site, and JustMarkets’ $30-on-$30, which is no longer published on JustMarkets’ site and is now recorded as unverified.)
Across all 9 listed non-expired no deposit offers (active + unverified), the pattern holds: 33.3% are capped, median cap $100. And caps are not the only ceiling mechanism: Windsor Brokers imposes no maximum but requires a minimum $60 profit before any withdrawal from its $30 credit — a +200% return hurdle. The uncapped, floor-free exceptions are rare enough to name: XM’s $50 NDB states no profit cap in its published terms, which is a major reason it tops our withdrawal-difficulty ranking.
How Many “No Deposit” Bonuses Require a Deposit Anyway?
50% of active no deposit bonuses (2 of 4) require a real-money deposit before profits can be withdrawn: Tickmill ($100 deposit into a verified live account — and note its offer excludes Nigeria, South Africa, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh entirely) and LiteFinance (deposit required before any profit withdrawal, per its promo terms). JustMarkets’ $30 offer carried the same $100 gate, but it is no longer published on the broker’s site and has left the active sample.
“No deposit to trade, deposit to withdraw” is one of the most misunderstood structures in this market, and it covers half the active offers. The other two — XM and Windsor — let you withdraw qualifying profit without funding the account first, per their verified terms (and Windsor’s official T&C excludes the core bonus-hunting countries, which in practice leaves XM for most of our readers).
What Percentage of Bonuses Expire?
- Active no deposit bonuses with a time limit: 3 of 4 (75%). Median window: 60 days.
- Active deposit bonuses with a time limit: 7 of 13 (53.8%). Median window: 30 days.
- All 40 active offers: 18 (45%) carry a deadline in their recorded terms. Median rolling window: 30 days.
Nearly every active no deposit bonus is time-boxed — claim windows, trading windows, or validity periods running 30 to 180 days. The single exception is new: XM’s current $50 T&C states no claim window at all (the old 30-day claim clause survives only in a separate regional variant document). Just over half of active deposit bonuses are deadline-driven too (28–180 days or hard end dates), with the open-ended remainder expiring through inactivity clauses instead. The practical meaning: with a typical NDB you have one to two months to claim it, meet the volume requirement, and withdraw — full mechanics in our bonus expiry guide.
How Do the EU/UK/AU/US Bans Show Up in the Data?
Counting the per-offer exclusion lists recorded in our database, across all 40 active offers:
| Region (bonuses banned for retail clients) | Active offers naming it as excluded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 40 of 40 | 100% |
| EU / EEA | 40 of 40 | 100% |
| United Kingdom | 40 of 40 | 100% |
| Australia | 40 of 40 | 100% |
As of the August 2026 pass, every active offer record names all four banned regions in its exclusion data — the June-cycle gaps (offers whose restriction operated only at the broker-entity level, with no per-country list recorded) have been filled in. No offer in our database is verified as available to EU, UK, Australian, or US retail clients. The regulatory background is covered in Why Forex Bonuses Are Banned in the EU and UK.
The Verification Gap: The Industry’s Transparency Problem, Quantified
Three numbers describe how hard it is to pin this market down:
- 35.9% of tracked offers (33 of 92) are unverified — the broker’s own site would not confirm them at research time, either because it blocked us or because the offer is not published there at all. During the June–August 2026 verification cycles, 9 of the 18 broker websites returned HTTP 403 blocks or redirects on promotion pages (11 of 18 recorded an access issue of some kind).
- 24 individual data fields across the database are flagged [NEEDS-VERIFICATION] — cases where sources conflict or an official document could not be fetched (for example, FXGT’s no deposit bonus amount is reported as both $30 and $50, so we publish neither as fact).
- 19 offers (20.7%) expired within our tracking window — nearly doubling between the June and August passes — and our research notes record third-party sites still advertising several of them (Traders Trust’s withdrawn $200 NDB and Octa’s discontinued $8 offer are the clearest examples).
We publish gaps instead of guessing. When an amount cannot be confirmed, our pages say so — a policy you can check against any offer page on this site.
How We Computed These Statistics
Every figure above is generated by a script that reads the Broker & Bonus Matrix — the same database that powers our comparison tables — and computes counts, means, medians, and ratios with conservative parsing rules. Offers whose terms cannot be parsed into a given statistic are excluded from that statistic and counted, never estimated. That is why each stat carries its own n.
Offer records were verified against broker terms between June 3 and August 9, 2026, with a full re-verification pass against official broker documents on August 7, 2026 and a status review on August 18, 2026; statistics were computed on August 18, 2026. When our re-verification cycles change the underlying data, these numbers are recomputed rather than hand-edited. Our sourcing standards are documented in the review methodology.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the average forex no deposit bonus in 2026?
The average active, verified forex no deposit bonus is $40, and the median is $40 (n=4 offers, as of August 18, 2026). The most common amount is $30, offered by 2 of the 4 brokers with active offers (Tickmill and Windsor Brokers), with XM and LiteFinance at $50. Larger advertised amounts — $500, $1,000, $3,500 — are unverified headlines, regional variants, or expired offers rather than claimable standard bonuses.
What is the biggest verified no deposit bonus?
XM’s $50 is the largest active, verified no deposit bonus in our database as of August 7, 2026 — with a 0.1-standard-lot volume requirement and no stated profit cap. The former leader, Traders Trust’s $200, was withdrawn from the broker’s site in August 2026. Every larger advertised figure we track failed verification against the broker’s own published terms. See the full ranked list in our biggest no deposit bonuses analysis.
What is the average deposit bonus percentage?
Across 13 active verified deposit offers, the mean headline match is 78.9% and the median is 50%, with a range from 15% to 300%. Where a maximum is stated, the median cap is $5,000. Most deposit bonuses are credited as non-withdrawable margin, so the match percentage matters less than the volume formula — active formulas run 0.3 to 0.5 standard lots per $1 of bonus, and a growing share of re-verified official terms state no volume requirement at all.
What percentage of forex bonuses can actually be withdrawn?
The bonus credit itself is almost never withdrawable — what the terms govern is withdrawing profit made with it. Among active no deposit bonuses, 25% cap that profit (the one live cap is $100), 50% require a deposit before withdrawal, and 75% impose a time limit (median window 60 days). No broker publishes withdrawal success rates; we analyze what the terms imply in Do Traders Actually Withdraw Bonus Profits?
How many forex brokers offer a no deposit bonus in 2026?
Of the 18 vetted brokers in our database, 4 (22.2%) have an active, verified no deposit bonus as of August 18, 2026: XM, Tickmill, Windsor Brokers, and LiteFinance. Four more (FBS, InstaForex, FXGT and JustMarkets) have no-deposit offers on record that we could not verify as active — their current records are classed unverified, JustMarkets’ $30 offer among them since August 18, 2026, when we found it was no longer published on the broker’s site — and the expired column has grown long: Traders Trust’s $200 (withdrawn August 2026), Vantage’s $100/$50, FXOpen’s $10, FreshForex’s $50 and $5, FBS Level Up, HFM’s $50, and Octa’s $8 are all confirmed expired or discontinued.
Where does this data come from?
From the forex-bonus.com Broker & Bonus Matrix — a database of 92 offers across 18 brokers our team maintains by reading official bonus terms and promotion pages, with per-offer verified dates (June 3 – August 9, 2026 for the current records; full re-verification pass August 7, 2026). Statistics are computed from the database by script, each with its sample size shown, and gaps are flagged rather than estimated.
The Bottom Line
The statistical picture of forex bonuses in 2026: a claimable no deposit bonus is $30 to $50 (mean and median both $40), its clock runs 30 to 180 days (median window 60 days), there is a 25% chance it caps your profit and a 50% chance it requires a deposit before paying out — and the typical lot-gated deposit bonus demands a lot of trading per $2–$3.33 of credit. The outliers are more interesting than the averages: one active offer combines the lightest turnover in the market (0.002 lots per $1) with no stated profit cap — XM’s $50 no deposit bonus, claimable here if you are in an eligible country.
And if the statistics on caps, clocks, and turnover make bonus-chasing look like hard work — that is what the data says. For volume traders, cashback rebates pay real, withdrawable money per lot with none of these locks, which is why our data pages keep pointing there.
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Written by Tim Morris · Forex industry analyst · About Tim