The average active forex no deposit bonus is $61.67, and the median is $30 (n=6 verified active offers). The most common deposit bonus ratio requires 1 standard lot of trading per $2 of bonus, half of active no deposit bonuses cap withdrawable profit (median cap: $100), and every single active no deposit bonus carries a time limit (median: 30 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 on June 3–4, 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 3–4, 2026 |
| Latest matrix research date | June 9, 2026 |
| Statistics computed | August 7, 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 the broker’s site blocked direct confirmation (HTTP 403 walls are endemic in this niche); expired means we confirmed the offer ended. 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?
35 of the 92 tracked offers (38%) are active and verified. 47 offers (51.1%) are unverified — advertised somewhere, but not confirmable against the broker’s own pages — and 10 (10.9%) are confirmed expired.
That 51.1% unverified share is itself one of the most important statistics in this market: more than half of the forex bonus offers circulating on the internet cannot be confirmed against the broker’s published terms at any given moment. 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 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 28 |
| No deposit bonus | 6 | 7 | 4 | 17 |
| Cashback / rebate | 3 | 7 | 3 | 13 |
| Loyalty program | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| Trading contest | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| Referral / refer-a-friend | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| Other (VPS, insurance, perks) | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| Welcome bonus (deposit-gated) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 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 6 are active and verified. 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: $61.67. Median: $30. Mode: $30 (4 of 6 active offers). Range: $30–$200. (n=6 active verified offers: XM $30, JustMarkets $30, Tickmill $30, Windsor Brokers $30, LiteFinance $50, Traders Trust $200.)
The mean sits double the median because one offer — Traders Trust’s $200 — pulls the average up while two-thirds of the market clusters at exactly $30. In plain terms: the typical real, claimable forex no deposit bonus in 2026 is $30, not the $500–$5,000 figures that circulate on aggregator sites. Advertised amounts above $200 in our database are either unverified (InstaForex’s “up to $3,500” headline), region-locked variants, 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: 73.33%. Median: 80%. Range: 20%–120%. (n=12 active verified deposit offers.)
Where an explicit maximum bonus is stated in the offer’s terms, the caps are large: median stated maximum $10,000, mean $21,166.67, range $2,000–$50,000 (n=6 active offers with a stated cap — the other 6 either publish no cap or cap per-tier). Two brokers — HFM and Traders Trust — publish 100% matches up to $50,000, the largest stated ceilings in the database. The headline percentage is only the entry fee to the real question, which is the next statistic.
Turnover Required per Bonus Dollar: The Number That Decides Everything
This is the statistic no broker advertises, so we compute it: required trading volume (standard lots) divided by bonus amount ($). It measures how much trading stands between you and any withdrawal.
Across the 14 active offers where both figures are verified and parseable:
- Active no deposit bonuses (n=4): min 0.0033, median 0.0417, max 0.1667 lots per $1
- Active deposit bonuses (n=9): min 0.2, median 0.3, max 0.5 lots per $1
- All 14 active offers: median 0.25 lots per $1
The most common active deposit-bonus formula — used by 4 of the 9 — is 1 standard lot per $2 of bonus (0.5 lots per $1). The median deposit requirement of 0.3 lots per $1 means a $1,000 bonus demands roughly 300 standard lots of closed volume. 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 $30 NDB | No deposit | 0.0033 | $300.00 |
| Windsor $30 NDB | No deposit | 0.0333 | $30.00 |
| Traders Trust $200 NDB | No deposit | 0.05 | $20.00 |
| RoboForex $30 welcome | Welcome | 0.0667 | $15.00 |
| JustMarkets $30 NDB | No deposit | 0.1667 | $6.00 |
| Windsor 20% deposit | Deposit | 0.2 | $5.00 |
| Traders Trust 100% deposit | Deposit | 0.2 | $5.00 |
| InstaForex 30% deposit | Deposit | 0.3 | $3.33 |
| InstaForex 100% deposit | Deposit | 0.3 | $3.33 |
| LiteFinance 60% deposit | Deposit | 0.3 | $3.33 |
| JustMarkets 50% deposit | Deposit | 0.5 | $2.00 |
| JustMarkets 100% deposit | Deposit | 0.5 | $2.00 |
| JustMarkets 120% deposit | Deposit | 0.5 | $2.00 |
| Octa 50% deposit | Deposit | 0.5 | $2.00 |
The spread between the extremes is a factor of roughly 150: XM’s $30 no deposit bonus unlocks $300 of bonus value per lot of required trading, while the heaviest deposit formulas unlock $2. Offers with no lot-based requirement (XM’s own deposit bonus, FBS’s deposit bonus, HFM’s Supercharged Bonus, and others) are excluded from this stat rather than guessed at — 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?
50% of active no deposit bonuses (3 of 6) cap withdrawable profit. The median cap is $100. The median cap-to-bonus ratio is 1.0 — meaning the typical capped offer limits your maximum withdrawal to exactly the bonus amount (JustMarkets: $30 cap on a $30 bonus; Traders Trust: $200 cap on $200; Tickmill is the outlier at a $100 cap on $30).
Across all 13 listed non-expired no deposit offers (active + unverified), the pattern holds: 46.2% 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 $30 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 (3 of 6) require a real-money deposit before profits can be withdrawn: JustMarkets ($100 minimum into a live account before profit transfer), 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).
“No deposit to trade, deposit to withdraw” is one of the most misunderstood structures in this market, and it is half of the active offers. The other half — XM, Windsor, Traders Trust — let you withdraw qualifying profit without funding the account first, per their verified terms.
What Percentage of Bonuses Expire?
- Active no deposit bonuses with a time limit: 6 of 6 (100%). Median window: 30 days.
- Active deposit bonuses with a time limit: 6 of 12 (50%). Median window: 60 days.
- All 35 active offers: 17 (48.6%) carry a deadline in their recorded terms. Median rolling window: 30 days.
Every single active no deposit bonus is time-boxed — claim windows, trading windows, or validity periods, with 30 days the standard. Deposit bonuses split evenly between deadline-driven offers (28–180 days) and open-ended ones that instead expire through inactivity clauses. The practical meaning: with a typical NDB you have one month 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 35 active offers:
| Region (bonuses banned for retail clients) | Active offers naming it as excluded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 23 of 35 | 65.7% |
| EU / EEA | 21 of 35 | 60% |
| United Kingdom | 19 of 35 | 54.3% |
| Australia | 17 of 35 | 48.6% |
The remaining offers are not available in those regions either — 8 of 35 active offers (22.9%) simply have no per-country list recorded because the restriction operates at the broker-entity level instead (a CySEC or FCA entity cannot offer bonuses at all, so the offer only exists under the broker’s offshore entity). 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:
- 51.1% of tracked offers (47 of 92) are unverified — the broker’s own site would not confirm them at research time. During our June 2026 verification cycle, 9 of the 18 broker websites returned HTTP 403 blocks or redirects on promotion pages.
- 5 individual data fields across the database are flagged [NEEDS-VERIFICATION] — cases where sources conflict (for example, FXGT’s no deposit bonus amount is reported as both $30 and $50, so we publish neither as fact).
- 10 offers (10.9%) expired within our tracking window — and our research notes record third-party sites still referencing some of them (Octa’s discontinued $8 offer is the clearest example).
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 on June 3–4, 2026 (matrix research date June 9, 2026); statistics were computed on August 7, 2026. When our monthly re-verification cycle changes the underlying data, these numbers are recomputed rather than hand-edited. Our sourcing standards are documented in the review methodology.
Citing this page: these statistics are original data compiled by forex-bonus.com. You may quote them with attribution and a link to this page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the average forex no deposit bonus in 2026?
The average active, verified forex no deposit bonus is $61.67, and the median is $30 (n=6 offers, verified June 2026). The most common amount is exactly $30, offered by 4 of the 6 brokers with active offers. 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?
Traders Trust’s $200 offer is the largest active, verified no deposit bonus in our database — with a 10-standard-lot volume requirement, a 30-day window, and profit capped at $200. 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 12 active verified deposit offers, the mean headline match is 73.33% and the median is 80%, with a range from 20% to 120%. Where a maximum is stated, the median cap is $10,000. Most deposit bonuses are credited as non-withdrawable margin, so the match percentage matters less than the volume formula — most commonly 1 standard lot per $2 of bonus.
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, 50% cap that profit (median cap $100), 50% require a deposit before withdrawal, and 100% impose a time limit (median 30 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, 6 (33%) have an active, verified no deposit bonus as of the June 2026 verification cycle: XM, JustMarkets, Tickmill, Windsor Brokers, LiteFinance, and Traders Trust. Another 6 brokers (FBS, InstaForex, FreshForex, FXGT, Vantage, FXOpen) have no deposit offers on record but none we could verify as active — their current records are classed unverified — and several previously popular offers (FBS Level Up, HFM’s $50, Octa’s $8) are 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 3–4, 2026 for the current records). 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 typical claimable no deposit bonus is $30, it expires in 30 days, there is a coin-flip chance it caps your profit around $100 and the same chance it requires a deposit before paying out — and the typical 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 (0.0033 lots per $1) with no stated profit cap — XM’s $30 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.
⚠️ Risk Warning: Forex and CFD trading carries significant risk. Most retail traders lose money. Never trade with funds you cannot afford to lose. Bonus terms can change at any time — always confirm current conditions on the broker’s website before claiming.
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Written by Tim Morris · Forex industry analyst · About Tim