Forex Rebates Calculator
Forex Rebates Calculator
Use this forex rebates calculator to work out the cashback your closed positions are worth, whatever the result of the trade. Choose the instrument, the broker and the volume you trade in a month, and you see the money a rebate programme would have paid back to you out of the spread you already handed over.
What is a Forex Rebates Calculator
Forex rebates is a clever way allowing traders to earn extra cash from their closed trading positions, and with their preferred FX broker, regardless if the position is closed in profit or loss. Simply put, it’s a cashback program offered by a third-party provider, linked to the trading account, paying a cash rebate for each trade taken, resulting in a lower spread and improved win ratio. For example, if the rebate is 0.5 pip and the spread on the EUR/USD pair is 1.5 pips, then the net spread is only 1 pip.
By linking a new or existing trading account to a rebates program provider (IB broker), the FX broker will pay the rebates provider part of their spread or commission profit for every trade you make as compensation for referring a customer to them.
The rebates provider will then share the majority of its revenue with the trader, as a thank you for signing up via the IB broker. Traders will get part of the broker’s spread, or commission profit, paid in cashback, or credited back to their trading account. This cashback is paid regardless a trader wins or loses in a trade.
Our Forex Rebates Calculator can help traders to precisely calculate how much they can earn in cashback based on the rebate rate per traded lot and the total volume traded.
How to Use the Forex Rebates Calculator
Instrument: Rebates rates can vary depending on the selected asset, and partner broker. In this field traders can select from major forex pairs, minors, stock indices, from the most popular cryptocurrencies (ADA, BTC, ETH, LTC, XLM, XRP, etc), and commodities, including Gold, Silver and Oil. Let’s choose, for our example, the EUR/GBP pair.
Deposit currency: Here, traders simply select the trading account deposit currency, so the final calculation will show the results already converted to the trader’s account base currency. We choose the GBP as the deposit currency, for our example.
Rebate per lot: The crucial field of this calculator. Most FX brokers will pay rebates as part of the spread, in pips. Other brokers, mainly the ECN trading environment brokers, with commissions per traded lot, will prefer to offer a rebate from the commission cost.
For example, an FX broker charging a 6 USD commission per traded lot, might pay in cashback 0.5 USD per lot traded, taken from the commission cost. But the vast majority of the FX brokers simply pay the cashback from the spread. So, for this example, we will use the hypothetical rebate per lot value of half a pip (0.5 pip).
Lots traded: Rebates are paid on traded volumes, lots or units, regardless if a position was closed in profit or loss. In this field there’s the option of calculating the rebates value based on the lots traded or the units traded. Let’s choose, on our example, a total volume of 10 lots traded.
Then, we hit the “Calculate” button.
Reading the forex rebates calculator results
The results: The rebates calculator uses a market price live feed with the current interbank rates (in a 5-digit format) to calculate the rebates for instruments not traded in the account base currency, for example the AUD/CAD pair.
So, the rebate value for the EUR/GBP pair, with a total volume of 10 traded lots and with a rebate rate of 0.5 pip, on a trading account in GBP, is currently £50. Traders should remember that when joining a rebates program, such as ours, the cashback is always paid, independently if the traded volume was closed in profit or loss.
What the forex rebates calculator is adding up
Of course, every time you open a position the broker earns the spread, and often a commission as well. A rebate programme simply gives part of that money back to you, per lot, regardless of whether the trade won or lost.
Naturally, the forex rebates calculator turns that per lot figure into a monthly number, which is the only form in which it becomes meaningful. One dollar on one trade is noise, whereas six dollars on fifty lots a month is real money that arrives whether you had a good month or a terrible one.
Forex rebates calculator example: what your volume is worth
Rebates usually land between 4 and 8 dollars per standard lot, depending on the broker and the instrument.
| Lots per month | At 4 per lot | At 6 per lot | At 8 per lot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 20 | 30 | 40 |
| 20 | 80 | 120 | 160 |
| 50 | 200 | 300 | 400 |
| 100 | 400 | 600 | 800 |
| 300 | 1,200 | 1,800 | 2,400 |
An intraday trader who takes three trades a day at 0.50 lots reaches roughly thirty lots a month without noticing, so the middle rows are the realistic ones. Meanwhile, scalpers land much further down the table, which is exactly why rebates matter most to them.
Why the forex rebates calculator result is really a spread discount
Above all, think of the rebate as a reduction in trading cost rather than as income. If your broker charges seven dollars per lot per round turn and you get five back, your real commission is two, and therefore every strategy you run becomes cheaper by that amount.
In fact, that matters enormously at the margin. A scalping system that loses money at full cost can turn profitable at reduced cost, while a swing system that takes four trades a month barely notices. So check the real effect on your own numbers with the profit calculator, which shows what the spread was costing you in the first place.
How to use the forex rebates calculator honestly
Still, there is one trap here, and it catches people every year. Rebates pay per lot, so they quietly reward trading more, and a strategy that loses 2 dollars per lot does not become profitable because it earns 6 dollars of cashback on trades it should never have taken.
Therefore, enter the volume you already trade, never the volume you could trade. Then keep the position sizing exactly where it was, using the lot size calculator, and treat the rebate as a discount that arrived on top.
Forex rebates calculator questions traders ask
Do I get the rebate on losing trades? Yes, because the payment follows the volume and not the outcome. Indeed, that is the whole appeal.
Does a rebate widen my spread? With a legitimate provider, no. Basically, the cashback comes out of the commission the broker already pays the introducing partner.
How often is it paid? Generally daily, weekly or monthly, either into the trading account or to a separate wallet, depending on the programme.
Is it worth it for a small account? Of course, only modestly. Under five lots a month the cashback is a few coffees, so the spread itself and your margin usage deserve far more attention.
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Updated in September 2026