The Forex Bonus is a research desk, not a beginner blog. We cover the parts of FX and digital-asset trading that only start to matter once you already know what a pip is: execution quality, market microstructure, derivatives positioning, and the true economics of the offers brokers and exchanges put in front of you.
Who this is for
Readers here typically have at least a year of live screen time, a written process, and a journal they actually fill in. If you are looking for “the best indicator settings” or a signal group, this is the wrong site and we would rather say so now.
What we publish
- Crypto market structure — on-chain flows, funding and open interest, basis trades, liquidity conditions and stablecoin supply.
- Advanced FX — order flow, volatility surfaces and risk reversals, carry dynamics, correlation and portfolio-level risk.
- Quant work — honest backtesting, walk-forward validation, automation on MT5 and exchange APIs, and where machine learning does and does not help.
- Bonuses and rebates — deposit offers, cashback programmes, exchange promotions and prop-firm challenges, priced out in full.
- Desk notes — the week ahead, live trade theses, and post-mortems written after the position is closed rather than before.
How we assess an offer
Every bonus, rebate or challenge on this site is run through the same five questions before a single word of copy is written:
- What is the turnover requirement? A 100% bonus with a 40-lot-per-$1,000 condition is a cost, not a gift.
- Is the bonus withdrawable, or credit only? Credit-only bonuses inflate margin, not equity.
- What happens on drawdown? Many offers are removed the moment equity dips below the deposit, exactly when the margin was useful.
- What is the all-in cost? Rebates are meaningless if the spread is two pips wider than a comparable account.
- Who regulates the firm, and where do you file a complaint? If the answer is an offshore registry with no dispute mechanism, the offer size is irrelevant.
If an offer fails on questions one to five, we publish that conclusion rather than quietly leaving it out.
Who writes this
Nadia Fischer — Founder & Lead Analyst
Nadia spent six years on a proprietary desk trading FX volatility and index futures before moving to independent research. She now runs a discretionary macro book alongside a systematic crypto strategy, and does her own execution analysis on every broker and exchange covered here.
She writes about the unglamorous half of trading — fills, funding, fees, position sizing and post-trade review — because that is where the returns of an experienced trader are actually won or lost.
Everyone wants to talk about the entry. The difference between a good year and a flat one is almost always in the eight decimal places nobody looks at: spread, slippage, funding and rebate.
Editorial rules
- No offer is covered until an account has been opened, funded, traded and withdrawn from.
- Terms and conditions are quoted from the provider’s own documents, with the date they were checked.
- Every article that can go stale carries a review date and is updated when conditions change.
- Negative findings are published, including for partners. A page with no drawbacks listed is advertising.
- No signals, no managed accounts, no paid “VIP” groups — now or later.
How the site is funded
Some links to brokers, exchanges and prop firms are affiliate links, and we may earn a commission when a reader opens an account through one. That commission never changes a rating, a ranking or a criticism, and any commercial relationship is disclosed on the page it applies to. Details are in the Risk & Affiliate Disclosure.
A necessary word on risk
Leveraged FX, CFD and digital-asset trading carries a high probability of loss and is not suitable for most people. Nothing published here is personal advice, a recommendation or a solicitation — it is research written for readers who make their own decisions and accept the consequences of them.
Questions, corrections and offer submissions are welcome via the contact page.