Profit Split Calculator

The formulas

your share = gross profit × split
net = your share − (evaluation fees + monthly fees × months)
breakeven gross = total fees ÷ split

The breakeven line is the one traders skip. Fees are paid from your pocket at 100 cents on the dollar, but recovered through the split at only your percentage of each dollar earned, so every dollar of fees requires more than a dollar of trading profit to claw back. At an 80% split, $500 of fees needs $625 of gross profit; at 50%, it needs $1,000.

A worked example

A trader passes a $100,000 evaluation on the second attempt at $300 per attempt, $600 total, with a 90% split and no monthly fee. Breakeven gross is 600 ÷ 0.90 ≈ $667, or 0.67% of the account, before the first dollar of real income. Suppose the first payout cycle produces $5,000 of gross profit: the trader's share is $4,500, the firm keeps $500, and net of the $600 in fees the trader banks $3,900, an effective 78% of gross rather than the advertised 90%. The gap between advertised and effective split shrinks as profits grow, which is the honest way to think about fees: a fixed toll that weighs most on small or slow accounts.

Add a recurring charge and the toll compounds. A $100 monthly data charge is added in the same account for six months. This adds $600 in fees (doubles) and pushes effective split on that initial $5,000 down to 66%. Recurring charges take something that would be considered as a one time purchase, converting it into a service that has to be out-traded. Therefore, the "months held" field should contain a realistic number of months the item will likely be held, not optimistic.

80/20, 90/10 and where the split lands

Typically, funded splits will range anywhere from 70/30 for the trader's benefit all the way up to 90/10. Many companies increase the split rate as your account grows, and/or when you hit payout milestone thresholds, therefore it is possible that the split rate for your first funding cycle does not match that of your fifth. Regardless of which tier you are at, place that in the "split" area, along with your actual fees; this allows you to see the net effect of subtracting the cost of getting funded (in terms of dollars) from the headline percentage. It is this figure, NOT the marketed split that you use to compare the different firms. This method works regardless if you get funded by a Forex company or a Futures Company.

The number to combine with your pass odds

This page assumes that you have an existing funded account. You can estimate the number of funded attempts (paid attempts) required for your strategy in order to obtain a realistic pass, by multiplying the estimated attempts indicated on the profit target calculator, by the cost of each attempt, and then input this total amount as the "fees" input below. That final dollar amount is the gross profit break-even point of the entire investment project, and is the only dollar value which can be used to compare one company's offer to another. Once you are funded, the drawdown calculator and consistency rule calculator will help protect against those two types of rules (the two most commonly encountered) that may prevent you from receiving your first payment.