Two entries that look the same
Many brokers pay back part of the spread or commission you generate, often every day. MT5 has no special type for this money. It arrives as a deal of type "balance", the same type MT5 uses when you deposit money or withdraw it.
Open your account history and you may see two balance entries on the same day: a deposit you made by bank transfer, and a few dollars of rebate. MT5 shows them the same way. The only difference is the text in the comment column, and every broker writes that text in its own way.
Why a rebate is return
A deposit is your money moving into the account. It should buy units and leave the return untouched, as NAV per unit, explained shows.
A rebate is different. You only get it because your EA traded, and it would not exist without that trading. If you count it as a deposit, the account's return understates what the strategy really earned. For EAs that trade often with small targets, rebates can be a real share of the result, so getting this right matters.
The opposite mistake matters too. A broker's bonus or credit is not earned by trading, and counting it as profit would flatter the strategy. Credit and bonus entries are always treated as money in.
How Quantrivance tells them apart
For each balance entry, Quantrivance looks at the comment the broker wrote:
- A recognised rebate counts as part of the account's result. It does not buy units, so it raises NAV per unit. It shows in the account's results rather than under any one EA, and it is not counted as a closed trade or in the win rate.
- Anything else, including an empty comment, is treated as a deposit or a withdrawal.
Today the daily rebate of Exness is recognised: its comment starts with "D-INTARB-". Deposits and transfers between your own Exness accounts use other codes and stay deposits. Naming a broker here describes how its entries are written; it is not a recommendation.
If your broker is not recognised
If your broker pays rebates under a comment we do not recognise yet, those rebates are counted as deposits. Nothing breaks: your return is just a little lower than it should be, by the amount of the rebates.
You can help us fix that. Write to admin@quantrivance.com with an example of the comment your broker uses for rebates, and one for a normal deposit, so we can tell them apart reliably. Remove your account number from anything you send.
In Quantrivance
Your return, rebates included
The dashboard reads every balance entry the Agent reports, sorts deposits from rebates, and keeps your NAV per unit honest either way. You can see each account's deals and results on its own performance page.
This post is for education and is not investment advice. Examples use made-up figures, not anyone’s results. Trading carries risk.