Direct answer to “How to make 2000 per month trading forex?”
You can’t make a guaranteed $2000 per month from forex. What you can do is set up a calculation framework to estimate what trading performance would be required, given your actual costs (including per lot commission) and the uncertainty of markets. The core idea is to translate a monthly target into net profit after trading costs, then test whether that implied requirement is realistic under plausible variability.
How the target works (mechanics, not promises)
Start by defining three numbers:
- Monthly target net profit: $2000 after costs.
- Total cost per trade: at minimum, spread plus commission plus execution slippage.
- Average number of trading cycles per month: how often you complete a trade that closes with net profit/loss.
Now place per lot commission into the cost model. Per lot commission means a commission is charged based on trade size measured in lots (and sometimes varies by account and instrument). If commission is charged per lot, then larger positions generally increase commission costs linearly with lot size, before considering spreads and slippage.
To “net out” to $2000/month, your average net profit per trade must cover: (a) the target divided by the number of trades, and (b) the average cost of those trades.
Example checks you can do with any broker’s public fee info
Use only verifiable, non-promotional inputs:
- Commission schedule: find the commission rate and confirm whether it is “per lot” and whether it is charged on entry, exit, or both (wording varies).
- Typical spread: choose a realistic recent range for the currency pair you would trade.
- Execution impact: estimate slippage as an additional cost buffer, because fills may differ from quoted prices.
Then run a simple stress test: assume a range of spreads and slippage, and compute the net profit needed per trade to reach $2000/month. If the required net profit per trade is extreme compared with what you can reasonably observe from your own historical trades (or a backtest you understand), the target may be mathematically possible but operationally unlikely.
Relevant limitations and risks (material uncertainty)
Forex trading is uncertain, and $2000/month cannot be guaranteed. Even if your average results look positive, variability can produce drawdowns that prevent hitting a monthly target. Also, cost assumptions matter: because per lot commission scales with position size, changing lot size changes the break-even condition.
If you want the goal to be verifiable, keep calculations tied to the fee terms and market conditions you can observe (commission terms, spreads, and execution quality). Market conditions change, so any feasibility estimate is time-dependent and should be treated as a model, not a prediction.