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Overnight Financing

Swaps

What is a swap in trading?

A swap (or overnight financing) is an interest amount that is either added to or subtracted from your account whenever a CFD trading position is left open after a certain cut-off time (the “overnight financing time” which is 17:00 New York time).

The formula used to calculate the daily swap amount of a position is:

Trade Size * Opening Rate * Daily Swap %

Key points about swaps:

  • Swaps are only charged if positions are kept open past 17:00 New York time
  • Swaps can be both positive and negative
  • To take account for weekends, triple swaps are charged on Wednesday for FX and metals, and on Friday for oil instruments and indices.
  • The overnight financing time and the daily swap percentage can be found in the “contract specifications” table for each instrument available on the trading platform.

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