Now let's take a look at the difference between the three main types of swaps. Fx swap is the difference between the interest rates of the banks of the two currencies in a pair, which is credited or charged when an open position is carried overnight.

A cross currency swap on Forex is a situation that occurs when two companies participating in trades on the foreign exchange market enter into an agreement with each other. Within this agreement they sell each other the same amount in different currencies based on their current exchange rate immediately after the swap operation itself. After a predetermined period, which they have set under the forward contract, they sell these amounts back to each other in accordance with their exchange rate under the forward contract.

A currency interest rate swap on Forex is a simple interest rate swap that is carried out with different currencies. Despite the fact that this operation is typical for large financial institutions, it also occurs in everyday life. For example, you have a loan in foreign currency. The only option for you is to take out a new loan to cover the old one. But taking a new loan in foreign currency is a bad option as the stakes are high. But in local currency they are acceptable.

At the same time, you happen to have a friend overseas with similar problems. So you take out a loan in your local currency, and he takes out one in his local currency, which is foreign for you. And then you simply exchange these amounts.

As a result, you pay interest on his loan, and he does on yours. Everyone wins and you both saved on the interest. To help you understand the difference between the different types of currency swaps, I have made a comparison table:. I have already mentioned this above. At its core, Fx swap is the difference in the interest rates of the central banks of the two countries whose currencies are represented in the pair. Above, I gave you the formula to calculate the base swap rate.

The main parameters of this formula are basically unchanged during the year. And for some currencies, even for several years. Except for the current year , changes in interest rates are not frequent.

This happens once a year at best. The variable parameters are the markup and the quote of the currency pair. These parameters can change even more often than once a day. Therefore, if we want to know the exact value of the swap, we need to constantly recalculate the value using a formula or a special calculator. In addition to being positive and negative, swaps can also be long and short. In other words, a buy swap and a sell swap. In other words, if we have an open position to sell the AUDUSD currency pair, when we carry it overnight a swap short is applied to our position, which is equal to If we have an open position to buy this pair, Swap Long will be applied, and it will be equal to If you need to know the swap just before opening the position, you can use the contract specification table:.

The buy swap will be In other words, an amount equal to this value per lot will be charged from your account. But the sell swap is equal to 0. A positive sign means that this value will be credited to your account. So you can actually earn money on a swap. I have already explained why swaps can be positive and negative. It's all about the difference in interest rates. If the interest rates of the central banks of currencies differ greatly, then the swap sign will be different when buying and selling.

Now let's take a closer look at how the total swap value is calculated on Forex for a sell trade in the EURUSD currency pair. However, it should be noted that the value will not be entirely accurate since we do not know the exact markup value.

If we open a position of 1 lot with the current quote at 1. If you perform this operation using a calculator on the broker's website, you get 0. Now let's look at how the total swap value is calculated for a buy trade in the EURUSD currency pair. If you perform this operation using a calculator on the broker's website, you get After traders learn that they can actually earn on swap in Forex, they start to look for currency pairs with positive swap.

And there are enough of them, but with one caveat. There are no pairs where all swaps are positive, but there are pairs where the swap is positive depending on the type of operation. Below, I have listed the currency pairs with positive swap in Forex. Under certain conditions, we can earn on swaps trading these pairs. At the moment, this is the entire list of instruments with positive swaps that my broker provides. However their number may vary depending on market conditions.

For example, if one of the central banks changes their interest rate or your broker changes the markup value. In general, if you know that a country has a negative interest rate, this is the sign that a positive Fx swap may appear in currency pairs containing the currency of this country. However, traders should remember that a small positive swap in Forex will be easily eaten up by a spread. But even if such situations are rare, there are some very simple Forex trading strategies to earn on swaps and interest rate differences.

The principle of the strategy is to find the largest difference in interest rates of different countries. After that, we group the currency pairs that include the currencies of these countries and find a currency pair where the swap in one direction is greater than in the others.

After a quick look, I have highlighted the CADCHF currency pair. Forex buy swap on it is 0. Therefore, if we buy this currency pair, we will be making money on a positive swap. Since the position must be held for a long time to make a profit, we need to analyze the global chart for growth prospects. This particular pair has a growth potential. Now all that remains is to buy and wait, making a profit from the growth of the rate and a positive swap.

However, the strategy requires that we keep the position open for quite a long time. There is another strategy that resembles the previous one - Swap and Fly. The strategy appeared after most brokers began to provide the trailing stop option.

We choose an instrument similarly to the first strategy. Candlestick patterns are used more often, but geometric patterns will also work. In our case, this is a flag pattern, after which we expect growth. After that, order levels are placed with standard rules, which makes the ratio approximately After the price starts to grow and goes above the entry point, you need to move Stop Loss to breakeven, I.

the opening level. And that's it. Then you just keep the position until the stop loss is triggered. Of course, you can use a trailing stop and also increase your profit by the exchange rate difference. But this is not the essence of the strategy. The essence of the strategy is to make money on a positive swap. In our case, it is equal to 0. There is another good strategy.

I sometimes use it myself. The essence of the strategy is to create an ordinary locked position but with different types of contracts. You know that besides currency pairs, there are also futures, options, CFDs, and many other contracts.

So, futures are essentially no different from a currency pair. Their most important difference is the absence of a swap. Did you already guess what I'm getting at? I create a locked structure by buying a currency pair with a positive buy swap on the Forex market and at the same time selling futures for the same currency pair on another exchange.

The currency pair and futures quotes are usually the same, as are the fluctuations. Therefore, wherever the price goes, I will always have 0 because one side is bought and the other is sold. The profit will be formed from the positive swap on Forex. Of course, there are nuances, such as the size of the spread and the commission. But you can always account for them in the strategy and compensate either by the duration of the position or by a short-term play on price fluctuations.

If you want to know more strategies for making money on swaps, I recommend that you get specialized training from your broker. Brokers also have special swap-free accounts. They are also called Islamic accounts. An Islamic account is a trading account that does not charge any fees in the form of interest. According to the laws of Islam, Muslims are prohibited from receiving or giving interest on any kind of activity.

So Islamic accounts were created in order for Muslims to be able to use the services of the Forex brokers. Despite the fact that this type of account was created for Muslims, anyone can open it now. In order to open an Islamic account for yourself, you need to submit an application to your broker. However, we all understand that brokers are not charity organizations. And if the account is swap-free, the broker will get their money in other ways.

Usually this means larger spreads or a fixed commission per trade. The topic of swap is quite important on the exchange. Many large investors make money not on the difference in exchange rates, but rather on the difference in interest rates. In the Forex market, most traders view swaps as another type of commission that brokers use to get rich.

But if you understand how swap works, you can turn it from an enemy into a reliable ally that will bring you profit regardless of exchange rate fluctuations.

In simple words, swap is a special operation that carries an open position in a trading instrument overnight, for which the difference in interest rates is credited or charged. Rollover interest can be thought of as the forex swap rate. Carry trade is a mechanism for working with interest rates. It creates a market position for a currency pair, in which the direction of the position will ensure the crediting of a positive swap to the trader's trading account. This is a special combined exchange trade that starts tomorrow and ends the day after tomorrow and there is no actual movement of funds.

In other words, this is a swap operation. At the close of the main trading session, the current position is closed and the same position is simultaneously opened, but with the calculations for the next day. The day the position is settled is called the value date. Triple swap is the situation when a position is carried overnight from Wednesday to Thursday.

So the calculations for the Wednesday position take place on Friday, which means that the transfer to Thursday is calculated on the next business day after Friday, which is Monday.

Find out in our guide. Because every trade in Forex involves buying and selling currencies. However, the swap phenomenon only applies to mid-term and long-term financial strategies.

Forex is based on margin. You can use funds from your broker to execute leveraged positions worth more than your balance. When a trade extends to the next day, according to the rules of interbank crediting, you pay or earn interest. This amount is the difference between the two interest rates linked to your FX pair — i. However, you can manage your finances smartly or register a special interest-free type of account.

Here are three ways to circumvent the difference. Trading in the direction of the instrument with the highest rate seems like a no-brainer. Yet, following this strategy, all the time is not advisable.

It is worth considering if your technical analysis supports it — i. By closing all of your positions before the end of the trading day 10 p. GMT , you will avoid the swap trade altogether. On the downside, such strategies are not suitable for everyone. Scalping is particularly stressful and demanding — it requires dipping in and out of the market frequently with positions lasting minutes or even seconds. Although these trading accounts are known as Islamic, they are not strictly related to religion.

According to Sharia law, Muslims are not allowed to pay any interest on business transactions. Swap-free accounts comply with this requirement, so they are preferable if you plan to open overnight positions frequently. The size of the commission is a variable. It depends on the gap between central bank rates in the countries whose national currencies you are trading.

This amount is usually bigger for exotic pairs than for majors. Secondly, the Forex swap also depends on the conditions under which your broker works with crediting organizations. For example, the difference is always earned or paid daily at a fixed time, which is usually midnight server time. Thirdly, how much you pay or earn will also depend on the day of the week:. This peculiarity may seem counterintuitive, but it stems from the way banks work. On the weekends, transactions are not processed, but the valuation date for positions opened on Wednesday is Friday.

Users of the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 trading platforms can see this information when they open a position and leave it open after the market closes.

This value is shown along with other indicators like opening and closing price, profit, and loss. In MT4 and MT5, you can access these details from the MarketReview window. Your outcome is positive when you earn on your overnight position. This means that the rate on the currency you buy is higher than the one on the currency you sell.

If the difference is negligible, you can incur a negative swap by buying or selling. If you buy the peso sell the pair , you will gain around 6. If you sell the peso, you will pay a negative swap. This will happen every time you buy a currency with a lower rate against a currency with a higher rate, as long as you leave the position open overnight and your account is not Islamic. The latter has a higher rate of 5. Thus, the result will be a negative swap in forex trading.

Some traders open overnight trades on a regular basis as a part of the carry trade strategy. The idea is to hold positions with a positive swap open as long as possible. If the difference between the rate for the instrument being bought is significantly bigger than the rate for the currency being sold, you can make a profit on a daily basis.

However, like any Forex strategy, carry trade is not risk-free.

The swap is a tax that is applied by the broker when the trader keeps the position open during the night. The swap can be active or passive, in other words it can bring losses or profits. The presence of the swap complicates noticeably the activity of trading, especially in a perspective of money management, but it is an element that cannot be removed.

The swap is a physiological component of some kinds of trading. The swap, as mentioned, is a tax. In particular a tax that results from an operation. In summary, only those who keep a position open for many days in a row need to worry about the swap. Those who practise Day Trading or even Scalping simply are not subject to the effects of the swap , neither positive nor negative. It is impossible to explain the swap without introducing the concept of overnight tax.

In addition, the swap is the result of an arithmetic operation that involves the overnight taxes. The overnight tax is the tax that an intermediary applies towards another intermediary when lending money. The particularity of the overnight, as the name suggests, is that such loan occurs through a nocturnal deposit.

In the specific case of trading, the intermediary who lends money is always the bank of reference or banks while the intermediary who benefits from the service is always the broker.

All brokers, regardless of their type ECN or Market Maker have to refer to the mechanism of the overnights in order to guarantee the necessary liquidity to the clients.

From here comes the constant presence, and sometimes pervasive, of this kind of tax in some types of trading contexts. The swap, and as a consequence the overnight, presents some particular features, especially in the version applied to trading. Here are the main peculiarities.

They only regard some asset classes. Swap and overnight only regard the asset classes that are characterised by extreme liquidity, and which cause exclusively exchanges of money; therefore, the Forex and the CFDs on the Forex. The other markets, such as the commodities, but also the shares or bonds are not subject to the dynamics of the swap. It is true that this represents a drawback for the Forex traders, but one that can be transformed into a resource.

It is sufficient to master the mechanism of swap and overnight, and acquire some specific information. They change from one asset to another. In fact, it is necessary to make a distinction also between the various assets.. in the case of the Forex, a distinction between the various currencies. It is a physiologic dynamic: after all the overnight is applied to a loan, and some currencies are more available and stable than others.

They change from one broker to another. It should be clear that there are some benchmarks and in some cases they are determining for the calculation of the overnight and the swap. Nevertheless, in practice, they are the result of the consultation among the institutions or the parties involved in the granting of money.

Therefore, in the case of trading, the amount of the taxes depends on the agreement made between the broker and the bank. It is not a small detail: a broker who has managed to obtain good conditions from the bank will offer lower taxes. On the contrary, if the agreement is less beneficial, the taxes can be very high. As we have already mentioned, the swap results from a very specific calculation, from a mathematical operation. The terms of this operation are the overnight taxes of the currencies that form the pair.

However, it is necessary to follow a main rule. When the currency is in long position, the trader receives credit, therefore the tax is active. When the currency is in short position, the trader receives a charge.

Due to this mechanism, if managed well, the swap can produce further profit, and not a simple yet tiresome cost to sustain. How to calculate the? In first place it is necessary to understand which overnight taxes the broker applies to the specific assets they intend to trade. After this, the percentage is calculated on the volume of trading forecasted, or already applied, for that specific trader. A practical example will further clarify the ideas.

Let us imagine a long position pound-yen of the value of , pounds, obviously kept open overnight. Let us also imagine that the broker sets a tax of 3. At this point the first tax is subtracted from the second and everything is normalised to a day.

The calculation is the following: 3. The result is the swap. In this particular case, it is 0. At this point, it is sufficient to calculate the percentage on the volume of trading. Therefore: , x 0. To be exact, 9 are the pounds that will be credited in the morning, as a result of the swap.

It should be noticed that it is credit because it was a long position and the overnight of the pound is higher than that of the yen.

The matter of the swap and the overnight can be very complicated, especially if the trader does not want to just manage it but is interested in exploiting in first person to generate profit.

Therefore, here are some tips to benefit from the swap. Considering the swap only if not conducting Day Trading or Scalping. It is obvious: those who conduct Day Trading or even Scalping close all the positions by night.

In these cases, worrying about the swap is completely useless because it will never be applied. Not orientating your own activity of trading only based on the swap. The swap has an impact, but not excessively. It impacts enough to require a certain level of attention and to justify operations aimed at the purchase of more profits, but not so much to orientate the entire trading activity.

The profit, at least the important one, is not determined by the swap, but by the actual trading. Choosing a good broker. This is the most important tip. As mentioned, each broker proposes their overnights, and therefore causes a certain level of swap.

In fact, all comes from the agreement made with the bank or banks of reference. Despite the benefits of a high overnight in a context of credit, it is advisable to opt for the low overnights. These are in fact, what reduces the risks and the negative impact of the swap on the trading activity. Among the brokers that offer the lowest swaps, Key To Markets stands out. From this point of view, as many others, it proves to be super-competitive.

Trade with more than 40 products, take advantage of leverage options up to , access the account from all desktop and mobilke devices, trade with scalping strategies and robots and with a segregated account. What is the Swap The swap, as mentioned, is a tax.

The particular features of the Swap The swap, and as a consequence the overnight, presents some particular features, especially in the version applied to trading. How to calculate the Swap As we have already mentioned, the swap results from a very specific calculation, from a mathematical operation.

Tips to exploit the Swap The matter of the swap and the overnight can be very complicated, especially if the trader does not want to just manage it but is interested in exploiting in first person to generate profit.

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