FxPro Swap & Overnight Fees (United Arab Emirates)

Measured swap rates (Raw+)

What you are debited (−) or credited (+) per standard lot held past the daily rollover, measured on FxPro’s own MT5 Raw+ feed (with the raw points in brackets). A negative number costs you to hold; a positive one pays you. Triple swap is applied on Wednesday night to cover the weekend value date. Carry / yr is the annualised swap yield (swap × 365 ÷ notional at the live price) — a rough guide to what holding the position costs or earns over a year, shown where we have a live price. Last read 2026-08-21.

What it really costs to hold a position (measured)

Total net cost to hold one standard lot over time — the spread plus accumulated swap. A positive figure is what it costs you; a negative one means you come out ahead (positive carry). For example, holding EUR/USD long for a month costs about $276, while a EUR/USD short earns about $48. Based on measured spreads and current swaps — rates vary.

Swap at a glance

• Charged only on positions held past the daily rollover (around server 00:00)
• Rate depends on the instrument and whether you are long or short
• Triple swap on Wednesday nights (covers the weekend value date)
• Swap-free (Islamic) accounts hold no swap for eligible clients
• See the exact long and short swap per instrument inside your platform

A fixed currency and a floating cost of time

Two different things get filed under the same word. One is the price of the dirham against the dollar, which is administered and has not moved in decades. The other is the price of time — what it costs to keep borrowed exposure open for one more night — and that one is set by markets and by the terms of the account. Funding from the UAE gives you certainty about the first and none at all about the second, which is exactly why the overnight line deserves its own place in a plan even when the funding line does not.

The swap is charged per night and per lot, it changes sign with direction, and on some instruments it credits your account rather than debits it. None of that is visible at the moment the order goes in. It appears only once the position has survived a rollover, which is why a trade that felt cheap on entry can read differently after a week of being left alone.

Counting nights, not days

The unit of the overnight bill is the rollover, not the calendar day. A position opened and closed inside one session never meets it. A position opened on Tuesday afternoon and closed on Thursday morning meets it twice, and one of those two is the Wednesday charge that carries the weekend value date. Market holidays and long weekends move where those nights fall, so the count is worth doing against a calendar rather than from memory.

Once the nights are counted, the rest is multiplication — and here it stops there, because the rate behind your balance is fixed. Take the per-night figure for the instrument and direction from the measured table above, multiply by the number of nights and by your lot size, convert once, and you have the holding cost in local money. The spread you paid on the way in sits on our spreads and costs page and belongs to a separate line of the same plan.

The two things worth re-checking, on two different clocks

Swap figures move with market rates, so they are read before a hold rather than remembered from the last one. The measured table on this page is refreshed on a schedule and carries the date it was read; the figures actually applied to your position are the ones in your platform. A swap-free (Islamic) account removes this line entirely for eligible clients, and eligibility is decided by FxPro rather than assumed.

The currency arrangement runs on a much slower clock, but it is still policy rather than physics, and broker terms change too. Neither is expensive to verify: one takes a glance at the platform before holding a position, the other takes a question to your bank before the first transfer. Always confirm current terms before committing money.

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