Lydia » Wed Jul 23, 2014 3:03 pm wrote:
Hi Gertje,
I am verry sorry, I think I missed the point here. I don't understand about this positive swap or +ve swap, can you please give me more explanation for that and how we trade it.
Thanks very much before and after.
Cheers.
Hi Lydia,
When you're trading Forex, you are buying and selling currencies at the same time. Some countries have higher intrest than others, NZD, AUD and CAD have high intrest at the moment. The EUR has zero or even negative intrest at the moment. This intrest-differential is charged to the trader by the broker in the form of SWAP.
When buying AUD against the EUR, you are also buying the higher intrest, paid to you by the broker as (positive) swap. Would you sell the AUD against the EUR, you would pay (negative) swap.
Every day when the day rolls over into the next, swap is calculated and added to our trades. On Wednesday it is tripled to account.for the weekend when markets are closed.
Since money tend to flow towards higher intrest, trading these pairs in the direction of the swap helps a bit as well to make money.
So I'm testing now to trade in the direction of positive swap (mainly buying AUD, NZD and CAD against other currencies) to see if it makes sense. I'm trading on the D1 chart, so trades could stay open for weeks. GBPNZD shortsfor instance pays a huge daily swap ($1,- for 0.1 lot every day) so it adds up after a few day's.
Hope this helps.