Sri Lanka — Swap Rates - Counting the Nights a Hold Will Cross
Each instrument has its own triple-swap night, so what a hold costs depends on which nights it crosses and not only on how many. Read the side, read the sign, find the triple night, then count.
Open Exness Account →Swap is a calendar question before it is a cost question. Each instrument has its own triple-swap night, when the nightly amount is applied three times to cover the weekend, so what a hold costs depends on which nights it crosses rather than only on how many. Read the side, read the sign, find the triple night for that instrument, then count the nights the position will actually cross.
Step 1 - find the row and read your own side
| Instrument | Long side ($ per lot, per night) | Short side ($ per lot, per night) | Triple-swap day (applied ×3) |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | $0.00 | $0.00 | Wednesday |
| GBP/USD | $0.00 | $0.00 | Wednesday |
| USD/JPY | $0.00 | $0.00 | Wednesday |
| AUD/USD | $0.00 | $0.00 | Wednesday |
| USD/CAD | $0.00 | $0.00 | Wednesday |
| USD/CHF | $0.00 | $0.00 | Wednesday |
| NZD/USD | -$1.90 | $0.00 | Wednesday |
| EUR/GBP | -$6.08 | $0.00 | Wednesday |
| EUR/JPY | $0.00 | -$5.57 | Wednesday |
| GBP/JPY | $0.00 | -$11.84 | Wednesday |
| AUD/JPY | -$0.128 | -$1.34 | Wednesday |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | $0.00 | $0.00 | Wednesday |
| XAG/USD (Silver) | $0.00 | $0.00 | Wednesday |
| US Oil (WTI) | $0.00 | $0.00 | Friday |
| UK Oil (Brent) | $0.00 | -$181.00 | Friday |
| BTC/USD | -$16.39 | $0.00 | Friday |
| ETH/USD | -$0.506 | $0.00 | Friday |
| US500 (S&P 500) | -$1.47 | $0.00 | Friday |
| US30 (Dow) | -$9.80 | $0.00 | Friday |
| USTEC (Nasdaq 100) | -$5.93 | $0.00 | Friday |
| DE30 (DAX) | -$4.04 | $0.00 | Friday |
| JP225 (Nikkei 225) | $0.00 | $0.00 | Friday |
| UK100 (FTSE 100) | -$2.64 | $0.00 | Friday |
Read the sign first: a negative figure is taken from the account each night the position stays open, a positive figure is added, and zero means nothing is charged on that side. Then check the triple-swap day, where the nightly amount is applied three times to cover the weekend. Energies such as US Oil and UK Oil are the exception and carry no triple day - the swap is simply applied each night.
Step 2 - multiply by the nights you intend to hold
| Instrument | Long · 1 night | Long · 1 week | Short · 1 night | Short · 1 week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NZD/USD | -$1.90 | -$17.10 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| EUR/GBP | -$6.08 | -$54.74 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| EUR/JPY | $0.00 | $0.00 | -$5.57 | -$50.11 |
| GBP/JPY | $0.00 | $0.00 | -$11.84 | -$106.56 |
| AUD/JPY | -$0.128 | -$1.15 | -$1.34 | -$12.10 |
| UK Oil (Brent) | $0.00 | $0.00 | -$181.00 | -$1,629.00 |
| BTC/USD | -$16.39 | -$147.47 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| ETH/USD | -$0.506 | -$4.55 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| US500 (S&P 500) | -$1.47 | -$13.27 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| US30 (Dow) | -$9.80 | -$88.20 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| USTEC (Nasdaq 100) | -$5.93 | -$53.34 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| DE30 (DAX) | -$4.04 | -$36.38 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| UK100 (FTSE 100) | -$2.64 | -$23.74 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
A week here counts seven nights and includes one triple-swap night, which comes to nine charge units; on energies, which have no triple day, a week is seven charges. Rows where both sides are zero are left out. Rates move with interest rates and market conditions, so read the current one in the platform before the order goes in.
Step 3 - or remove the line rather than budget for it
Swap-free trading is offered on qualifying account types and instruments, and it removes this line rather than shrinking it. Open the swap-free (Islamic) account page for how it works, or estimate a specific position’s swap in the trading calculator.
Where these swap figures are read from
- Swap long/short read from each symbol's specification on Exness's own MT5 feed.
- Converted to dollars per standard lot per night via the contract's tick value.
- Triple-swap day (applied ×3) taken from the same specification, per instrument.
- Refreshed on a schedule; rates move with interest-rate differentials.
Swap long and swap short are read straight from each symbol specification on the platform feed and converted into dollars per standard lot per night, with the triple-swap day taken from the same specification. Scale the figure to your own volume before comparing it with a target.
Open Exness Account →Why the same number of nights can cost twice as much
Two positions held for exactly five nights can carry a different swap total, because one of them crossed the triple night and the other did not. On instruments with a triple night, a run of seven nights is nine charge units rather than seven.
That is the whole reason this page is arranged around a calendar rather than a per-night average. The average is easy to compute and misleading to act on; the actual nights crossed is the figure a position is charged.
The side that is credited rather than charged
Swap is directional. On some instruments one side is charged while the other is credited, and the two are rarely mirror images of each other. Reading only the side you intend to take is enough for a decision, but it is worth knowing that the other column is not simply the same figure with the sign flipped.
A credited side is not a reason on its own to take a position in that direction. It changes what an existing idea costs to hold, and it does nothing about whether the idea was worth holding.
Scaling the printed figure to a real position
Everything in these tables is quoted per standard lot per night, which is almost never the size actually traded. The arithmetic is trivial and skipping it is the most common way a swap figure gets mis-read by an order of magnitude.
Do the scaling before the calendar count, not after: it is easier to decide whether a run of nights is worth avoiding once the per-night figure is the one your own position will carry.
When the calendar stops applying
Rates move with interest rates and market conditions, so a figure captured today is a starting point rather than a fixed property of the instrument. The platform shows the current rate against the symbol before an order is placed, and that is the number the server will apply.
The swap-free setting removes the line altogether on eligible instruments rather than reducing it, which also removes the calendar question. It is requested per trading account from the Personal Area and confirmed by reading the symbol specification in the platform.
Counting the nights a hold will cross
- Read the row for your instrument and take the column for the side you are on, long or short.
- Read the sign: a negative figure is taken from the account each night, a positive one is added, and zero means nothing is charged on that side.
- Find the triple-swap night in the last column. It is per instrument, so two positions opened the same day can meet it on different nights.
- Mark the nights the position will cross on a calendar, counting the triple night as three.
- Scale the per-lot figure to your own volume: a 0.10 lot carries a tenth of it and a 0.01 lot a hundredth.
- Note the date by which closing avoids the triple night, and the date after which opening avoids it. Both are decisions you can make before the order.
Energies such as US Oil and UK Oil carry no triple night at all - the swap is applied once per night, every night.
The overnight decision: what to read and what it changes
| What to read | Where it is | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Swap on your side | The row below, and the symbol specification in the platform | Whether the hold has a cost or a credit at all |
| The sign of the figure | The same row - negative is charged, positive is credited | Whether the night works for you or against you |
| Triple-swap day (applied ×3) | The last column, per instrument | Whether one calendar week costs seven nights or nine |
| Number of nights planned | Your own plan, not the table | The multiplier on everything above |
| Your volume | The order window | Scales the printed per-lot figure to what you will actually pay |
| Swap-free eligibility | The account entry in the Personal Area | Whether the line exists on this account at all |
The printed figures are per standard lot per night. A 0.10 lot carries a tenth of them and a 0.01 lot a hundredth.