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Swaps
Swaps
Swap trades are used to roll over a position to the next day and are generated automatically based on the settings. Value dates take public holidays into account.
The swaps table contains the following information:
Name | Description |
---|---|
Account | The account for which the swap is performed or scheduled. |
Instrument | The instrument for which the swap is performed or scheduled. |
Quantity | The volume of the instrument in the trade. |
From trade date | The date from which the position is rolled over. |
To trade date | The date to which the position is rolled over. |
From value date | TThe value date of the trade before the swap. |
To value date | TThe value date of the trade after the swap. |
Close rate | The closing rate of the trade for the instrument. |
Open rate | The opening rate of the trade for the instrument. |
Closing quote amount | The instrument volume in the trade at the time of closing. |
Opening quote amount | The calculated instrument volume in the trade at the time of opening: Closing Quote Volume - (Lots in Position * Swap Rate * Days in Swap) . |
Intraday swap | Displays Yes if the instrument is swapped intraday (typically for instruments with a TOD tenor or if the account has Intraday Swap enabled in Netting Settings). |
Price (pips) | The swap price in pips. |
Status | The status of the swap. |
Important! When performing swaps using the arrow button in theDaily Operations
section, the system uses existing swap rates. When performing swaps using theMake swaps
button in the row of each individual swap in thePosition Trades ➝ Swaps
subsection, the swap rates (Close rate
andOpen rate
) set in the pop-up window are used. In the fieldsClose quote amount
andOpen quote amount
, you can specify the quoted amount of the instrument at the time of opening and closing the swap trade.![]()
The swaps table provides filtering by Instrument and Asset Type.
Statuses
Name | Description |
---|---|
Ready | The swap is ready to be executed. |
Overdue | The swap was not executed on the current day; it should have been executed on each previous day since the trade was made. |
Second swap | Typically occurs when an incorrect trade date is specified for the trade. |
Exists | The swap has already been executed (to display existing swaps, enable the Show existing checkbox at the top of the section). |
The Cancel Swap button next to an individual swap allows you to cancel a previously executed swap that has the Exists status.
The Save as XLSX button allows you to download the swaps table.
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