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  • Trading conditions
  • Spreads
  • Trading hours
  • Swap rates

There are a lot of reasons to trade with us

Why trade with Switch Markets?

Tight spreads. Zero commission accounts. Lightning-fast trade execution. We know what real traders want. Let’s explore why we are the right broker for you.

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Our Mission

Built by traders, for traders. Our Mission is to create a broker that gives traders of all levels highly competitive conditions, resources and support, no matter the market they trade. As traders ourselves, we know the importance of transparency and reliability; it’s factored into everything we do at Switch Markets.

Trusted and regulated

Being able to trust your broker is important. Let’s face it, you need to know your deposits, withdrawals and know your trades are in safe hands. We’re serious about protecting our traders, that’s why we ensure all of our customers are verified. Also, our clients’ funds are held in segregated bank accounts with tier one banks.

Flexibility

No matter if you’re a newbie trader or an advanced one, there is something for you at Switch Markets.

If you’re new to trading and need to build your confidence, then start with a demo account. You can trade with up to $50,000 and experience real market conditions. When you’re ready to trade with us in the real world, you can switch to a live trading account. Just like that.

Decide which live trading account suits your trading style; do you want zero commission or super-tight spreads and a small commission cost? Compare our two trading account options on our comparison page.

Free VPS for all live accounts

That’s right, you heard us correctly, we offer our live trading account customers a free VPS if they want it. Using a Virtual Private Server is ideal if you are an Algo Trader looking to leave your EA running when you’re not at your desk.

To get your free VPS, all you need to do is let our support team know once your Switch Markets account is live and we'll get you set up.

Support

Knowing you can reach your broker 24/7 is what peace of mind is all about and it’s something often overlooked by traders when choosing their broker. Contact Switch Markets support team 24/7 via email support@switchmarkets.com or by chatting with us on our 24/7 live chat in the bottom right corner.

Spreads

Ultra-competitive spreads

Switch Markets offers some of the tightest spreads on the market. Often we see our EUR/USD spread at as low as 0.0* pips!

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Why spreads matter

Spreads matter, especially for intraday traders and for scalpers. To be a successful trader, you need to monitor the spreads closely. Here’s what ‘High Spreads’ and ‘Low Spreads’ are telling you.

High Spreads

When you see the difference between the bid and ask price is high, this is likely showing you that the market is experiencing low liquidity or high volatility. Non-major forex pairs often have a higher spread, compared to major forex pairs.

Low Spreads

When you see the difference between the bid and ask price is low, this is likely showing you that the market is experiencing low volatility or high liquidity. You’ll often see low spreads with major forex trading pairs.

Trading hours

There’s always a market for you to trade.

With Switch Markets, there’s always a market to trade. Check our table below and you’ll see which markets are open when.

You can easily find the trading hours inside your MetaTrader terminal too. To do this, click "Market Watch" inside your terminal and then click on Specification; this will show you the hours this instrument can be traded.

Forex Commodities Indices Cryptocurrencies Shares
Symbol Trading session Start (GMT+3) End (GMT+3)
aud aud EURUSD Daily 0:00 23:59
aud aud USDJPY Daily 0:00 23:59
aud aud GBPUSD Daily 0:00 23:59
aud aud USDCAD Daily 0:00 23:59
aud aud USDCHF Daily 0:00 23:59
aud aud AUDUSD Daily 0:00 23:59
aud aud NZDUSD Daily 0:00 23:59
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Symbol Trading session Start (GMT+3) End (GMT+3)
XAUUSD Daily 1:00 23:59
XAUEUR Daily 1:00 23:59
XAGUSD Daily 1:00 23:59
BRENT Daily 3:00 23:59
WTI Daily 1:00 23:59
CL.XX Daily 1:00 23:59
BRN.XX Daily 3:00 23:59
NG.XX Daily 1:00 23:59
Symbol Trading session Start (GMT+3) End (GMT+3)
DE30 Daily 9:00 23:00
F40 Daily 9:00 23:00
AUS200 Daily 1:50 23:00
JPN225 Daily 2:30 23:59
STOXX50 Daily 10:00 23:00
ESP35 Daily 10:00 18:30
UK100 Daily 0:00 23:00
US30 Daily 1:00 23:59
US500 Daily 1:00 23:59
USTEC Daily 1:00 23:59
China50 Daily 3:00 22:45
HGK33 Daily 3:15 17:45
Symbol Trading session Start (GMT+3) End (GMT+3)
BTCUSD Daily 0:00 23:59
LTCUSD Daily 0:00 23:59
ETHUSD Daily 0:00 23:59
RIPUSD Daily 0:00 23:59
Symbol Trading session Start (GMT+3) End (GMT+3)
#TeslaMotor Daily 16:30 23:00
#Amazon Daily 16:30 23:00
#Google Daily 16:30 23:00
#GoldmSachs Daily 16:30 23:00
#Apple Daily 16:30 23:00
#Visa Daily 16:30 23:00
#Netflix Daily 16:30 23:00
#Microsoft Daily 16:30 23:00
#Daimler Daily 0:00 23:59
#Twitter Daily 16:30 23:00
#Adidas Daily 10:02 18:30
#DeutscBank Daily 10:02 18:30
#B.M.W Daily 10:02 18:30
#LVMH Daily 10:02 18:30
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Symbol Trading session Start (GMT+3) End (GMT+3)
audAUD Account - Australian Dollar Daily 0:00 0:00
audAUD Account - Australian Dollar Daily 0:00 0:00
audAUD Account - Australian Dollar Daily 0:00 0:00
audAUD Account - Australian Dollar Daily 0:00 0:00
audAUD Account - Australian Dollar Daily 0:00 0:00
audAUD Account - Australian Dollar Daily 0:00 0:00
audAUD Account - Australian Dollar Daily 0:00 0:00
audAUD Account - Australian Dollar Daily 0:00 0:00
audAUD Account - Australian Dollar Daily 0:00 0:00
audAUD Account - Australian Dollar Daily 0:00 0:00

Swap rates

Control your Swap Rates with Switch Markets.

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So, what are Swap Rates?

You’d be surprised how many traders don’t know about Swap Rates and how to control them. In a nutshell, the ‘Swap’ means that if you keep your trading positions open overnight, you could have some fees to pay your broker.

How is the forex swap rate calculated?

As you know, Forex trading is the buying or selling of a country’s currency, against the currency of another country. Brokers enable you to execute the trade and then ‘swap’ the currency back again, at another time.

The forex swap rate is calculated on the difference between the interest rate between the two currencies you are trading.

When you don’t ‘swap’ the currency back with a broker at the end of the trading day (5 pm GMT time), there is a fee or credit involved and the brokers allow you to hold your open position overnight.

For traders, this can either be a fee or a credit back to you, this all depends on the currency pair you are trading and the interest rate performance.

What you need to know :

  • Swap Rates are applied every trading day at midnight, on any open positions.
  • Swap Rates are especially important to traders that hold their positions overnight.
  • Swap Rates mean you could end up with a fee for holding your trade, or, a credit (depending on the interest difference).
  • On a Wednesday, the rates tend to be triple the amount compared with other trading days (to accommodate for the weekend).
  • Swap Rates will show as ‘points’ inside MT4/MT5, these points are then converted into your account currency.
  • Each currency pair has its own rollover fee.
  • Most traders do not know about the Swap Rates when trading with any broker.
Forex Commodities Indices Cryptocurrencies Shares
Instrument Swap Long Swap Short
aud aud EURUSD -3.6828 0.9108
aud aud USDJPY 0.081 -2.541
aud aud GBPUSD -2.3408 -0.8624
aud aud USDCAD -1.518 -2.9095
aud aud USDCHF 1.188 -4.5584
aud aud AUDUSD -0.8855 -1.518
aud aud NZDUSD -0.66 -1.188
aud aud AUDCHF 0.765 -3.036
aud aud AUDCAD -0.924 -1.584
aud aud AUDJPY 0.072 -2.244
aud aud AUDNZD -2.508 -0.132
aud aud CADCHF 0.7128 -3.2032
aud aud CADJPY 0.0765 -2.277
aud aud CHFJPY -3.432 0.072
aud aud EURAUD -4.6805 0.153
aud aud EURCAD -4.928 1.3464
aud aud EURCHF -0.924 -2.112
aud aud EURGBP -3.696 0.432
aud aud EURJPY -3.036 0.144
aud aud EURNZD -7.9296 1.4256
aud aud GBPAUD -1.584 -1.188
aud aud USDSGD -4.356 -5.184
aud aud GBPCAD -2.508 -1.056
aud aud GBPCHF 1.4535 -5.566
aud aud GBPJPY -0.528 -2.772
aud aud GBPNZD -5.06 -4.4
aud aud NZDCAD -0.66 -1.716
aud aud NZDCHF 0.5355 -3.289
aud aud NZDJPY -0.132 -1.848
aud aud SGDJPY -2.898 -4.002
aud aud ZARJPY 0.8413 -2.2088
aud aud EURSGD -9.936 -4.002
aud aud NOKJPY -0.138 -0.01
aud aud AUDSGD -2.88 -3.744
aud aud HKDJPY 2.176 -9.216
aud aud GBPSGD -5.76 -11.664
aud aud NZDSGD -3.888 -14.256
aud aud CHFSGD -5.76 -11.664
aud aud EURNOK -26.6112 0.2376
aud aud EURSEK -28.08 4.288
aud aud USDHKD -23.76 -19.44
aud aud USDMXN -569.316 193.248
aud aud USDNOK -10.428 -36.432
aud aud USDSEK 5.1 -12.696
aud aud USDZAR -380.376 105.8368
aud aud USDPLN -38.1 -17.9
aud aud EURPLN -42.867 8.667
aud aud USDCNH -10.08 -47.52
aud aud USDRUB -2046 720
aud aud EURMXN -880.88 259.875
aud aud EURZAR -549.461 201.6
aud aud USDDKK 11.016 -41.58
aud aud AUDNOK -8.928 1.088
aud aud AUDSEK -8.928 1.088
aud aud CHFPLN -38.1 -17.9
aud aud EURCZK -8.928 1.088
aud aud EURDKK -8.928 1.088
aud aud GBPPLN -38.1 -17.9
aud aud GBPSEK -38.1 -17.9
aud aud GBPZAR -38.1 -17.9
aud aud NOKSEK -8.928 1.088
aud aud USDCZK -8.928 1.088
Instrument Swap Long Swap Short
XAUUSD -3.388 0.3888
XAUEUR 0.1148 -2.8969
XAGUSD -0.8 -0.35
BRENT -0.65 -5.34
WTI -1.85 -1.43
CL.XX 0 0
BRN.XX 0 0
NG.XX 0 0
Instrument Swap Long Swap Short
DE30 -0.4132 -0.2063
F40 -0.1741 -0.0869
AUS200 -0.3831 0.0082
JPN225 -0.007 -0.0024
STOXX50 -0.2 -0.25
ESP35 -0.3437 -0.1716
UK100 -0.486 -0.4179
US30 -1.2568 -0.525
US500 -0.1481 -0.0525
USTEC -0.3264 -0.0307
China50 -3 1
HGK33 -0.1801 -0.0271
US30.XX 0 0
ES500.XX 0 0
NQ100.XX 0 0
DE30.XX 0 0
EU50.XX 0 0
FRA40.XX 0 0
UK100.XX 0 0
JP225.XX 0 0
Instrument Swap Long Swap Short
BTCUSD -20 -20
LTCUSD -20 -20
ETHUSD -20 -20
RIPUSD -20 -20
Instrument Swap Long Swap Short
#Airfrance -4 -3.5
#CrAgricole -4 -3.5
#LOreal -4 -3.5
#Peugeot -4 -3.5
#Total -4 -3.5
#Adidas -4 -3.5
#B.M.W -4 -3.5
#Bayer -4 -3.5
#Daimler -4 -3.5
#DeutscBank -4 -3.5
#E.ON -4 -3.5
#Lufthansa -4 -3.5
#Siemens -4 -3.5
#Airbus -4 -3.5
#LVMH -4 -3.5
#Siemens -4 -3.5
#Amazon -4 -3.5
#AmericanEx -4 -3.5
#Apple -4 -3.5
#Boeing -4 -3.5
#BofAmerica -4 -3.5
#Caterpilar -4 -3.5
#Chevron -4 -3.5
#Cisco -4 -3.5
#Citigroup -4 -3.5
#CocaCola -4 -3.5
#Disney -4 -3.5
#Facebook -4 -3.5
#GenElec -4 -3.5
#GenMotors -4 -3.5
#GoldmSachs -4 -3.5
#Google -4 -3.5
#Intel -4 -3.5
#J&J -4 -3.5
#JPMorgan -4 -3.5
#Mastercard -4 -3.5
#McDonalds -4 -3.5
#Microsoft -4 -3.5
#Netflix -4 -3.5
#Nike -4 -3.5
#P&G -4 -3.5
#Pfizer -4 -3.5
#Visa -4 -3.5
#Walmart -4 -3.5
#AbbottLab -4 -3.5
#AIG -4 -3.5
#Amgen -4 -3.5
#Activision -4 -3.5
#Baidu -4 -3.5
#Booking -4 -3.5
#Carnival -4 -3.5
#DeltaAir -4 -3.5
#Gilead -4 -3.5
#Halliburt -4 -3.5
#EliLilly -4 -3.5
#LMC -4 -3.5
#Marriott -4 -3.5
#AltriGrp -4 -3.5
#Merck&Co -4 -3.5
#Marathon -4 -3.5
#Noble -4 -3.5
#OPC -4 -3.5
#RoyalCarib -4 -3.5
#Schlumberg -4 -3.5
#SimonProp -4 -3.5
#AT&T -4 -3.5
#Twitter -4 -3.5
#United -4 -3.5
#WellFargo -4 -3.5
#ExxonMobil -4 -3.5
#TeslaMotor -4 -3.5

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