{"id":1169,"date":"2017-10-05T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swingfish.trade\/wblog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:36:46","slug":"rollover-what-why-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/library\/2017\/10\/rollover-what-why-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollover &#038; Swap &#8211; Brokers Bookkeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Futures &amp; Forex trading in a 24\/5 Market environment.<\/p>\n<p>additionally, Forex is not traded through exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>which means at some stage data have to be &#8220;synced up&#8221;, bookkeeping has to be done (accounting stuff) and so on.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">that is called Rollover<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p>this is usually done between the US and Asia Sessions. but vary from Broker to Broker.<\/p>\n<p>most brokers take a window of time between 30 and 90 Minutes to do this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>what to expect during rollover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your open positions will be charged Swap<br \/>\nthis is the &#8220;interest&#8221; you pay for the Funds the broker does &#8220;lend&#8221; you in order to trade,<br \/>\nit finances Leverage, and the Risk the Brokers have.<br \/>\nyou can just disregard it as a &#8220;overnight fee&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>the Spread will massively widen up.<br \/>\nsome Symbols\/Pairs just have the wider spread till the Rollover is over.<br \/>\nothers, however, can have the wider spread to last for longer period of times until the Market its actually traded on re-opens.<\/li>\n<li>Sime Symbols may have no Price informations at all (mean there will be a gap in time &amp; Price)<br \/>\nespecially Bonds and Futures will stop Trade altogether.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2017\/10\/Screenshot_108.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1160\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1160 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2017\/10\/Screenshot_108.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2017\/10\/Screenshot_108.png 543w, https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2017\/10\/Screenshot_108-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futures &amp; Forex trading in a 24\/5 Market environment. additionally, Forex is not traded through exchanges. which means at some stage data have to be &#8220;synced up&#8221;, bookkeeping has to be done&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431908,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/431908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}