, or read on for the eligibility rules and the setup steps that actually matter.
What a Swap-Free Account Means on Deriv
A swap is the interest adjustment a broker applies when a trade is carried past the daily rollover point. On forex, index and commodity CFDs it is charged or credited every night, and across a long hold it can quietly consume a meaningful slice of the return.
Deriv's swap-free option drops that charge entirely. No swap is deducted from your balance while a position stays open overnight on the covered instruments. What is left is exactly what a standard account offers: the spread, any applicable commission, margin requirements, and full exposure to price movement.
The structure is usually described as an Islamic account, though the label reaches wider than the religious framing. Interest-based overnight fees conflict with Sharia rules on riba, so swap-free accounts were built for Muslim traders first. Plenty of non-Muslim traders in Zambia use them for a different reason, which is long-horizon strategies where overnight