Natural Gas Swap Calculator
Estimate a natural-gas CFD overnight debit or credit from an entered long or short rate, exact rate unit, contract size, lots and rollover-unit total.
How natural gas overnight swap is calculated
Money mode = signed account-money rate per lot × lots × rollover units
Gas-price-unit mode = signed price units × contract size × lots × rollover units × conversion
Annual-current-price mode = entered gas notional × signed annual rate ÷ 360 × rollover units
Every value is entered manually. Verify the exact broker-server symbol, account, direction, unit and schedule before relying on the arithmetic.
Enter the natural-gas financing convention
First confirm that the exact product charges financing. Enter zero only when its documentation says no financing; otherwise copy the signed rate for the selected direction and its unit.
Entered natural-gas swap estimate
Entered Natural Gas CFD Account Economics 1.0.0
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On a small screen, swipe the table sideways to review every column.
How natural gas overnight swap is calculated
Gas-price-unit mode = signed price units × contract size × lots × rollover units × conversion
Annual-current-price mode = entered gas notional × signed annual rate ÷ 360 × rollover units
This page does not assume that every natural-gas CFD incurs overnight swap. FXCM documents no financing cost for its expiring NGAS product, while IG documents daily funding for undated commodities. Product structure must be identified before choosing a formula.
MetaTrader supports swap in points, money, annual interest and reopen modes. The annual-current-price option here uses the documented 360-day convention. A broker rate must not be forced into a formula that uses another unit.
Rollover units are an entered schedule weight. One normal boundary can be 1 and a documented multi-day charge can be 3. The tool does not infer a weekday, cutoff, holiday calendar or daylight-saving treatment.
A careful natural-gas swap workflow
- Confirm whether the exact product is undated, spot-style, expiring or otherwise exempt from daily financing.
- Select long or short and copy the matching signed rate from the exact broker-server symbol.
- Identify whether the rate is account money per lot, gas price units or annual percentage of current-price notional.
- Verify contract size, profit currency and conversion for modes that require them.
- Translate the holding schedule into explicit rollover units, including any documented multi-day weight.
- Reconcile any actual debit or credit with the broker statement after the rollover boundary.
Audited worked example
The audited boundary example uses a long 1-lot position, contract size 100, a documented signed rate entered as 0 gas price units, three rollover units and USD-to-USD conversion 1. One normal unit and the full three-unit estimate are both USD 0.00.
How to interpret it
The zero result proves only that an entered zero rate remains zero. It does not prove that another NGAS, NATGAS or XNGUSD product has no financing, and it does not exclude spread, commission, expiry or other holding costs.
Margin, overnight swap and contract rollover answer different questions
Margin is broker-reserved account collateral under an entered calculation convention. Overnight swap or financing is a broker-defined debit or credit for carrying an energy CFD across daily boundaries. A contract rollover adjustment can address a price gap when a futures-linked CFD changes its reference series. None of these amounts is the same as price profit, maximum loss or ownership of physical energy.
| Amount | Primary driver | Timing | Not equivalent to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Required margin | Broker product and account rules | Opening and while exposure remains | Maximum loss or trade cost |
| Overnight swap | Signed rate, unit and daily schedule | Broker rollover boundaries | Contract-series price gap |
| Rollover adjustment | Old/new reference prices and broker policy | Reference-series change | Daily financing or guaranteed neutrality |
Keep the three records separate until each uses the same broker symbol, account currency and observation basis. An undated product can have daily funding without a futures-series cash adjustment, while an expiring natural-gas CFD can close rather than roll.
Assumptions and limits
- No current rate, product structure, cutoff, holiday schedule, gas price or conversion is fetched.
- Currency-symbol, margin-currency, opening-price and reopen swap modes are not independently modeled.
- Rollover units do not validate a broker weekday, holiday or daylight-saving schedule.
- Rates can be zero, disabled, changed or different by entity, account, suffix, product and direction.
- A positive swap estimate does not establish total profit because price movement and other costs remain separate.
- The output is scenario arithmetic, not an account statement, carry recommendation or financial advice.
Where to verify natural-gas CFD account-economics inputs
Open the specification for the exact symbol on the same broker server and account type. Record calculation mode, trade contract size, tick size and value, quote or profit currency, initial margin, margin rate, swap mode, signed long and short swap values, daily rollover multipliers and any product expiration. MetaQuotes documents the available properties; the broker supplies their current values.
Then determine whether NGAS, NATGAS, XNGUSD or the exact server symbol is undated, spot-style, expiring or tied to a named natural-gas futures month. Check daily funding, expiry or series-change dates, reference prices, spread or markup treatment and whether positions are cash-adjusted, closed and reopened, closed at expiry or not rolled. The display label alone does not answer those questions.
For a completed trade, the broker statement is authoritative for account activity. Reconcile each debit or credit using confirmed position size, rate unit, event time and conversion. The calculator is designed to expose assumptions and support that reconciliation; it cannot replace the contractual product terms or determine tax and legal treatment.
Frequently asked questions
- Apply the entered signed rate using its declared account-money, gas-price-unit or annual-current-price convention, then multiply by lots and entered rollover units as required.
- No. Some expiring products document no financing, while undated products can apply daily funding. Confirm the exact product structure before calculating.
- Yes. Enter zero only when current documentation for the exact symbol and account says the selected direction has no financing charge or credit.
- A broker can publish different signed rates for each direction. This calculator uses only the rate entered for the selected direction.
- They are an explicit schedule weight. One normal overnight boundary can be 1 and a documented multi-day application can be 3.
- No. It retrieves no weekday, holiday, cutoff or daylight-saving schedule. Verify the broker schedule and enter the applicable total units.
- No. It is one entered financing component. Price movement, spread, commission, expiry, rollover, slippage and tax remain separate.
- Compare the exact symbol specification, direction, rate unit, lots, holding boundaries and account statement using the broker record as authoritative.
Sources and methodology
- MetaQuotes — Symbol Properties — Documents CFD margin modes, contract fields, swap modes and daily rollover multipliers.
- MetaQuotes MQL5 AlgoBook — Getting swap sizes — Distinguishes points, money and annual-interest swap modes and the 360-day interest convention.
- FXCM — NGAS product guide — Documents account-specific margin, no financing for that expiring product and closure at expiry.
- IG — Commodities CFD product details — Separates undated commodity funding from expiring natural-gas futures contracts and publishes product-specific margin terms.
- Financial Conduct Authority — Contract for Differences — Describes retail CFD protections and risk within the FCA regime.
The operational contract is Entered Natural Gas CFD Account Economics version 1.0.0. Independent fixtures cover supported margin conventions, signed financing units, currency conversion and product-specific adjustment boundaries. Sources support the disclosed arithmetic and verification workflow; they do not supply or validate any page input.
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