Worked example
Practising on Sway Markets's numbers
This is an exercise sheet, not a review. We are going to take three things that Sway Markets publishes — a spread, a ladder of account types and a list of licences — and turn each of them into something you can do arithmetic with. By the end you should be able to repeat the whole exercise on any firm you come across, which is the actual skill being taught.
The figures we are working from
Nothing below is our estimate. Where a firm has not published something, or we could not read it on a source we trust, the box says so instead of guessing — a habit worth copying when you build your own broker notes.
Exercise one — turn the spread into money
Sway Markets does not publish a EUR/USD spread we were able to verify, so there is no honest arithmetic to do on this page. Do not substitute a number you read on a comparison site: an unverified spread quietly becomes an unverified cost, and then an unverified plan. Use one of the other examples on the practice index for this exercise and come back to this file for the account ladder below.
Exercise two — read the account ladder
Account tiers are a pricing structure dressed as a status ladder. Sway Markets offers 4 rungs. Read them as a question — what does each rung ask of me, and what does it give back? — rather than as a set of prizes to climb towards.
- ECNThe entry rung. Whatever the published spread applies to, it is almost always this one — so this is the rung your arithmetic above describes.
- No CommissionA higher rung usually trades a tighter spread for a commission, a larger deposit, or a status test. Convert both pricing models to money per lot before you decide either is cheaper.
- VIPA higher rung usually trades a tighter spread for a commission, a larger deposit, or a status test. Convert both pricing models to money per lot before you decide either is cheaper.
- IslamicA higher rung usually trades a tighter spread for a commission, a larger deposit, or a status test. Convert both pricing models to money per lot before you decide either is cheaper.
Account names as published: ECN, No Commission, VIP, Islamic. Platforms listed: MT4, MT5.
Exercise three — what this licence list means for you
A long licence list is not automatically a good sign. What matters to a beginner is a narrower question: which entity would hold my money, and who supervises that entity? Those are often not the same as the impressive name at the top of the list. Here are Sway Markets's lines, each with a plain reading.
| Regulator | Entity on the register | Number | What that means for a beginner |
|---|---|---|---|
| None (SVG company registration only; CFTC RED List entry) · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Sway Markets Pty Ltd LLC (SVG Company No. 1647 LLC 2021) | not verified | an offshore registration: a company exists and pays a fee, but expect little practical recourse from that entity |
| ASIC (company register — deregistered; ABN cancelled 25 Jun 2025) · Australia | Sway Markets Pty Ltd (ACN 663 928 158) | not verified | a top-tier regulator: compensation scheme, capital rules and a public register you can search yourself — no longer active |
No top-tier line appears on this file. That does not make the firm illegitimate, but it does mean the compensation-scheme and capital-rule protections a beginner usually assumes are present are not evidenced here. 1 line is offshore registration; treat those as a company address rather than as supervision. We could not confirm a licence number on 2 lines, which is exactly the kind of gap you should close yourself on the regulator's own register before depositing.
The record behind these numbers
- The CFTC added Sway Markets (swaymarkets.com, origin Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) to its Registration Deficient (RED) List on 29 May 2025 (https://www.cftc.gov/REDlist/node/255436).
- ASIC published a proposed deregistration notice for Sway Markets Pty Ltd (ACN 663 928 158).
- Trade press reported in 2025 that Sway Markets suspended its brokerage operations while its prop-trading arm Sway Funded continued.
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines FSA does not regulate forex or CFD trading, so an SVG registration is not a trading licence.
- Sway Markets' own legal pages state the operating company is 'Sway Markets Pty Ltd LLC', registered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines under company number 1647 LLC 2021, and that the Australian entity Sway Markets Pty Ltd (ABN 16 663 928 158) operated only as a Corporate Authorised Representative (CAR 001300469) of MGF Capital Pty Ltd (AFSL 421246), authorised for wholesale clients only and not as a product issuer of OTC derivatives (https://web.archive.org/web/20230207123501/https://swaymarkets.com/about-us/).
- ABN Lookup shows the ABN of Sway Markets Pty Ltd (16 663 928 158) was cancelled from 25 June 2025 (https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?id=16663928158).
- The broker's own trading rules stated a $10 minimum deposit, and its terms authorised the firm to sell, pledge, rehypothecate, assign, invest, commingle or otherwise use client collateral (https://web.archive.org/web/20230207110450/https://swaymarkets.com/cookies-and-privacy/).
- The US CFTC placed Sway Markets on its RED List on 29 May 2025, stating the entity solicits and/or accepts funds from US customers, appears to require CFTC registration but is not registered, and noting the listing is not a finding of a violation (https://www.cftc.gov/REDlist/node/255436).
What we could not verify
The following are unconfirmed and are deliberately left blank rather than estimated: founding year; headquarters; current operating status; minimum deposit; maximum leverage; EUR/USD spread; account types; segregated funds; negative balance protection; founded — year 2021 derives from the SVG company number '1647 LLC 2021' in the broker's own archived legal footer; secondary sources date the Australian entity to November 2022; no regulator-register incorporation date found; spreadEurusd — only advertised floors published ('typical spreads from 0.8 pips' ECN, 1.2 No Commission, 0.4 VIP); no typical EUR/USD figure stated; negativeBalanceProtection — no negative-balance-protection statement found in the broker's archived documents; platforms — seed lists MT4/MT5; archived site navigation (Feb 2023) showed MetaTrader 5 and MT5 Web Trader only; MT4 support unverified; minDeposit/maxLeverage/accountTypes/instruments/segregatedFunds/hq — sourced from Wayback Machine captures because swaymarkets.com no longer resolves (checked 21 Aug 2026); current terms cannot be checked; hq — the broker's terms give a Kingstown, SVG address for written objections; the Australian entity was registered in QLD; CFTC RED List entry records origin as St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Confidence in this file overall: low. When you build your own notes on a firm, keep a list like this one — the gaps are more useful than the figures, because they tell you what to go and check.
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