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 0 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.
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 (unregistered; CFTC RED List entry) · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Sway Markets | not verified | an offshore registration: a company exists and pays a fee, but expect little practical recourse from that entity |
| ASIC (company register — proposed deregistration notice) · 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 |
1 of these line is top-tier — held by Sway Markets Pty Ltd (ACN 663 928 158). If you are onboarded to a different entity than those, the protections attached to the top-tier line are not yours, however prominently the regulator's initials appear in the marketing. 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.
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. 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.
Run the same exercise on another firm
PipMentor does not rank brokers, does not award badges and does not tell you where to open an account. This page exists so the arithmetic you learn in the curriculum has real numbers to bite on.