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In my direct experience, evaluating UTRADE for overnight financing charges—or swap fees—is a bit challenging, since UTRADE currently does not offer forex, indices, or commodities trading where swap fees are typically most relevant. Their focus is on equities, futures, ETFs, and similar instruments. In these markets, the concept of overnight swap fees does not apply in the same way it does with forex brokers. For example, with futures contracts, costs are generally built into the spread or commission rather than being charged as a swap for holding positions overnight. Given that, when I compare UTRADE to other multi-asset brokers who offer forex or leveraged CFDs, I find that their fee structure is quite different. While some traders might expect to incur swap charges on leveraged overnight positions, with UTRADE’s emphasis on exchange-traded products under SFC regulation, the costs are usually transparent and structured as commissions or exchange-related fees. From a risk perspective, what stands out to me is the clarity: there are fewer “hidden” costs like swaps, but it also means UTRADE isn’t suitable if you require low overnight swap fees for forex trading—because they simply don’t offer these products. For my portfolio, I find this approach reduces ambiguity, but if your strategy depends on holding leveraged positions overnight in forex or CFDs, you would need to consider other brokers that cater specifically to those markets and scrutinize their published swap rates instead.