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As an experienced trader who has explored a diverse range of trading platforms, I’ve learned to scrutinize every aspect of a broker, including overnight financing or swap fees. With LME, however, I encounter a unique situation. Unlike typical forex or CFD brokers, LME specializes in physical and derivative metal products and doesn’t offer forex pairs, indices, stocks, or cryptocurrencies. Their main trading instruments include non-ferrous, ferrous, EV, and precious metals, and trading is conducted through LMEselect, open outcry (the Ring), and telephone—not the commonly used MT4 or MT5 platforms where swap fees are transparently listed. Because LME operates in metals markets rather than retail forex or CFD products, traditional swap fee structures simply don’t apply here as they do with regulated, mainstream forex brokers. At most retail brokers, swap rates are influenced by interbank rates and clearly displayed in the platform. With LME, this information isn’t transparently available to individual traders, and there’s a broader operational risk: LME is unregulated, and WikiFX even raises suspicions around their status and the high potential risk. That means if you’re used to comparing swap rates for overnight forex or commodity positions, LME’s framework doesn’t offer the same clarity or consumer safeguards. For me, the lack of regulatory oversight and the absence of basic account reporting make it impossible to confidently compare LME’s overnight costs or financing charges to those of established, regulated brokers. Until there is full transparency and oversight, I would be extremely cautious and would not rely on LME for any position-holding that might incur overnight charges—especially since other reviewers have raised serious red flags about the safety of even retrieving account balances.