I was charged 10x normal swap yesterday

So Wednesday was triple swap day. Normally, I would only get charged about $130 for 8 long lots of EUR/USD but yesterday I was charged $1300. I called Forex.com today and they said that's how it is at the end of the year. Is this true for all brokers? Thanks in advance.

Probably holidays, although not sure about that, looks terrible for me.

Saw recent jump of RUB against USD before holidays, maybe because of this 10x swap crediting

Yes ... Its commonly called "Turn of the Year".. The market behaves irrationally over the end of the year period due to thinnest ( lack of market participants) and demand as some financial institutions need to balance their books for the calendar year therefore the price can be either well bid or well offered.
In this case the market is in great demand for USD and therefore your short USD position is heavily penalized unfortunately.
All brokers should be showing the true reflection of wholesale market and if they arent I would be considering a change

I experienced this as well and discuss it at https://www.forexfactory.com/showthr...5#post10626325

That sounds a bit stiff!

I had a similar incident with IC-Markets demo account at the beginning of February. Swap figures went ten-fold. I stared at my screen, unbelieving what I saw. For example, there was a position previously 1000 € in green, now 200 € in red, because the swap cost was suddenly 1200 €! I had several positions like that.

I was so disgusted about the incident (I imagined how I would feel if that would have been a live account) that I wrote to the costumer support. They told me that the problem was only with their demo accounts.

Soon a user in this forum reported about excessive swap on Gold on *live* IC-Markets account! So their costumer support had lied to me and at least some live accounts were also affected.
Is that how the bucket shops make their money? I really wanted to like the IC-Markets, but now, as I remember the swap incident, the IC-Markets is off the list for me.

I will open a live account in a couple of weeks and will choose between Dukascopy and LMAX.
My mind says Dukascopy (because I need good swaps), but my heart says LMAX (bad swaps but excellent broker).

Maybe it would be good idea to leave all the bucket shops behind and actually pay the premium for the quality service at LMAX? I plan to do swing or even position trading, so the choice is really difficult.

Can anybody help me to choose the right one, please?