Which Symbols next to 8 Majors are sufficiently liquid?

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Dear Forum Friends,

I would like to open a thread on sharing experience on "practical liquidity" of symbols other than 8 Majors and how much it depends on the broker you trade with.

  • By "practical liquidity" I mean that you can easily enter and exit position with orders of one to two lots.
  • By 8 Majors I mean: EURUSD, USDJPY,GBPUSD, AUDUSD, USDCHF,USDCAD,GBPJPY,NZDUSD.

Please, let us have this thread focused on other currency pairs that the above 8 Majors.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Sam

 

S

As well as 'practical liquidity', think of 'practical spread'

It comes down to time of day and broker type

As more brokers move towards being STP or ECN, an excutable trade (open or close) and a viable spread become more reliant on a 'liquid time of day'...

As to the cross pairs, the spread is again a good pointer as to liquidity - I have seen AUDNZD flash to 64 (full) pips spread on an ECN broker - guess it wasnt too liquid at the moment!

FWIW

-BB-

PS

We cannot discuss individual (named) brokers on here but we sure can discuss types of broker - DD, NDD, STP, ECN, etc

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