{"id":9,"date":"2026-09-05T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xforextrade.com\/index.php\/the-method\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:37:39","slug":"the-method","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xforextrade.com\/index.php\/the-method\/","title":{"rendered":"About XForexTrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most forex content describes pairs in adjectives. &#8220;GBP\/JPY is volatile.&#8221; &#8220;The Asian session is quiet.&#8221; &#8220;AUD follows gold.&#8221; These are repeated endlessly and almost never measured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>XForexTrade measures them.<\/strong> One instrument at a time, session by session, with the method published alongside every number so you can reproduce it or argue with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Pair profiles<\/strong> \u2014 for each major, cross and exotic: what drives it, typical daily range, session-by-session range delivery, spread behaviour and news sensitivity.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Session research<\/strong> \u2014 how much of a day&#8217;s range each session actually delivers, and which hours are worth being at the screen for a given pair.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Behaviour data<\/strong> \u2014 volatility regimes, rolling correlation, spread widening around events, and the practical consequences for sizing.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Metals and indices<\/strong> \u2014 the non-currency instruments most FX brokers offer, and why they need entirely different position sizing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the numbers are produced<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>One data source per study,<\/strong> named in the article, with the sample period and the number of observations stated.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Sessions defined explicitly<\/strong> in UTC, with the daylight-saving handling described \u2014 most disagreements about session behaviour are really disagreements about definitions.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Medians alongside averages.<\/strong> A single event day distorts a mean beyond usefulness; both figures are shown.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Spreads measured, not quoted.<\/strong> Where a cost figure appears, it comes from recorded ticks on a live retail account, not from a broker&#8217;s advertised table.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Method published<\/strong> so a reader with a data feed can repeat the study. If a result cannot be reproduced, it should not be trusted, including ours.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This pair is volatile&#8221; is not information. &#8220;This pair delivers a median 118-pip daily range, 61% of it between 07:00 and 16:00 UTC&#8221; is information.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who runs it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marek Dvorak<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marek spent six years as a market-data analyst before trading his own account full time. He now spends most of his week measuring things other people assume \u2014 how wide a pair really trades in each session, how correlations behave when volatility rises, and how much of a day&#8217;s range arrives in the first hour after the London open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is not an adviser, sells no signals or courses, and takes no payment from brokers in exchange for coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What this site will not publish<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Forecasts. Nothing here predicts where a pair is going.<\/li>\n\n<li>Signals, copy trading or managed accounts, in any form.<\/li>\n\n<li>A statistic without its sample period, source and definition.<\/li>\n\n<li>A &#8220;best pair for beginners&#8221; list. Suitability depends on your account size, session and cost structure, not on a ranking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Funding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some broker and data-vendor links are affiliate links, which may pay a commission if you sign up through them at no extra cost to you. No commission arrangement affects a measurement, a ranking or a criticism, and providers who pay nothing are covered identically. Details are in the <a href=\"\/index.php\/risk-and-data-notice\/\">risk and data notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Corrections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a figure here is wrong, or a definition is doing more work than it should, please say so through the <a href=\"\/index.php\/contact-desk\/\">contact page<\/a>. 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