Most forex content describes pairs in adjectives. “GBP/JPY is volatile.” “The Asian session is quiet.” “AUD follows gold.” These are repeated endlessly and almost never measured.
XForexTrade measures them. One instrument at a time, session by session, with the method published alongside every number so you can reproduce it or argue with it.
What is here
- Pair profiles — for each major, cross and exotic: what drives it, typical daily range, session-by-session range delivery, spread behaviour and news sensitivity.
- Session research — how much of a day’s range each session actually delivers, and which hours are worth being at the screen for a given pair.
- Behaviour data — volatility regimes, rolling correlation, spread widening around events, and the practical consequences for sizing.
- Metals and indices — the non-currency instruments most FX brokers offer, and why they need entirely different position sizing.
How the numbers are produced
- One data source per study, named in the article, with the sample period and the number of observations stated.
- Sessions defined explicitly in UTC, with the daylight-saving handling described — most disagreements about session behaviour are really disagreements about definitions.
- Medians alongside averages. A single event day distorts a mean beyond usefulness; both figures are shown.
- Spreads measured, not quoted. Where a cost figure appears, it comes from recorded ticks on a live retail account, not from a broker’s advertised table.
- Method published so a reader with a data feed can repeat the study. If a result cannot be reproduced, it should not be trusted, including ours.
“This pair is volatile” is not information. “This pair delivers a median 118-pip daily range, 61% of it between 07:00 and 16:00 UTC” is information.
Who runs it
Marek Dvorak
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 — how wide a pair really trades in each session, how correlations behave when volatility rises, and how much of a day’s range arrives in the first hour after the London open.
He is not an adviser, sells no signals or courses, and takes no payment from brokers in exchange for coverage.
What this site will not publish
- Forecasts. Nothing here predicts where a pair is going.
- Signals, copy trading or managed accounts, in any form.
- A statistic without its sample period, source and definition.
- A “best pair for beginners” list. Suitability depends on your account size, session and cost structure, not on a ranking.
Funding
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 risk and data notice.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, or a definition is doing more work than it should, please say so through the contact page. Corrections are published quickly and dated in the article.