Exotic pair strategies: what convinced you to try, and what happened?

Exotics offer trends, carry and volatility — at the price of wide spreads, thin liquidity and the occasional crisis. A strategy that works on majors can bleed out on exotics purely through costs.

Exotic pair strategies: what convinced you to try, and what happened? — bid-ask spread diagram
The bid-ask spread on a currency pair

Share your exotic experiments:

  • the pair and the strategy
  • how the costs compared with the majors
  • the crisis or gap you lived through
Exotic pair strategies: what convinced you to try, and what happened? — trend versus range diagram
A trending market compared with a ranging one

The major, minor and exotic guide explains the category's risks.

Background: Major, minor and exotic currency pairs explained

How to read a currency quote, which pairs count as majors, crosses and exotics, and why spreads and risks differ so much between them.

What are the seven major currency pairs?

EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, AUD/USD, USD/CAD, USD/CHF and NZD/USD.

What is a cross currency pair?

A pair of major currencies that doesn't include the US dollar, such as EUR/GBP or GBP/JPY.

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