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.

Share your exotic experiments:

• the pair and the strategy
• how the costs compared with the majors
• the crisis or gap you lived through

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