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A market check before an order is a two-minute routine, not a research project. Read what is moving today, check whether the instrument you are about to trade is one of them, look at the measured daily range so the stop distance is set against how far the instrument actually travels, and only then open the order window. The point is to size the position for today's conditions rather than to predict a direction.
Measured volatility, regime and correlations (majors)
How each major actually behaves, measured on Exness’s MT5 feed — daily range, annualised volatility, the current volatility regime, trading style and the typical weekend gap:
| Instrument | Avg daily range | Annual volatility | Vol regime | Style | Avg weekend gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 42.5 pips | 4.01% | — | — | 0.3 pips |
| GBP/USD | 50.5 pips | 4.74% | — | — | 0.3 pips |
| AUD/USD | 36.4 pips | 5.27% | — | — | 0.2 pips |
| USD/CAD | 59.6 pips | 3.73% | — | — | 0.2 pips |
| USD/JPY | 101.6 pips | 8.15% | — | — | 0.2 pips |
ADR is the mean high-to-low over 14 days; volatility is annualised from daily closes; the regime compares recent with longer-run volatility; style is trending vs mean-reverting from the efficiency ratio; carry is the annualised swap yield. Measured, not a forecast.
Inflation / CPI
Inflation / CPI is drawing attention in the markets right now.
Sources: www.stonex.com · www.forex.com · www.cnbc.com
See Exness spreads →S&P 500
S&P 500 is drawing attention in the markets right now.
Sources: www.fool.com · finance.yahoo.com · insight.factset.com
Also worth watching
US Dollar is drawing attention in the markets right now.
Sources: www.stonex.com
Fed & Interest Rates is drawing attention in the markets right now.
Sources: www.stonex.com
Reading a range instead of a forecast
The average daily range is the mean high-to-low distance over a recent window, and it answers a question a forecast cannot: how far this instrument usually travels in a day. A stop placed inside a fraction of that distance is likely to be reached by ordinary movement rather than by anything meaningful.
That makes the range a sizing input. With the range known and the pip value known, the stop distance becomes money, and the volume can be set so that money is the amount intended - which is the whole point of running the check before the order rather than after it.
When the check should change the plan
Three readings are worth acting on. An expanding volatility regime means widening the stop and reducing the volume rather than keeping both. A high positive correlation with a position already open means treating the two as one larger position. A weekend gap risk on an instrument means deciding about Friday exposure before Friday rather than during it.
Everything else on a market page is context. It is useful for understanding why an instrument is busy, and it is not a reason to open a position that would not have been opened otherwise.
The pre-order market check
- Read the day's headline themes and note whether the instrument you plan to trade is involved in any of them.
- Open the measured daily range for that instrument and compare it with the stop distance you had in mind.
- Check the volatility regime line: an expanding regime means today's range is wider than the longer-run average, so the same stop is hit sooner.
- Check the correlation table if a second position is already open, because two correlated positions carry one risk at double size.
- Adjust the volume, not the stop, when the range looks wide. Moving the stop closer to fit the size is how a plan turns into a stop-out.
- Then open the order window and run the normal margin check before confirming.
This is a sizing routine. Nothing on this page is a buy or sell call, and past readings do not indicate future movement.