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Forex

Currency pairs, quoted around the clock from Monday morning in Sydney to Friday evening in New York.

Reading a quote

Every quote is a pair: the base currency is priced in units of the quote currency.

The market

What it is.

Foreign exchange is the market in which one currency is exchanged for another. Every quote is a pair: the base currency is priced in units of the quote currency, so EUR/USD at 1.1000 means one euro costs 1.10 US dollars.

How it is structured at GIO4X

Forex at GIO4X is traded as a margined product: you post a fraction of the position’s notional value as margin and your profit or loss is the change in the pair’s price multiplied by position size.

Commonly monitored

01Interest-rate differentials and central bank policy
02Inflation, employment and growth releases
03Risk appetite and capital flows
04Session liquidity: the London–New York overlap is typically the most active window

Factors market participants commonly follow for this asset class. A description of practice, not a view on where prices will go.

Hours

Continuous, 24 hours a day, five days a week. Liquidity varies by session.

World Market Clock

In the round

Forex, as one object.

What this page says about the asset class, pinned to something you can turn. Drag it, or choose a fact and it turns to face you.

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Two coins on one axle: the base currency and the quote currency. An illustration: nothing on it is a price or a measurement.

Pinned to it

Every quote is a pair. The base currency is the one being priced.
The base currency is priced in units of the quote currency. Spreads on this page are quoted in pips and are minimums.
On every pair listed here, one standard lot is 100,000 units of the base currency.
Forex at GIO4X is a margined product: you post a fraction of the position’s notional value as margin. Your profit or loss is the change in the pair’s price multiplied by position size.
Continuous, 24 hours a day, five days a week. Liquidity varies by session.
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Factors market participants commonly follow for this asset class. A description of practice, not a view on where prices will go.
- Interest-rate differentials and central bank policy
- Inflation, employment and growth releases
- Risk appetite and capital flows
- Session liquidity: the London–New York overlap is typically the most active window

Choose a fact and the object turns to its pin. Every fact is taken from this page.

Instruments

Forex, instrument by instrument.

Spreads are quoted in pips and are minimums. Each row opens the instrument’s own page.

Forex: instruments and indicative trading conditions, with ECB reference fixings
Symbol	Instrument	Spread from	Leverage	Min. lot	Ref. fixing	1 fixing
EUR/USD	Euro / US Dollar	0.2 pips	1:500	0.01	1.1206	up +0.18%
GBP/USD	British Pound / US Dollar	0.3 pips	1:500	0.01	1.3220	up +0.10%
USD/JPY	US Dollar / Japanese Yen	0.2 pips	1:500	0.01	158.25	down −0.01%
AUD/USD	Australian Dollar / US Dollar	0.4 pips	1:400	0.01	0.6981	up +0.54%
USD/CHF	US Dollar / Swiss Franc	0.4 pips	1:400	0.01	0.8311	down −0.32%
USD/CAD	US Dollar / Canadian Dollar	0.5 pips	1:400	0.01	1.4226	down −0.25%
NZD/USD	New Zealand Dollar / US Dollar	0.6 pips	1:400	0.01	0.5614	up +0.44%
EUR/GBP	Euro / British Pound	0.5 pips	1:400	0.01	0.8476	up +0.08%
EUR/JPY	Euro / Japanese Yen	0.6 pips	1:400	0.01	177.34	up +0.16%
GBP/JPY	British Pound / Japanese Yen	0.8 pips	1:400	0.01	209.22	up +0.09%

IndicativeSource: GIO4XIndicative trading conditions published by GIO4X. Not a live quote; actual spreads and requirements vary with market conditions and account type.

Reference dataSource: European Central Bank reference ratesUpdated 9 Oct 2026The fixing columns are daily reference rates, not live or tradable prices.

Third-party view

Forex, as shown by TradingView.

TradingView’s intraday view of the eight major currencies: how each has moved against the others today, and the cross rate for every pair.

GIO4X does not publish live prices of its own on this site. What follows is TradingView’s, loaded at your request. Data methodology

Forex heat map: the eight majors against each other

TradingView

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Third partyMarket data by TradingViewThe data, its timing and its accuracy are TradingView’s and may be delayed. These are not GIO4X prices, and not the prices at which GIO4X executes orders. Each cell is the day’s percentage change of the row currency against the column currency, as TradingView calculates it.

Forex cross rates: the eight majors

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Third partyMarket data by TradingViewThe data, its timing and its accuracy are TradingView’s and may be delayed. These are not GIO4X prices, and not the prices at which GIO4X executes orders. Each cell is TradingView’s rate for one unit of the row currency in the column currency.

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