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Topical Instruments

Evolve your trading strategy with a real-time look at shifting market sentiment and key price movements. OANDA helps you stay ahead by highlighting the top-trending instruments in your region with data updated daily, hourly, and every five minutes.

Get the insights you need to refine your approach and trade with confidence.

With Topical Instruments, you can quickly analyze the markets based on volume, volatility, and live client positioning.

Our timeframes:

Net-Short/Net-Long and Volatile tabs - updated every 5 minutes.
High Volume - updated every hour.
Most Traded - updated once per day.

Data sources: Proprietary OANDA mid-market pricing for insight displayed in Most Traded, High Volume and Volatile tabs. Ranking metrics are calculated by comparing current mid-prices against a baseline of the last 30 daily closing mid-prices at New York market close (5:00 PM ET).

The sentiment displayed in "Net-Long” and “Net-Short” tabs is calculated from all client data from OANDA entities in the United States, UK, Singapore, Australia, Canada and Japan.

Disclaimer: This insight is for general information purposes only, not to be considered a recommendation or financial advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Forex trading is high-risk. Losses may exceed deposits.

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