Open Positions Summary

This graph gives a snapshot of the entry prices for currently opened positions on OANDA's books. There's a graph for each major currency pair (click on a pair's button to go to its graph).

Sampled Hourly

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How to Interpret This Graph

This graph plots the open positions on OANDA's books according to:

• The prices at which traders entered into the positions (along the horizontal axis).
  
  
• The volume of Long vs. Short positions (plotted vertically at each price interval, up for Long and down for Short positions). The plotted values are percentages—all values plotted on the chart (both long and short), along with any outlier values falling off either end of the chart, would add up to 100%.

The graph is divided into quadrants based on Long vs. Short positions and on whether entry price points are below or above the current price (this is the most recently sampled price, and could be up to an hour out of date).

This table summarizes the key differences between the quadrants:

Current Price Long Positions Entry Point Below Current Price Positive Unrealized P/L Long Positions Entry Point Above Current Price Negative Unrealized P/L Short Positions Entry Point Below Current Price Negative Unrealized P/L Short Positions Entry Point Above Current Price Positive Unrealized P/L

Graph Styles

Choose from two graph styles (click the radio buttons to toggle between them):

• Non-cumulative—Plots percentages at each price point. This style is useful to spot price clusters.
  
  
• Cumulative—Adds percentages together (cumulatively) for each quadrant as you move away from the most recently sampled (current) price. For example, if the height of the top-right quadrant at price X extends to 20%, it means that 20 percent of all open positions for this currency pair are long and entered into at a price point above the current price (shown by the middle red line) and below price X. This style is useful to see which quadrant contains the most or the fewest positions.