Real volume in forex. Free.

Most forex volume is tick volume, a count of price changes, because spot forex has no central record of trades. Real traded volume is free on Basis for currency pairs that trade on an exchange: EUR/USDT, USDT/TRY, USDT/BRL and others on Binance, split into buying and selling at every price, with no account and no card.

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What you get

Real traded volume on eight currency pairs, added up from every executed trade
Buying and selling split at each price, by which side crossed the spread
A Volume footprint, session volume profile and CVD, all from those same trades
Volume in the pair’s own units with no estimating or modelling behind it
Live and historical bars, with the current bar building trade by trade
A chart you can open in your browser, with nothing to install and no account

Why this is usually paid for

The volume bars on a typical forex chart are not volume. With no central exchange, a platform cannot know how much traded across the market, so it counts how many times the price changed in each bar. That tick volume often rises and falls with real activity, which is why it is useful, but it says nothing about size or about who was aggressive.

Real volume exists where a currency trades on an exchange. On Binance, each trade in EUR/USDT has a size and a side, so a bar’s volume is simply the sum of what traded. The limit is scope: this is one venue’s volume, small beside the bank market. It tells you how much really traded here, not how much traded everywhere.

How to use it

1
Open a pair with real volume
The button opens EUR/USDT on a fifteen-minute Volume footprint, with each row showing the size bought and sold at that price. Switch to another currency from the Forex tab in the symbol search.
2
Compare busy hours with quiet ones
Look at how much trades through the London and New York sessions against the Asian hours and weekends. Knowing when this market is really active tells you which of its moves had participation behind them.
3
Check volume against the move
A big move on little volume can reverse easily; a big volume bar with little movement means someone absorbed the flow. Compare the volume at a level you care about with the bars around it rather than judging one bar alone.

Questions

Is forex volume on charts real?+

Usually not in the sense of traded size. Spot forex has no central record of trades, so most charts show tick volume, which counts price changes in each bar. It often tracks activity, but it cannot show how much traded or which side was aggressive.

Where can I get real forex volume for free?+

From a currency pair that trades on an exchange which publishes its trades. Basis shows real traded volume free on EUR/USDT, USDT/TRY, USDT/BRL and other Binance pairs, with no account, no trial and no card, in your browser.

What is the difference between tick volume and real volume?+

Tick volume counts how many times the price changed during a bar, whatever the size behind each change. Real volume adds up the size of every trade. One tick can be one small trade or a very large one, and only real volume shows which.

Is this the volume of the whole forex market?+

No, and nothing public is. This is the volume traded on Binance in that pair, which is small beside the bank market. It is real for this venue, which makes it useful for reading this market, but it does not measure global currency flows.

When is forex volume highest?+

In the bank market, activity usually peaks when the London and New York sessions overlap. These Binance pairs trade around the clock, so check each pair’s own busy hours on the chart rather than assuming they follow the same pattern exactly.