Market selection refers to picking a currency pair and trading on it. The most popular is the US dollar-Euro. The trading on this pair tends to dwarf all others. In line with this, the majority of currency pairs involve the US dollar.
A pair is a currency twin that uses the US dollar (USD) as one side to this twinning, and a cross is a twinning of currencies without the US dollar as one part of this.
The key question is, what pair or currency crosses should you trade? It comes down to personal preference at the end of the day. Some markets are more volatile than others and each market has its own set of unique characteristics that together gives it the market’s behavior in given situations.
Some markets are impacted by news events more or less than others, which has a knock-on effect for what trader personalities choose to get involved in which markets. This however, is beyond the scope of this article.
If you are new to broker FOREX trading, it may be wise to focus on using a currency pair to trade with, i.e. That encompasses the US dollar.