Poll: in which session do you trade AUDUSD?

[FXS London Scalper]

AUDUSD is active in the Asian session (Sydney and Tokyo) and again in the London-New York overlap. Curious where people actually trade it.

• Asia, around Australian data.
• London morning.
• The London-New York overlap.
• A mix, depending on the day.
• Don't trade it.

Considerations for each:

• Asia: Australian and Chinese data drive moves; spreads can be wider early in the session.
• London morning: often follows the Asian direction or reverses it; volume depends on risk sentiment.
• Overlap: US data and broader dollar moves dominate.

If you reply, it would be useful to know why that session: costs, your own time zone, or the behaviour of the pair.

Also interesting: do you trade it differently from EURUSD, for example with wider stops or smaller size?

If enough people answer, a short summary in this thread after a couple of weeks could help newcomers choose when to watch the pair, and when to leave it alone.

[Amanhasnoname]

I mostly trade AUDUSD in the London morning, and the reason is cost and my own clock. My spread on it averages about 0.9 pips in Asia right after the open and drops to roughly 0.6 once London is in, and living in West Africa the Asian session falls at a bad time for me anyway. When I tried it on the Australian jobs data I made a nice trade and then lost twice that on the next release because the first move reversed.

I do trade it differently from EURUSD. The stops are about a third wider on the one minute chart, and I take around three quarters of the size, since the pair tends to stall and then jump rather than flow. It also follows the Asian direction for the first hour or two, so I use the Asian high and low as reference levels and enter on a pullback.

I rarely touch it in the overlap because US data swings it in ways that have nothing to do with Australia, and my results there were the weakest of the three sessions.