Asian session spreads look fine until you try to exit

[Amanhasnoname]

Asian hours get a bad reputation for wide spreads, but on the majors that is mostly outdated. EURUSD and USDJPY often quote tighter than 1 pip for hours overnight. The real problem in the Asian lull is not the spread you pay on entry, it is what happens when you want out.

Depth is thin. A move of 4 pips on a quiet tape can happen on very little volume, and the price then snaps back just as easily. That produces the classic range scalper trap: entries at range edges look great, but a stop placed 3 pips away gets clipped by a brief wick that would never have reached it in London.

London open flips the picture. Spread may widen briefly in the first minute, then tighten, and the depth is far better. Moves are bigger, but fills on stops are cleaner and slippage is more predictable.

Two comparisons worth running on your own history:

- Average slippage on stop-loss exits, Asia versus London
- Win rate of identical setups with stops sized in pips versus stops sized off the session's average range

Quiet does not mean cheap. The spread is only one line of the cost.

Anyone seeing the opposite on their account, with Asian fills noticeably better than London ones, and on which pair?