Why forex on AlertaChart
The forex market trades roughly $7.5 trillion in daily volume — 30× larger than every stock market on Earth combined — yet most retail forex platforms ship the same MT4 interface from 2005 with no order-flow tools, no real depth, and per-broker quote feeds that diverge by several pips at any given moment.
AlertaChart routes every pair through iTick, a venue-neutral data layer that aggregates institutional ticks from multiple liquidity providers. You see the same price the prop desk sees, with the same DOM ladder showing where liquidity actually sits behind the spread. EUR/USD, USDTRY, GBP/JPY — same feed, same 10-deep order book, same 250 ms refresh.
Three groups, one workstation
Majors are the seven pairs that involve the US dollar against another G10 currency — EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY and so on. They're the tightest spreads and the most liquid book.
Minors (also called crosses) trade two non-USD majors against each other — EUR/GBP, GBP/JPY, AUD/JPY. Slightly wider spreads, but they often telegraph G10 macro moves before the USD majors react.
Exotics pair a major against an emerging-market currency. USDTRY, EURTRY, USDBRL — these are higher-volatility, wider-spread instruments that move on local political and central-bank news. For Turkish traders specifically, USDTRY and EURTRY are the most- watched charts on the platform.
Forex + the orderflow toolbox
Every forex pair on AlertaChart supports the same tools you use on stocks and crypto: CVD, Volume Bubbles, Liquidation Heatmap (where applicable), and the full DOM ladder. Most retail forex platforms charge an extra subscription for any of these; here they're part of Pro.