most Traded Currencies

But if I did not, then nothing. 82.141.73.182 (talk) 06:15, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Why does this template express the percentages in this manner? Surely, since each currency in a pairing can only appear once in that pairing, where it says '87.0%' for the US dollar, that means that US dollars appear (are either bought or sold) in 43.5% of trades? In which case, that figure would be more expressive. Currently, it says "The US dollar is bought or sold 87% as much as all currencies combined are bought (but not sold)", which doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Bastin 09:23, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

No, it does not mean 43.5% for US$. It means that 87% of trades include US$ as one of the two currencies. If you buy euros with US$, 100% of your trades includes both US$ and euro. 85.217.34.203 (talk) 16:02, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Then wouldn't a table for bought and sold make it clearer? 46.136.192.59 (talk) 22:10, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

This table is a 'table for bought and sold'. It shows in how many trades the given currency was either bought or sold. Vgbyp (talk) 09:17, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Is it really worth it to extend the table beyond to include the currencies with less 1% of global trading turnover? The table seems rather bulky now. Enivid (talk) 10:41, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi @דוד אהרון 8:, as i already write in edit description, second part of list not can be consider as accurate rating of most traded currencies. The second reason is described above. --TheLotCarmen (talk) 19:29, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
Thank you, however when you say the second part is not accurate, I don't understand what you mean, because they are all in the source : https://www.bis.org/publ/rpfx16fx.pdf. דוד אהרון 8 (talk) 03:48, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
I mean that rating include only currencies of Bank for International Settlements country-members - not the whole world. Currency some of the countries that are not members of BIS also can be in rating if they will be members. --TheLotCarmen (talk) 21:19, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
If you no more against, i revert list to top 20. --TheLotCarmen (talk) 18:19, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

What's about Bitcoin? 2405:9800:BA03:3D4B:1CCF:1C4D:AB2E:6A5F (talk) 14:56, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Significant changes to this template require prior notification of intent, to check that they have consensus. For example, whilst I agree that the correct symbol for USD is simply $ (not US$), I strongly disagree with removing the national symbols for CNY and JPY because (a) these are correct (b) are seen increasingly in English-language media (if only because ¥ is ambiguous). I have reverted pending a formal proposal. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 07:47, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

I agree. Removing the non-Latin characters just because they would be meaningless to the majority of readers isn't a good idea in my opinion. The template should preserve its educational value. Vgbyp (talk) 11:46, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Recent attempts to change the article are running into the ground because the "Symbol" column is trying to serve two purposes: (a) the symbol recognised in unicode for that currency (£, €, $ etc) and (b) the disambiguating version of it (AU$, CA$, MX$, NZ$, US$ etc).

So I propose to add another column for that purpose. Can anyone think of a succinct title? ["Abbreviation"?] And is there any reliable source for these abbreviations? Professional sources seem only to use the currency code TLA. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 15:38, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

I see nothing wrong with the proposed column title, but it looks like the column will be empty for some currencies, no? Like for the euro for example. Vgbyp (talk) 09:47, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Yes, certainly there are some like € that are unambiguous. Conversely, there are some lines where the "symbol" cell should be blank: the Swiss Franc, for example.

For the reason I am not confident in "abbreviation", take two examples: is "SFr" an abbreviation or just an alternative for people who don't understand CHF? Citation immediately needed. And the recognised abbreviation for GBP is "stg.", not GB£ as seems popular in some circles. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:32, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

In case of the Swiss franc, CHF is an ISO code, SFr is an abbreviation. I see no problem in using "stg." for GBP in that column. It will have £ in a symbol column. Vgbyp (talk) 11:13, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Another question is "AU$", "CA$" etc. Are they abbreviations? If strictly no, does it matter? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:22, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Draft for comment

Most traded currencies by value
Currency distribution of global foreign exchange market turnover

Rank	Currency	ISO 4217 code	Symbol	Abbreviation	Proportion of daily volume, April 2019
1	United States dollar	USD	$	US$	88.3%
2	Euro	EUR	€		32.3%
3	Japanese yen	JPY	円 / ¥		16.8%
4	Sterling	GBP	£	stg., (GB£)	12.8%
5	Australian dollar	AUD	$	A$	6.8%
6	Canadian dollar		$	C$, CA$	5.0%
7	Swiss franc	CHF		Fr, (SFr)	5.0%
8	Renminbi	CNY	元 / ¥		4.3%
9	Hong Kong dollar	HKD	$	HK$	3.5%
10	New Zealand dollar	NZD	$	NZ$	2.1%
11	Swedish krona	SEK		kr	2.0%
12	South Korean won	KRW	₩		2.0%
13	Singapore dollar	SGD	$	S$	1.8%
14	Norwegian krone	NOK		kr	1.8%
15	Mexican peso	MXN	$	MX$	1.7%
16	Indian rupee	INR	₹		1.7%
17	Russian ruble	RUB	₽		1.1%
18	South African rand	ZAR	R		1.1%
19	Turkish lira	TRY	₺		1.1%
20	Brazilian real	BRL	R$		1.1%
21	New Taiwan dollar	TWD	$, 圓	NT$	0.9%
22	Danish krone	DKK		kr	0.6%
23	Polish złoty	PLN		zł	0.6%
24	Thai baht	THB	฿		0.5%
25	Indonesian rupiah	IDR	Rp		0.4%
26	Hungarian forint	HUF		Ft	0.4%
27	Czech koruna	CZK		Kč	0.4%
28	Israeli new shekel	ILS	₪		0.3%
29	Chilean peso	CLP	$	CLP$	0.3%
30	Philippine peso	PHP	₱		0.3%
31	UAE dirham	AED	د.إ		0.2%
32	Colombian peso	COP	$	COL$	0.2%
33	Saudi riyal	SAR	﷼		0.2%
34	Malaysian ringgit	MYR		RM	0.1%
35	Romanian leu	RON	L		0.1%
…	Other			2.2%
Total				200.0%

 

First most obvious comment: list appears to have grown again, so will need to be cut back to 20. Mañana. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:58, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

I don't agree that the list should be cut back. It is the number listed in the source. Cutting it down would mean excessive discretion as to which currencies to include and which to exclude. I mean why 20 and not 10? Or not 30? In my opinion, 35 isn't some very large number that makes the list unreadable or too long to fit articles. Vgbyp (talk) 18:44, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
My remark was based on the preceding discussion. I don't have any preference either way except that leaving it as it is means less work at this stage. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 18:59, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
I would agree with cutting it to 20, those currencies under 1% do not seem to be relevant enough internationally to warrant inclusion. I cannot imagine any of the Malaysian ringgit transactions are international. Anything below the Brazilian real is probably excess fat and likely does not trade internationally to any notable degree and can be grouped as "others".
The overall proposal seems good to me, there is a distinction between a symbol and an abbreviation. for example the Israeli currency is often abbreviated to "NIS" without using the shekel sign at all. The "symbol" column should include only the symbols with a devoted unicode code point ($, €, £, ¥, ₩, ₹, ₽, ₺, ฿, ₪, ₱ and ﷼), while the abbreviations can include those such as Stg. RMB, R$, NIS and so on. TheCurrencyGuy (talk) 20:22, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

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