How Many Pairs Do You Trade?

I was wondering how many pairs every one here trades and have you found it harder or easier to trade more or less pairs? Iv seen some people like to trade one, some like to trade 20 or even 30. Iv usually looked at more than less but have been wanting to look at less and just learn those pairs.

Depends!
On weekend I scan all possibilities of my Broker, usually going by weekly/Daily chart selecting what I think might be good trading ideas. Could be 1-2, could be 20. 1 trade per pair.

9.

too many...always too many

On ECN, about 14 I care.
On the mini it is down to 3...due the spread offered. I scalp.

I trade 6. I find it easier to fallow what the pair is doing. I use to fallow 16-20, just to look for specific setups with the system I was using. Less is best, in my opinion.

I trade two currency pairs GBP/USD and EUR/USD. I also trade XAU/USD.

I used to trade the yen but due to overnight volatility and being in UK I gave it up.

I have a day job and trade "in the background" to supplement my earnings with a little bit. Would like to trade full time eventually, but it's slow progress.

I am trading full time and I take average 3 to 4 trades a day, which comes to around 20 trades a week.

The thing is I don't look at one particular time frame. I have 8 MT4 instances installed with different time frames and I switch back and forth and mark my zones and levels and put a price alert when price is close to level or zone of my interest and reassess the situation and decide whether to place pending order or wait for price action to enter trade or just ignore the trade.

The timeframe I use are M5, M15, M30, H1, H4, D1, W1, MO1 (Weekly & Monthly I review once a week)

At present I am looking 17 Currency Pairs, before it was around 25 but I realized some of those pairs are highly correlated either way, so it's a waste of time to keep looking those pairs. Might cut down few more in future based on pair volatility. For example EURUSD & USDCHF are inversely correlated, so if EURUSD is going up USDCHF is going down, so there is no point at looking both pairs.

I don't see the reason why speculating in how many pairs you are supposed to trade. Look at the shapes of the graafs and after that make up your mind wich one looks decent, something going sideways is not very attractive to trade, find the smooth curves, consistently going up or down with good retracement and trigger signals.
Once you find em, put your lines in place and follow these ones.

Good luck

When discussing how many pairs to look at and/or trade, we should probably break the pairs down first in terms of correlations. Once you have correlated pairs in groups it might be slightly easier to narrow down and focus your attention more efficiently (rather than spending time on redundant activities), no matter how many pairs you end up trading.

I choose the "hot hand" from among these four --

1. EUR/USD
2. GBP/USD
3. USD/JPY
4. USD/CHF

I have always worked with the EUR/USD however have recently began to branch out into the remaining majors using the USD as either the base or counter currency. I'm hoping that this will provide a larger segment of the market in which to find opportunity and a smoother equity curve whilst still remaining within the more liquid pairs.

i check almost all, and trade the ones with obvious movements to minimize risk and maximize profits

Every morning I am checking my favorite 20 pairs for signals on 1H and 4H chart. if I see something interesting I am doing more detailed analysis on different time frames.

I only trade one currency pair, USD/EUR, maybe focus on main and popular currency pair is more safer and stable. But also looking for other possible currency, maybe JPY is also ok.

Right now I only trade one. EURUSD.

Im only trade eurxxx & gbpxxx for my intraday system
And all pairs for swing price action

it makes no sense to only trade one pair, that would be leaving a lot of money on the table,
what I do is I trade a weak currency against a strong one. I feel the odds are more in my favour that way

Usually I choose EURUSD GBPUSD USDJPY USDCHF, because they're moving sync, but lately they aren't.

USDJPY and EURJPY, also trying to USDZAR and USDMXN - basically you can get 25 pips everyday from each pair, but it's really difficult to do, because they are "unstable"