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title: "Exotic pairs - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "Pairs matching a major currency with a smaller or emerging-market one - USD/TRY, USD/ZAR, USD/MXN and similar. Spreads are wide, moves are large, swap…"
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Instruments and markets

# Exotic pairs

Pairs matching a major currency with a smaller or emerging-market one - USD/TRY, USD/ZAR, USD/MXN and similar. Spreads are wide, moves are large, swap charges are heavy and liquidity can disappear with very little warning.

GFN’s figure

On a GFN account, a wide exotic spread is deducted from the same equity the daily loss limit is measured against - $3,000 on a $100,000 Instant account, $5,000 on the 1 Step and 2 Step.

In detail

## Exotic pairs, explained

Exotics carry two costs a major does not: a much wider spread, and a swap charge that can be substantial in either direction because of the interest rate gap.

They are also the pairs most prone to gapping, which makes them a poor fit for an account with a hard drawdown floor and no appetite for an unexpected weekend move.

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Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Major pairs](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/major-pairs) - The most traded currency pairs, all quoted against the US dollar: EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/CHF, USD/CAD and AUD/USD. They carry the tightest spreads and the deepest liquidity, which makes them the cheapest pairs to trade frequently.
- [Minor pairs](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/minor-pairs) - Pairs between major currencies that do not include the US dollar - EUR/GBP, GBP/JPY, EUR/AUD and similar. Spreads are wider than on the majors and daily ranges are often larger, so the same strategy costs more to run.
- [Spread](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/spread) - The gap between the bid and the ask price. It is the cost paid on entry: a position opens slightly underwater by the width of the spread before the market has moved at all.
- [Swap](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/swap) - The financing charge or credit applied to a position held past the daily rollover. It reflects the interest rate difference between the two sides of the pair and can be positive or negative.
- [Liquidity](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/liquidity) - How much can be traded at a given price without moving it. Deep liquidity produces tight spreads and reliable fills; thin liquidity produces wide spreads, slippage and gaps.

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