forex volume

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I've only been trading forex a few months. When I started my broker showed volume for USD/CHF and it showed volume for USD/JPY. But when I tried to trade CHF/JPY there was no volume displayed. I thought maybe I was doing something unconventional. So If I wanted to get long CHF and short JPY I would just put on short USD/CHF and long USD/JPY just so I could get a volume display.
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and that's really the beauty of forex for me. If you want to get long CHF and short JPY you can short USD/CHF and go long USD/JPY, but if you feel USD is going to tank you can hedge by going short USD/CAD and short USD/AUD, But if you also feel AUD is going to tank you can go long GBP/AUD and maybe some EUR/AUD just for good measure. But if you don't like EUR you can always just short EUR/CHF and that brings us back to do re me so doe a deer a female deer, me a name I call myself....
 
With Spot Fx not having a centralized exchange and in addition to not having uniform contract sizes, any suggestions on how to get volume data on fx pairs-eurusd,eurjpy,etc? any workaround possible ?

My current data provider is IB but can switch if needed to get reasonably accurate spot fx volume data . I don't have to have the exact volume data for that is probably impossible or expensive - just as long as the broker source is getting releasing real volume (not tick) data from their x biggest Fx providers .
 
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