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This isn't completely true. Forex datafeeds are of varying quality, meaning they will show a volume tick per trade (not taking into account the dollar value), or, some feeds consolidate many players into their data push. Esignal probably has one of the best ones, consolidating dollar value of the trade at every tick - from over 200 large players - into it's volume feed. I wrote more about that here:
Spot volume in the forex market tends to open a can-of-worms type discussion. There is of course volume, except, individual traders seeing anything even close to the actual dollar value that is bought and sold is completely dependent on the broker who …
Also, there are decent and profitable trading strategies related to using this forex volume data, ie Wyckoff, VSA, and others, based on stopping volume, exhaustion, interest at certain price levels, etc.
Sorry to the original poster, I do not know the answer as I don't use MultiCharts.
Why should one use any forex pool volume if you have real futures volume in the respective currencies?
Or to put it another way: How meaningless must a forex pair be to switch from a regulated contract to pool volume?