JPMorgan Asked Traders What Worries Them. Liquidity Is Still on Top

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There’s plenty out there to scare Wall Street, but ask traders what keeps them up at night and they may point to a familiar foe: lack of liquidity.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. polled 650 professional traders and a third of them said diminished market depth was their biggest daily concern. It’s at least the second year in a row a lack of liquidity has been the number one source of anxiety among the group, who primarily buy and sell currencies.