It's been my experience that volume is irrelevant because it's electronic. I've traded electronic mini-gold since June and every order has been filled within seconds. I've done very well with it. Granted your limit order has to be at the current price. Just on a couple of occasions the price was moving so quick I've had to change and re-enter limit orders and they were filled instantly. Volume on mini-gold is as low as 20 contracts a day. Also any stop order that has been reached has been filled in seconds. I'm assuming that the full size electronic gold contract will be the same. Hope this helps.