Currently I'm writing a series of posts that reveals some not that obvious facts about leasing steem power from 
High market liquidity means that you can execute the deal quickly without a significant compromise in price and with no noticeable restrictions on the deal's volume. Low liquidity means much longer wait times, smaller volumes and worse prices if you want to speed up the process.
In this post I'm going to measure liquidity in two ways. First, as a plain number of deals in a market for particular duration of SP lease. And second, as a volume of deals and requests measured in SP. We will consider durations from 1 week to 8 weeks. The graph below shows the number of deals registered whiting last 7 days in these markets. It also shows the current snapshot of lease requests (hence request numbers are not accumulated within the last 7 days).
Few obvious conclusions to make are:
- 4-week SP lease market is the most liquid one. If you want to get a good price and strike a deal fast - you should go here. Second most liquid market is 1-week market with 2-week market following close by.
- 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 week markets are barely alive. The number of deals and open requests is pretty low.
Next graph shows the volume of deals and requests measured in SP. The same selection rules apply as in the previous graph.
Again, we can see that 4-week market is the most liquid one, with 1 and 2 week markets sharing the second place. More interesting thing to notice is that 1-week market has an substantial demand for SP-lease that it not satisfied by the lenders. Probably borrowers do not factor in the 7-day cooling off period premium that is most pronounced in the 1-week market and misprice the requests.
2-week market looks promising for the borrowers since the volume of deals is slightly higher than the volume of requests. This effect is even more pronounced for the 8-week market which is much less liquid at the same time.
Disclamer: Please be aware that the information in this post may be incorrect. I have this blog to keep track of my notes (that might or might not be related to Steemit) as a learner. You should do your own research if you want to avoid mistakes that might be caused by this post.