What Crossing from Sell Price to Buy Price Costs · FxPro Qatar

Real measured Raw+ spreads and cost

The median spread, all-in cost and how the spread compares with an independent interbank reference feed, measured on FxPro’s own MT5 Raw+ feed — first-hand, not advertised:

‘All-in (pips)’ is also your break-even — the move needed to cover spread plus commission. ‘vs reference’ compares our measured spread with an independent interbank reference feed over the same hours; a negative number means FxPro’s spread was tighter. The round-turn cost is about $78 per $1,000,000 traded on EUR/USD. This page is the Standard-vs-Raw+ cost overview; for the live, hour-by-hour measured spread feed see our live spreads page.

How much a trade costs: Standard vs Raw+

Approximate cost for a round-turn standard lot (100,000 units), in USD. Raw+ / cTrader commission is $3.50 per lot per side ($7.00 round turn) on Raw+ and cTrader accounts. Pip values and spreads are variable — confirm live figures in your platform. Last updated 2026-07-08.

Typical FxPro spreads (all instruments)

Indicative spreads. Metals and indices use different contract sizes — see our gold page for XAU/USD costs.

How a spread becomes a cost

The spread is the gap between the buy and sell price of a contract for difference (CFD). You pay it on entry: spread (in pips) × the pip value of one lot equals your cost. On a Standard account that spread is your whole trading cost; on Raw+ you pay a tighter raw spread plus the $7 round-turn commission. Compare the two on our Raw+ account, MT4 and MT5 pages.

Figures that have already been charged

The account reports a position from the end it would be closed at. That is a convention of reporting rather than a second charge, and its practical effect is that the cost has been counted for you: what the platform says an open position is worth, and what it says a completed one came to, are both figures with the crossing inside them. Taking it off again, out of caution, produces a number that describes no trade anyone ever placed, and the caution is misplaced — that arithmetic was done at execution rather than left to the reader.

Everything built out of those figures inherits the same property. A running total for the day, several open positions added together, one position compared with another: all of them are already net of the crossing, because each of their inputs was. This is the half of the page that asks nothing of you. Whenever a number came out of the account, the answer to has this been counted is yes, once, and the tables above are not needed to establish it.

Figures that have never been charged

A level you decided on, a price you are waiting for, an idea described to someone else as a single figure — none of these has any cost in it. They are statements about the instrument rather than records of anything that happened, and nothing has been executed against them. The cost enters exactly once, at the point where the intention becomes an order, which means a plan is a set of clean numbers that will each be met a little differently.

It follows that a plan and a record can disagree without anything having gone wrong between them. Part of that disagreement has a name and a published size, and it is what the tables above measure for one standard lot. Read as a mistake it sends people hunting for a fault that is not there; read as the crossing, already priced and already published, it is closed in the time it takes to look at a single row.

Counting it twice, and not counting it at all

The two errors are opposite in shape and equal in cost, and both come from mixing the two kinds of figure in one line of arithmetic. Counting the crossing twice makes a position look worse than the account says it is and quietly discourages perfectly reasonable trades. Not counting it at all makes a plan look achievable at a price it was never going to be met at. Neither is a failure of arithmetic. Both are a failure to ask where a number came from before adding it to another one.

The question that settles it is short enough to ask every time: did this figure come out of the account, or did I write it down myself. Figures from the account can be compared with each other directly. A figure you wrote and a figure the account produced cannot, until the amount published above has been put between them. Both errors also grow with size, since the crossing is quoted per lot, which is why the habit is cheapest to form at the smallest order the account accepts — 0.01 lot, in 0.01-lot steps — rather than after the size has grown. How the amount itself behaves through the day is on our measured spread readings.

Which figures already have the cost counted in them

Figures from the same source can be compared with each other directly. A figure you wrote and a figure the account produced cannot, until the amount published above has been put between them.

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