Live Spread Table: What Each Column Header Means · South Africa
Real spreads we recorded on FxPro’s own MetaTrader 5 Raw+ feed — 6 instruments, 4,058,108 ticks sampled, last captured 2026-09-13. The spread you actually trade on, not a marketing ‘from 0.0’.
Open FxPro Account →Every column heading on this page answers a different question, so the quickest way to use it is to look up the heading rather than read the table. Best is the tightest quiet-market reading recorded; Typical is the median, the reading met most of the time; Busy market is the wider figure that about one observation in ten was worse than; At capture is the single live reading at the last refresh; Ticks sampled says how many observations sit behind the row, which is what makes the other four worth quoting at all. All of them are measured on FxPro's own MetaTrader 5 Raw+ feed rather than taken from marketing, and the advertised from 0.0 pips is a floor rather than a typical reading. One unit note before you start: these columns are counted in pips, a terminal usually counts the same distance in points, and the Digits entry in the contract specification is what converts one into the other.
This is the live, hour-by-hour measured spread feed (refreshed daily). For the Standard vs Raw+ cost comparison and fees, see our spreads & costs page.
Measured Raw+ spreads (pips)
| Instrument | Best (min) | Typical (median) | Busy market (p90) | At capture | Ticks sampled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 475,591 |
| GBP/USD | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 631,015 |
| AUD/USD | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 589,239 |
| USD/CAD | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 575,031 |
| USD/JPY | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 714,772 |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 15 | 15 | 19 | 16 | 1,072,460 |
Best = the tightest quiet-market quote we saw; Typical = the median you usually trade; Busy market = the wider spread to expect about 10% of the time (news, rollover, thin liquidity). ‘At capture’ is the live spread at the last reading. Metals such as XAU/USD use a different contract size, so their cash cost is on our gold page. Server FxPro-MT5 Demo, feed 2026.09.11 23:59:35.
Spread through the trading day (measured, last 24h)
| Instrument | Tightest (avg) | Widest (avg) | Worst spike | Through the day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 0.2 (02:00) | 1.595 (23:00) | 3.7 (23:00) | |
| GBP/USD | 0.6 (03:00) | 11.794 (23:00) | 19.9 (14:00) | |
| AUD/USD | 0.294 (21:00) | 7.104 (23:00) | 25 (23:00) | |
| USD/CAD | 0.296 (21:00) | 11.11 (23:00) | 25 (23:00) | |
| USD/JPY | 0.3 (08:00) | 13.781 (23:00) | 17.2 (14:00) | |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 15 (08:00) | 111.429 (23:00) | 175 (00:00) |
Table hours are FxPro server time (about UTC+3 / EET); the highlighted guidance above is shown in SAST (UTC+2). Average pip spread by hour over the last 24 hours, with the worst single-tick spike. Spreads run tightest in the peak London–New York overlap and widen around the 00:00 server rollover and the thinner Asian hours — the sparkline is each instrument’s daily shape.
What it costs you per lot (Raw+)
| Instrument | Typical spread | Spread cost / lot | Commission (round turn) | All-in / lot | All-in (pips) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 0.2 pips | $2.00 | $7.00 | $9.00 | 0.9 pips |
| GBP/USD | 0.6 pips | $6.00 | $7.00 | $13.00 | 1.3 pips |
| AUD/USD | 0.4 pips | $4.00 | $7.00 | $11.00 | 1.1 pips |
| USD/CAD | 0.4 pips | $2.88 | $7.00 | $9.88 | 1.37 pips |
| USD/JPY | 0.3 pips | $1.95 | $7.00 | $8.95 | 1.38 pips |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 15 pips | $15.00 | $7.00 | $22.00 | 22 pips |
All-in round-turn cost for one standard lot (100,000 units): typical spread × pip value, plus the $7 Raw+ commission ($3.50 per lot per side ($7.00 round turn) on Raw+ and cTrader accounts). On a Standard account you pay a wider spread instead of that commission — see the full spreads and costs page.
Open FxPro Account →Advertised ‘from 0.0’ vs what we measured
FxPro markets Raw+ as spreads ‘from 0.0 pips’ — a best-case floor. Across our sample the tightest EUR/USD quote we recorded was 0.2 pips and the typical was 0.2 pips. That is normal: the ‘from’ figure is a floor you rarely trade on, so judge a Raw+ account by its typical spread and how far it widens under load (the p90 column), not the headline number.
How we measured this
- Recorded on FxPro's own MetaTrader 5 Raw+ account — the broker's real pricing feed, not a third-party estimate.
- Captured in-terminal by an MQL5 expert advisor that logs every tick's bid and ask, so the spread is exactly what the platform shows.
- 4,058,108 ticks across 6 instruments; the figures refresh on a schedule.
- Demo and live Raw+ share the same pricing feed, so these spreads are representative of a funded account.
Spreads are variable and widen around high-impact news and the daily rollover. Past readings do not guarantee future spreads. Last updated 2026-09-13.
The five headings, one line each
Best and Typical. Best is the tightest quiet-market reading in the sample and is a capability, not a forecast. Typical is the median, and it is the only one of the five that answers the question most people actually arrive with.
Busy market and At capture. Busy market is a percentile: roughly one observation in ten was worse. At capture is a single live reading from the last refresh, and it is there so you can see how far one reading can sit from the middle of the sample.
Ticks sampled. The size of the sample behind the row. It is the least glamorous column and the one that gives the others their standing, because a median over hundreds of thousands of observations is a different kind of claim from a screenshot.
Pips, points and digits: three names for one distance
Pip. The conventional unit these columns are counted in, and the unit most written material uses. It is a convention rather than a property of the instrument, which is why it does not always match what a screen shows.
Point. The smallest increment a price can move by, which is what a terminal counts in. On a five-decimal FX quote a pip is ten points, and a spread that reads as a small number here can read as a larger one there without anything disagreeing.
Digits. The entry that settles the argument. It counts decimal places in the quoted price and is listed for every instrument on our trading conditions page, alongside the contract size and tick value that turn a distance into money.
Which heading answers which question
What does this instrument usually cost to enter? Typical. Read the same row on our spreads and costs page if you also want the commission side of it, because a spread column never contains a commission.
How bad does it get? Busy market for the ordinary bad case and the worst spike column for the extreme one. Two different questions, two different columns, and quoting one for the other is how a page like this gets misread.
Can I rely on the figure at all? Ticks sampled, then the capture date printed above the table. A measured page is only worth as much as its sample and its date, and both are published here for every row rather than summarised in a footnote.