What a Complete Answer on Spread and Cost Contains · FxPro Uganda
What does trading actually cost at FxPro — and is the Standard or Raw+ account cheaper for you? Spreads, commission and the all-in cost per trade.
Open FxPro Account →Before a first deposit there is a short list of questions worth having answers to, and the cost ones come first because they are the easiest to settle in advance. Three of them belong on this page: which account prices a trade in the spread alone, which one splits the price into a raw spread plus a separate commission, and which of the two works out cheaper for the instruments you actually intend to trade. The Standard account carries its cost inside a wider spread and adds no separate commission; Raw+ and cTrader show raw spreads from 0.0 pips and charge $3.50 per lot per side. The tables below answer the first two questions for the instruments most people start on, and the third becomes answerable the moment you name your instrument and how often you expect to trade. Spreads are variable, so treat any published figure as an indication and confirm the live one in your platform.
How much a trade costs: Standard vs Raw+
| Instrument | Standard spread | Standard cost | Raw+ spread | Raw+ cost + comm | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 1.2 pips | $12.00 | 0.2 pips | $9.00 | Raw+ |
| GBP/USD | 1.5 pips | $15.00 | 0.4 pips | $11.00 | Raw+ |
| USD/CAD | 1.6 pips | $12.00 | 0.5 pips | $10.75 | Raw+ |
| USD/JPY | 1.3 pips | $9.10 | 0.3 pips | $9.10 | About equal |
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 2026-07-24.
Which account is cheaper for you
Raw+ replaces a wider spread with a tighter spread plus a $7 round-turn commission, so it only pays off once the spread saving beats that commission — about 0.7 pips on a $10-per-pip major such as EUR/USD. If the Standard spread is more than roughly 0.7 pips wider than the raw spread, Raw+ is cheaper; if the gap is smaller (or you trade rarely), the Standard all-in spread can win. As a rule of thumb, frequent traders on liquid majors save with Raw+, while occasional traders often prefer Standard.
Open FxPro Account →Typical FxPro spreads (all instruments)
| Instrument | Standard spread | Raw spread |
|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 1.2 pips | 0.2 pips |
| GBP/USD | 1.5 pips | 0.4 pips |
| USD/CAD | 1.6 pips | 0.5 pips |
| USD/JPY | 1.3 pips | 0.3 pips |
| Gold (XAU/USD) | 2.5 pips | 1.0 pips |
| US 500 (S&P) | 0.4 pts | 0.4 pts |
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.
The cost questions, and which of them has a fixed answer
Two items in this group answer the same way every day. Whether an account charges a separate commission is a property of the account type rather than of the market: Standard adds nothing on top of the spread, while Raw+ and cTrader quote a raw spread and charge $3.50 per lot per side, $7.00 for a round turn. The size of a standard lot is fixed in the same way — 100,000 units on an FX major — which is what makes any per-lot figure comparable at all.
The rest of the group moves. The spread is variable by design, so the answer to what a trade costs here is a range attached to an instrument and an account, not a single price. That is not a reason to leave the question unasked before funding; it is a reason to ask it in a form that can be answered, and to expect a range in reply.
What a complete cost answer contains
Three things: the account type the number belongs to, the instrument it was quoted on, and whether commission is already inside it. An answer missing any of the three is half an answer, and the missing half is usually the expensive one. A headline floor figure is the common case — it names neither the instrument nor the commission, so it cannot be compared with anything.
The same test applies to comparisons you make yourself. Two per-lot costs are only comparable when both come from the same account type and the same instrument; a Standard number set against a raw number is a comparison of two different pricing models rather than of two prices. The hour-by-hour side of the question is on our live spreads page, and the overnight side on swap rates.
Settling the list before the money moves
Most of these answers are free. Typical spreads per instrument are in the tables above, the commission per side is a published rate, the contract size and the 0.01-lot minimum are on our trading conditions page, and the margin your intended size needs comes out of the margin calculator. None of that requires a funded account.
A free demo account closes most of what is left, because it opens the same platform screens the live figures are read from. Running the list first is not about doubting anyone: it is that every question here is cheaper to answer on an account with nothing on it than on one that has just been funded.
Who each of these questions belongs to
Half of the group has an answer that belongs to the account rather than to you. The commission rate, the contract size of a standard lot, the smallest order the server will accept: these read the same for everyone holding the same account type, which is exactly why they can be settled from a page or a specification without asking anybody.
The other half belongs to you and to nobody else — which instruments, at what size, how often, and in which hours. Those are the inputs that decide which of the fixed answers actually matter, and they are the reason two people can read the same cost table and correctly reach opposite conclusions about which account to open. Deciding them is the part of the work that cannot be delegated to a table, and it costs nothing to do first.
Questions that sound like cost questions but are not
Three of them turn up on almost every pre-deposit list and none can be answered. Is trading here cheap has no object of comparison, so any reply to it is a slogan. Which account is better is a preference rather than a price, and it stops being unanswerable only once it is rewritten as which account is cheaper for this instrument at this frequency. And what a trade will return is not a cost question at all: nothing on this page, or any other, answers it in advance.
Sorting these out early is worth the two minutes it takes, because they are the questions most likely to be answered confidently by somebody. A list of six answerable questions gets closed before a deposit; a list that mixes them with unanswerable ones gets abandoned halfway through, usually at the point where the answers start disagreeing with each other.
The cost questions and where each answer sits
| Question | What a complete answer names | Where the answer is read | Settled before funding? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Which account am I being quoted? | Standard, Raw+ or cTrader | The account type itself | Yes |
| Is there a commission on top? | Yes or no, and the rate per side | $3.50 per lot per side on raw-spread accounts | Yes |
| What does one round turn cost? | Instrument, account, spread plus commission | The cost tables on this page | Yes |
| How wide does it get when busy? | A typical figure and a busy-market one | The live spreads page | Yes |
| What does the trade cost to hold? | Instrument, direction, number of nights | The swap rates page and the platform | Yes |
| What will my own trading cost? | My instruments, my sizes, my hours | Nobody can supply this in advance | No |
Five of the six answers exist before any money is transferred. The sixth is the reason the other five are worth collecting first.