What a Round Turn Takes from a Small Balance · FxPro India
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 →On a small balance the useful question is not which spread looks tighter, but what one round-turn takes out of the account. The Standard-versus-Raw+ table below answers it for EUR/USD in cash per standard lot, priced off the spread measured that morning: an all-in spread and no separate charge on the spread-only Standard account, or a far tighter raw spread plus the $3.50-per-side commission on the Raw+ account. Nobody trading a hundred-dollar balance sends a standard lot: the smallest order the platform accepts is 0.01 lot, a hundredth of it, so both figures have to be divided by a hundred before they mean anything on your ticket. One half of the cost survives that division exactly and one half does not, which is why the two account types sit closest together on the smallest order and furthest apart on the largest. The threshold itself does not move with size — Raw+ is cheaper once the spread saved on a full lot is worth more than the $7 round-turn commission — but the figure worth writing down is the one you read against your own balance, not against a lot you will never send.
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:
| Instrument | Median spread | All-in / lot | All-in (pips) | vs reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 0.2 pips | $9.00 | 0.9 pips | −0.1 pips |
| GBP/USD | 0.6 pips | $13.00 | 1.3 pips | 0 pips |
| AUD/USD | 0.8 pips | $15.00 | 1.5 pips | 0 pips |
| USD/CAD | 0.5 pips | $10.61 | 1.47 pips | −0.5 pips |
| USD/JPY | 0.5 pips | $10.14 | 1.61 pips | +0.2 pips |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 19 pips | $26.00 | 26 pips | −37 pips |
‘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 $77.7 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+
| 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 2026-07-05.
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.
What a hundredth of a lot really costs
Every cost figure on this page is quoted per standard lot, because that is the unit the terminal reports in. A small account never sends that unit. The platform accepts 0.01 lot as the minimum order and moves in 0.01-lot steps, so the working number is always the published one divided by a hundred: dollars per lot become cents per ticket. The division is exactly right for one of the two cost elements and slightly wrong for the other, and knowing which is which is most of what a small balance needs from this page.
Spread cost is the element that scales cleanly. It is strictly proportional to volume, so a hundredth of the size pays a hundredth of the spread, with nothing added and nothing rounded. The commission does not behave that way. FxPro quotes $3.50 per lot per side, and a hundredth of that is three and a half cents a side — a figure the ticket cannot settle in, because it settles in whole cents. The measured commission table on the Raw+ account page lists what our round-trips paid at each order size, and the smallest one is the row that does not match the pro-rata.
Why splitting an order does not split the charge
A familiar instinct on a small account is to break one order into several smaller ones — it feels like taking the position in safer pieces. On the spread it changes nothing at all: half the volume pays half the spread, and the halves add back to the same number. On the commission it works against you, because the effective per-lot rate on the smallest ticket is the highest one in the measured table, and splitting means paying that rate on every piece.
The arithmetic is short. One 0.1-lot ticket pays the quoted $3.50 per lot per side, so each side of the round-turn costs a tenth of that rate and nothing is rounded away. Ten 0.01-lot tickets carry ten separate settlements of a charge that rounds up, so identical volume reaches the market having paid more for the privilege of arriving in pieces. Nothing about the fill changed; only the number of tickets did. If the position is going to be small, it is worth sending it as one ticket rather than as a handful.
Read the cost against the balance, not against the lot
A round-turn that takes a tenth of a percent of the account is a different animal from one that takes a hundredth, even though the pip figure printed on both tickets is identical. That is the whole difference a small deposit makes: the pips are shared with every account on the server, the percentage is yours alone. The minimum deposit is $100, and the exercise takes ten seconds — all-in cost per lot from the table above, divided by a hundred for a 0.01-lot ticket, divided again by the balance.
Run it across a few instruments and the ranking is not the one the pip column suggests. What decides it is contract size: an FX major is 100,000 units per lot, so 0.01 lot is 1,000 units, while gold is 100 oz per lot, so the same fraction is a whole ounce. The contract specifications list what sits behind every instrument, and the measured spread feed supplies the half of the cost that moves during the day.
Frequently asked questions
What does one EUR/USD round-turn cost on the smallest order size?
Is the commission still $3.50 per lot per side on a 0.01-lot ticket?
Does splitting one order into several smaller ones cut the commission?
Which account is cheaper when you trade 0.01 lots?
What share of a small balance does one round-turn take?
Which instruments are dearest for a small deposit?
Are FxPro spreads fixed or variable?
Is there a smaller order than 0.01 lot for a very small balance?
Reviews
Spreads get a thumbs up on the majors and oil — traders call them competitive and reckon orders fill fast. Gold's the sore spot: a few clock it swinging 30–45 pips, way wider than they'd like. The ECN account trades tighter but the commission stings, 'on the higher side.' Fine if you stick to majors — just eyeball the metals spread before you load up.
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Awesome trading platform with unmatched speed of orders execution and tight spreads. I believe this combination is what helps traders earn profits.
I do prefer a raw account’ why! See spreads. Although when I started I liked the spreads in the standard account too but over time liked the idea of commission and near to zero spreads…