I totally take your point about what's wrong with it (a frequent issue, of course, with these items and the way they're presented) and you are right to say so, also; but you look from the statement just above to become confusing brokers with counterparty market-makers and retail bucketshops: Interactive Brokers (for example) has a 0.1 pip spread on EUR/USD and commissions from just $2 per cent, according to monthly volume. Such methods can at times be workable (for as long as they operate) if you use a real broker and not someone who is trading against you personally. A real broker doesn't head you out the market because he's got no interest in the outcome of your trades, but a counter-party market manufacturer won't allow you to scalp them forever, even if the sp-reads do make it viable. Please forgive my sounding pedantic about this: I'm just saying (because nobody else is going to!) .Originally Posted by ;