Oanda brags about their 1 pip spread.but the first 4 hours today, to start this week, they were giving us a 15 pip spread ,on the eur/usd.... the biggest gap Ive seen in 5 months.
If your poor you get crappy spreads. If your rick and can trade euro futures or at dukascopy you get tight 1 pip spreads.
Oh, 0.5 with IB as long as I remember. Not always but usually. But you have a 2.50$ comish per trade. If you play some size it's worth it. Leverage only at 50.