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title: "Spread - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "The gap between the bid and the ask price. It is the cost paid on entry: a position opens slightly underwater by the width of the spread before the…"
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Trading mechanics

# Spread

The gap between the bid and the ask price. It is the cost paid on entry: a position opens slightly underwater by the width of the spread before the market has moved at all.

GFN’s figure

On a GFN account, spread widening, slippage and rapid price movements are treated as ordinary market conditions. Your drawdown rules still apply through them, and costs reduce the available buffer.

In detail

## Spread, explained

Spreads widen when liquidity thins - around news, at session changes and into the weekend close. A strategy with a small profit per trade is the most exposed to this, because the cost is a larger share of the result.

Spread costs come out of the same equity the risk limits are measured against, so they consume the daily allowance exactly as a losing trade does.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/commission) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [Forex at GFN](https://getfundednow.com/instruments/forex) · [More trading mechanics](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/mechanics)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Raw spread](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/raw-spread) - A pricing model where the spread is passed through without a markup and the cost is charged as an explicit commission instead. It separates the price you trade from the fee you pay.
- [Commission](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/commission) - An explicit per-lot charge for executing a trade, usually quoted per side. Two sides make a round turn, so the quoted figure has to be doubled to get the cost of a completed trade.
- [Slippage](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/slippage) - The difference between the price requested and the price filled. It appears when the market moves between order and execution, and it is most pronounced around news and at thin points in the session.
- [Liquidity](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/liquidity) - How much can be traded at a given price without moving it. Deep liquidity produces tight spreads and reliable fills; thin liquidity produces wide spreads, slippage and gaps.
- [Execution](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/execution) - The process of turning an order into a filled position - the price received, the delay before it arrives, and whether the order is filled in full. It is where a strategy meets reality.

Also governed by [/rules/commission](https://getfundednow.com/rules/commission)

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