Sri Lanka — Measured Spreads - and How to Audit the Reading

Step 2 - compare your own reading with the recorded row

The typical column is the median of every reading in the capture, and the strip beside it shows how far the spread stretched under load. A steady across the sample badge means the spread did not move across the whole sample, which is expected on target-spread instruments rather than an error. Forex is quoted in pips; metals, indices, energy and crypto CFDs are quoted in points, so check the digits before converting. Server Exness-MT5Trial11, captured 06 Sep 2026, 07:46 server time.

Step 3 - line up the server hour before comparing

Step 4 - add the nights if the position stays open

Values shown per 0.1 lot — the lot switch above rescales this table as well.

Swap figures come from the contract specifications at the same capture (2026-09-06). A negative figure is a nightly charge and a positive one a nightly credit, and on the triple-swap day three nights are applied at once. Energies carry no triple day, so five nights there mean five charges. See swap rates for how swaps work.

“From 0.0 pips” — which account is that, really?

The advertised “from 0.0” belongs to the Raw Spread account, which adds a fixed commission per side. This page measures the Standard account — the fair comparison is the all-in cost per trade:

Step 6 - see whether the reading holds across captures (44 captures)

One capture is taken per day from the same feed, so a narrow range across captures means the median held steady over the period. Spreads may fluctuate and widen due to volatility, news, and market conditions.

Where these spread figures come from

How much weight a single row carries

Each row states the number of readings behind it, and that count is the first thing to look at. A row built on a large sample describes a condition; a row built on a thin one describes a moment and should move an opinion only slightly.

The strip beside the typical figure carries the same kind of information in a different form. A narrow strip means the quote barely moved across the capture; a wide one means the instrument stretched under load, and that stretch is the part that matters when a stop is being placed.

Why readings are thrown away, and why that is correct

Readings captured while an instrument was closed or in pre-open are excluded rather than averaged in. A quote from a market that is not trading is an artifact of the feed, and including it would pull a median toward a number nobody could have traded at.

The excluded counts are printed with the capture, which is what makes the number auditable. A figure with no statement of what was discarded cannot be checked by anyone, and this page is written so that it can be.

Keeping a reconciliation log

Two columns and a date: the figure this page recorded for one instrument at one server hour, and the figure your own terminal showed at the same hour on the same tier. Nothing else needs to be stored.

After a month the log answers a question no single capture can - whether the conditions on your own account track the recorded ones. When they diverge, the cause is almost always the hour or the tier, and both are under your control rather than the feed's.

Units before conclusions

Contract sizes differ between forex, metals, energies and indices, so a raw spread number is not comparable across them at all. One lot of an index and one lot of a currency pair are different amounts of exposure, and the same pip figure means different money on each.

Convert first, compare second. Every downstream use of this page - the cost worksheet, the stop buffer, the hour choice - takes the money figure and never the raw one.

Reconciling a row against your own terminal

1. Pick one instrument and one row. Reconciling the whole table at once produces noise rather than an answer.
2. Match the account tier. The capture runs on a Standard account, and a tier that charges commission quotes a different spread by design.
3. Match the server hour. The clock in the terminal is the one the row is indexed by, not the clock on the wall.
4. Read the digits from the contract specification, then subtract Bid from Ask in the platform.
5. Convert both figures into money at the same volume, because pips and points are not comparable across instruments.
6. Compare, and record the pair with the date. One reconciliation proves the method; a handful of them proves the row.

A mismatch is a question about conditions, not a contradiction: check tier, hour and digits before anything else.

Repeating the reading in your own terminal

Two readings that disagree usually differ by hour or by tier. Line both up before treating it as a contradiction.

Where this walkthrough goes next