Not. Spread is not the most important thing to determine trading conditions. Why?
At first, if a company states about very low or about almost zero-level spreads, it in the most frequent cases is usual marketing trick to attract customers. However, at the same time slightly noticeable reservations are processed that spread may be extended upon trading conditions if the price moves more quickly. Actually, it means that a low spread is provided for a number of operating transactions, but mostly such a spread is reserved for indicative quotations made available for public as well as for demo accounts. Meanwhile in the course of conclusion of a certain deal customer can be often offered much higher spreads. Or –it is an easy way to do- quotation can be moved towards direction that is not advantageous for customer, particularly, if a deal is being closed. Of course, it is understandable: spreads are the principal income source for dealing companies. As a matter of fact, no company implementing such a kind of business could exist, much less run a steady business upon conditions of extremely low spreads.
The second thing is that populist affirmations about almost zero-level spreads as well as about other unreal conditions to be implemented on the market often practiced by recently established companies that are just getting started looking their niche in the segment of financial services. If a company actually starts implementing their promises, in any case it implements short-sighted policy. And it associates with high risks for its (it means there are also high risks for its customers),so it is incompatible with long –term financial stability, with steady income of company itself, which means that it is incompatible with reliable bank assurances for your deposits and your profit preservation.
And, therefore, drawing a conclusion: to make a profitable deal is much more important to provide due-time and accurate service allowing to obtain quotation allowable for customer upon changing price in rapid way. But if the trading conditions specify very low spread, a company is not able to effect transaction for price in question. Therefore, it leads to the situation that customer not only misses opportunity to open a trading position for that price but also brings to naught the necessity to enter the transaction at all, because the market has already gone ”flown away”.