In the arena of the stock market, all the participants have the same access to the prices whereas the market of the foreign exchange is alienated into the various levels of access. First of all, there is the inter-bank market that poses the banking firms with largest investment.

The gap between the prices of “bid and ask” ranges from 0-1 and 1-2 pip. This is all due to the volume of the market. If any trader which guarantees the large quantity of transactions for large sum, then they has the ability to demand a lesser difference between the prices of bid and ask which in turn can be referred as the better spread.

There can be a trade of billions of dollars in a large bank. Many of such trading is mostly carried out on behalf of the customers but much is dealt by proprietary desks that trade for the bank’s own account. Until recently brokers of the foreign exchange done bulk amounts of commerce facilitating the trading of inter bank and matching unidentified counterparts. It was all for very small fees. But presently much of such business has transferred on to more efficient and speedy electronic systems.