The spread is the gap between the price you can sell at right now (bid) and the price you can buy at right now (ask). EUR/USD quoted 1.0830 / 1.0831 has a one pipPipThe smallest standard price increment on a currency pair, usually the fourth decimal.Click the word to learn more spread. Open a positionPositionA single entry held on the broker account, with a direction, a size, and a current floating result.Click the word to learn more and you are immediately a pip behind, because you bought at the ask and would close at the bid.
This is the toll. There is no separate line item, no invoice. You pay it the instant you enter, and again every time you flip direction. Some brokers quote it as a fixed number that does not move. Others quote it raw from the interbank market and let it widen during news, into the close, or whenever liquidity thins out.
Whether spread matters depends on how often you cross it. A scalper crossing it 80 times a day is paying it 80 times. A swing strategy holding for a week is paying it once. Same spread, very different bill.
Javlot Tracker numbers always reflect the broker spread actually in force at the moment of each fill. Nothing is netted out, nothing smoothed. What you see on the strategy page is the same toll that would have hit your account if you had been live on the same broker during that period.