Jusmih1 says … surely mid morning the spread should be consistant at 0.6

The EURUSD is 0.6 for the majority of time but regularly ‘flash widens’ to 1.5, 2.0 or even more … lasts less than 1 second then goes back to 0.6.

The flash widen happens at times of high volatility as in when it looks like price is going to break up or down / move up or down swiftly after being quiet etc.

If you add the Indicator ‘bid ask spread’ on same Chart as the price curve then you will see it flash widen loads of times during the trading period.

Cheers
GraHal