The spread you see in your screen is very relative. It has more to do with advertising than anything.
What really matters is the spread you get when you enter a trade.
The moment you click your mouse and the price appears in the ticket, thats the REAL spread and usually oanda ( and most brokers) will squeeze some fractions of a pips on it.
So if you see 1 (or 0.8 or 0.6) pips in your screen don't get fooled by it. Your real spread "charged when you open a trade" could be up to 1.5 and you will not notice. You can't prove and even argue the fact.
Smaller spreads helps a little after you are in the trade since theoretically price will have to travel less so your trade becomes profitable. Of course I'm talking about sub pip values that will make a difference if you are a hard core scalper.
