Devan Rao is a data analyst who counts the cost of trading so readers do not have to. At InvestingChef he pulls apart every fee a broker charges, from the headline spread to the overnight financing and the inactivity fee buried in the small print, and rebuilds it into one honest number. His work answers the question that marketing pages avoid: once every ingredient is added up, what does this broker actually cost to trade?
Devan captures live spread samples across trading sessions, then layers in swap and rollover charges, commissions, currency-conversion costs and dormant-account fees to model the total cost of a realistic trade held over time. Overnight and inactivity figures in InvestingChef tables come from broker fee schedules cross-checked against real account statements, not from rounded marketing headlines.