Quantitative analyst with 8 years in forex market data and execution research. David started in algorithmic trading at a mid-frequency fund, then moved into broker-facing research at a financial data provider where he built systematic spread-tracking infrastructure across 40+ brokers. He joined BrokerForexReviews to bring data rigour to retail broker comparisons — replacing advertised spread figures with statistically sampled real-world data.
David collects spread samples at 1-minute intervals across 8 trading sessions per broker, covering the London open, New York open, overlap period, Asian session and off-hours. He builds statistical distributions of these spreads to identify the gap between advertised typical spreads and the actual 95th-percentile spread traders encounter. He tracks overnight swap rates weekly across all major currency pairs and updates the comparative tables in BrokerForexReviews accordingly.