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Kathy Lien

Kathy Lien is an Internationally Published Author and Chief Strategist of DailyFX.com, one of the world’s most popular online websites for currency research. Her trading books include the highly acclaimed, Day Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies to Profit form Market Swings (2005, Wiley); High Probability Trading Setups for the Currency Market E-Book (2006, Investopedia); and Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Are Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game (2007, Wiley). As Chief Currency Strategist at FXCM, Kathy is responsible for providing research and analysis for DailyFX, the research arm of FXCM. She also co-edits the BK Forex Advisor, an Investopedia.com Premium Service with Boris Schlossberg – one of the few investment advisory letters focusing strictly on the 2 Trillion/day FX market.

Kathy is also one of the authors of Investopedia’s Forex Education section and has written for Tradingmarkets.com, the Asia Times Online, Stocks & Commodities Magazine, MarketWatch, ActiveTrader Magazine, Currency Trader, Futures Magazine and SFO. She is frequently quoted by Bloomberg, Reuters, the Wall street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, CBS and Bloomberg Radio. She has also hosted trader chats on EliteTrader, eSignal and FXStreet, sharing her expertise in both technical and fundamental analysis.

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Kathy Lien's Latest Articles | 159

Dissecting the FOMC Statement

Mar 16, 2010| 

Here is my dissection of the March 16 Fed Statement FOMC Statement March 16, 2010 Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests... Read »

5 Reasons Why the British Pound is Being Pounded

Mar 1, 2010| 

With mixed to slightly better than expected U.K. economic data, traders may be scratching their heads about why the British pound has collapsed more than 300 pips... Read »

Burger King: Perfect Example of Current Inflation Pressures

Feb 20, 2010| 1

Burger King’s decision this week to raise the price of a double cheeseburger from $1 to $1.19 and to remove one slice of cheese from the double cheeseburger on... Read »

GDP 80s Redux?

Jan 30, 2010| 

The Great Recession is now in our rear-view mirrors and with GDP growth of 5.7 in the fourth quarter, the recovery looks well underway. However, the surge in growth... Read »

Demand for Foreign Exchange Trading and Hedging is Beginning to Recover

Jan 27, 2010| 

Forex trading volume has finally recovered after the wave of deleveraging caused the market to contract back in April 2009. Earlier this week central banks from... Read »

Forex Moves in September Could Set the Tone for the Rest of the Year

Sep 10, 2009| 

As we begin the second week of trading in September, it is also important for currency traders to know that the performance of the EUR/USD and USD/JPY this month... Read »

British Pound Heads for Break

Jul 29, 2009| 

For the past four trading days, the British pound has been stuck in a 200 pip range against the U.S. dollar and a 115 pip range against the Euro. However the bottom... Read »

Forex Spot Trading Volume at Lowest Level in More than 3 Years

Jul 27, 2009| 

Unfortunately the forex market has not escape the impact of global deleveraging and the failure of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Central banks from around the world have... Read »

Floor Caving Under USD/JPY?

Jul 8, 2009| 

The 95 price level for USD/JPY has served as very strong support over the past few months and now that the currency pair is trading well below that price level,... Read »

Correlation Between Stocks and Currencies

Jul 7, 2009| 

Over the past few years, traders have become accustomed to the idea that the day to day moves in stocks impact currencies. When equities sell off aggressively like... Read »

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