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

December FOMC Preview: How a 50 or 75bp Rate Cut Will Impact the Dollar

Dec 15, 2008 · 0 Comments 

Tuesday’s FOMC meeting will be remembered for decades to come as the Federal Reserve brings interest rates down to the lowest level this generation has ever seen.... >>>

Impact of Retail Sales and Trade on Q4 GDP

Dec 11, 2008 · 0 Comments 

The two biggest inputs into GDP are consumer spending and trade. Therefore the 2.8 percent decline in retail sales and the surprise widening of the trade deficit... >>>

Euro Headed for 1.35?

Dec 11, 2008 · 0 Comments 

Hawkish comments from ECB member Weber is driving the EUR/USD through the roof. The currency pair is up close to 2.5 percent or more than 300 pips. After cutting... >>>

Dollar Tanks as Unemployment Claims Skyrocketed to 26-Year Highs

Dec 11, 2008 · 0 Comments 

The US dollar is tanking as jobless claims rise by the largest amount since November 1982, 26 years ago. As I have suspected, it is the 1980s all over again. This... >>>

Has Currency Volatility Hit a Peak?

Dec 10, 2008 · 0 Comments 

On Tuesday, we talked about how volatility in the forex market has exploded in 2008. Although trading ranges expanded significantly in October and November, volatility... >>>

What Zero Yield in Treasury Bills Signal for Currencies

Dec 9, 2008 · 0 Comments 

Although currency and stock traders can’t figure out whether this is a bottom or a pause before more losses, the sentiment in the bond market is very negative. For... >>>

Explosion in Forex Trading Ranges

Dec 9, 2008 · 0 Comments 

Forex trading ranges have exploded over the past few months. The daily average trading range has doubled for all of the actively traded currency pairs in 2008,... >>>

EUR/GBP: Headed to 90 Cents?

Dec 8, 2008 · 0 Comments 

EUR/GBP hit a record high of 0.8740 today. The currency pair has been on a tear, which is not much of a surprise given the Bank of England’s aggressive interest... >>>

Wall Street Surges: Aid is on the Way

Dec 8, 2008 · 0 Comments 

If the equity market managed to rally despite news that 533k jobs were lost from the US economy last month, then Obama’s pledge to increase spending this weekend... >>>

Nonfarm Payrolls Plunged But Market Rallies: What Gives?

Dec 6, 2008 · 0 Comments 

The US unemployment rate soared to a 15 year high in the month of November as non-farm payrolls incur the steepest slide in 34 years. Although currencies and equities... >>>