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 | 224

Japan Radiation Levels – What do they Mean?

Mar 15, 2011| 

According to this morning’s reports, Tokyo officials say they detected 0.8 of a micro-sievert of radiation in the morning, which is about 27 times what’s considered... Read »

Chart: How JPY has Reacted to Past Quakes

Mar 11, 2011| 2

This morning’s earthquake in Japan was the strongest in more than 100 years. The last time Japan experienced a quake even close to the 8.9 magnitude was in 1995... Read »

USD/JPY: Prime for a Breakout?

Mar 8, 2011| 

Since the beginning of the year, the trading range of USD/JPY has been getting tighter and tighter. However with the Japanese fiscal year coming to an end this... Read »

Who Are the Biggest Banks in Foreign Exchange?

Mar 4, 2011| 

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How Does an Oil Crisis Impact the U.S. Dollar?

Feb 22, 2011| 1

Oil prices are on the rise and everyone is talking about the possibility of $100 oil. Right now, the rise in oil is accompanied by a rise in the U.S. dollar but... Read »

Middle East: Country by Country Analysis

Feb 22, 2011| 

The crisis in the Middle east is intensifying and I have been bogged down for the past few days running between the office and the NY Traders Expo where Boris and... Read »

Forex: Major Changes to Rate Hike Expectations

Feb 17, 2011| 

Over the past 3 weeks, central banks around the world have made a number of comments that have affected rate hike expectations. On Jan 27th, I showed where rate... Read »

Chart: BoE Inflation Report Rarely a Nonevent for GBP

Feb 16, 2011| 

The Bank of England’s Quarterly Inflation Report is one of the most important pieces of documents released by the central bank. The Inflation Report includes... Read »

Implications on the Chinese Yuan

Feb 14, 2011| 

News that China surpassed Japan as the world’s second largest economy is one of the biggest stories in the financial markets. For more than 4 decades, the only... Read »

Charting the AUD/USD

Feb 10, 2011| 

Take a look at the Australian dollar chart below. Do you see the head and shoulders / triple top formation that I see? =) The Australian employment numbers didnt... Read »

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