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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

Impact of Last 3 China Rate Hikes on FX

Feb 8, 2011| 

With each Chinese rate hike, there has been a smaller and smaller impact on the currency market. The first rate hike back in October elicited the biggest reaction... Read »

Cyclone Yasi Transposed Over U.S. Map

Feb 2, 2011| 

Cyclone Yasi, a category 5 storm is expected to make landfall in Australia at midnight local time. The damage could be significant especially when you consider how... Read »

Forex: Tracking Central Bank Rate Hike Expectations

Jan 27, 2011| 

Wondering when a central bank is set to raise interest rates? Here’s what the market pricing in for each of the major central banks. As you can see, a full 25bp... Read »

How U.S. Economy Changed Since Last Fed Meeting

Jan 25, 2011| 

The following table shows how the U.S. economy has changed since the last Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting. As you can see, there have been broad based improvements... Read »

EUR: Implications of Turn in IMM-COT Positioning

Jan 24, 2011| 

There has been a lot of chatter this morning about how non-commercial or speculative euro positioning turned positive for the first time in 8 weeks. But some... Read »

Euro: Points of Resistance

Jan 13, 2011| 

The EUR/USD has enjoyed a tremendous rally today thanks to weaker U.S. economic data, hawkish comments from ECB President Trichet and successful bond auctions in... Read »

Portugal: The Third Domino to Fall

Jan 10, 2011| 

The big story in the financial market today is Portugal – the next domino expected to fall. According to a poll conducted by Reuters, 85% of dealers expect... Read »

Hitting the Debt Ceiling: Why its a Big Deal

Jan 6, 2011| 

The Gross National Debt Treasury Secretary Geithner sent a special letter to every member of Congress today warning them that the U.S. could reach its debt... Read »

What Currency to Buy if Non-Farm Payrolls are Strong?

Jan 6, 2011| 

Barclay’s argues that if non-farm payrolls surprise to the upside, the Canadian dollar will be the best performer. How does an investor position for such an upside... Read »

Dollar: How Could it React to Non-Farm Payrolls?

Jan 6, 2011| 

The forecast for non-farm payrolls is 150k. The whisper number is 500k. Such a wide range of forecasts means that SOMEONE will be surprised. Expect tomorrow to be... Read »

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