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

Currencies Soar as Fed Announces More Stimulus, GDP Not as Bad as Feared

Nov 25, 2008 · 0 Comments 

The US is now in a technical recession but that has not stopped the equity and currency market from rallying. The GDP number was not as bad as the market had feared... >>>

Wall Street Gains on Citigroup Rescue

Nov 24, 2008 · 0 Comments 

President-elect Barack Obama was one of the few people that could have restored confidence in the financial markets through the appointment of a Cabinet members... >>>

Currencies Soar on Reports that Obama Picks Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary

Nov 21, 2008 · 0 Comments 

On a day when the market had nothing to be happy about, the leak of President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet announcements have erased one major uncertainty for... >>>

Dollar Soars as FOMC Minutes Trigger Liquidation

Nov 19, 2008 · 0 Comments 

Despite false rallies in the currency market, I have stressed that there is no reason for the liquidation to be over. I warned that the currency and stock market... >>>

BoE Won’t Stand in the Way of the British Pound

Nov 19, 2008 · 0 Comments 

The British pound is on a tear even though the minutes from the most recent monetary policy meeting indicates that the BoE toyed with the idea of cutting interest... >>>

TIC Report Explains Greenback Rally

Nov 18, 2008 · 0 Comments 

Despite the turmoil in the US financial markets, foreign demand for US securities remain robust, particularly since the Treasury’s International Capital flow... >>>

Double Dip in Non-Farm Payrolls

Nov 17, 2008 · 0 Comments 

Citigroup announced today that they will be cutting more than 50,000 jobs in the “near term.” This is on top of the 23,000 jobs that they have already cut and... >>>

Leaving the Mess for Obama

Nov 17, 2008 · 0 Comments 

There are increasing signs that the Bush Administration wants to leave the clean up job to Barack Obama. According to Treasury Secretary Paulson, even though the... >>>

Will the US Government Allow GM to Fail?

Nov 17, 2008 · 0 Comments 

Signs of stability in the US manufacturing sector has failed to turn around the market’s risk appetite. Although the US dollar has weakened marginally against... >>>

Massive Rally on Wall Street; What’s Next?

Nov 13, 2008 · 0 Comments 

In every major bear market, there are relief rallies and that is what we have seen today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 300 points during the... >>>