Kathy Lien
Kathy Lien is Managing Director of FX Strategy at BK Asset Management and Co-Founder of BKForex, where he provides clients with short-term trading recommendations. Kathy is a world-renowned expert in global currencies with over 20 years of experience in financial markets. She is known for developing trading strategies using cross markets analysis and predicting economic data surprises. Kathy is also an internationally published author of the bestselling book "Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market" as well as "The Little Book of Currency Trading and Millionaire Traders."
Kathy Lien Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Managing Director of FX Strategy
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Associate, Cross Markets Proprietary Trading
Academic History
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BS in Finance
AT BK, she is responsible for establishing trading strategies, investments, and portfolio management.
She provides clients with analysis on foreign exchange and global macro issues, and manages proprietary accounts.
She has also developed proprietary models of leading indicators for economic releases to forecast data surprises.
EARLY CAREER
Kathy immediately started working on Wall Street after graduating from NYU’s Stern School of Business at the age of 18.
She started her career at JPMorgan Chase, where she worked on the interbank FX trading desk making markets in foreign exchange.
She later joined the cross markets proprietary trading group at JPMorgan, where she traded FX spot, options, interest rate derivatives, bonds, equities, and futures.
She joined FXCM in 2003 and managed a team of analysts dedicated to providing research and commentary on the foreign exchange market.
She moved to Global Futures & Forex Ltd in 2008 and provided research and analysis to clients and managed a global foreign exchange analysis team.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Kathy is regularly quoted in leading news publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Marketwatch, and Associated Press, among others.
She appears frequently on CNN, CNBC, CBS, and Bloomberg Radio.
She has been on a few episodes of Wall Street Warriors, hosted trader chats on Elitetrader, eSignal, and FXStreet, sharing her expertise in both technical and fundamental analysis.
She is one of the authors of Investopedia’s Forex Education section.
She has written for Tradingmarkets.com, Asia Times Online, Stocks & Commodities Magazine, MarketWatch, ActiveTrader Magazine, Currency Trader, Futures Magazine, and SFO.