Kathy Lien

BK Asset Management

Having graduated from New York University’s Stern School of Business at the age of 18, Kathy Lien has more than 13 years of experience in the financial markets, with a specific focus on currencies. Her career started at JPMorgan Chase, where she worked on the interbank FX trading desk making markets in foreign exchange and later in the cross markets proprietary trading group where she traded FX spot, options, interest rate derivatives, bonds, equities and futures.  

In 2003, Lien joined FXCM and started DailyFX.com, a leading online foreign exchange research portal. As Chief Strategist, she managed a team of analysts dedicated to providing research and commentary on the foreign exchange market.

In 2008, Lien joined Global Futures & Forex Ltd as Director of Currency Research where she provided research and analysis to clients and managed a global foreign exchange analysis team. As an expert on G20 currencies, Lien is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Marketwatch, Associated Press, AAP, UK Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and other leading news publications. She also appears regularly on CNBC – U.S., Asia and Europe and on Sky Business.  

Lien is an internationally published author of the best-selling book Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market as well as The Little Book of Currency Trading and Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Beat Wall Street at its Own Game – all published through Wiley.  Lien’s extensive experience in developing trading strategies using cross markets analysis and her edge in predicting economic surprises serve key components of BK Asset Management’s trading and money management techniques.

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