Who is Kathy Lien
Kathy Lien is the Managing Director of BK Asset Management and an internationally published author. She was born in 1980 and right now she is 42 years old.
Educational Background
Kathy graduated from New York University’s Stern School of Business with a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics. She also after Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia for a year.
Kathy Lien Biography
Kathy Lien earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from New York University’s Stern School of Business and began her work on Wall Street at the age of 18, focusing on currencies.
She began her career at JPMorgan Chase, where she worked on the interbank foreign currency (FX) trading desk, making markets.
She went on to work for JPMorgan’s cross-markets proprietary trading business, where she traded foreign exchange spot, options, interest rate derivatives, bonds, stocks, and futures.
Kathy launched DailyFX.com, a renowned online foreign-exchange research portal, in 2003 after joining FXCM.
Kathy led a team of experts who provided analysis and commentary on the foreign exchange market as chief strategist.
Kathy joined Global Futures & Forex Ltd as director of currency research in 2008, where she oversaw a global foreign-exchange analysis team and offered research and analysis to clients.
Kathy is currently the managing director of foreign exchange strategy at BK Asset Management in New York City.
Kathy’s significant experience in designing trading strategies using cross-markets analysis and her years of market research in predicting economic data surprises are key components of BKForex’s analytical methodology, which she co-founded in 2007.
Kathy is frequently featured in The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Marketwatch, the Associated Press, and other top news outlets as a global currency expert.
She also appears on CNBC and Sky Business on a regular basis. Kathy is the author of a number of trading publications, including the best-selling Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market (Wiley).
Publications
- High Probability Trading Setups for the Currency Market E-Book (2006, Investopedia).
- Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Are Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game (2007, Wiley).
- For beginners, “The Little Book of Currency Trading (2010, Wiley).”
- THIRD edition of the highly acclaimed, internationally published “Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies to Profit form Market Swings (2015, Wiley).”
Personal Life
Kathy loves to spend her free time, Skiing, Rock Climbing or Biking.
Net Worth
Kathy Lien is well known for her massive contribution to the FX world and as a result, she has amassed a significant amount of wealth. However her net worth is yet to be estimated.