Kathy Lien and Boris Schlossberg, famous traders and analysts, have been contributing with FXStreet for many years (10 years this month for Kathy!). They have been working for different companies throughout the years, but they’ve continuously shared their knowledge with FXStreet users, through articles and webinars. Both of them will now be speakers and hosts of a new show in our Live Video channel to take place every first Thursday of the month. That is the day just before the most volatile economic data release of all, the Non-Farm Payrolls. A perfect occasion to have these top-notch professionals help Forex traders understand mechanics, analyse currencies and get prepared for the day after.
The first show will take place tomorrow, Thursday December 3rd, at 16 GMT / 11 am EST.
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Who is Kathy Lien?
As defined by herself on BK website: “Forex Market Guru. The Queen of the Big Macro Trade. Author of Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market. And a Very Proud New Mommy.”
Having graduated New York University’s Stern School of Business at the age of 18, Ms. Kathy Lien has more than 15 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, Kathy joined FXCM and started DailyFX.com, a leading online foreign exchange research portal. In 2008, Kathy joined Global Futures & Forex Ltd (GFT) as Director of Currency Research where she provided research and analysis to clients and managed a global foreign exchange analysis team. She co-founded BK Forex Advisors in 2007 and left GFT to fully work for her company in 2012.
As an expert on G20 currencies, Kathy is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Marketwatch, Associated Press and other leading news publications. She also appears regularly on CNBC – US, Asia and Europe and on Sky Business. Kathy 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. Kathy’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.
Who is Boris Schlossberg?
As defined by himself on BK website: “Managing Partner of BKForex. Day Trader Extraordinaire. Master EA Developer. Author of Technical Analysis for the Forex Market. And a Pretty Damn Good Cook.”
Boris Schlossberg is a leading foreign exchange expert with more than 20 years of financial market experience. His career on Wall Street began over 2 decades ago with Drexel Burhnam Lambert and during that time he has traded a variety of financial instruments, from equities and options to stock index futures and foreign exchange. In 2004, Boris joined FXCM and helped start the firm’s FX Education initiative. In 2005, he joined the research team as Senior Currency Strategist and provided fundamental and technical analysis to the company’s global network of individual and institutional customers, as well as financial media outlets. In 2007, while still at FXCM, Boris started BKForex Advisors with Ms. Kathy Lien. A year later, Boris joined Global Futures & Forex Ltd (GFT) as Director of Currency Research where he provided research and analysis to clients and managed a global foreign exchange analysis team with Kathy Lien.
Mr. Schlossberg is a weekly contributor to CNBC’s Squawk Box and a regular commentator for Bloomberg radio and television. His daily currency research is widely quoted by Reuters, Dow Jones and Agence France Presse newswires and appears in numerous newspapers worldwide. He is the author of “Technical Analysis of the Currency Market” and “Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Beat Wall Street at its Own Game”, both of which are published by Wiley. Boris’ extensive experience in trading and developing momentum based techniques provide the foundation for BK Asset Management’s strategies.
Boris Schlossberg was key speaker at the FXStreet International Traders Conferences (ITC) 2010 in Barcelona.
Their joint business: BK Forex Management
Based out of New York City, BK Asset Management is an arm of BKForex Advisors LLC, a CTA registered with the NFA and a boutique foreign exchange research and advisory firm. Kathy Lien and Boris Schlossberg founded BKForex Advisors in 2007 to provide trading signals to customers. After 5 years of positive returns, they launched BK Asset Management in June 2012 with a mission to provide investors with diversification through exposure to currencies. Lien and Schlossberg have more than 30 years of combined financial market experience and have effectively developed discretionary trading strategies that incorporate macro economic views with technical analysis. Having previously managed foreign exchange research teams for FXCM and GFT Markets, two leading online foreign exchange brokers, Lien and Schlossberg have always been Traders First and Analysts Second. This alpha generating spirit has led to their spin-off and formation of BK Asset Management. Lien and Schlossberg continue to provide forex trading signal services through bkforex.com.
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