Forex trading tactics: How successfully pick tops and bottoms

Presented By: Kathy Lien – GFT
Location: Main Stage
Date: Friday 5th August
Time: 3:45pm – 4:15pm
Price: FREE

With currencies extending to extreme levels this past year, picking tops and bottoms has become extremely tempting.

Kathy Lien, Director of Currency Research for GFT will show you ways to identify when a currency pair has turned or when it’s best to wait for a trend to exhaust.

Just as the world is interrelated, many markets are correlated. It’s especially important to know where these relationships are.

Kathy will also discuss the benefits of looking beyond the time frame and market you are trading for clues these relationships may give you on how a currency could trade.

Kathy Lien is the director of currency research at GFT, a world-leading provider of online currency trading services. Ms. Lien is responsible for providing research and analysis, including technical and fundamental research reports, market commentaries, and trading strategies to the media and GFT’s customers worldwide via FX360.com. Prior to joining GFT, she was a chief strategist at Daily FX and an associate at JPMorgan Chase, where she worked in cross-markets and foreign exchange trading. Ms. Lien has vast experience within the interbank market using both technical and fundamental analysis to trade FX spot and options. She also has experience trading interest rate derivatives, bonds, equities, and futures. Ms. Lien has written for publications like The Edge, AsiaOne and The Australian and is frequently quoted on CNBC, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia. Whenever she is in Singapore, she Guest Hosts CNBC Asia. She is also the author of the Little Book of Currency Trading, Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market as well as Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Beat Wall St at its Own Game.