Kathy Lien

Kathy Lien is a globally recognized trader, author, and market strategist with more than 20 years of experience in currencies and global macro markets. She is the founder of Prop Trader Edge and co-founder of BKTraders. Kathy began her career at JPMorgan Chase at just 18 years old, becoming the youngest proprietary trader at the firm. She worked on the interbank FX trading desk before joining the bank’s cross-markets proprietary trading group, where she traded currencies, options, interest rate derivatives, bonds, equities, and futures. Kathy is a frequent contributor to CNBC and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP, and Charles Schwab’s Mind of a Trader. She is the author of several bestselling trading books, including Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market and her latest, Prop Trading Secrets: How Successful Traders Are Living Off the Markets.Known for combining macro analysis with technical market timing, Kathy focuses on helping traders turn market insight into practical, disciplined trading strategies.