Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies to Profit from Market Moves

Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market (Second Edition) is a practical and market-driven guide to understanding what truly moves foreign exchange prices and how traders can capitalize on those movements across both intraday and multi-day timeframes. Kathy Lien builds the book around a core professional insight: currencies respond to a combination of macroeconomic forces, policy decisions, capital flows, and short-term catalysts—and successful traders are those who know which drivers matter at each moment.

This edition expands beyond pure day-trading tactics by incorporating swing-trading frameworks and a clearer treatment of market regimes. Lien explains how the 24-hour FX market behaves across global trading sessions, why liquidity and volatility cluster around session overlaps, and how different currency pairs respond uniquely to economic and risk conditions. Rather than treating all pairs the same, the book emphasizes pair-specific behavior and contextual awareness.

A defining strength of the book is its integration of technical and fundamental perspectives. Technical tools are presented as execution and timing mechanisms, while fundamentals provide the directional and contextual bias. Readers learn how to interpret interest rate expectations, central bank behavior, economic data releases, and sentiment shifts—and how to translate those forces into structured trade plans rather than reactive decisions.

Risk management and preparation are treated as core professional skills throughout the book. Position sizing, stop placement, volatility awareness, and scenario planning are addressed directly, with a focus on maintaining consistency in fast-moving markets. Overall, this book provides a disciplined, balanced approach to forex trading that prioritizes understanding, structure, and repeatability over prediction.

✅ What You’ll Learn:

• How the foreign exchange market is structured and why currencies behave differently from other asset classes
• The long-term macro drivers that influence currency trends and valuation
• Short-term forces such as economic releases, sentiment shifts, and event risk
• How to identify optimal trading windows based on session behavior and volatility
• Responsible use of correlations and an understanding of when they break down
• How to apply technical and fundamental strategies under different market conditions
• How professional traders think about risk, positioning, and execution discipline

💡 Key Benefits:

• Provides a complete and coherent framework for both day trading and swing trading FX
• Improves trade timing through session and volatility awareness
• Bridges macro understanding with practical execution rules
• Helps traders adapt strategy parameters to changing market regimes
• Reduces random trading by emphasizing preparation and context

👤 Who This Book Is For:

• Traders seeking a structured introduction to forex trading with professional depth
• Day traders who want better timing, volatility awareness, and execution discipline
• Swing traders looking for FX-specific frameworks rather than equity-based logic
• Developing traders who want a single resource that progresses from foundations to applied strategy
• Not suitable for absolute beginners with no exposure to currency markets

📚 Table of Contents:

• Foreign Exchange—The Fastest-Growing Market of Our Time
• Historical Events in the FX Market
• What Moves the Currency Market in the Long Term?
• What Moves the Market in the Short Term?
• What Are the Best Times to Trade for Individual Currency Pairs?
• What Are Currency Correlations and How Do Traders Use Them?
• Seasonality—How It Applies to the FX Market
• Trade Parameters for Different Market Conditions
• Technical Trading Strategies
• Fundamental Trading Strategies
• How to Trade Like a Hedge Fund Manager
• Profiles and Unique Characteristics of Major Currency Pairs

Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies to Profit from Market Moves By Kathy Lien