Who are the women working in the Forex Market, a typical "man’s world"? How did they get there? How being a woman can be an advantage or disadvantage? How do they manage to combine their private life with their professional career? Why is trading so exciting?
We were curious to better know those female bank analysts, traders and strategists. Through our series of interviews, you will discover a myriad of personalities, opinions and careers for these − undoubtedly − atypical women.
Enjoy the readings!
Series of interviews integrally published in the
Forex Trader Magazine 
Valeria Bednarik - Professional Trader and Expert Advisor for Fxstreet.com: ''I win, I lose, it's my job... And I love it!'
20 years in accountancy and 7 years in Forex. Valeria trades now from home and raises her two little daughters.
Read how she manages to combine trading with her family and what are her views about the Argentinian's economy. Of course, she also shared with us her experience as a woman trader
[...]Jody Samuels - Founder of FX Trader’s EDGE: 'Women have an intuition about the market, almost like a gut feeling'
Over 10 years in the FX Market, as bank trader at JP Morgan and retail traders coacher. She currently works as a Forex instructor and coach in her own company. As known as the 'Queen of the quid', back in the 80's,
Jody Samuels talks about her long experience as a professional bank trader and teacher
[...]Raghee Horner - RagheeHorner.com and InterbankFX: 'Markets don't care I'm a woman: men see the same price that I do'
15 years in financial markets: Futures since 1996 and Forex since 2000, Trader and Author at RagheeHorner.com; Chief Currency Analyst at InterbankFX,
Raghee Horner offers us her thoughts about markets and explains what she considers the process of trading is
[...]Kathy Lien - GFT: 'My gender has helped me and made me more recognizable'
The younger one of our interviewed Forex ladies, Kathy Lien's career is marked with success and notoriety in FX Markets.
She offers her opinion about being a female in Forex as well as what trading means for her. Kathy's answers are direct and far from any stonewalling tone, as usual
[...]Jane Foley - Rabobank: 'More than any other market FX provides a window on the world'
We talked with Jane about her first days in the markets, about trading and about her experience as a woman. Along her career -Over 20 years in the Bonds and Forex Market, 10 years for Barclay's- she has seen how the imbalance between men and women and sexism have evolved
[...]Karen Jones - Commerzbank: 'The discipline of Technical Analysis is ideally suited for the FX market'
A purely technical analyst with more than 20 years of experience in the financial business and has always monitored and analyzed currencies.
Karen shares with us the main steps of her career as well as her vision about the differences between men and women in the Forex world
[...]Triffany Hamond - Coacher at TrifFX: 'Understanding ourselves helps us understand our trading decisions'
She quit her last job as a PC Technician for the City of Boulder (Colorado) in 1999 to support her husband’s growing business and raise her son, who was born in the summer of that same year, until she discovered Forex in 2002. Since then she worked from home and has found in trading the perfect way to realize herself.
Triffany discusses her career, her perceptions of Forex Trading and being a woman in the business
[...]Carol Harmer - Charmercharts: 'Charts are there to make us money, you shouldn't need a doctorate to understand them'
30 years in the FX Market spent at the London Futures Exchange, in banks and as a traders coach. Carol has undoubtedly become one of the most respected and established technical analysts in the UK.
The Charmer opened up to FXstreet.com for an exclusive interview on her insights market movements, trader behaviors, being a woman in the banking culture, and the charts behind them all
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