The Foreign Exchange Matrix

This book is worth buying and reading. An enlightening and, more often than not, exciting read. It is one of those rare books that I can wholeheartedly recommend to every visitor of this blog. Reading it is well worth those 8-12 hours of your life. – Earn Forex blogAn elegant and razor-sharp look at the market – Your Trading Edge magazineWill take your understanding of the market to the next level – Money Maker magazineRockefeller and Schmelzer provide a vigorous and comprehensive examination of the factors that weigh on foreign exchange markets. – Michael J. Woolfolk, Managing Director and Senior Currency Strategist, Bank of New York Mellon

Barbara Rockefeller is an international economist and forecaster specializing in foreign exchange. She was a pioneer in technical analysis and also in combining technical analysis with fundamental analysis. She publishes two reports daily using both techniques (www.rts-forex.com) for central banks, professional fund managers, corporate hedgers and individual traders. The trading advice newsletter has an average annual hypothetical return over 50% since inception in 1994 and has never posted a losing year. She is the author of three books on trading, including Technical Analysis for Dummies, and contributes a regular column to Currency Trader magazine. Her education includes a BA in economics from Reed College, with a year at the University of Keele in Staffordshire (UK), and MA from Columbia University in international affairs.Vicki Schmelzer is currently vice president of FINWRIT LLC, a firm specializing in financial journalism and editing. Up until January 2018, she worked for 18 years as a financial journalist for Market News International, writing about currencies and other asset classes. Before becoming a journalist, Ms. Schmelzer worked as a senior currency dealer at major U.S. and international banks including Dresdner Bank, Citibank, Manufacturers-Hanover/Chemical Bank and Westdeutsche Landesbank. She has appeared on ForexTV, FX Street and was in Alain Lasfargues’ 2009 documentary The Marvelous History of the Dollar. Her education includes a BA in German (and Mathematics minor) from Clarion State University.