Boris Schlossberg

Director of Global Research & Analysis

Boris Schlossberg began his Wall Street trading career more than 20 years ago at Drexel Burnham Lambert. There, he traded nearly every type of financial product on the market in the U.S., from equities and options to stock index futures and foreign exchange. His innate ability to analyze market information and use it to trade has helped him become an industry-recognized, "go to" trading professional.

These days, whenever the markets move, many organizations turn to Schlossberg for his take on the situation. He is a weekly contributor to CNBC's Squawk Box and a regular commentator for Bloomberg radio and television. His daily currency research is widely quoted by Reuters, Dow Jones and Agence France Presse newswires and appears in numerous newspapers worldwide. Schlossberg has written for publications like SFO magazine, Active Trader and Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities. He is also the author of Technical Analysis of the Currency Market and the co-author of Millionaire Traders: How Everyday People Are Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game with Kathy Lien. He joined GFT in 2008.

  • Tuesday 7th February 2012, 1:09am GMT
    BORIS SCHLOSSBERG
    ANOTHER week has passed by without a deal from Athens and the currency markets are clearly starting to suffer from headline fatigue. While the risks are quite serious, the markets continue to believe... [Read more]
  • Tuesday 31st January 2012, 12:48am GMT
    BORIS SCHLOSSBERG
    SINCE the start of the year the euro has surprised many market participants by staging a vicious short covering rally that has added more than 500 points to the pair over the past two weeks. There... [Read more]
  • Tuesday 24th January 2012, 12:38am GMT
    BORIS SCHLOSSBERG
    AS THE old adage goes, in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the currency market the Aussie has become the one eyed man. Starved for yield, FX investors continue to flock to the... [Read more]
  • Tuesday 17th January 2012, 12:03am GMT
    BORIS SCHLOSSBERG
    Ionce heard an analyst say that gold should be viewed as an insurance policy, not as an investment. That’s good advice for anyone who is contemplating a position in the yellow metal in 2012. Gold... [Read more]
  • Wednesday 11th January 2012, 12:01am GMT
    BORIS SCHLOSSBERG
    ITALIAN yields on benchmark 10-year bonds are once again above 7 per cent and Ireland may be the new sovereign debt hot spot in the Eurozone – Citibank economist and former BoE member William Butler... [Read more]
  • Wednesday 4th January 2012, 12:06am GMT
    BORIS SCHLOSSBERG
    AS THE currency markets opened for trading at the start of the new year, investors remained in a party mood, bidding up the Australian dollar, after PMI readings from the region printed better than... [Read more]
  • Wednesday 21st December 2011, 12:29am GMT
    BORIS SCHLOSSBERG
    THIS year, trade in sterling has been relatively subdued. With market attention focused on the euro, UK credit markets escaped scrutiny. This lack of limelight helped cable to maintain relative... [Read more]
  • Wednesday 7th December 2011, 12:20am GMT
    BORIS SCHLOSSBERG
    AS THE European leaders meet for their summit tomorrow, currency traders will have only one question on their mind – can the Eurozone move towards greater fiscal integration? The European sovereign... [Read more]
  • Wednesday 30th November 2011, 12:08am GMT
    BORIS SCHLOSSBERG
    UNTIL recently, the single most boring job in the currency business was to be a dollar-yen dealer. With the exception of a few days when the Bank of Japan (BoJ) would intervene in the markets,... [Read more]
  • Wednesday 23rd November 2011, 12:20am GMT
    BORIS SCHLOSSBERG
    AS TURMOIL in the European credit markets continues to weigh on the euro, some analysts are pressing for the European Central Bank (ECB) to engage in Swiss National Bank (SNB) like intervention. But... [Read more]
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