Stocks & Commodities V. 34:04 (32, 34–36): Reacting To Currencies With Abe Cofnas by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

Reacting To Currencies With Abe Cofnas by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

For over two decades, Abe Cofnas has provided fundamental and technical analysis on trading strategies in currencies and intermarkets. He is the founder of Learn4x.com, which provides private coaching and seminars on currency trading, and he has been the forex columnist for Futures magazine (now Modern Trader) since 2001. He hosts seminars and lectures around the world (including London, Dubai, Shanghai, Vancouver, and Singapore). He can be reached at abecofnas@gmail.com.

STOCKS & COMMODITIES Editor Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan spoke with Abe Cofnas on February 5, 2016 about the factors that affect the movement of currency prices.

Can you tell us a little about yourself and how you got interested in trading forex?

As far as my academic background goes, I have a master’s in political science from University of California at Berkeley and a master’s in public policy from the Graduate School of Public Policy, Berkeley. I studied economics and always had a geopolitical, macroeconomic background. But my original work was in the area of strategic planning and public policy in New York City...