Our Analysts

Kathleen Brooks is Research Director for City Index. She specialises in the FX market and uses both fundamental and technical analysis methods for her research. She is the author of Kathleen Brooks on Forex and Currency Trading for Dummies, and regularly features on global media. She has more than five years’ retail trading experience.

Ken Odeluga has over 15 years' experience of reporting and analysing global financial markets. That includes more than a decade as a news editor at Dow Jones Newswires/WSJ.com, where he developed skills in fundamental equity and classical technical analysis. He has a passion for deciphering and explaining the increasing complexities of financial markets. He is frequently quoted in the press and regularly interviewed on radio and TV.

Fawad is a technical analyst and specialises in commodities, indices and FX. He has a degree in economics and an excellent understanding of the fundamental drivers of the markets. Fawad is regularly quoted in leading financial publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Market Watch and Associated Press.

Kelvin has over 12 years’ experience in providing market research and employs a combination of fundamental and technical analysis, specialising in utilising Elliot Wave and Fibonacci analysis. He has worked at leading research firms and hedge funds as an FX and equities analyst and, before joining City Index in August 2013, was a senior equities and indices analyst at French research firm BBSP where he advised Asian hedge funds and international investment banks. Kelvin has a Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) award from the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) and is a member of the IFTA. He has conducted technical analysis seminars and training programmes for thousands of private traders in Singapore and Malaysia.

James Chen, Chartered Market Technician (CMT), has been a financial market trader and analyst for nearly two decades. He is the author of the books, "Essentials of Foreign Exchange Trading" (John Wiley and Sons, 2009) and "Essentials of Technical Analysis for Financial Markets" (John Wiley and Sons, 2010), as well as author/speaker for the instructional video series, "High-Probability Trend Following in the Forex Market."

James has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Reuters, Dow Jones, and Forbes, among many other financial news outlets, and has also been featured as an expert mentor on the widely-acclaimed “Trading Academy” show, where he trained and mentored numerous traders in a high-stakes trading competition. James issues daily analysis of the financial markets, authors frequent articles on trading strategies, and is a featured speaker at major trading seminars and conferences.