Karen Foo

About

Professional trader and investor ranked #1 in a Singapore nationwide trading championship and top 3 in several international trading competitions. She is a sought-after global speaker who has presented at financial conferences, seminars, and trading events across Asia and has spoken at events attended by institutional traders and hedge funds. She has been featured on television, magazines, newspapers, documentaries, and radio for her work in finance and investing. She was voted Best Trading Guru in Singapore and Top Popular Analyst in Asia. She is the author of Fundamentals of Currency Trading and has also contributed to other investing books. She has earned more than 500,000 subscribers on her Karen Foo (Britney) YouTube channel, where she shares trading and investing education with a global audience.

Before fame

She was born into a family of stock investors and traders and was exposed to financial markets from a young age. She was a straight-A student in school and received academic scholarships before pursuing banking and finance at Nanyang Technological University.

Trivia

She represented Singapore in competitive swimming at the World Masters Swimming Championship. She has also served as a judge in public speaking competitions at both club and national levels and competed in multiple public speaking contests during her early development years.

Family life

She is from Singapore.

Associated with

In 2021, she posted a video about the impact of Elon Musk's Tweets on meme stocks.