Louise Yamada is Managing Director of LYA, founded October 2005. Louise was Managing Director and Head of Technical Research for Smith Barney (Citigroup). Louise is a perennial leader in the Institutional Investor poll, and was the top-ranked market technician in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.

At Smith Barney for 25 years, Louise authored a weekly flagship report "Market Interpretations". It was here in 1999-2000 that she identified the developing structural bear market and the technology decline; the lift in gold in 2001; the small and mid-cap outperformance leadership in 2002; the emerging structural Energy bull in 2003; a multi-year low interest rate trading range environment; and other major 20 plus-year structural shifts taking place into 2005.

Additionally, Louise penned several notable reports, including "Bull Market Extension? There is Historic Precedent" (1994) and "New Horizons for the 21st Century" (1996), both the subject of feature interviews in Barron’s on May 8, 1995 and September 9, 1996, as well as the special 1999 TRENDS report "Shifting Sands."

She is also the author of MARKET MAGIC, published by John Wiley & Sons, which was released in March 1998 and reviewed as "a monumental book, one that all serious and professional investors should read."

Louise is a Chartered Market Technician and a member of the Market Technicians Association, the American Association of Professional Technical Analysts, the Financial Women’s Association, and the New York Society of Security Analysts. Louise appeared as a special guest on "Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street". She appears frequently on Bloomberg, CNBC and in other media. Louise joined Smith Barney in 1980 after receiving a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.S. from Bank Street College of Education.

Jonathan Lin is a Senior Technical Analyst at LYA. Before joining LYA in 2005, Mr. Lin was a Vice President at the Technical Research department of Smith Barney (Citigroup), spending ten years under the tutelage of Alan Shaw and Louise Yamada.

After receiving a B.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, Jonathan joined Merrill Lynch as a systems programmer. While at Merrill, Jonathan earned a M.B.A. in Information Systems from Pace University.

Jonathan was first exposed to the stock market during his tenure at Merrill and began a lifelong learning of Technical Research. After attending Alan Shaw’s Technical Analysis courses, sponsored by New York Institute of Finance, Jonathan joined Alan Shaw’s team at Smith Barney.

Jonathan has been responsible for covering all aspects of equity market research and associated financial markets, such as currencies, interest rates, metals and other commodities. He has appeared on and been quoted by a number of financial news media, including Fox News Network, USA Today and Reuters.

Jonathan is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and a CFA Charterholder. He is also a member of the Market Technicians Association, New York Society of Security Analysts and CFA Institute and has taught Technical Analysis at the New York Institute of Finance.

A well-seasoned LY Advisors team member, Lori Altenburger started in the technical analysis department at Citigroup Smith Barney in 1984, working with Alan Shaw and Louise. She concentrated on global markets, tracking country groups and, as she grew into her analyst capacity, contributing to global market overviews, including reviews by industry. At Smith Barney, Lori was also responsible for managing all client relations.

A participant in founding LY Advisors, Lori now applies her twenty-five years experience in technical analysis to analyzing, monitoring and writing up global sectors, regions, regional sectors within regions, and industry groups. Domestically, Lori monitors all S&P 500 and S&P 400 stocks, analyzing support and resistance levels, and she writes the S&P 500 and 400 reports for our weekly domestically-oriented publication, Technical Perspectives.

Lori also has primary responsibility for editing and producing Technical Perspectives; she works with Jeanne Crisci on client relations and is well-known to long-standing clients. “Technical analysis is a great tool.” says Lori, “for preservation of capital and containment of losses.”

Noreen Lennon has been part of the LY Advisors team for over twenty years -- she joined the Technical Analysis department of Citigroup Smith Barney in 1987. Working for then-Director Alan Shaw, Noreen prepared the S&P 400 and S&P 600 Buy-Hold-Avoid-Sell lists.

At LY Advisors since our start in 2005, Noreen now writes the weekly S&P 600 reports for Technical Perspectives and prepares the capital weights and allocation tables for S&P 400, 500 and 600, breaking down the sub-industries into sectors. Noreen also monitors and compiles our reactions program for the S&P 600 and has primary responsibility for editing and producing our weekly Technical Perspectives Global report.

A unique feature of LY Advisors research is that in addition to our across-the-board utilization of computerized charts and data, including Point & Figure charts, Noreen updates our daily Dow 30 P&F charts by hand. "Even in this digital age," says Noreen, "by-hand updating of the Dow stocks is an inimitable tool enabling us to catch breakouts and breakdowns faster than by any other method."

Jeanne Crisci joined LY Advisors in 2006 and is responsible for Sales and Client Relationship Management.

Jeanne's financial services background prepared her well for her responsibilities at LY Advisors. Starting at Shaw Data Securities in 1984 Jeanne became a registered representative (Series 7) later becoming a general securities principal (Series 24). In 1995 Jeanne became President and Chief Compliance Officer of SunGard Institutional Brokerage. In 2003 she moved to WJB Capital Group as Director of Strategic Planning and Principal Compliance Officer. During her tenure with WJB, Jeanne attained NASD membership for the firm.

"Speaking with so many intelligent and well-informed clients is a great pleasure," says Jeanne, "especially because they truly understand the need for and value of our research."

Alan Shaw, now retired after 46 years on Wall Street, joined the brokerage firm of Harris Upham and Co. in 1958. He began his career as a fundamental securities analyst and, in the early 1960s, became actively involved in Technical Analysis. He served as Research Director at Harris Upham prior to its merger with Smith Barney in 1976. The HU Technical Research team was warmly welcomed to the combined SBHU research effort and Alan was appointed to the firm’s prestigious Investment Policy Committee where he served as an often quite vocal input up until his retirement.

For over two decades, Alan was on Institutional Investor’s All-America Research Team in the Technical Analysis category, taking the No. 1 spot in 1993, and holding that ranking for many years thereafter. At the time of his retirement in April 2004, Alan was a Managing Director of the Technical Research Department at Smith Barney having turned over the management of the Department in 2000 to his protégé, Managing Director, Louise Yamada.

Having attended Susquehanna and Adelphi Universities, Alan received an honorary doctorate degree in May 1999 from Susquehanna University in recognition of his Wall Street accomplishments. Alan is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT), and was an Allied Member of the New York Stock Exchange and a Supervisory Analyst. A member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, Alan was a founder and first president of the New York Society of Junior Security Analysts, and was a founder and the second president of the Market Technicians Association.

For many years, Alan taught technical analysis at the New York Institute of Finance and lectured at the annual Securities Industry Association's Wharton seminars. He authored the chapter on technical analysis included in the Financial Analyst's Handbook, published by Dow Jones-Irwin.

Alan has appeared in Who's Who in America since 1988. In 1997, he received the annual Market Technicians Association lifetime achievement award. He was the subject of numerous featured interviews in Barron’s and was invited a number of times to appear as the special guest on Louis Rukeyser’s Wall $treet Week. Alan and his wife currently reside on Shelter Island, NY, where he is working on a book, among other activities.