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.

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.