Louise Yamada, CMT
 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.” 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.
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