Louise Yamada is legendary for her technical work on Wall Street and has made some amazing calls in her career including as an example; water all the way back in 1995 when no one was looking at water. In this interview Louise covers the stock market, U.S. Dollar, bonds and interest rates, gold, oil and energy, emerging markets, leadership going forward, the need for productive use of capital, inflation and much more. Louise Yamada has a new newsletter that is available to the public, for more information or to contact her staff regarding the launch of her new newsletter: click here.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Louise Yamada
Biography from lyadvisors.com
Louise Yamada CMT - Founder & Managing Director of LYA / Technical Research Advisors
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.
