LOUISE YAMADA is a Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney and Director of the Salomon Smith Barney Technical Research Team that has ranked #1 for the last seven years in the Institutional Investor poll. She is a Chartered Market Technician and her work has been the subject of two featured reports in Barron's. A graduate of Vassar College, Ms. Yamada is on the faculty of the New York Institute of Finance and frequently appears as a guest on CNBC, CNN, and CNNfn. She is a member of the Market Technicians Association, the Financial Women's Association, and the New York Society of Security Analysts.