Alan Shaw

Prior to joining LYA, Mr. Shaw was in Smith Barney.
He served as Research Director at Harris Upham prior to its merger with Smith Barney in 1976.
He began his career as a fundamental securities analyst and, in the early 1960s, became actively involved in Technical Analysis.
He joined the brokerage firm of Harris Upham and Co. in 1958.
The HU Technical Research team was warmly welcomed to the combined SBHU research effort and he 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, Mr. Shaw 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, he 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.
Mr. Shaw received an honorary doctorate degree in May 1999 from Susquehanna University in recognition of his Wall Street accomplishments.
He 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, he 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.
He attended Susquehanna and Adelphi Universities.