Marc Chaikin

You don’t last in the cutthroat investment world for over 50 years by being a fraud or a scam artist. Marc Chaikin has been successfully beating the market for years, and it’s not because he’s a showman, stock pumper, or big talker. Just the opposite. Chaikin is a math nerd who pioneered technical analysis, computer algorithms, and real-time data to pick stocks successfully and anticipate trends.

Chaikin isn’t a guy who woke up one day and decided to start a website to promote stocks. He has been around since the advent of the PC and was one of the first to use a PC’s tools to beat the market. His track record speaks for itself. He is considered one of the top experts in the industry, and his insights are respected. That’s why CNBC personality Jim Cramer frequently praises him. Or why he often appears on CNBC, Fox Business, and Bloomberg TV and regularly contributes to Forbes and MarketWatch.

Sure, Chaikin Analytics has been around for just over 10 years and has already won numerous awards. Sure, his indices powered by his Power Gauge have consistently beaten the Nasdaq since 2014. Sure, Chaikin Analytics simplifies stock picking for retail investors but has a methodology and quantitative analytics powerful enough for Wall Street professionals.

But if you want evidence of how pioneering and legit Marc Chaikin is, go to the Thomson Reuters institutional workstation. Thomson Reuters is one of the largest media organizations worldwide, and Chaikin’s original real-time workstation is essentially that of Thomson Reuters today.

You can also see the influence of his proprietary Chaikin Power Gauge, Chaikin Oscillator, Chaikin Accumulation/Distribution Indicator, and Chaikin Money Flow on almost every trading platform.

The best part? Chaikin is not the type to scare people into using his products. He is a long-time market bull who uses metrics he invented to find the best possible opportunities. In fact, he’s so generally optimistic about the stock market that he attracted media attention for it in 2011 and 2012.

So while many so-called stock gurus love to promote themselves and are essentially more bark than bite, Chaikin has quietly revolutionized how we research and pick stocks for over 50 years. With how things have gone for Chaikin Analytics, Marc Chaikin and his mind could continue doing so for as long as he chooses.

• BA, Political Science- Brown University (1964)

Investment Career

1965

• Worked as a stockbroker.

1970s

• Led Tucker Anthony & R. L. Day’s options division.

1980s

• Traded futures contracts on the NYFE.
• Began formulating his proprietary stock market indicators.
• Used the first wave of PCs to hone his analyses of stock price and volume patterns.
• Refined and executed trading strategies based on computer algorithms and his unique economic indicators.
• Created widely used and industry-standard indicators like the Chaikin Power Gauge, Chaikin Oscillator, Chaikin Accumulation/Distribution Indicator, and Chaikin Money Flow.
• Joined Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1982.
• Hosted a regular segment on the Financial News Network, CNBC’s predecessor.

1989-1992

• Founded and became managing partner of Bomar Securities LP.
• Bomar was revolutionary for the times- had a database of over 3,000 stocks with price histories going back eight years, and marketed a workstation enabling users to monitor real time stock price data and analyze historical data.
• Was later sold to Instinet Corp., a subsidiary of Reuters.
• Today, this real-time analytics workstation remains the foundation of Thomson Reuters’s institutional workstation.

1992-1998

• Following Bomar’s acquisition, became the Senior Vice President and Director of Instinet’s brokerage house.
• Oversaw front-end development for Instinet’s Research and Analytics workstation.
• Founded and managed Instinet Research’s five-person quantitative equity research department.
• Continued to hone in and develop his proprietary metrics.

2000s

• Briefly retired in 2000.
• Served as Director of the Fleisher Art Memorial from 2009-2011.

2008-Present Day

• Started Chaikin Stock Research in 2008 and officially rebranded it as Chaikin Analytics in 2011.
• Chaikin Analytics is a stock research platform that simplifies stocks for small-time retail investors and provides advanced resources used by Wall Street professionals.
• Provides a suite of stock research tools and portfolio management services.
• Powered by The Chaikin Power Gauge, the platform offers easy yet powerful and practical tools that simplify ratings for 4,000+ stocks and 1,700+ ETFs.
• Provides four comprehensive newsletters- Power Gauge Investor, Power Gauge Report, Power Pulse Premium, and PowerFeed.
• Chaikin’s three NASDAQ indexes driven by the Power Gauge outperformed their benchmarks by over 45% in their first year and consistently since April 2014.
• Named one of “Two Top Websites for Quantitative Analysis” by Barron’s in 2016.
• Won a 2017 Benzinga Fintech Award for Best Trading Ideas Platform.
• On April 30, 2018, the Chaikin Analytics team rang the NASDAQ Opening Bell.
• In 2019, WealthManagement.com named The Chaikin Power Gauge ETF rating system a finalist in the “Industry Research Providers” category for its Industry Awards.

• “I learned a long time not to be on the other side of a Chaikin trade.”-  Jim Cramer, CNBC
• “I want to explain why I love [Marc Chaikin’s] stuff, it’s simple, it’s understandable, it’s rational, it’s not emotional, and you know I use it constantly and I almost never want to go against it.”- Jim Cramer, CNBC
• “I highly recommend Chaikin Analytics to anyone looking to gain the edge needed for trading success.”- Tom Gentile, Editor-Power Profit Trades=
• “[The Power Gauge] is the most successful stock predictor.”- Stansberry Research