How to Access the Chaikin Power Gauge: Complete Guide

The Chaikin Power Gauge is a stock-rating system that uses 20 factors across four categories to rate more than 5,000 stocks as Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral. Subscribers to the Power Gauge Report get full access to the rating system, which updates every night with the latest data.

The Power Gauge is Marc Chaikin’s proprietary stock-rating system. It uses 20 factors across four categories to rate more than 5,000 stocks as Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral. The system appears on every Bloomberg and Reuters terminal in the world and is used by hundreds of banks, hedge funds, and brokerage platforms.

The four categories are Financials (LT Debt to Equity, Price to Book, Return on Equity, Price to Sales, Free Cash Flow), Earnings (Earnings Growth, Earnings Surprise, Earnings Trend, Projected P/E, Earnings Consistency), Technicals (Relative Strength, Money Flow, Persistency, Price Strength, Price Trend ROC, Volume Trend), and Experts (Earnings Estimate Trend, Short Interest, Insider Activity, Analyst Rating Trend, Industry Rel Strength).

The most important factor is the Chaikin Money Flow indicator, which tracks when institutions are pouring money into or pulling money out of a stock. Back-testing shows the Power Gauge would have issued bullish ratings for at least 8 of the top 10 stocks of the year every single year since 2016.

The Chaikin Money Flow indicator is Marc Chaikin’s most famous creation. It tracks institutional money flowing into and out of stocks, providing a signal of whether smart money is accumulating or distributing shares. The indicator appears on every Bloomberg and Reuters terminal in the world and is used by professional traders globally.

Chaikin developed the indicator in the 1980s, originally calculating all the math by hand on a calculator for every stock he was watching. It became a core part of the Power Gauge system, where it serves as the most heavily weighted factor in the Technicals category.

The indicator works because someone always knows something early, and that knowledge is sometimes only reflected in the movement of large sums of money in and out of stocks. When institutions start pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a stock, it can shoot up overnight. When they pull that money out, the stock will almost always plummet.

The system’s track record is impressive. Back-testing shows the Power Gauge would have issued bullish ratings for at least 8 of the top 10 stocks of the year every single year since 2016. Specific picks include PBF Energy (+242%), EQT (+120%), Permian Basin Royalty Trust (+566%), and Nvidia (flagged in 2014 before its 45,000% gain). On the bearish side, the December 2024 Bottom Ten report identified stocks that averaged a 23% loss.

The Power Gauge also demonstrated an uncanny ability to flag stocks before major catalysts. On June 3rd, the Power Gauge turned bullish on Phathom Pharmaceuticals, just three days before the FDA awarded the company exclusive rights to its flagship heartburn drug, giving it near-monopoly status. The stock shot up 114% in ten days. The system did not predict the FDA approval itself, but it detected the tsunami of institutional money flooding into the stock ahead of the announcement. As Chaikin puts it, “someone always knows something early, and that knowledge is sometimes only reflected in the movement of large sums of money in and out of stocks.” On the bearish side, the Power Gauge turned Very Bearish on SunEdison just before the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The offer is for Power Gauge Report, Chaikin’s flagship research service.

The total stated value is $2,595 plus the mystery gift, but the actual price is described as less than the price of a nice dinner and is revealed on the order page. The guarantee is 30 days, 100% money-back. If you cancel during the trial period, you keep all four bonus reports. The service has grown to over 550,000 subscribers.

Access to the Power Gauge system is included with a subscription to the Power Gauge Report. Subscribers can look up any stock, see its current rating, view the underlying factors, and track changes over time. The system is also available on Bloomberg and Reuters terminals, where it has been used by institutional investors for decades.

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