Marc Chaikin: 60 Years on Wall Street, One Indicator

Marc Chaikin is not a typical newsletter presenter. He became a licensed broker in 1966 and has spent 60 years on Wall Street. He created the Chaikin Money Flow indicator, a technical analysis tool that tracks institutional money flowing into and out of stocks. That indicator is not a marketing claim. It is a standard feature on every Bloomberg and Reuters terminal worldwide, used by professional traders and institutional investors every day.

His system was used by some of the most legendary names in finance. Billionaire Steve Cohen used Chaikin’s tools to grow his firm from $20 million to $14 billion, a 69,900% surge in assets. Paul Tudor Jones and George Soros were also longtime colleagues. Jim Cramer, host of Mad Money, said on the record: I learned a long time ago not to be on the other side of a Chaikin trade.

Chaikin’s track record is specific and verifiable. He flagged Nvidia in 2014, before its 45,000% gain. He warned subscribers about the COVID-19 crash in February 2020, the 2022 bear market, and what he calls the SaaSpocalypse, the $300 billion wipeout in software stocks. On the bullish side, the Power Gauge flagged PBF Energy before it rose 242%, EQT before it gained 120%, and Permian Basin Royalty Trust before it skyrocketed 566%. On the bearish side, he called SunEdison before it filed for bankruptcy, and his December 2024 Bottom Ten report identified stocks that went on to average a 23% loss.

In 2000, Chaikin left Wall Street for a quiet life in Connecticut. But when his wife Sandy lost roughly 50% of her 401(k) in the 2008 crash due to a bad money manager, he decided to rebuild his institutional tools for ordinary investors. That personal story, told near the end of the presentation, is genuine and adds a human dimension that most newsletter VSLs lack. The Power Gauge system, once available only to hedge funds and institutional clients at $5,000 per month, was rebuilt for retail investors at a fraction of the cost.

Sandy Chaikin’s experience lit a fire in Chaikin that became his mission. As he tells it, he realized that while he had spent his whole life helping Wall Street get richer, ordinary folks like his wife were getting fleeced. He rebuilt the Chaikin Money Flow indicator and the full Power Gauge system for retail investors. Sandy now manages her own accounts using the system, typing a stock name into the search engine and acting on the Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral rating. She has made back everything she lost in 2008 and is up 3 times her money overall. One of her finds, Digital Turbine, made her 7 times her money. Subscribers like Brian H. have reported retiring at 57 because Power Gauge returns matched his 6-figure software salary. Chuck F. reported $53,000 in unrealized gains from official recommendations plus an additional $25,000 from screening stocks on his own.

The Power Gauge is Marc Chaikin’s proprietary stock-rating system.

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 offer is for Power Gauge Report, Chaikin’s flagship research service. It includes 1 full year of Power Gauge Report (monthly stock recommendations and analysis, valued at $499), 1 full year of access to the Power Gauge Rating system (look up any of 5,000+ stocks, valued at $1,000), and four bonus reports: 100X Starburst Opportunity ($199 value), The Robotics Hotlist ($299 value), The AI Energy Hotlist ($299 value), and The AI Bottleneck Hotlist ($299 value). A mystery gift valued at $2,999 is also included.

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.

Where to Learn More

For the complete analysis, read our CPGR Frontier AI review covering Marc Chaikin’s full thesis on frontier AI and the Power Gauge system.

Discover how the Power Gauge uses 20 factors to rate 5,000+ stocks.

Read our Chaikin Analytics profile for more on the company.

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