The Power Gauge: 20 Factors That Rate 5,000 Stocks

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.

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.

The Power Gauge also demonstrated the ability to flag stocks ahead of major catalysts. On June 3rd, the system 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 following that bullish rating. 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. Chaikin also flagged Discovery before it shot up 238% in 6 months, and ViacomCBS before it rose 383% in 10 months. The December 2024 Bottom Ten report was especially prescient: it was published when the market was jubilant after the presidential election, and yet Celsius dropped 27%, Westlake plunged 33%, and Estee Lauder crashed 36% following his warnings.

Chaikin’s personal story explains why he rebuilt the system for retail investors. In 2000, he 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. Sandy now uses the Power Gauge herself to manage her own accounts and is up 3 times her money overall. One of her finds, Digital Turbine, made her 7 times her money. The 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. As Chaikin puts it, he realized that while he had spent his whole life helping Wall Street get richer, ordinary folks like his wife were getting fleeced.

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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.

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