Marc Chaikin
Marc Chaikin is a renowned Wall Street veteran and a true pioneer in quantitative stock analysis. He is the Founder and CEO of Chaikin Analytics, a leading stock research and analysis platform, and the creator of the widely used Chaikin Money Flow Oscillator—one of Wall Street’s most recognized technical indicators, available on virtually every major investing and trading platform worldwide. With a career spanning over 50 years, Chaikin has earned a reputation as one of Wall Street’s most influential figures. His insights, forecasts, and tools have been followed by more than one million investors and adopted across 148 countries, making his indicators an industry standard and a cornerstone of modern trading.
Marc Chaikin Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and CEO
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Senior Vice President and Director
Academic History
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B.A., Political Science and Government
Marc Chaikin is the Founder and CEO of Chaikin Analytics, an award-winning research platform that combines fundamental, technical, and sentiment data to deliver actionable market insights for individual and institutional investors.
At the core of Chaikin Analytics is the Chaikin Power Gauge Rating, a proprietary system developed by Chaikin that assigns Bullish, Neutral, or Bearish ratings to over 5,000 stocks and 2,300 ETFs, helping investors identify potential opportunities and risks each trading day.
Chaikin also created the Chaikin Oscillator, a technical indicator that measures price momentum alongside buying and selling pressure, providing insights into demand shifts and potential market turning points.
Widely used on Bloomberg terminals, by banks, hedge funds, and brokerage platforms, it is considered one of Wall Street’s essential technical tools.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Chaikin has earned a reputation as a trusted market analyst and innovator, accurately predicting major market events such as the 2012 Priceline collapse, the 2020 market crash, and the 2022 bear market.
He also pioneered the first real-time analytics workstation for institutional investors, which later became part of Thomson Reuters’s institutional platform.
Chaikin and his work have been featured in leading financial outlets, including Barron’s, Forbes, Bloomberg, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Fox Business, Nasdaq, MarketWatch, and MoneyShow, highlighting his contributions to financial analysis, market insights, and investor education.