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Please read the following information carefully. 

This isn't your typical, boilerplate disclaimer. And this document contains two distinct parts. 

Part 1: DISCLOSURES ABOUT OUR BUSINESS contains critical information that will help you use our work appropriately and give you a far better understanding of how our business works – both the benefits it might offer you and the inevitable limitations of our products.

Part 2: PROMOTION DETAILS contains facts, figures, explanations, annotations, full testimonials, and other resources about the promotional piece you just viewed. If you have questions or want more information about the marketing material you just viewed, the first place to look is Part 2 of this document.

PART 1: DISCLOSURES ABOUT OUR BUSINESS

The first and most important rule of investing is, in our view, the most obvious:

Investing always involves the risk of loss.

Paradoxically, investing is often most risky when it appears safest. This lesson of history led us to adopt a rather unconventional strategy – a contrarian approach to investing. We believe our approach has great merit, based upon our reading of history of our own track record to date. But as you surely have heard before, the past isn’t necessarily a guide to the future. No matter how well we do our job, no matter how much research we conduct, no matter how promising the opportunity, or certain our analyst… you cannot escape the fact that every investment opportunity (and particularly in stocks) comes with the risk of a loss. These risks are part of the reason why great investment ideas are rare and incredibly valuable. You should understand why a business – like ours – would be willing to share investment ideas with you and under what terms. We’ve prepared this document to help you understand exactly why we publish our best investment ideas (instead of simply investing in them or managing a hedge fund or other investment pool). It will give you insight into the specific conflict of interest we face as publishers and describe how we collect our track records. It will describe our posture in regards to guarantees. It will explain the regulatory and legal framework that governs how we operate and perhaps most important, it will set the stage for a long and happy business relationship. We’ve been successful in this business for more than 20 years because we’ve always been dedicated to serving our subscribers by only publishing materials we’d want our own families to read and follow, by always being completely transparent about the utility of our products (track records), and by always considering how we’d want to be treated if the roles were reversed. If you’ll take the time to read this document, we believe you will be far more likely to succeed using our materials. You will know more about our approach to serving investors. You’ll know more about the limits of what we can help you achieve. And most of all, you will know a lot more about the risks you inevitably face as an investor.

The first thing to know about our business (Chaikin Analytics) is that we are NOT money managers, brokers, or fiduciaries of any kind.

Our published work is NOT a low-price replacement for an experienced money manager, broker, or investment advisor. Instead, Chaikin Analytics LLC is a publishing company and the indicators, strategies, reports, articles, and all other features of our products are provided for informational and educational purposes only. Under no circumstances should you construe anything that appears in our newsletters, reports, or on our website as personalized investment advice. Our recommendations and analysis are based on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, current events, interviews, corporate press releases, and what we’ve learned as financial journalists. It may contain errors, and you shouldn’t make any investment decision based solely on what you read here. If you are not an experienced investor, we urge you to get as much education as possible and to consult a licensed individual advisor before making investments of any kind. The regulatory regime for investment advisors and money managers makes it difficult (if not impossible) to serve both the general public and individuals. We have chosen to provide our research to the general public for a number of good reasons. For one, we know that Wall Street has enjoyed a dramatic advantage over the average investor for decades. And we want to level the playing field as much as possible. But the most important reason for serving the general public relates to something called the “prudent man” rule. Historically, the best investment opportunities have arisen amid circumstances most investors believed were risky. For example, opportunities to buy large-cap U.S. stocks at attractive prices have occurred almost exclusively during periods of great economic uncertainty. Recently such opportunities arose in 1987, 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2008. We are confident that such opportunities will occur again. Excessive greed and fear are the emotions that drive the public markets. Likewise, individual securities often trade at the most attractive prices when serious problems arise in a given business. We call these company-specific problems “warts.” However, precisely because most investors are repulsed by such securities, investors willing to study them can produce large investment returns. We seek to take advantage of these opportunities for the benefit of our subscribers. As I’ll explain later, our firm does not own any stocks, nor do we allow our investment analysts to own the stocks they recommend for our subscribers. Investment fiduciaries are often forbidden by regulations – most notably the so-called “prudent man” rule – from taking a contrarian approach like ours with a majority of their investments. These regulations date back to 1830 (though the rules have been significantly revised over the years). The rule boils down to a simple concept: Fiduciaries have an obligation to avoid taking investment risks that are contrary to the public’s opinion. Individual investment managers with fiduciary obligations are legally required “to observe how men of prudence, discretion, and intelligence manage their own affairs.” These rules essentially require registered investment advisors to invest alongside the public. They are forbidden, for example, from shorting stocks. This makes taking a truly contrarian approach nearly impossible because of regulatory and legal liability concerns.

Our company’s primary approach to investing is based in contrarian strategies that may be significantly at odds with conventional wisdom and mainstream approaches to capital management.

That means many of the recommendations and strategies we cover in our publications will seem risky and controversial. It also helps explain why investors and media outlets that follow a more conventional “prudent man” approach frequently criticize our work and even accuse us of malfeasance. We urge you to consider our investment ideas carefully and to follow all of our strategies for risk management, especially position sizing and trailing stop losses. But most of all… we urge you to educate yourself about the philosophy that underlies our approach. If you will take the time to understand why we believe our strategies are likely to work, you can acquire the emotional fortitude and the discipline necessary to successfully apply our strategies. If you lack this understanding, you are very unlikely to succeed.

We are NOT responsible for your results – good or bad. We will NOT take credit (in the form of a percentage of your profits) for your success. Nor are we legally liable for any of your losses.

Subscribing to our newsletters will not make us responsible for your investment results. You will bear the full burden of the risks you decide to take. As we will regularly remind you: It’s your money, and it’s your responsibility. Our lack of fiduciary responsibility might cause you to second-guess our work. That’s fine with us. We urge you to be critical and skeptical of all investment recommendations, no matter the source. But the simple fact is, if we were subject to legal liability for any losses resulting from our recommendations, our business would disappear overnight. No investment manager could withstand the risk of investment losses without also reaping the rewards of investment gains. Being free of these fiduciary obligations allows us the freedom to operate and to provide information about investment strategies (contrarian) and investment ideas that others are not able or willing to cover. Therefore, when you use our services remember to always limit your position sizes to an amount you can easily afford to lose. (We’d recommend the same advice when making an investment based on a recommendation from any source.)

A very important warning: We make mistakes.

We are human. We make mistakes. Sometimes our ideas and hunches turn out to be wrong (though not often, we’re pleased to report). More frequently our “timing” is off. That is, an investment theme we expect to develop only does so in a timeframe that makes it difficult to earn a profit. And of course, there are also times when we are misled, despite reasonable efforts to confirm our sources. Based on the large number of customers we have acquired and retained and based on our own internally kept track records (more on these below), we feel confident that on the whole our work is extremely reliable. We doubt you’ll find work by any other publisher that is as detailed and well-sourced. Nevertheless, it is important for you to realize that no published materials anywhere – not even the New York Times - is regularly published without at least occasional mistakes. When we make mistakes, you can count on us to correct them as quickly and honestly as possible. It is very unlikely (though it does happen from time to time) that you will become wealthy from trading stocks, bonds, options, commodities, or other financial instruments. The most realistic way to become wealthy, in our view, is by building your own business or by playing a key role in the creation or the significant growth of an existing one. Our newsletters are intended to serve people who are in the process of wealth building by helping them manage their savings or people who already have significant amounts of savings earn a higher average return.

Why not simply manage money or keep our ideas for ourselves?

Most knowledgeable investors are willing to share their ideas with other investors in exchange for a fee. Sharing ideas doesn’t reduce returns and can generate substantial amounts of income for good investors. Fees for top-quality money managers are high – especially for investors who are able to pursue contrarian strategies. Hedge funds, for example, typically charge 2% of assets under management and 20% of profits. Fees generated by successful hedge funds can reach into billions of dollars. While we have considered for many years launching such a fund, the regulatory burden and the cost of raising large amounts of capital, are significant. On the other hand, thanks to the First Amendment, there are relatively few legal burdens to publishing and thanks to the Internet, there are few capital constraints. These low barriers to entry allowed us to achieve a significant amount of success very quickly. We reached 100,000 subscribers within five years of operations. Within about 10 years of operations, we’d reached well over a million total readers and more than 500,000 paid subscribers. Thus, in about 10 years, we grew from a start-up to the world’s leading subscription-based financial publisher (according to various databases of subscriber figures). We know of no other business in our industry that has ever achieved growth equal to even a fraction of these numbers so quickly. We don’t believe such rapid success would have been possible if we’d attempted to build a money-management business. You should know that we attribute our success to three simple factors: our contrarian approach (we cover valuable opportunities others won’t or can’t), the number of very highly skilled analysts we were able to recruit and retain (primarily by offering a work environment that promised lucrative rewards for success with almost no conflicts of interest), and the integrity with which we have always approached our endeavors. Or as our founder likes to say in jest, “All it takes is a decade of hard work to become an overnight success.” Our path to success was set in motion by a simple choice: We decided to publish our investment ideas to millions of people around the world at a relatively low price rather than sharing our ideas exclusively with a very small group of wealthy investors at a high price. In the long term, for this approach to be successful, we must continue to provide large numbers of subscribers with unique, contrarian investment advice that is reliable and profitable.

We have structured our business in an effort to avoid conflicts of interest, but a significant potential conflict of interest still exists.

We believe everyone involved in finance has some conflict of interest. Hedge-fund managers, for example have a tremendous incentive to produce short-term capital gains so that they can generate fee income (20% of gains). This might lead them to take short-term risks at the expense of safer and more lucrative long-term gains. This conflict will exist even if the manager keeps all or most of his wealth inside the fund. It also helps explain why successful hedge-fund managers often end up earning far more from running the fund than their clients make investing in it. We generate our profits exclusively from the subscriptions we sell. This is deliberate. We do not want our subscribers to wonder whether we were recommending a company or an investment because the company or investment sponsor advertised with us. This has been one of the ways that we have steered clear of potential conflicts of interest but it’s not the only one.

We don’t accept compensation (or favors) from the companies we recommend as investments. 

As you may know, many newsletter companies do not adhere to the same guidelines that we do. Some accept compensation from the companies whose stock they recommend and cover. We could argue that our policies described above leave us completely free of any conflict of interest. Other financial publishers will surely make such a claim. But it’s not completely true. We have made efforts to structure our business so that we don’t have any conflicts of interest. But despite our efforts, we do have a conflict. It’s a conflict that’s systemic throughout the investment community and complex to explain… so bear with me. The investing public has the unfailing tendency to rush into the worst possible investments at the worst possible time. We call this the “paradox” of finance. People can figure out when it’s a good time to buy groceries – when they’re on sale. But when it comes to securities, people tend to ignore them when they’re cheap and stampede into them when they’re expensive. For example… you’ll remember that in 1999 and 2000 investors all rushed into tech stocks… at the wrong time. Then, they rushed into the housing market… at the wrong time. We believe this irrational behavior is linked to the emotional need many people have to conform. It’s the same psychology, essentially, that powers the fashion business. We can’t say what investment passion will strike the crowd next, but we know, when it occurs, it would prove lucrative for us to publish information confirming the crowd’s passions… even when it involves making bad or dangerous recommendations. That is, during bubble periods, we have a financial incentive to help inflate the bubble because that’s the kind of information the public will demand in those periods. This conflict – the temptation to sell the public the information it wants even if it’s not in their interests – isn’t unique to financial publishers. All forms of media face this conflict. That’s why, at market tops, you will commonly find magazine covers and other types of mainstream media embracing the bubble. We attempt to balance this conflict by focusing on proven contrarian approaches to investing. We further advocate strict risk-management strategies that have so far largely prevented us from being caught up in investment manias. You should also know that the structure of our company and the factors that drive our profits help minimize the financial temptation to “go with the crowd” in the short term. Essentially all of our profits are derived from renewal sales or additional sales to existing customers. We typically market to new customers at a loss. This allows us to reach more potential subscribers and, over time, to build a bigger business. It also means that unless our subscribers choose to renew in large numbers, we are unlikely to succeed at our business. This helps to align our interests with the long-term success of our subscribers. We believe we are unique in this long-term strategy among all financial publishers. Just to be clear, though, no financial business is totally immune to all conflicts of interest – just as no investment is totally free of risk. No matter how dedicated our executives are to the success and wellbeing of our subscribers, at least some of our employees will be motivated by a need to sell, to motivate, to persuade, and to captivate our subscribers to produce revenue for our business. It is difficult to sell anything without embracing, at least somewhat, the mood of the public. Thus, we urge all subscribers to reference our most recent newsletters and to consult with an individual advisor before making any investments. Likewise, we would urge you not to rely – at all – on any of our marketing pieces or sales letters when making your investment decisions. These publications are designed to sell our research products and thus, by design, lack the more fully balanced analysis of the risks and rewards of any particular investment idea that you will find in our newsletters.

Why our business model is almost exclusively based on subscriptions.

You may have noticed that the vast majority of our products are offered only via subscription. To protect free speech and to encourage public debate and the exchange of ideas, the SEC has carved out what’s known as the “publisher’s exemption” from certain securities laws. This exemption doesn’t mean that we can write whatever we want. It means that we aren’t required to be registered with the SEC. And it means that we can write about things registered advisors would find difficult to get through their compliance departments – such as extremely contrarian advice. To qualify for this exemption from securities licensing (and avoid the “prudent man” restrictions we mentioned earlier), we must be a “bona fide” publisher, which under law is defined as a publisher who offers commentary to the public on a regular schedule via subscription. The SEC frowns on “tip sheets” that sell one-off reports. These policies help create accountability for publishers. We have no problem proving our value to subscribers. It’s exactly how we’d want to be treated if our roles were reversed.

Newsletter track records: Why they’re not like mutual funds.

The mutual-fund industry has become, like the wine trade, addicted to extremely simplistic, almost ritualistic, evaluations of quality. A wine is a 96. That’s great. A fund is five-star. That’s great. What’s your newsletter’s rank? The problem is, unlike a mutual fund, newsletter track records have no precise starting point or ending point. The size (number of positions) grows over time, as the letter adds recommendations. Thus, a newsletter can’t really be compared – directly – to either a mutual fund or a stock index. The closest comparison we can manage for newsletters is to give you the average annual return of each recommendation made and the average holding period. This gives you the annualized return – which is an approximation of what you might have earned following the advice of a newsletter. It’s far from precise. It doesn’t account for taxes (if you’re investing in a taxable account) or “slippage” – which is the price you paid when you bought versus the recommended price and the price you got when you sold versus the recommended sell price. We can only track prices that are available in the market at the time we publish. Occasionally, someone will complain that our track records aren’t reliable because they don’t reflect actual investment returns. It’s important for you to realize that your results might be better or worse than the results we represent. We simply have no way to know what your entry price was, what your exit price was, or what taxes you’ve paid (or will eventually pay). We strive to make our track records accurate. They may, or they may not, be representative of your actual results. Now… here’s the problem with track records and the reliance some investors place on them. There’s not a single mutual fund in the world whose long-term track record is great (10 years with double-digit annual returns) that doesn’t also have periods of terrible investment performance. Likewise in the newsletter business, we have some analysts and some strategies that excel during bull markets. Some that excel during bear markets. And some that can produce very consistent (but not world-beating) results. We had an editor, for example, close out 136 winning positions in a row, where the average return on each position was roughly 10%. Of course, he held those positions open for two to three months. So his annualized return over that period was 52%. Nearly all of our products are based on a fundamental approach to securities analysis. A few offer advice based on the market’s technical outlook. We’ve developed a preference for fundamental factors (like the underlying quality of the business and a rational evaluation of the stock’s intrinsic value versus its market price) because we’ve found these qualitative measures to be the most reliable. The most important thing that you need to understand is that no single investment strategy (or investment analyst) can provide consistently market-beating advice at all times and in all markets. Our analysts use a variety of contrarian-based strategies. Our efforts are designed to allow you to use the right tools in the right market conditions. All of our publications maintain a track record. Virtually all of them post their open positions on our website and almost all of them are also printed with each issue. All of the back issues are available on our website. You can see for yourself how each analyst has done with every recommendation he or she has ever made. You can see how each of our products has performed in the past, during various market conditions. All of these things we do to inform our readers about the products that they’ve purchased and represent our efforts to be transparent. Please understand: The best thing an investment research product can bring you is a good idea that’s right for the market conditions and offers an overwhelming potential for success versus a moderate level of risk. No investment newsletter is likely to make you rich overnight, although we’ve seen huge profits in volatile industries, like mining and biotechnology. Most of your success as an investor will be determined by how much capital you have to invest, how much time you have to invest, and your asset allocation, that is, how much of your capital you have in stocks versus bonds and cash. If you want to be successful as an investor, our best advice is to become an expert at avoiding risk. Simply putting your money into high-quality stocks and bonds is very likely your best bet.

Another way we try to avoid conflicts: Our analysts do not buy the stocks they recommend to you.

Our company policy forbids our investment analysts and their staff from owning any stock they recommend. In addition, other employees of Chaikin Analytics may not purchase recommended securities until 24 hours after the recommendations have been distributed to our subscribers on the Internet. Some subscribers profess to be disappointed that our analysts don’t “eat their own cooking” or have any “skin in the game” since they aren’t allowed to own even a token amount of the stocks they’ve recommended. That opinion is naïve. Nothing is more important to the long-term success of an analyst in our industry than a reputation for producing excellent results for their subscribers. An analyst’s standing in our company and our industry is measured by his or her ability to produce a winning track record using a given strategy. This is real skin in the game – far more skin than simply investing a few thousand dollars in a particular stock. This position also allows our analysts to be genuinely independent. That guarantees us that the only reason they have to recommend a stock, to re-recommend a stock, or to recommend selling a stock is that they fully and sincerely believe that’s the best course of action. Without this independence the possibilities of a conflict of interest are infinite.

PART 2: PROMOTION DETAILS

Marc Chaikin is the founder of Chaikin Analytics. Stansberry Research is a majority shareholder.

This is a promotion for the Power Gauge Report. Our average 2-year gain in Power Gauge Report is 8.4%. If you have any questions or want more information about the marketing material you just viewed, here's where you should start. Remember, you can also call Chaikin’s Customer Service team at our Baltimore Headquarters, from Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. Eastern time. Our toll–free phone number is: 1–877-697-6783.

The following contains facts, figures, explanations, annotations, full testimonials, and other resources about the promotional piece you just viewed.

In short, these are the resources used to put together the previous promotion. As you have seen, we publish testimonials in our promotions. All of those testimonials are the words of real subscribers that we received in real letters, emails, and other feedback.  If a subscriber sends a testimonial we’d like to use in a promotion, a member of our Customer Service team calls them to verify their claims. We do not make these results up, and we do not pay or compensate subscribers for their testimonials.

When we receive testimonials from a subscriber, we veil their last name and any identifying details to protect their privacy and identity. During the verification process we’ll often ask for particulars about the subscriber's results, including:

1. How much money he or she invested,
2. How long he or she was in the trade,
3. How much the subscriber made in dollars terms and as a percentage of the original investment, and
4. What portion of his or her overall portfolio was put into the trade.

We ask these questions because we want a clearer picture of the results that the subscriber attained so that we can pass that information on to you.

While we ask these questions, we are aware that this financial information is personal and sensitive. Some subscribers do not feel comfortable sharing this information with us, especially knowing that we may publish it. You should keep these questions in mind when assessing whether to purchase our products and whether you could obtain similar results.

If the subscriber does not give us this information, then we cannot publish it.. We publish this information to let you know that these results are possible and have been achieved by real people after reading our research. However, you should also understand that we are advertising these testimonials because they are atypical. These results are examples of the very best possible outcomes.

Past results like these are no guarantee of any future result.

We wouldn't recommend anticipating such outstanding results with your own investments. Yes, you could have results like these – or perhaps even better. But, it's simply not prudent to assume you will immediately make large investment returns. Instead, we urge you to read our work carefully, to follow our risk management strategies conscientiously, and to invest cautiously while setting expectations that are based around our long-term performance averages. 

The promotion you just read was for Chaikin Analytics.

The details listed below are listed in the order they appear in the accompanying promotion.

If you have any questions or want more information about the marketing material you just viewed, here's where you should start. Remember, you can also call our Customer Service team at our Baltimore Headquarters, from Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. Eastern time. Our toll–free phone number is: 1–877-978-6257.

PROMOTION DETAILS

Cook, Jennifer. “Presidential Election Cycle Theory: Meaning, Overview, and Examples.” Investopedia, Investopedia, www.investopedia.com/terms/p/presidentialelectioncycle.asp. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

Poullaouec, Thomas. “How Do U.S. Elections Affect Stock Market Performance?: T. Rowe Price.” How Do U.S. Elections Affect Stock Market Performance? | T. Rowe Price, www.troweprice.com/financial-intermediary/us/en/insights/articles/2024/q2/how-do-us-elections-affect-stock-market-performance.html. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

“Election 2024: What Do the Markets Say?” Morgan Stanley, www.morganstanley.com/ideas/presidential-election-2024-market-forecasts. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

“2024 Election: Latest Insights from Schwab Experts.” Schwab Brokerage, www.schwab.com/learn/story/2024-election-latest-insights-from-schwab-experts. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

“Incumbent US Presidents Tend to Win Elections except during Recessions.” Goldman Sachs, 30 Nov. 2023, www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/us-president-incumbents-tend-to-win-elections-except-during-recessions.

Duderstadt, Chris. “The 4-Year Presidential Election Cycle and the Stock Market.” Modern Wealth Management, 6 Nov. 2024, www.modwm.com/the-4-year-presidential-election-cycle-and-the-stock-market/.

“After Black Monday.” George Soros, www.georgesoros.com/1988/03/16/after-black-monday/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

Quinn, Ava. “Stanley Druckenmiller’s Perspective on Election Cycles and Bond Market Strategies.” Stanley Druckenmiller’s Perspective on Election Cycles and B... - Moomoo Community, www.moomoo.com/community/feed/stanley-druckenmiller-s-perspective-on-election-cycles-and-bond-market-113350083280901. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

Vartan, Vartanig G. “Market Place; Technicians as Forecasters.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 13 Jan. 1983, www.nytimes.com/1983/01/13/business/market-place-technicians-as-forecasters.html.

“Market Chartists’ Influence Growing; Their Forecasts Found Helpful by Brokers Market Chartists’ Influence Grows.” The New York Times, The New York Times, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/04/19/75234025.html?pageNumber=57. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

“John Bollinger’s Official Bollinger Band Website.” Bollingerbands, www.bollingerbands.com/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

“Marc Chaikin - Fleisher Art Memorial.” LinkedIn, www.linkedin.com/in/marcchaikin/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

“Investors Beware: ‘Magnificent Seven’ Stocks Starting to Resemble ‘Nifty 50’ That Got Crushed in 1970s Market Crash - Marketwatch.” MarketWatch, www.marketwatch.com/story/investors-beware-magnificent-seven-are-starting-to-resemble-nifty-50-stocks-that-got-crushed-in-the-1970s-market-crash-6e26b351. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

“One of Wall Street’s Biggest Bears Says a ‘huge Crash’ Is Coming as Markets Are in the Biggest Credit Bubble in History.” Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo!, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-wall-streets-biggest-bears-024002628.html. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

Edwards, William. “A Notorious Market Bear Who Called the 2000 and 2008 Crashes Dispels the Notion That a Fed Pivot Will Lift Stocks - and Warns That the S&P 500 Could Fall 65%.” Business Insider, Business Insider, www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-crash-bubble-fed-pivot-valuations-sp500-outlook-hussman-2023-12. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

Kolakowski, Mark. “Why the 1929 Stock Market Crash Could Happen Again.” Investopedia, Investopedia, www.investopedia.com/investing/1929-stock-market-crash-could-happen-again/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

Altus, Kristen. “US Economist Predicts 2024 Will Bring ‘Biggest Crash of Our Lifetime.’” Fox Business, Fox Business, 19 Dec. 2023, www.foxbusiness.com/media/us-economist-predicts-2024-bring-biggest-single-crash-lifetime.

“Percent Change Calculator.” Change.Com, https://percent-change.com/index.php?y1=4756&y2=5633. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

Jennewine, Trevor. “Here’s the Average Stock Market Return with Democratic and Republican Presidents in the White House.” The Motley Fool, The Motley Fool, 6 Oct. 2024, www.fool.com/investing/2024/10/06/stock-market-return-democrat-republican-president/.

Bilello, Charlie. “The Week in Charts (8/19/24).” Charlie Bilello’s Blog, 19 Aug. 2024, https://bilello.blog/2024/the-week-in-charts-8-19-24.

“Understanding the Presidential Election Cycle Theory.” SoFi, 17 Sept. 2024, www.sofi.com/learn/content/presidential-election-cycle-theory/.

“Is ‘hysterical’ Market Speculation Pushing Us towards Another Crash?” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 9 Jan. 2021, www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/09/is-hysterical-market-speculation-pushing-us-towards-another-crash.

“The Stock Market Could Still Crash into a Bear Market. Here’s When to Worry. .” Barron’s, www.barrons.com/articles/a-bear-market-in-stocks-could-still-happen-heres-when-to-worry-51609183334. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

Edwards, William. “A Hedge Fund Chief Who Oversees $2 Billion Breaks down Why We’re in for a 61% Stock-Market Crash over the next 18-24 Months - and Shares 3 Types of Companies He’s Shorting Right Now.” Business Insider, Business Insider, www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-crash-expert-predicts-sell-off-2021-mark-yusko-2020-12. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

Stankiewicz, Kevin. “Massachusetts Regulator Says GameStop Speculation Is a Danger to the Whole Market, as TD Ameritrade Restricts Trading.” CNBC, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2021, www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/gamestop-speculation-is-danger-to-whole-market-massachusetts-regulator.html.

Robertson, Harry. “Economist Stephen Roach Says the US Economy’s V-Shaped Recovery Is ‘in Tatters’ and the Dollar Could Crash 20% This Year.” Business Insider, Business Insider, https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/dollar-crash-us-economy-recovery-tatters-coronavirus-economist-stephen-roach-2021-1-1029959173. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

Sang-hun, Choe. “North Korea, Rebuking Trump, Says It Can Test Long-Range Missile ‘Anytime.’” The New York Times, The New York Times, 9 Jan. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/world/asia/north-korea-trump-icbm-test.html.

“Stocks, Currencies Fall after Fed’s Yellen Signals Rate Hikes.” Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/legal/government/stocks-currencies-fall-after-feds-yellen-signals-rate-hikes-idUSL5N1F928A/ .

Dewan, Angela, and Bryony Jones. “Brexit Begins: UK Triggers Article 50.” CNN, Cable News Network, 29 Mar. 2017, www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/europe/article-50-brexit-theresa-may-eu/index.html.

Hirsch, Yale, and Jeffrey A. Hirsch. Stock Trader’s Almanac. John Wiley & Sons, 2023.

Kolakowski, Mark. “This Stock Correction Is Now the Longest in a Decade.” Investopedia, Investopedia, www.investopedia.com/news/stock-correction-now-longest-decade/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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TESTIMONIALS

Jim Cramer

“I use it constantly, and I almost never want to go against it.”

“I have been using the Power Guage since August 2021, but only casually until the last month or so of 2022.  From that time, I have learned how to use the Power Guage tool more efficiently and effectively.  I buy many of the stocks recommended by the Power Guage folks, although I do buy stocks recommended by other services I subscribe to.  In either case, regardless of which service recommends the stocks I buy, I do not make any buying decision without first checking them with the formidable Power Guage tools.   In just over a year, thanks mostly to using the Power Guage for when to buy or sell stocks, I have increased the value of my stock portfolio by almost 70 percent!    Having spent over $30,000 in the last 5 years purchasing subscriptions to numerous stock advisory services, I can truly say that my investment in a lifetime subscription to the Power Guage has been by far the very best investment I have ever made in this arena. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating such a fantastic tool, and for your steady stream of great market analysis and comments as well as valuable advice on individual stocks.”

“I can tell you I am so happy to be using your Power Gauge Report because it has helped me gain back about $50K of losses. I did not own any of the stocks you warned about but the Power Gauge did help me find some real winners [redacted], [redacted], & [redacted]. Your product and life’s work is a fantastic research tool for us retail investors and I use it daily. It was well worth it and I have made MONEY!”

“I have been using Chaikin Analytics for about 2 years. I successfully manage my retirement account with it. I have tried many programs over the years and have literally spent thousands of dollars evaluating other software packages. None has been as easy to use or as reliably accurate as Chaikin Analytics. Customer support is excellent. In today's market the information provided by Chaikin Analytics is a necessity. I would not invest without it.”

“Quite honestly, this is hands down the most amazing system that I’ve ever seen. And pretty much everything I need to help me make informed trading decisions, is in one place. Prior to this, I was going to numerous different sites to pull in all the various pieces of data that I needed. Also, I was paying money out to a few different trading subscriptions and systems, where not only costs add up, but it’s time consuming. Plus, after a while you have information overload. So trust me when I say that Chaikin Analytics is a perfect fit for me. For me it means, a higher level of quality info to help me make better trading decisions and become a more profitable trader. You’re helping me to tilt the probability scale in my favor. I’m not looking for any guarantees, just a shot at equaling out the playing field.  From the little bit that I’ve seen so far, I can tell that you people run a quality business with excellent support and learning tools. It’s great to see that there are businesses out there who are truly trying to help out individual investors like myself. For me, Chaikin Analytics is incredibly impressive. You’ve brought a new excitement back into my trading. Keep up the good work. I really do appreciate it.”

“I have fortunately never needed to use your Power Gauge warnings. However, I have saved countless hours of research by always consulting the Power Gauge to rule out the purchase of stocks that fail to rate Bullish or Very Bullish. Your recommendations have never let me down! I will be a subscriber for many years to come! Thank you!!!”

“Power Gauge is my go-to tool. I especially like how easy it is to find winners.”
Doran H.

“I love your Power Gauge data.  Whenever I need to buy or sell, your data is always valuable.  I have faith and never hesitate using data to decide how to move forward in a logical way.  The data works for even 80-year-old subscribers! I am beholden!”

“There’s a lot of hyped-up tools out there, but a single tool that combines 20 fundamental AND technical factors to anticipate a stock’s profit potential got my attention. It’s like an objective ‘awesome meter’ for stocks.”

“In all of my years in trading I have tried many different styles and approaches, but [Chaikin] is one system that stands out, head and shoulders, above the rest.”

“All this time I thought I was an early adopter of the Power Gauge Investor Product…just now found out it was available for a year before I found it.  

Marc’s insights have been invaluable over the past year and a half. He and his team’s tools and portfolios have given me the confidence to begin transitioning management of our portfolio away from our financial advisor, even through all of the market uncertainty of 2022 and early 2023. Having the Power Gauge and Power Gauge Investor on my side since April of 2022 has helped me navigate my way through the market declines of 2022 and bank failures of 2023, even beating the S&P500 and NASDAQ during that time. With Power Gauge Investor and the insights from Chaikin Analytics’ daily and monthly newsletter, I’ve made about 6.5% returns on my investments during a market when the NASDAQ and the S&P500 both lost between 6 and 7% during the same time. 

I especially liked the urgent BUY NOW email on [redacted], which went on to gain 44% in just over 2 months following the recommendation. Talk about having an incredible advantage on my side! I am so thankful for Mark’s constant encouragement that the market was beginning to turn as early as November 2022 and continuing to reinforce that message and prove it out with undeniable indicators.  

I thoroughly enjoy reading the daily and monthly emails to stay in tune with what’s happening in the markets and how best to position myself to take advantage of opportunities (or in the case of the 2022, pockets of opportunity). The emails are very informative, yet efficient, for someone trying to balance a very active family life and demanding career. I firmly believe that having Chaikin Analytics as part of my investment journey, I will be able to set myself and family up for financial stability with an opportunity to retire with peace of mind (hopefully earlier than most). 

I appreciate the intuitiveness and ease of use of the Chaikin tools. I was incredibly excited when Briton joined the team and an option centered portfolio was brought into the product mix. One thing that I especially enjoy is the monthly video that Pete puts out as part of the PowerTactics product. I much prefer consuming the content via a video and would love to see the monthly Market Insights available via a video or perhaps a series of videos (that would not require logging into the website if that’s possible – certainly understand the concern of valuable content being shared with non-paying members though). 

Keep up the great work team and thanks so much for making investing fun (even for a novice) and helping me, and countless others, pave our way towards financial freedom.”

“so investing in the PG for the lifetime subscription was a risk. It does, however, give me confidence in investing and it has paid oq. I really couldn't invest without it.  It actually gets me out of bed during the business week. The stocks I've made the most money with this year were [redacted], [redacted], [redacted], all when I saw an opportunity on the PG.”