About Marc Chaikin
After 50 years on Wall Street as a trader, stockbroker, analyst, and head of the options department for a major brokerage firm, Marc Chaikin founded Chaikin Analytics to deliver proven stock analytics to investors and traders.
His work is based on the Chaikin Power Gauge, a 20-factor alpha model proven effective at identifying a stock’s potential.
For over 50 years, Chaikin has developed computerized stock selection models and technical indicators that have become industry standards (including Chaikin Money Flow) and pioneered the first real-time analytics workstation for portfolio managers and stock traders.
About Pete Carmasino
Pete Carmasino is our chief market strategist at Chaikin Analytics. He has more than 25 years in the financial-services industry. Pete's years of knowledge in many different strategies help thousands of our subscribers to decipher the markets... His ability to take complex concepts and break them down into digestible information is a true asset.
Prior to joining Chaikin Analytics, Pete owned and operated a registered investment advisory ("RIA") firm where he managed his clients' portfolios using his proprietary methodologies. And he spent the bulk of his career as a portfolio manager for high-net-worth families, individuals, and institutions.
Pete brings portfolio-management experience to Chaikin Analytics from some of the largest names in finance – including Prudential Securities, Lehman Brothers, Wachovia Securities, and PNC Investments.
About Joe Austin
Joe Austin joined Chaikin Analytics in July 2024 as an editor and senior analyst. Before that, he spent four decades in the financial-services industry...
Joe began his Wall Street career as a research analyst for the technology sector in 1984. Along the way, he also served as a senior portfolio manager on a more than $10 billion value equity product and a $80 million long-short science and tech hedge fund. And he provided research coverage of the tech sector for a $5 billion hedge fund.
In the second half of his career, Joe moved into marketing and business development for alternative asset managers. In this role, his strategies included global long-short equity, distressed debt and activist equity, and a natural resource-focused private equity fund.
Joe has worked with all sorts of investors in his long career – including endowments, foundations, pension funds, investment consultants, and some of the country's wealthiest and most prominent families.
And now, he's bringing his knowledge and skills to individual investors like you at Chaikin Analytics.
About Vic Lederman
Vic Lederman is the Editorial Director at Chaikin Analytics. And he has become something of a "geniuses' keeper of secrets" over the years...
You see, Vic worked with scientist and inventor Andy Hildebrand. In that role, he tested and supported the kind of technology products that have contributed to nearly every pop music recording since the 1990s.
Vic worked with Andy in the final years leading up to the company's sale.
Then, Vic joined our corporate affiliate Stansberry Research in 2017. He worked alongside investment-newsletter industry legend Steve Sjuggerud. Specifically, he helped Steve in the years leading up to his successful retirement...
In one of his main roles, Vic led the company's coverage of the commercial real estate space as the editor of True Wealth Real Estate. He brought the "insider only" world of private real estate deals to everyday investors, along with the most promising stock recommendations in the housing space.
Vic also helped with True Wealth Systems. In that publication, he completed a behind-the-scenes analysis of Steve's overarching strategy. And he developed quantitative, trend-based trading strategies while testing millions of system variations.
In True Wealth, Vic produced research-driven, evidence-based investing ideas with a "big picture" approach. By doing that, he helped uncover fundamental stories supported by financial trends.
Now, at Chaikin Analytics, Vic is bringing his diligence in editorial production and market analysis to a new group of investors...
Vic is excited to help Chaikin Analytics subscribers find the most compelling investment opportunities alongside Wall Street legend Marc Chaikin. Most importantly, Vic is known for his aggressive "do it right" attitude and is bringing that philosophy to our company.
