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In 2020, I retired.
After 25 years in the trenches, I thought I was done.
So I sold my company, handed over the mantle, and decided to start living. I traveled the world, flew planes, drove sports cars, and went marlin fishing with my boys but…
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
And I’m not the only one.
Our Spotlight guest this month went through the same.
For almost three decades, Marc Chaikin worked on Wall Street.
He was one of the first analysts to really start utilizing financial data to analyze the markets. Over time, he developed the Chaikin Money Flow Oscillator, a tool that allowed him to get a read on the money behind a stock.
And to say that what Marc created was revolutionary is an understatement. Marc reshaped the entire trajectory of stock trading for generations of investors.
A version of the Chaikin Money Flow is still built into every Bloomberg terminal – the financial data source that’s used by every major investor, broker, and asset manager in the world.
After accomplishing his goals, Marc retired.
Then the Global Financial Crisis happened, and Marc was dragged back in…
You see, while Marc had retired, his wife kept working. She’d built a successful marketing and consulting business… and hired a professional money manager to take care of her retirement account.
And he was catastrophic.
He charged too much. Lost her money.
And went radio silent during the 2008 financial crash.
It was this event that dragged Marc out of retirement. When he saw first-hand how brutally regular investors were treated by the so-called experts, he decided he couldn’t sit on the sidelines any longer.
Marc “un-retired,” and developed a set of tools devised for regular investors – the Power Gauge – in 2011.
It collects and collates data from a vast array of sources, to look at price performance, fundamentals, insider buying, and expert consensus… all told, 20 different individual factors.
It will run these analytics for any publicly traded company in America.
When I first met Marc in 2020, I immediately saw the potential of the Power Gauge to help individual investors.
And he understood how he’d be able to help far more people through linking up with me (and Stansberry Research) than he ever could on his own.
It was a match made in heaven.
Through a special arrangement with Marc, we’re able to share with Porter & Co. readers the whole backstory of the Power Gauge… how it works… its incredible ability to see through the noise of a stock and assess its potential.
This report is normally available only to paying subscribers to Marc’s services. You can read it here. We’re not including it in the text of this email… it’s 54 pages long. But it’s worth every moment of your time.
And we also have a special offer for Porter & Co. readers.
Right now, Marc is seeing a big rotation of capital in the “smart money” – that is, large institutional investors – from the sectors that have been leading the market.
He’s using his proprietary tools to capitalize on this rapid-fire shift over the next 12 months… and he’s put together this presentation to show investors how they can do it, too. Watch it here.