Marc Chaikin

Earnings season and options trading go together like Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Whole Foods. Or Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and LinkedIn. Or Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) and Kite Pharma. You get the idea. The binary nature of an earnings event—either Wall Street likes the...

The market collapse of 2008 inspired great change in American financial habits, no less in those of Marc Chaikin. Chaikin emerged from retirement to found and lead Chaikin Analytics, a fintech company guiding individual and institutional investors toward objective, unbiased stock investments. He...

The 2017 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards saw some of the most innovative companies in fintech show off their products to high-profile financial executives and fintech leaders. Here, we’re sharing the fintech insights and new products on display at this year’s BZ Awards. The Company:...

This earnings season has been a mixed bag for many of the big name technology and semiconductor companies. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) surprised analysts with impressive sales for the first quarter, but Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE...

Did you miss today's PreMarket Prep? Here are some of the highlights from the show. Key Technical Levels The following are some of the stocks discussed on the show for which co-host Joel Elconin offered technical levels. Lululemon Athletica inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) has a lot of trapped longs....

Marc Chaikin didn't have to come out of retirement. In 2007, after a 40-year career on Wall Street that included time as a broker, hedge fund manager and technical indicator developer, Chaikin moved to rural Connecticut with his wife and was preparing to live the quiet life of a retiree....

Feeling disenchanted following the 2008 financial collapse, a large bulk of traders and investors moved their money out of managed funds and brokerages to self-directed investments. As that tide of money receded from money managers, Marc Chaikin, a trader, broker and analyst with over 30 years of...