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Earnings Season Highlights – Q2, 2017

With Earnings Season winding down, it has been an interesting quarter. The economy is continuing to grow, and earnings have mirrored that by growing approximately 10% in Q2 year over year. This is a solid but not spectacular quarter. Most of this data for this post...

How To Tell If A Positive Earnings Surprise Is Genuine

Can a positive earnings surprise be faked? During quarterly earnings season, when companies report their earnings, and they are immediately compared to the Wall Street Analyst estimates. If the reported earnings beat estimates, then this is called a positive earnings...

How to Tell the Difference Between A Market Pullback and a Bear Market

History repeats itself. Those that do not learn the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat past mistakes. A land war in Russia during winter for example was a bad idea for Napoleon and even worse for Hitler. Investing is no different—and learning from past...

How to Pick a Financial ETF

How do you pick a financial ETF? With the financial sector heating up, investors who want exposure to this sector have a choice of either researching stocks, or buying a broad-based ETF. There will be winners and losers in the financial sector, and if you invest the...

Entering the Risky World of Micro-Cap Stocks: Some Rules for Success

Micro-cap stocks are an intriguing opportunity to find excess returns. Those returns definitely come with excess risk as well. Not only can you experience sizeable losses, you could also lose your entire investment with a stock, as there are more companies that go out...

Marc Chaikin Presents “Pandora for Stocks” at the 2017 Benzinga FinTech Awards

Watch Chaikin Analytics Founder and CEO, Marc Chaikin, present on the new Chaikin Stock Discovery Engine. In his decades-long Wall Street career, Marc Chaikin found that the biggest problem investors face is generating new and successful trading ideas. Like a...

5 Must-See Trading & Investing Webinars To Sharpen Your Skills

We host a lot of trading and investing webinars at Chaikin Analytics. It’s only halfway into 2017, and we’ve already hosted over 30 live, educational webinars on various trading and investing topics this year (investors can check out our upcoming webinars page to see...

A Quick Roundup of Chaikin Analytics in the News

Chaikin Analytics has been making headlines! In case you missed them, here’s a quick spotlight of some of our recent features over the past few weeks: From Forbes: “How to Play Mexico” 6/13/17 issue of Forbes Magazine - Marc Chaikin gets a spotlight in Forbes...

How Do You Select a Biotech ETF?

How do you select a biotech ETF? Many people think that ETFs within a particular industry or sector are all the same, and that there isn’t much difference between them. As a consequence, they don’t spend much time learning the difference and this can be a real...

Building A Stock Screener Profile to Match Your Investing Approach

Building a stock screener profile can be a useful way to find stock ideas catered to a specific investing approach. That’s because stock screeners allow users to combine precise criteria that filters through the stock universe. The tricky part for some investors is...