Best-Selling iPhone App Now Available as a Desktop Widget
PHILADELPHIA, July 6, 2011 — Chaikin Stock Research, creator of a suite of stock tools that empower individuals to make better investment decisions, including its popular iPhone app, announces Chaikin Power Tools for Desktop.
The free desktop widget brings the core functionality of the highly ranked iPhone app to the desktop, empowering investors with sophisticated, easily understood decision-making tools previously available only to Wall Street professionals.
In the small footprint widget, investors can create a dynamically updating watchlist of stocks, and with one click can immediately access Intraday and Historical charts, Fundamental data, Chaikin Power Gauge ratings, and live Trading.
The Chaikin Power Gauge rating is based on a proprietary, 20-factor model that analyzes complex financial data and distills it into easily understood green/red displays. Green is bullish. Red is bearish. The model was created by Marc Chaikin, a recognized expert in developing computerized stock selection models for professional money managers and individual investors. It has been independently back-tested and proven successful at identifying stocks which will outperform or underperform the market over the next 3-6 months, and is updated daily.
Investors can execute stock trades in seconds from the widget through Chaikin's online trading partner, optionsXpress. The widget's ease of use and seamless online trading saves time by eliminating the need to log on with a browser.
"The widget is designed to bring critical, actionable information to individual investors on their desktop," said Marc Chaikin, CEO of Chaikin Stock Research. "Our Power Gauge rating simplifies an investor's buy/sell decision so they can make a decision and trade in seconds. As Barron's states: It's free and it's fun. Check it out."
The desktop widget runs on Mac OS X or Windows and can be downloaded for free from the Chaikin Power Tools website.
About Marc Chaikin
Marc Chaikin is a recognized expert in developing computerized stock selection models for professional money managers, as well as for individual investors. Marc was recently named one of the "Top Wall Street Experts and Opinion Leaders" by WallStreetEconomists.org and is a regular guest on the Stuart Varney Show on Fox Business and on CNBC.
He pioneered and developed the first real-time analytics workstation for portfolio managers and stock traders when he co-founded Bomar Securities in 1989. In 1992, Bomar was acquired by the Instinet subsidiary of Reuters. The proprietary Bomar analytics are now part of Thomson Reuters' institutional workstation.
Marc Chaikin also created several technical indicators whose predictive value has made them de facto standards in most technical analysis software packages. He is best known for the Chaikin Money Flow Indicator and Chaikin Persistency of Money Flow, which is the basis of Investor's Business Daily's Accumulation/Distribution (Acc/Dis™) Rating.
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