Gold Charts R US

What Gold Charts R US does

Gold Charts R Us (GCRU) is a privately held subscription-based weekly trading newsletter service founded in February 2002 by legendary investor Sir Harry Schultz, originally based in Boca Raton, Florida. The company delivers a 20+ page trading letter every Wednesday via email, providing subscribers with specific buy and sell recommendations, stop losses, descriptive charts, technical analysis, and money management advice focused on gold and silver shares, key futures markets, commodities, currencies, and stocks. The underlying methodology is built on technical analysis combined with proprietary indicators developed over decades by the founders and current operators.

The service operates on a direct-to-consumer subscription model with quarterly autobilling, targeting retail investors and active traders globally who seek specific actionable guidance rather than passive buy-and-hold strategies. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, but credit card charges appear under 'MAP Customer Service S.A.' and subscription acquisition occurs primarily through the Aden Forecast website (adenforecast.com). The business is bootstrapped with no institutional funding, no app or API, and minimal digital infrastructure beyond the marketing website and email distribution channel. Following Sir Harry Schultz's retirement in 2011 at age 88, ownership transferred to Pamela and Mary Anne Aden (the Aden Sisters), long-time editors of the Aden Forecast newsletter, with Omar Ayales serving as co-editor and chief trading strategist.

Customer acquisition relies on organic traffic, financial media references in outlets such as Barron's, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal, and word-of-mouth within the precious metals and commodities trading community. The 11–50 employee headcount supports a deliberately lean operation focused on content production and subscriber management. The Aden Forecast, the closely related sister publication, was named 'Newsletter of the Year' by MarketWatch in 2010, lending credibility to the parent organization's analytical methodology.

Name

Gold Charts R US

Legal name

Gold Charts R Us

Website

https://goldchartsrus.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gold Charts R Us is a privately held subscription-based weekly trading newsletter founded in 2002, delivering specific buy/sell recommendations, technical analysis, and money management guidance on gold, silver, commodities, and currencies to retail investors globally via Wednesday email distribution.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Weekly Newsletter Subscription: Subscription-based revenue model where subscribers pay for access to the weekly Gold Charts R Us trading newsletter. The service offers a quarterly autobill subscription option. Subscribers receive a 20+ page weekly letter every Wednesday via email with specific trading advice on gold and silver shares, futures markets, buy/sell recommendations, stop losses, charts, and money management guidance.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

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Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Gold Charts R Us (GCRU) is a weekly trading newsletter service that delivers a 20+ page letter every Wednesday via email, providing specific buy and sell recommendations, stop losses, descriptive charts, technical analysis, proprietary indicator readings, strategy and fundamental information, and money management advice focused on gold and silver shares, key futures markets, commodities, currencies, and stocks. The service targets retail investors and active traders seeking hands-on guidance to beat buy-and-hold strategies through active trading at chart support and resistance levels.

Product overview

Gold Charts R Us (GCRU) is a single, unified weekly trading newsletter product launched in February 2002. The service delivers a 20+ page weekly letter every Wednesday via email, providing technical analysis, proprietary indicators, specific buy/sell recommendations, stop losses, descriptive charts, and money management advice for gold and silver shares, key futures markets, and other commodities, currencies, and stocks. The core GCRU product is supplemented by money management advisory features that guide subscribers on portfolio allocation between trading and core holdings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Gold Charts R Us (GCRU) Weekly Trading Newsletter A high-quality weekly trading newsletter delivered every Wednesday morning via email. Each 20+ page issue provides specific trading advice on gold and silver shares, key futures markets, commodities, currencies, and stocks, including specific buy and sell recommendations, stop losses, descriptive charts, detailed technical analysis, proprietary indicators, strategy, and fundamental information. Targeted at individual retail investors and active traders seeking hand-holding guidance to beat the market.

Quantifiable outcome

• Subscribers can potentially make 400-500% more than holders using chart support/sell at resistance trading strategies vs passive buy-and-hold

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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App detail

Feature1 record

Recent moves3 records

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Regional players

• Kitco: Leading precious-metals news, data and retail-investor content site with paid research and chart offerings — comparable as a competing precious-metals information destination for retail traders and investors.

Broad incumbents

• Sprott (Rick Rule) newsletters: Sprott's resource-focused research and Rick Rule's paid natural-resource and mining newsletter content compete with GCRU's precious-metals advisory positioning for sophisticated retail resource investors.
• The Motley Fool: A larger, mainstream subscription-based investment advisory brand offering stock and wealth-building research at scale; comparable as a subscription research publisher but far broader in scope than GCRU's precious-metals focus.
• Agora Financial: A large umbrella publisher of subscription investment newsletters covering commodities, gold, silver, and macroeconomics — directly analogous in business model and distribution channels to GCRU.
• Seeking Alpha: Large-scale investment research and analysis platform with paid premium subscriptions covering stocks, commodities, and macro investing — a much larger incumbent that competes for retail-investor mindshare in the same subscription-investing space.

Direct peers

• Stansberry Research (Porter Stansberry): One of the largest independent subscription-based investment research publishers, offering multiple paid newsletters across commodities, equities, and macro — directly comparable in business model to GCRU's paid weekly advisory model.
• Casey Research: Subscription-based natural resources and precious-metals investment research publisher, serving retail investors interested in mining and commodities with a model very similar to GCRU's newsletter advisory service.
• Euro Pacific Capital / Peter Schiff: Peter Schiff's precious-metals and gold-investing media brand is a directly comparable subscription/editorial business targeting retail investors interested in gold, silver, and macro-economic contrarian investing.
• The Aden Forecast: Operated by the same Aden sisters who run GCRU, the Aden Forecast is a sister macro-economic and commodities newsletter serving overlapping subscribers with a similar weekly letter format and investment advisory approach.

Emerging players

• MoneyShow: Investor education and event platform that regularly features GCRU's analysts (Omar Ayales) and offers competing premium advisory services and newsletters for active retail investors in commodities and equities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/gcrutrading

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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