Journal of Stock & Forex Trading
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  Evaluating the Performance of Benzinga-Provided Stock Ratings as Trading Indicators
  Author(s): Ashok Arun*, Jovan M. Tadic, Robert Assaly and Kalea Gore
  
  With approximately 25 million readers a month, Benzinga has grown into one of the largest providers for actionable information on capital markets. This information can be utilized in practical trading in multiple ways. In this paper we: 1) Explore the effects of Benzinga-generated analyst rating and rating revisions, 2) Construct a trading indicator by combining information from Benzinga-provided prior and current ratings used in conjunction with prior and updated price targets, 3) Rank the individual performance of all Benzinga-covered research firms and individual analysts between 01/01/2021-12/31/2021, and 4) Compare the simulated trading results using various trading strategies based on the constructed indicators. We defined three indicators with differing enter criteria and measured the success of rates for overall research firms and individual analysts. Afte.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2168-9458.22.09.212

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