Evaluation and Ranking of Market Forecasters

26 Pages Posted: 3 Apr 2017 Last revised: 22 Jul 2017

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David H. Bailey

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California, Davis

Jonathan Borwein

Royal Society of Canada; University of Newcastle (Australia); Australian Academy of Science (deceased)

Amir Salehipour

University of Technology Sydney, Australia; University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Marcos Lopez de Prado

Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering; Abu Dhabi Investment Authority; True Positive Technologies

Date Written: May 31, 2017

Abstract

We develop a novel ranking methodology to rank the market forecaster. In particular, we distinguish forecasts by their specificity, rather than considering all predictions and forecasts equally important, and we also analyze the impact of the number of forecasts made by a particular forecaster. We have applied our methodology on a dataset including 6,627 forecasts made by 68 forecasters.

Keywords: Marker forecasters ranking; Guru ranking; Market forecast

JEL Classification: G0, G1, G2, G15, G24, E44

Suggested Citation

Bailey, David H. and Borwein, Jonathan and Borwein, Jonathan and Salehipour, Amir and Salehipour, Amir and López de Prado, Marcos and López de Prado, Marcos, Evaluation and Ranking of Market Forecasters (May 31, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2944853 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2944853

David H. Bailey

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Jonathan Borwein

University of Newcastle (Australia)

Royal Society of Canada

Australian Academy of Science (deceased)

Amir Salehipour

University of Technology Sydney, Australia ( email )

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University of Technology Sydney (UTS) ( email )

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