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Many people predict and provide stock advice but there usually is virtually no follow
-up on advice provided. Many are sincere and believe in their advice and others seem to be pure hucksters. Sincerity, however, is no substitute for competence. Recently I discovered a website which tracks pundits in finance (and politics and sports) which does just that. Check it out to see how many of the calls and predictions of your favorite prognosticators have turned out to be true. You’ll be surprised and, no doubt, disappointed!
So says Monty Pelerin (www.economicnoise.com) in edited excerpts from his original post* entitled Accountability.
Pelerin goes on to say in further edited excerpts:
The need to fill 24-hour financial channels almost assures that anyone who can communicate effectively and convey some level of competence can get on the air. The sad part of this process is that there is virtually no follow-up on advice provided. No one (except the person who guessed correctly) has any incentive to bring up past performance. Even in these cases, the reminders are selective and not comprehensive.
The networks do not want to discredit their “filler” experts. Hence bad advice or prediction generally disappears in some black memory hole.
- How many of the calls and predictions turn out to be true.
- How many of the “experts” outperform the market?
- Who is good and who is bad and on what basis is it determined what good and bad mean?
- If this information is collected, is it statistically and methodologically significant?
These are questions that no one has an incentive to ask or answer. Were this information tracked and made available in a scientifically proper and honest fashion, the field of investment pundits would likely be found “without clothes” and greatly reduced. CNBC, among others, would be without much of their programming content.
Recently I discovered a website which tracks pundits in finance, politics and sports. The site is PunditTracker. Among other things, it allows you to weigh in with your own personal predictions on various outcomes….
I commend PunditTracker for their efforts at accountability…
For the complete list of 33 finance pundits being tracked and their grades go to PunditTracker.com
Look at the ratings and the methodology used by PunditTracker. Make your own judgment…[as to] their validity. One thing should be immediately apparent –the population of declared experts greatly exceeds the population of true experts.
Editor’s Note: The author’s views and conclusions in the above article are unaltered and no personal comments have been included to maintain the integrity of the original post. Furthermore, the views, conclusions and any recommendations offered in this article are not to be construed as an endorsement of such by the editor.
*http://www.economicnoise.com/2013/04/24/accountability/
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