How do our forecasts compare with those of our peers?
Mar, 06, 2018 By Saandhy Ganeriwala 0 comments
Anyone wanting to evaluate our service would ask the above question. As an answer, we compare our forecasts with the results of the RBI’s bimonthly Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF), which captures the market’s consensus expectation for USDINR for forthcoming quarters.
As an example, for the USDINR rate at end of Dec ‘17, there were 6 forecasts which the RBI’s survey pool of professional forecasters made. These are displayed in the 1st column of the adjacent table. The mean of these 6 forecasts ie 66.34 can be regarded as the market’s consensus forecast for USDINR for 31ST Dec, 2017. Correspondingly, over the preceding year, we had made 12 Kshitij monthly forecasts for the USDINR rate expected to prevail on 31ST Dec, 2017 (see column 4). The mean of these 12 Kshitij forecasts ie 64.55 ultimately turned out to be closer to the actual spot rate (63.88) of USDINR on 31ST Dec, 2017.
In fact, over the period Apr-2015 till Dec-2017, the average absolute deviation of Kshitij forecasts from the actual quarter end spots has been Re 0.99 per USD, much narrower than the deviation of the RBI SPF’s forecasts of Rs 1.68 per USD.
We might be the first and only forecasting service to carry out such an analysis, comparing ourselves with our peers, as a means to judge how much value we can add compared to others. This is part of our effort to increase our Reliability. Please also read:
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Saandhy Ganeriwala
Saandhy is a postgraduate in Economics, but like all good market-men, he seeks confirmation from technical analysis charts for his macroeconomic ideas. His research is a good mix of charts, stats and econ. Apart from that, he calls himself a news junkie and an occasional writer.
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