Direction First service provides daily trading suggestions and paper trades in the markets via ETFs and stocks. The Direction First team produces trade ideas, commentary, weekly reports on the stock, bond, commodity and currency markets. Their winning strategy has a performance of 244% over four years.
Paper Trades Data descriptions
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Date |
Datestamp |
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Description |
Company name being traded |
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Commentary |
Reason for trade, any stop loss, and target price to sell |
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atype |
Entry or exit from the position. Linked to ttype column.
EN + B = Entering long position EX + S = Exiting long position
EN + S = Entering short position EX + B = Exiting short position |
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ttype |
Type of trade – see above |
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sym |
Ticker Symbol |
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qty |
Quantity being traded |
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price |
Price of equity being traded |
Posts & Reports Data descriptions
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Date |
Datestamp |
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Title |
Title of Post or Report |
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Content |
Content of post. This usually includes trade ideas and reasoning behind future trades. Host likes to speak about market catalysts. Typically the host will keep giving updates on how the trading strategy is performing. |
Benzinga’s data samples are intended to provide a data sample large enough for testing data quality and application for the financial markets. These files demonstrate a sample of the formats and content that can be delivered.
