Rankings tell you the score. They don’t show the race.
finfluencers.trade now has cumulative return curves, Compare for head-to-heads, and a full Shows leaderboard — so you can see who pulled ahead, who faded, and which programs are worth your listening hours.
Until now, finfluencers.trade gave you a finfluencer leaderboard and fairly basic per-person stats — enough to browse names, not enough to decide where your listening time should go.
This release is a major update. You can now rank entire shows and podcasts the same way you rank individual hosts, open a full profile for each show, compare panelists on rotating desks, and dig into finfluencer pages with the same holding-period tools throughout. The goal is simple: help you spend finite listening hours on sources that have actually delivered alpha vs the S&P 500 — whether that is one program or several.
There is a popular online joke called "Inverse Cramer." The idea: if Jim Cramer says buy on TV, do the opposite, and you'll make money.
It's a fun meme. But is it actually true?
To find out, I analyzed every buy-side stock recommendation the finfluencers.trade pipeline extracted from Jim Cramer's CNBC show Mad Money between January 2018 and December 2024 — 16,701 calls in total — and tracked what happened to each stock afterwards.
The result is more interesting than the meme.
The full working paper is on SSRN. The data and scripts are public on GitHub.