Trade the Ratings - May 23, 2012 - Assurant (NYSE:AIZ), Blackstone (NYSE:BX)

Watch this corner for our 'Trade the Ratings' trader throughout the week. We will show you what signals we took from our Ratings feed in Benzinga Pro, why, and how they are working out. For this week, our trades were Safeway

SWY

, Assurant

AIZ

and The Blackstone Group

See more detail on each of our signals on

SWY

AIZ

and

at our regular site. Or, you can get these signals in real time

here

Since March 2012, we have “traded the ratings” based on three simple rules of thumb:

Go Long on upgrades to Buy or initiations with Buy
Go Short on downgrades with Sell or Initiations with Sell
Only pull the trigger when the ‘ratings narrative' supports us doing so

Let us show you more!

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