diff --git a/config/thresholds.json b/config/thresholds.json
index f3099ebc1..e39576f8a 100644
--- a/config/thresholds.json
+++ b/config/thresholds.json
@@ -97,6 +97,20 @@
             "threshold": 1.0
         }
     },
+    "naive": {
+        "reward_low_FN_rate": {
+            "score": -232.0,
+            "threshold": 1.1
+        },
+        "reward_low_FP_rate": {
+            "score": -116.0,
+            "threshold": 1.1
+        },
+        "standard": {
+            "score": -116.0,
+            "threshold": 1.1
+        }
+    },
     "null": {
         "reward_low_FN_rate": {
             "score": -232.0,
diff --git a/nab/detectors/naive/__init__.py b/nab/detectors/naive/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/nab/detectors/naive/naive_detector.py b/nab/detectors/naive/naive_detector.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..36fa2fbea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nab/detectors/naive/naive_detector.py
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright (C) 2015, Numenta, Inc.  Unless you have an agreement
+# with Numenta, Inc., for a separate license for this software code, the
+# following terms and conditions apply:
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero Public License version 3 as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+# See the GNU Affero Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.
+#
+# http://numenta.org/licenses/
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+import math #exp
+
+from nab.detectors.base import AnomalyDetector
+
+EPSILON = 0.00000001
+
+class NaiveDetector(AnomalyDetector):
+  """
+  This is implementation of the "naive forecast", aka "random walk forecasting",
+  which is a baseline algorithm for time-series forecasting. 
+  It predicts the last seen value. So `Prediction(t+1) = Input(t)`.
+  
+  Hyperparameter to optimize is @param coef in `initialize`.
+  """
+
+
+  def initialize(self, coef=10.0):
+    """
+    @param `coef` for the activation function that scales anomaly score to [0, 1.0]
+           The function is: `anomalyScore = 1-exp(-coef*x)`, where 
+           `x=abs(current - predicted)/predicted`. 
+    """
+    super().initialize()
+    self.predicted = 0.0 #previous value, last seen
+    self.coef = coef
+
+
+  def handleRecord(self, inputData):
+    """The predicted value is simply the last seen value,
+       Anomaly score is computed as a function of current,predicted.
+
+       See @ref `initialize` param `coef`.
+    """
+    current = float(inputData["value"])
+    inputData['predicted'] = self.predicted
+    try:
+      anomalyScore = self.anomalyFn_(current, self.predicted)
+    except: 
+      #on any math error (overflow,...), we mark this as anomaly. tough love
+      anomalyScore = 1.0
+
+    ret = [anomalyScore, self.predicted]
+    self.predicted=current
+    return (ret)
+
+
+  def getAdditionalHeaders(self):
+    return ['predicted']
+
+
+  def anomalyFn_(self, current, predicted):
+    """
+    compute anomaly score from 2 scalars
+    """
+    if predicted == 0.0:
+      predicted = EPSILON #avoid division by zero
+
+    # the computation
+    x = abs(current - predicted)/predicted
+    score = 1-math.exp(-self.coef * x)
+
+    # bound to anomaly range (should not happen, but some are over)
+#    if(score > 1):
+#        score = 1.0
+#    elif(score < 0):
+#        score = 0.0
+
+    assert(score >= 0 and score <= 1), print("ERR: score: "+str(score)+ "\t curr: "+str(current)+"\t pred: "+str(predicted))
+    return score
+
diff --git a/results/final_results.json b/results/final_results.json
index 295cef20b..7a39a8220 100644
--- a/results/final_results.json
+++ b/results/final_results.json
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@
         "reward_low_FP_rate": 43.40851703291233,
         "standard": 57.99434335898808
     },
+    "naive": {
+        "reward_low_FN_rate": 0.0,
+        "reward_low_FP_rate": 0.0,
+        "standard": 0.0
+    },
     "null": {
         "reward_low_FN_rate": 0.0,
         "reward_low_FP_rate": 0.0,
diff --git a/run.py b/run.py
index 01a096a35..7c2da23eb 100755
--- a/run.py
+++ b/run.py
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ def main(args):
                     type=str,
                     default=["numenta", "numentaTM", "htmcore", "htmjava", "null", "random",
                              "bayesChangePt", "windowedGaussian", "expose",
-                             "relativeEntropy", "earthgeckoSkyline"],
+                             "relativeEntropy", "earthgeckoSkyline", "naive"],
                     help="Comma separated list of detector(s) to use, e.g. "
                          "null,numenta")
 
@@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ def main(args):
     ContextOSEDetector )
   if "earthgeckoSkyline" in args.detectors:
     from nab.detectors.earthgecko_skyline.earthgecko_skyline_detector import EarthgeckoSkylineDetector
+  if "naive" in args.detectors:
+    from nab.detectors.naive.naive_detector import NaiveDetector
   if "htmcore" in args.detectors:
     from nab.detectors.htmcore.htmcore_detector import HtmcoreDetector