First Trust Correlations

FEMS Etf  USD 45.05  0.45  0.99%   
The current 90-days correlation between First Trust Emerging and Invesco SP SmallCap is 0.08 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of First Trust is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.

First Trust Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between First Trust Emerging and DJI is 0.77 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding First Trust Emerging and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in First Trust Emerging. Also, note that the market value of any etf could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in industry.

Moving together with First Etf

  0.93VWO Vanguard FTSE EmergingPairCorr
  0.95IEMG iShares Core MSCIPairCorr
  0.92EMC Global X FundsPairCorr
  0.94EEM iShares MSCI EmergingPairCorr
  0.94SPEM SPDR Portfolio EmergingPairCorr
  0.8FNDE Schwab FundamentalPairCorr
  0.96ESGE iShares ESG AwarePairCorr
  0.75SFGRX Seafarer OverseasPairCorr
  0.97DGS WisdomTree EmergingPairCorr
  0.93XSOE WisdomTree EmergingPairCorr
  0.82CPST Calamos ETF TrustPairCorr
  0.91ITDD iShares TrustPairCorr
  0.87BINC BlackRock ETF TrustPairCorr
  0.82RDIV Invesco SP UltraPairCorr
  0.86VBK Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.79AHYB American Century ETFPairCorr
  0.9BA BoeingPairCorr
  0.67PFE Pfizer Inc Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.87INTC IntelPairCorr
  0.79JNJ Johnson JohnsonPairCorr
  0.9XOM Exxon Mobil Corp Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.74WMT Walmart Common Stock Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.71MRK Merck Company Aggressive PushPairCorr

Moving against First Etf

  0.68MPAY Exchange Traded ConceptsPairCorr
  0.84HPQ HP IncPairCorr
  0.69MSFT MicrosoftPairCorr
  0.45MMM 3M CompanyPairCorr

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First Trust Constituents Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between First Etf performing well and First Trust ETF doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze First Trust's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
FXN  1.17  0.25  0.15  0.84  1.16 
 2.76 
 6.12 
FEP  0.62  0.14  0.14  0.23  0.67 
 1.46 
 3.30 
FJP  0.79  0.16  0.15  0.25  0.70 
 1.97 
 4.38 
FXG  0.62  0.13  0.14  0.57  0.53 
 1.35 
 3.36 
UIVM  0.55  0.17  0.21  0.30  0.43 
 1.38 
 2.83 
RFV  0.85  0.11  0.11  0.14  0.80 
 2.46 
 4.85 
FNK  0.72  0.18  0.24  0.26  0.46 
 2.35 
 4.13 
TLTE  0.61  0.13  0.13  1.05  0.55 
 1.70 
 3.43 
DINT  0.76  0.01  0.00  0.04  0.99 
 1.46 
 4.41 
XSHQ  0.76  0.06  0.07  0.09  0.77 
 2.15 
 4.71