First Trust Correlations

FIW Etf  USD 109.48  0.90  0.83%   
The current 90-days correlation between First Trust Water and Invesco SP Global is 0.82 (i.e., Very poor 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 Water and DJI is 0.79 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding First Trust Water 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 Water. Also, note that the market value of any etf could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in gross domestic product.

Moving together with First Etf

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  0.81XME SPDR SP MetalsPairCorr
  0.99PHO Invesco Water ResourcesPairCorr
  0.77FXZ First Trust MaterialsPairCorr
  0.63URNM Sprott Uranium MinersPairCorr
  0.75IYM iShares Basic MaterialsPairCorr
  0.81PWER Macquarie ETF TrustPairCorr
  0.74HHH Howard HughesPairCorr
  0.66CSCO Cisco Systems Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.68XOM Exxon Mobil Corp Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.82CAT Caterpillar Fiscal Year End 3rd of February 2025 PairCorr
  0.78INTC Intel Fiscal Year End 23rd of January 2025 PairCorr
  0.71AA Alcoa Corp Fiscal Year End 15th of January 2025 PairCorr
  0.75AXP American Express Fiscal Year End 24th of January 2025 PairCorr
  0.78GE GE Aerospace Fiscal Year End 28th of January 2025 PairCorr

Moving against First Etf

  0.41BA Boeing Fiscal Year End 29th of January 2025 PairCorr
  0.37MRK Merck Company Fiscal Year End 6th of February 2025 PairCorr

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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.