First Trust Merger Fund Quote

VARCX Fund   10.48  0.01  0.1%   

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First Trust is trading at 10.48 as of the 29th of January 2026; that is 0.1 percent increase since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 10.47. First Trust has less than a 18 % chance of experiencing some financial distress in the next two years of operation and had a good performance during the last 90 days. The performance scores are derived for the period starting the 31st of October 2025 and ending today, the 29th of January 2026. Click here to learn more.
Under normal market conditions, the funds adviser intends to invest in equity securities and derivatives thereof of companies that are involved in a significant corporate event, such as a merger or acquisition. Investments in companies undergoing a merger or acquisition have both risk and return characteristics that are different from the risks of investing in the general stock market. More on First Trust Merger

Moving together with First Mutual Fund

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  0.85FDHIX First Trust ShortPairCorr
  0.79FOVAX First Trust/confluencePairCorr
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First Mutual Fund Highlights

Fund ConcentrationFirst Trust Funds, Large Funds, Event Driven Funds, Event Driven, First Trust (View all Sectors)
Update Date31st of December 2025
First Trust Merger [VARCX] is traded in USA and was established 29th of January 2026. First Trust is listed under First Trust category by Fama And French industry classification. The fund is listed under Event Driven category and is part of First Trust family. First Trust Merger at this time has accumulated 1.57 B in net assets with no minimum investment requirements with the current yeild of 0.03%.
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The fund keeps all of the net assets in exotic instruments

First Trust Predictive Daily Indicators

First Trust intraday indicators are useful technical analysis tools used by many experienced traders. Just like the conventional technical analysis, daily indicators help intraday investors to analyze the price movement with the timing of First Trust mutual fund daily movement. By combining multiple daily indicators into a single trading strategy, you can limit your risk while still earning strong returns on your managed positions.

First Trust Forecast Models

First Trust's time-series forecasting models are one of many First Trust's mutual fund analysis techniques aimed at predicting future share value based on previously observed values. Time-series forecasting models ae widely used for non-stationary data. Non-stationary data are called the data whose statistical properties e.g. the mean and standard deviation are not constant over time but instead, these metrics vary over time. These non-stationary First Trust's historical data is usually called time-series. Some empirical experimentation suggests that the statistical forecasting models outperform the models based exclusively on fundamental analysis to predict the direction of the market movement and maximize returns from investment trading.

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