First Trust Managed Fund Market Value

CWAIX Fund  USD 20.64  0.04  0.19%   
First Trust's market value is the price at which a share of First Trust trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of First Trust Managed investors about its performance. First Trust is trading at 20.64 as of the 29th of November 2024; that is 0.19 percent increase since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 20.6.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of First Trust Managed and determine expected loss or profit from investing in First Trust over a given investment horizon. Check out First Trust Correlation, First Trust Volatility and First Trust Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on First Trust.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between First Trust's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if First Trust is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, First Trust's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.

First Trust 'What if' Analysis

In the world of financial modeling, what-if analysis is part of sensitivity analysis performed to test how changes in assumptions impact individual outputs in a model. When applied to First Trust's mutual fund what-if analysis refers to the analyzing how the change in your past investing horizon will affect the profitability against the current market value of First Trust.
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10/30/2024
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11/29/2024
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If you would invest  0.00  in First Trust on October 30, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding First Trust Managed or generate 0.0% return on investment in First Trust over 30 days. First Trust is related to or competes with Vanguard Intermediate, Tax Exempt, Blackrock National, HUMANA, Thrivent High, Morningstar Unconstrained, and High-yield Municipal. The fund invests at least 65 percent of its net assets in investment grade securities, which are securities that are rat... More

First Trust Upside/Downside Indicators

Understanding different market momentum indicators often help investors to time their next move. Potential upside and downside technical ratios enable traders to measure First Trust's mutual fund current market value against overall market sentiment and can be a good tool during both bulling and bearish trends. Here we outline some of the essential indicators to assess First Trust Managed upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

First Trust Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for First Trust's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as First Trust's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use First Trust historical prices to predict the future First Trust's volatility.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
20.4420.6420.84
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Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
19.7019.9022.70
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Naive
Forecast
LowNextHigh
20.4120.6120.81
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Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowerMiddle BandUpper
20.3420.5120.68
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First Trust Managed Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider First Mutual Fund to be very steady. First Trust Managed secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of 0.0437, which denotes the fund had a 0.0437% return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-seven technical indicators for First Trust Managed, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the entity. Please confirm First Trust's Downside Deviation of 0.3095, coefficient of variation of 1411.31, and Mean Deviation of 0.1216 to check if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.0087%. The fund shows a Beta (market volatility) of -0.0881, which means not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, returns on owning First Trust are expected to decrease at a much lower rate. During the bear market, First Trust is likely to outperform the market.

Auto-correlation

    
  0.54  

Modest predictability

First Trust Managed has modest predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between First Trust time series from 30th of October 2024 to 14th of November 2024 and 14th of November 2024 to 29th of November 2024. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of First Trust Managed price movement. The serial correlation of 0.54 indicates that about 54.0% of current First Trust price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.54
Spearman Rank Test0.65
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.0

First Trust Managed lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is First Trust mutual fund's lagged correlation, explains the relationship between observations of its time series of returns over different periods of time. The observations are said to be independent if autocorrelation is zero. Autocorrelation is calculated as a function of mean and variance and can have practical application in predicting First Trust's mutual fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of First Trust returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that First Trust has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the mutual fund is moving up for the past few days. In that case, you can expect the price movement to match the lagging time series.
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First Trust regressed lagged prices vs. current prices

Serial correlation can be approximated by using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test. The correlation can be either positive or negative. If First Trust mutual fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if First Trust mutual fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in First Trust mutual fund over time.
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First Trust Lagged Returns

When evaluating First Trust's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of First Trust mutual fund have on its future price. First Trust autocorrelation represents the degree of similarity between a given time horizon and a lagged version of the same horizon over the previous time interval. In other words, First Trust autocorrelation shows the relationship between First Trust mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in First Trust Managed.
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