First Trust Short Fund Market Value

FDHAX Fund  USD 18.13  0.02  0.11%   
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 Short investors about its performance. First Trust is trading at 18.13 as of the 26th of November 2024; that is 0.11% up since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 18.11.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of First Trust Short 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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10/27/2024
No Change 0.00  0.0 
In 30 days
11/26/2024
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If you would invest  0.00  in First Trust on October 27, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding First Trust Short or generate 0.0% return on investment in First Trust over 30 days. First Trust is related to or competes with First Trust, Franklin Templeton, Vivaldi Merger, First Trust, Vivaldi Merger, First Trust/confluence, and First Trust/confluence. Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80 percent of its net assets in high yield debt securities and... 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 Short 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
17.9818.1318.28
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Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
16.4916.6419.94
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Naive
Forecast
LowNextHigh
17.9218.0618.21
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Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowerMiddle BandUpper
18.0818.1218.17
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Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as First Trust. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against First Trust's peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, First Trust's competitive analysis will give you plenty of quantitative and qualitative data to validate your investment decisions or develop an entirely new strategy toward taking a position in First Trust Short.

First Trust Short Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider First Mutual Fund to be very steady. First Trust Short secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of 0.25, which denotes the fund had a 0.25% return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-seven technical indicators for First Trust Short, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the entity. Please confirm First Trust's Mean Deviation of 0.0912, coefficient of variation of 394.3, and Standard Deviation of 0.1474 to check if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.0382%. The fund shows a Beta (market volatility) of 0.0092, which means not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, First Trust's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding First Trust is expected to be smaller as well.

Auto-correlation

    
  -0.58  

Good reverse predictability

First Trust Short has good reverse predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between First Trust time series from 27th of October 2024 to 11th of November 2024 and 11th of November 2024 to 26th 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 Short price movement. The serial correlation of -0.58 indicates that roughly 58.0% of current First Trust price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient-0.58
Spearman Rank Test-0.47
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.0

First Trust Short 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 Short.
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