First Trust Intermediate Fund Market Value

FPF Fund  USD 18.75  0.13  0.69%   
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 Intermediate investors about its performance. First Trust is trading at 18.75 as of the 4th of March 2026. This is a 0.69 percent decrease since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's lowest day price was 18.63.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of First Trust Intermediate 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 Performance 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. Meanwhile, First Trust's quoted price indicates the marketplace figure where supply meets demand through bilateral consent.

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 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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If you would invest  0.00  in First Trust on December 4, 2025 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding First Trust Intermediate or generate 0.0% return on investment in First Trust over 90 days. First Trust is related to or competes with BlackRock Credit, Putnam Income, American Beacon, Sierra Strategic, Sierra Strategic, Cohen Steers, and Eaton Vance. First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred Income Fund is a closed end fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by... 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 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 Intermediate 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
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LowEstimatedHigh
18.3818.7519.12
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Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
18.3518.7219.09
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Naive
Forecast
LowNextHigh
18.2718.6419.01
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Bollinger
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LowerMiddle BandUpper
16.1918.7918.92
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First Trust March 4, 2026 Technical Indicators

First Trust Intermediate Backtested Returns

At this point, First Trust is very steady. First Trust Intermediate secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of 0.16, which denotes the fund had a 0.16 % return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-nine technical indicators for First Trust Intermediate, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the entity. Please confirm First Trust's Coefficient Of Variation of 663.94, downside deviation of 0.4329, and Mean Deviation of 0.2878 to check if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.0595%. The fund shows a Beta (market volatility) of 0.28, 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

    
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Good predictability

First Trust Intermediate has good predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between First Trust time series from 4th of December 2025 to 18th of January 2026 and 18th of January 2026 to 4th of March 2026. 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 Intermediate price movement. The serial correlation of 0.74 indicates that around 74.0% of current First Trust price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.74
Spearman Rank Test0.81
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.04

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