Intermediate Bond Fund Market Value

IBFCX Fund  USD 12.56  0.03  0.24%   
Intermediate Bond's market value is the price at which a share of Intermediate Bond trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Intermediate Bond Fund investors about its performance. Intermediate Bond is trading at 12.56 as of the 3rd of March 2025; that is 0.24 percent increase since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 12.53.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Intermediate Bond Fund and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Intermediate Bond over a given investment horizon. Check out Intermediate Bond Correlation, Intermediate Bond Volatility and Intermediate Bond Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Intermediate Bond.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Intermediate Bond's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Intermediate Bond is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Intermediate Bond'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.

Intermediate Bond '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 Intermediate Bond'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 Intermediate Bond.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Intermediate Bond on February 1, 2025 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Intermediate Bond Fund or generate 0.0% return on investment in Intermediate Bond over 30 days. Intermediate Bond is related to or competes with Blackrock Moderate, Wealthbuilder Moderate, Voya Target, American Funds, and Moderate Strategy. The investment seeks current income consistent with the maturity and quality standards and preservation of capital More

Intermediate Bond 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 Intermediate Bond'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 Intermediate Bond Fund upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Intermediate Bond Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Intermediate Bond's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Intermediate Bond's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Intermediate Bond historical prices to predict the future Intermediate Bond's volatility.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Intermediate Bond's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
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11.3211.5213.82
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12.4412.6512.85
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12.3012.4212.54
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Intermediate Bond Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider Intermediate Mutual Fund to be very steady. Intermediate Bond holds Efficiency (Sharpe) Ratio of 0.0992, which attests that the entity had a 0.0992 % return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-seven technical indicators for Intermediate Bond, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the entity. Please check out Intermediate Bond's Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.047, downside deviation of 0.2446, and Market Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.2123 to validate if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.0202%. The fund retains a Market Volatility (i.e., Beta) of 0.0506, which attests to not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, Intermediate Bond's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Intermediate Bond is expected to be smaller as well.

Auto-correlation

    
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Modest reverse predictability

Intermediate Bond Fund has modest reverse predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Intermediate Bond time series from 1st of February 2025 to 16th of February 2025 and 16th of February 2025 to 3rd of March 2025. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of Intermediate Bond price movement. The serial correlation of -0.46 indicates that about 46.0% of current Intermediate Bond price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient-0.46
Spearman Rank Test-0.35
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.0
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Intermediate Bond lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Intermediate Bond 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 Intermediate Bond's mutual fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Intermediate Bond returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Intermediate Bond 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.
   Current and Lagged Values   
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Intermediate Bond 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 Intermediate Bond mutual fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Intermediate Bond mutual fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Intermediate Bond mutual fund over time.
   Current vs Lagged Prices   
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Intermediate Bond Lagged Returns

When evaluating Intermediate Bond's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Intermediate Bond mutual fund have on its future price. Intermediate Bond 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, Intermediate Bond autocorrelation shows the relationship between Intermediate Bond mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Intermediate Bond Fund.
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