Inflation Protected Fund Market Value

VCTPX Fund  USD 8.58  0.01  0.12%   
Inflation Protected's market value is the price at which a share of Inflation Protected trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Inflation Protected Fund investors about its performance. Inflation Protected is trading at 8.58 as of the 24th of November 2024; that is 0.12 percent increase since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 8.57.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Inflation Protected Fund and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Inflation Protected over a given investment horizon. Check out Inflation Protected Correlation, Inflation Protected Volatility and Inflation Protected Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Inflation Protected.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Inflation Protected's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Inflation Protected is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Inflation Protected'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.

Inflation Protected '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 Inflation Protected'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 Inflation Protected.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Inflation Protected on November 30, 2023 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Inflation Protected Fund or generate 0.0% return on investment in Inflation Protected over 360 days. Inflation Protected is related to or competes with Mid Cap, Mid Cap, Valic Company, Valic Company, Stock Index, Small Cap, and Broad Cap. The fund normally invests at least 80 percent of its net assets in inflation-indexed fixed income securities issued by d... More

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

Inflation Protected Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Inflation Protected's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Inflation Protected's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Inflation Protected historical prices to predict the future Inflation Protected's volatility.
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Inflation Protected Backtested Returns

Inflation Protected holds Efficiency (Sharpe) Ratio of -0.12, which attests that the entity had a -0.12% return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. Inflation Protected exposes twenty-two different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate volatility embedded in its price movement. Please check out Inflation Protected's Standard Deviation of 0.2658, risk adjusted performance of (0.08), and Market Risk Adjusted Performance of 12.48 to validate the risk estimate we provide. The fund retains a Market Volatility (i.e., Beta) of -0.0026, which attests to not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, returns on owning Inflation Protected are expected to decrease at a much lower rate. During the bear market, Inflation Protected is likely to outperform the market.

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Poor predictability

Inflation Protected Fund has poor predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Inflation Protected time series from 30th of November 2023 to 28th of May 2024 and 28th of May 2024 to 24th 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 Inflation Protected price movement. The serial correlation of 0.26 indicates that nearly 26.0% of current Inflation Protected price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.26
Spearman Rank Test-0.02
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.01

Inflation Protected lagged returns against current returns

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

When evaluating Inflation Protected's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Inflation Protected mutual fund have on its future price. Inflation Protected 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, Inflation Protected autocorrelation shows the relationship between Inflation Protected mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Inflation Protected Fund.
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Inflation Protected financial ratios help investors to determine whether Inflation Mutual Fund is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Inflation with respect to the benefits of owning Inflation Protected security.
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