Westwood Alternative Income Fund Market Value

WWACX Fund  USD 9.72  0.01  0.10%   
Westwood Alternative's market value is the price at which a share of Westwood Alternative trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Westwood Alternative Income investors about its performance. Westwood Alternative is trading at 9.72 as of the 1st of December 2024; that is 0.10 percent increase since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 9.71.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Westwood Alternative Income and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Westwood Alternative over a given investment horizon. Check out Westwood Alternative Correlation, Westwood Alternative Volatility and Westwood Alternative Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Westwood Alternative.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Westwood Alternative's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Westwood Alternative is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Westwood Alternative'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.

Westwood Alternative '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 Westwood Alternative'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 Westwood Alternative.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Westwood Alternative on June 4, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Westwood Alternative Income or generate 0.0% return on investment in Westwood Alternative over 180 days. Westwood Alternative is related to or competes with Westwood Short, Westwood High, Westwood Income, Westwood Income, Westwood Largecap, Ultimus Managers, and Westwood Quality. The fund employs an absolute return strategy, which means that it seeks to earn a positive total return through a combin... More

Westwood Alternative 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 Westwood Alternative'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 Westwood Alternative Income upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Westwood Alternative Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Westwood Alternative's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Westwood Alternative's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Westwood Alternative historical prices to predict the future Westwood Alternative's volatility.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Westwood Alternative'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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Westwood Alternative Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider Westwood Mutual Fund to be very steady. Westwood Alternative shows Sharpe Ratio of 0.31, which attests that the fund had a 0.31% return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-six technical indicators for Westwood Alternative, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the fund. Please check out Westwood Alternative's Market Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.2678, mean deviation of 0.0666, and Coefficient Of Variation of 331.44 to validate if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.026%. The entity maintains a market beta of 0.0589, which attests to not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, Westwood Alternative's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Westwood Alternative is expected to be smaller as well.

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Good predictability

Westwood Alternative Income has good predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Westwood Alternative time series from 4th of June 2024 to 2nd of September 2024 and 2nd of September 2024 to 1st of December 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 Westwood Alternative price movement. The serial correlation of 0.75 indicates that around 75.0% of current Westwood Alternative price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.75
Spearman Rank Test0.9
Residual Average0.0
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Westwood Alternative lagged returns against current returns

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

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