The National Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between National Tax and The Missouri Tax Free is 0.98 (i.e., Almost no diversification). The correlation of The National is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.

The National Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between The National Tax Free and DJI is 0.14 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding The National Tax Free and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in The National Tax Free. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in bureau of economic analysis.

Moving together with The Mutual Fund

  0.99KTXIX Kansas TaxPairCorr
  0.87CFBNX Bond FundPairCorr
  1.0CFMOX Missouri TaxPairCorr
  0.61CFSTX Short TermPairCorr
  1.0VWITX Vanguard Intermediate-terPairCorr
  1.0VWIUX Vanguard Intermediate-terPairCorr
  0.98AFTEX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.98AFTFX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.96TEBCX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.98TEAFX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.99TFEBX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  1.0FLTMX Fidelity IntermediatePairCorr
  0.85MDNLX Blackrock NationalPairCorr
  0.87MFNLX Blackrock Natl MuniPairCorr
  0.89LIIAX Columbia Porate IncomePairCorr
  0.9SRINX Columbia Porate IncomePairCorr
  0.91NVG Nuveen Amt FreePairCorr
  0.67PIEFX Pnc Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.88RYGBX Government Long BondPairCorr
  0.81TARBX Touchstone ArbitragePairCorr
  0.62RSFCX Victory Floating RatePairCorr
  0.9WEDRX William Blair EmergingPairCorr
  0.68CBNAX American Funds EmergingPairCorr
  0.71RBCRX Rbc Bluebay AbsolutePairCorr
  0.76JLBHX Retirement Living ThroughPairCorr
  0.88FBAHX Fidelity Advisor TacticalPairCorr
  0.91GSFUX Goldman Sachs BondPairCorr

Moving against The Mutual Fund

  0.38CFGRX Growth FundPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between The Mutual Fund performing well and The National Mutual Fund doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze The National's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.