FPF Pre-Tax Income 172.8 Mil - GuruFocus.com

FPF Fund  USD 18.84  0.04  0.21%   
Roughly 55% of First Trust's investor base is interested to short. The analysis of overall sentiment of trading First Trust Intermediate fund suggests that many investors are impartial at this time. The current market sentiment, together with First Trust's historical and current headlines, can help investors time the market. In addition, many technical investors use First Trust Intermediate fund news signals to limit their universe of possible portfolio assets.
First Trust fund news, alerts, and headlines are usually related to its technical, predictive, social, and fundamental indicators. It can reflect on the current distribution of First daily returns and investor perception about the current price of First Trust Intermediate as well as its diversification or hedging effects on your existing portfolios.
  
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First Trust Fundamental Analysis

We analyze First Trust's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of First Trust using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of First Trust based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this fund, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.

Short Ratio

Short Ratio Comparative Analysis

First Trust is currently under evaluation in short ratio among similar funds. Short Ratio is typically used by traders and speculators to identify trends in current market sentiment for a particular equity instrument. In its simple terms this ratio shows how many days it will take all current short sellers to cover their positions if the price of a stock begins to rise.

First Trust Intermediate Potential Pair-trading

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with First Trust fund to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of First Trust could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing First Trust by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.

Peers

First Trust Related Equities

JPINuveen Preferred   1.48   
0%
100.0%
ETJEaton Vance   1.18   
0%
79.0%
MVTBlackrock Munivest   1.17   
0%
79.0%
HQLTekla Life   0.92   
0%
62.0%
FTFFranklin Templeton   0.91   
0%
61.0%
VMOInvesco Municipal   0.79   
0%
53.0%
ISDPgim High   0.72   
0%
48.0%
MFMMFS Municipal   0.71   
0%
47.0%
JLSNuveen Mortgage   0.71   
0%
47.0%
FFCFlaherty Crumrine   0.70   
0%
47.0%
RFMRiverNorth Flexible   0.69   
0%
46.0%
KTFDWS Municipal   0.60   
0%
40.0%
FCTFirst Trust   0.29   
0%
19.0%

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