Ab Select Correlations

ASCLX Fund  USD 13.80  0.10  0.73%   
The current 90-days correlation between Ab Select Longshort and Altegris Futures Evolution is 0.23 (i.e., Modest diversification). The correlation of Ab Select 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.

Ab Select Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Ab Select Longshort and DJI is 0.77 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Ab Select Longshort 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 Ab Select Longshort. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as various price indices.

Moving together with ASCLX Mutual Fund

  0.86DIAYX Diamond Hill LongPairCorr
  0.75GPMFX Guidepath Managed FuturesPairCorr
  0.73PQTAX Pimco Trends ManagedPairCorr
  0.75PQTNX Pimco Trends ManagedPairCorr
  0.73PQTIX Aa Pimco TrPairCorr
  0.8WARCX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.83FPXIX Fidelity Advisor 529PairCorr
  0.77GPICX Guidepath ConservativePairCorr
  0.89GE GE AerospacePairCorr
  0.69AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.79IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.73AXP American ExpressPairCorr
  0.69CAT CaterpillarPairCorr

Moving against ASCLX Mutual Fund

  0.61VZ Verizon CommunicationsPairCorr
  0.53PG Procter GamblePairCorr
  0.47MCD McDonaldsPairCorr
  0.39BA BoeingPairCorr
  0.33HD Home DepotPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between ASCLX Mutual Fund performing well and Ab Select 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 Ab Select'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.