First Trust Etf Forward View - Simple Exponential Smoothing

HDMV Etf  USD 37.30  0.23  0.62%   
This page documents Simple Exponential Smoothing forecast output for First Trust Horizon as reference data. The model is applied to historical closing prices and the resulting projection and error statistics are shown below.
The Simple Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of First Trust Horizon on the next trading day is expected to be 37.30 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.20 and the sum of the absolute errors of 12.01.This simple exponential smoothing model begins by setting First Trust Horizon forecast for the second period equal to the observation of the first period. In other words, recent First Trust observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older observations. The Simple Exponential Smoothing reference information for First Trust is based on available price data and is intended for informational purposes.
First Trust simple exponential smoothing forecast is a very popular model used to produce a smoothed price series. Whereas in simple Moving Average models the past observations for First Trust Horizon are weighted equally, Exponential Smoothing assigns exponentially decreasing weights as First Trust Horizon prices get older.

Simple Exponential Smoothing Price Forecast For the 19th of March

Given 90 days horizon, the Simple Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of First Trust Horizon on the next trading day is expected to be 37.30 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.20 , mean absolute percentage error of 0.08 , and the sum of the absolute errors of 12.01 .
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict First Etf prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not suggest using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that First Trust's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

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Forecasted Value

This next-day forecast for First Trust Horizon uses model performance to estimate practical downside and upside boundaries rather than a single point target alone. The current forecast range spans downside near 36.56 and upside near 38.04.
Market Value
37.30
37.30
Expected Value
38.04
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Simple Exponential Smoothing forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of First Trust etf data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent First Trust etf, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information Criteria113.7097
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors -0.0385
MADMean absolute deviation0.2002
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0054
SAESum of the absolute errors12.011
This simple exponential smoothing model begins by setting First Trust Horizon forecast for the second period equal to the observation of the first period. In other words, recent First Trust observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older observations.

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