TIAA Cref Mutual Fund Forward View - Double Exponential Smoothing

TSMUX Fund  USD 15.71  -0.40  -2.48%   
This page documents Double Exponential Smoothing forecast output for TIAA Cref Smallmid Cap Equity as reference data. The model is applied to historical closing prices and the resulting projection and error statistics are shown below. Key metrics including projected price and mean absolute deviation are summarized below. The reference data on this page covers both forecast levels and error statistics.
The Double Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of TIAA Cref Smallmid Cap Equity on the next trading day is expected to be 15.69 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.15 and the sum of the absolute errors of 8.57.When TIAA Cref Smallmid Cap Equity prices exhibit either an increasing or decreasing trend over time, simple exponential smoothing forecasts tend to lag behind observations. Double exponential smoothing is designed to address this type of data series by taking into account any TIAA Cref Smallmid Cap Equity trend in the prices. So in double exponential smoothing past observations are given exponentially smaller weights as the observations get older. In other words, recent TIAA Cref observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older observations. TIAA Cref's Double Exponential Smoothing reference values are drawn from available trading data and are presented for informational reference only.
Double exponential smoothing - also known as Holt exponential smoothing is a refinement of the popular simple exponential smoothing model with an additional trending component. Double exponential smoothing model for TIAA Cref works best with periods where there are trends or seasonality.

Double Exponential Smoothing Price Forecast For the 23rd of March

Given 90 days horizon, the Double Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of TIAA Cref Smallmid Cap Equity on the next trading day is expected to be 15.69 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.15 , mean absolute percentage error of 0.03 , and the sum of the absolute errors of 8.57 .
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict TIAA Mutual Fund 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 TIAA Cref'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

The next-day forecast for TIAA Cref Smallmid Cap Equity focuses on identifying predictive downside and upside bands that can frame a realistic trading range. The current forecast range spans downside near 14.58 and upside near 16.80.
Market Value
15.71
15.69
Expected Value
16.80
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Double Exponential Smoothing forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of TIAA Cref mutual fund data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent TIAA Cref mutual fund, 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 CriteriaHuge
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors 0.0323
MADMean absolute deviation0.1452
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0089
SAESum of the absolute errors8.5672
When TIAA Cref Smallmid Cap Equity prices exhibit either an increasing or decreasing trend over time, simple exponential smoothing forecasts tend to lag behind observations. Double exponential smoothing is designed to address this type of data series by taking into account any TIAA Cref Smallmid Cap Equity trend in the prices. So in double exponential smoothing past observations are given exponentially smaller weights as the observations get older. In other words, recent TIAA Cref observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older observations.

Other Forecasting Options for TIAA Cref

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TIAA Cref Related Equities

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TIAA Cref Market Strength Events

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TIAA Cref Risk Indicators

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