Aggregated price index with volume information
Summary:
- Life/Health Insurance stocks up 0.1% on average while median return up -0.0% in a day
- Life/Health Insurance stocks down 0.2% on average while median return down 0.2% in a week
- Life/Health Insurance stocks up 3.2% on average while median return up 1.0% in a month
- When average return is significantly different from median return, this implies an asymmetry - composite return is driven by some outliners.
Aggregated price index (close) is based on equal weighted constituencies returns. Average short volume and average total volumes are averaged across all volume data among constituencies.
- 1M winners are : Winners for past month are $RGA 8.5%, $EIG 6.6%, $MFC 6.2%, $SNFCA 5.1%, $MET 4.4%
- 1M losers are : Losers for past month are $PFG -1.8%, $VOYA -2.4%, $CIA -2.6%, $LNC -3.7%, $EHTH -6.9%
- 1W winners are : Winners for past week are $EHTH 6.4%, $RGA 3.4%, $UNM 2.9%, $FG 2.7%, $EIG 2.6%
- 1W losers are : Losers for past week are $MFC -2.3%, $PFG -3.2%, $NWLI -3.5%, $LNC -5.3%, $BHF -8.8%
Correlation Analysis
Index correlation analysis
Correlation for the past month is 20.9%, for the past 3 months is 22.6%
In the past month for a 5 days rolling window, the highest corrrelation is 38.6%, the lowest correlation is 9.3%, the latest correlation is 14.9%
When a correlation deviated from the normal level and goes lower or even negative, it indicates some of stocks have deviated from the normal direction of the group. The deviation could reverse if long term level of correlation was at a higher level. It creates trading opportunities and deserves study whether the deviation is idiosyncratic or systematic.
Among pairwise correlation, the highest correlation is 81.9% between MET and PFG
The lowest correlation is -49.4% between UNM and VERY
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