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Predicting a fund NAV during the trading hours - any calculator there?
Intraday indicative values are available for equity ETFs, but not for OEFs. To get an idea of how OEFs are performing intraday, I like to go to the yahoo finance fund holdings, then click on the "get quotes for top 10 holdings."
Reply to @kevindow: M* will give you the 25 holdings (if you trust their fund holding updates)...go to M*, enter ticker, click on Portfolio tab, then holdings tab, then Equity Price tab. Doing this at about 3:30 p.m. est. leave enough time to trade.
An ETF index such as SPY is a great way to compare a mutual fund like VFINX, or say QQQ for USNQX (NASDAQ 100), but it might be hard to use ETFs for specialty funds such as FAIRX that is very concentrated with only 6 stocks (making up 90% of the funds NAV). Low turnover funds help provide a better chance of M* portfolio data is somewhat fresh. Fund managers who have a high turnover rate would be very hard to know exactly what they are holding and therefore hard to monitor intraday accuracy.
That said, I do try to follow my mutual funds by creating a ETF portfolio at YahooFinance. I use a "mutual fund to etf" converter search engine to help me ID a close approxiamation for my "shadow etf" portfolio. This site does a pretty good job of offering ETF choices when you enter your mutual fund ticker into its search box:
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I do believe one of these will work. But if none of them do, than I'd say It can't be done.
Mindy
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Intraday indicative values are available for equity ETFs, but not for OEFs. To get an idea of how OEFs are performing intraday, I like to go to the yahoo finance fund holdings, then click on the "get quotes for top 10 holdings."
Kevin
Mindy, I looked at the link you provided. I coulnd't find it.
M* will give you the 25 holdings (if you trust their fund holding updates)...go to M*, enter ticker, click on Portfolio tab, then holdings tab, then Equity Price tab. Doing this at about 3:30 p.m. est. leave enough time to trade.
An ETF index such as SPY is a great way to compare a mutual fund like VFINX, or say QQQ for USNQX (NASDAQ 100), but it might be hard to use ETFs for specialty funds such as FAIRX that is very concentrated with only 6 stocks (making up 90% of the funds NAV). Low turnover funds help provide a better chance of M* portfolio data is somewhat fresh. Fund managers who have a high turnover rate would be very hard to know exactly what they are holding and therefore hard to monitor intraday accuracy.
That said, I do try to follow my mutual funds by creating a ETF portfolio at YahooFinance. I use a "mutual fund to etf" converter search engine to help me ID a close approxiamation for my "shadow etf" portfolio. This site does a pretty good job of offering ETF choices when you enter your mutual fund ticker into its search box:
etfdb.com/tool/mutual-fund-to-etf/
Bee, thanks for tip about using M* data, and that etfdb tool is nice.
Kevin
regards
nath