Since you want to
use PFF.
The last few days BBV has had plenty of opportunity to discuss the pros and cons of
using PFF numbers.
Not exact matches
a 76.7
PFF grade is not that bad if you
use that to judge.
There was a really good
PFF article a while back highlighting Percy and his role in the Vikings offense and how you could
use him all over the field and he'd create so many mismatch problems.
I
used a DVY dividend growth rate of 5.5 % nominal, same as for the S&P 500, and 0 % for
PFF.
I prefer to
use the full year's dividend amount for
PFF since the distributions are monthly and they fluctuate a lot.
You wouldn't
use a 200 - day moving average for the S&P 500 SPDR Trust (SPY) to buy or sell the Global X Columbia 30 (GXG) or iShares MSCI Chile (ECH) or iShares Preferred (
PFF) or PowerShares Bank Loan (BKLN).
In addition to this
PFF stock quote, take a look at
PFF Covered Calls and how you can
use call options to simulate a 3 %, 5 %, or 10 % annual yield with synthetic
PFF Dividends.
State transition probabilities (PPP, PPF,
PFF and PFP) and emission probabilities (E1 and E2) were estimated in Matlab
using «hmmtrain».