iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
$52.07
-1.1%
Aug 12, 2026
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WeakGraded against IGSB's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.
What it means: IGSB's own history does not strongly favor buying at this level yet.
What to do: Consider watching and waiting for a deeper dip or a higher grade.
The index measures the performance of investment-grade corporate bonds of both U.S. and non-U.S. issuers that are U.S. dollar-denominated and publicly issued in the U.S. domestic market and have a remaining maturity of greater than or equal to one year and less than five years. The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the index, and the fund will invest at least 90% of its assets in fixed income securities of the types included in the underlying index that B
Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.
In plain terms: IGSB is 1.1% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.
iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (IGSB) sits 1.1% off its peak and is currently at or near all-time highs, last printing at $52.07. That puts IGSB in a momentum regime: buyers are in control and there's no meaningful technical damage on the chart yet.
Across all available history, IGSB has spent enough trading days in the 5%-to-0% drawdown band to build a large sample (4572 observations). Dipsern segments these by drawdown depth and computes the rolling median forward 90-day return — that median is the primary signal you see in the full app, and it's substantially more robust than mean-based forecasts because it ignores fat-tail outliers in both directions.
For broad-index ETFs the historical base rate is exceptionally stable; for narrow thematic ETFs (e.g., ARKK, cannabis, leveraged), drawdowns are deeper and the sample size at each band is smaller. At this level the Dipsern signal is mostly tracking momentum, not mean reversion. Most buying-the-dip frameworks aren't relevant when there is no dip.
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Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for IGSB. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.
We segment 40+ years of IGSB's price history into 20 equal-width drawdown bands and compute forward median returns, win rates, and prediction error per band. No look-ahead bias. Pure NumPy. Open math, gated numbers.
Years of history
40+
Drawdown bands
20
Look-ahead bias
None
Data sources
4
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Signal computed Aug 12, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.