Due to its significance, forecasting asset volatility has been an active area of research in recent decades. In this whitepaper we aim to take into account the stylised facts of volatility to improve predictive power of a simple GARCH model. We investigate the power of three GARCH models (GARCH,...

In this study we investigate how the prediction of future volatility is improved by using news (meta)data. We use three input time series, namely: (i) market data, (ii) news sentiment impact scores, as explained by Yu (2014), and (iii) the news volume. We compare the results of predicting...