Rahimikia, Eghbal; Poon, Ser-Huang - 2021
This paper examines, for the first time, the performance of machine learning models in realised volatility forecasting … sample period of July 27, 2007, to November 18, 2016. We find strong evidence to support ML forecasting power dominating an …-ML has very strong forecasting power and adding news sentiment variables to the data set only improves the forecasting power …