We show that realized volatility, especially the realized volatility of financial sector stock returns, has strong …, most importantly, can be exploited in real time. Current realized volatility has the most information content on the … volatility is low, the predicted distribution of returns is less dispersed and probabilistic forecasts are sharper. Given this …

allocation and risk management require estimates of the volatility of these factors. While realized volatility has become a … provide a statistical approach to estimate the volatility of these factors. The efficacy of this approach relative to the use … of models based on squared returns is demonstrated for forecasts of the market volatility and a portfolio allocation …

We examine the performance of volatility models that incorporate features such as long (short) memory, regime …-t). Second, we perform a comprehensive panel forecasting analysis of the MSM models as well as other competing volatility models … (GMM) estimation are both suitable for MSM-t models, (ii) empirical panel forecasts of MSM-t models show an improvement …

foreign exchange markets. -- Random Lognormal cascades ; GMM estimation ; best linear forecasting ; volatility of financial … Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation procedure to cope with the documented difficulties of previous methodologies. We … by estimating the intermittency parameter and forecasting of volatility for a sample of financial data from stock and …