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as a re-usable data layer that was extracted from IPFS and can be used to build other types of content-addressed data systems. IPLD aims to be an off-the-shelf content-addressed data layer, with associated libraries, documentation, and tooling. The original concept of IPLD was to use URLs, for | medium | 4,796 |
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example, in Linked Data Structure, you have a JSON Object, and you can use a URL to point to another JSON object, and that object can also point to another object using a URL. There is a problem with this concept as URLs have authority like a .com, and this can change when it wants to, which is | medium | 4,797 |
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something that we do not want. So IPLD uses hashes (Merkel-linked Data), instead of having URLs point to objects as it is in the Linked Data structure, we use hashes to point to other objects. Since it is using hashes, it provides immutability because hashes are immutable and also it uses less | medium | 4,798 |
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authority. Verifiability is one reason for using immutable data. How to name files on IPFS After gaining some insights into the internal data structure, let’s learn about how we name things in the system. We now have objects that are stored using IPLD concepts, we need to be able to pass them | medium | 4,799 |
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around in the network, for this, we use CID or content identifiers. When naming files, we use concepts like CIDs to actually refer to these pieces of data, we then use Paths to describe extra metadata about CIDs or the data that we are addressing. After that, we use IPNS for renewable names. So let | medium | 4,800 |
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us dive in and try to gain basic knowledge about each of the concepts just mentioned. 2.1 Content Identifier (CID) CIDs are the most fundamental concept of the IPFS architect and are used for content addressing. You can define CID as a label used to point to material in IPFS. It does not indicate | medium | 4,801 |
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where the content is stored, but it forms a kind of address based on the content itself. CIDs are short, regardless of the size of their underlying content. It is used to name every piece of data in IPFS. It all starts with a cryptographic hash function that matches the input of an arbitrary size | medium | 4,802 |
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to the output of a fixed size. The same data should always produce the same hash, which means it is deterministic. The cryptographic hash function is a one-way function, which means you cannot compute data from a hash, you can only compute a fixed-sized hash from arbitrary data. It also ensures | medium | 4,803 |
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uniqueness to make sure no two data can produce the same hash. CIDs are based on the content’s cryptographic hash which means: Any difference in the content will produce a different CID (Immutability), thereby providing integrity checking; The same content added to two different IPFS nodes using | medium | 4,804 |
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the same settings will produce the same **CID (Deduplication). CIDs are of two versions, CIDv0 and CIDv1. See examples below: CIDv0: **Qm**S4ustL54uo8FzR9455qaxZwuMiUhyvMcX9Ba8nUH4uVv CIDv1: **bafybei**bxm2nsadl3fnxv2sxcxmxaco2jl53wpeorjdzidjwf5aqdg7wa6u The above CIDs point to the same content but | medium | 4,805 |
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use two different versions of CID specification. CIDs are self-describing content addresses, they tell you the hash function used as well as the codec that can be used to interpret the binary data being linked. CIDs give us a complete self-describing package such as what hash function was used; how | medium | 4,806 |
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many bytes of output we have; what kind of data is being addressed and how we might interpret it when we find it. CIDs build on some basic technologies for self-describing data. These include: Multihash: A self-describing hash digest, using a pre-set number to identify the hash function used, | medium | 4,807 |
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comprising the main content of a CID. Multicodec: A pre-set number to uniquely identify a format or protocol. Used in CIDs for the IPLD format that tells you how to decode the data when you locate it and load its bytes. Multibase: A self-describing base-encoded string, used for the string form of a | medium | 4,808 |
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CID. Multihash, Multicodec, Multibase, and CIDs are part of the “Multiformats” system for self-describing values. CID can be said to be built as a concatenation of these technologies: <multibase>(<cid-version><multicodec><multihash>) Why do we use hashes in place of URLs to link data in IPFS? We | medium | 4,809 |
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use hashes because they are verifiable, immutable, trustless, and permanent. So if we have a CID pointing to something, it will always point to that thing, and the data it is pointing to cannot change. Any time you query data using its CID, it will always give back that data, this means, nobody can | medium | 4,810 |
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go back and change the data for a particular CID, and if they do, a new CID will be generated Content addressing versus location-based addressing Content addressing is where we use a hash to access content, and it allows us to verify that what we received is what we ask for by computing the hash or | medium | 4,811 |
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CID from the content itself. CID contains a hash and metadata Content Identifiers (content addressing) address content by content and not by where the content is located. This is equivalent to like “what is it, and not where is it” In location Address, you can say a particular content is located on | medium | 4,812 |
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a server somewhere, so you can use the location to find and fetch the content. For example, you can say that your dog is located in a street in San Francisco, so using a map, you can trace the location and then use that location to go find your dog. Location addressing is what we have in Web 2.0, | medium | 4,813 |
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it tells us where the content is stored. Contents addressing describe the data you are looking for while location addressing tells you where to find the data. Problems with location addressing For example using the cat analogy, we can say go find my cat, and you trace the location and when you get | medium | 4,814 |
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there, you see a cat. You will not know if that is the actual cat, or if someone has come to swap the cat before you got there, so in location addressing, the content in that location can change, and the URL will still point to the new content. This way, you can end up not getting the actual | medium | 4,815 |
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content that you want. But with content addressing since CID is generated from hashing the file, changing the file changes its hash, and consequently its CID which is used as an address. You can verify that the file received is the same as what you requested by comparing the CID generated from the | medium | 4,816 |
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content and checking to see that it matches the CID with which you requested the file. 2.2 PATH IPFS uses paths, and not URIs/URLs. It does not use URLs because Like URLs, paths are namespaced, and unlike URLs, paths are recursive. Example — /ipfs/Qmfoo/welcome.txt /ipns/QmBar/index.html Unlike | medium | 4,817 |
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URLs, paths are recursive. This example is a way to describe a Git URL for a piece of content — /dns/github.com/tcp/22/ssh/git You cannot compose multiple protocols on URLs, but with Path, you can compose multiple protocols, and this is why IPFS uses Path. versus git+ssh:/github.com:22 (not | medium | 4,818 |
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composable) 2.3 IPNS IPNS is an acronym for InterPlanetary Name System. Content addressing in IPFS is by nature immutable. When you add a file to IPFS, it creates a hash from the data with which the CID is constructed. Changing a file changes its hash, and consequently, its CID which is used as an | medium | 4,819 |
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address. There are many situations where content-addressed data needs to be regularly updated. For example, when publishing a website that frequently changes, it would be impractical to share a new CID every time you update the website with mutable pointers, you can share the address of the pointer | medium | 4,820 |
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once, and update the pointer — to the new CID — every time you publish a change. The InterPlanetary Name System (IPNS) is a system for creating such mutable pointers to CIDs known as names or IPNS names. IPNS names can be thought of as links that can be updated over time while retaining the | medium | 4,821 |
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verifiability of content addressing. Example: /ipns/QmMyKey -> /ipfs/QmSomething New IPNS allows you to map public keys to paths. Example: /ipns/QmMyKey -> /ipfs/QmFoo (signed) 3.0 Finding files on IPFS Now that we have covered how to import and name files on IPFS, it is time to talk about finding | medium | 4,822 |
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files on IPFS, which includes the following concepts: ROUTING DHT KADEMLIA ROUTING — We use routing or content routing to find content on IPFS. We start by taking the CID of the content, and then use the routing system to do the work that is needed to find out the set of people on the P2P network | medium | 4,823 |
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that currently have the content we are looking for. So we find a set of people that have the file, and request for them to send the file to us, and we can then verify if the sent file is what we actually requested. We can implement this concept by keeping a routing table. WHAT WHO QmFoo Qzzy QmBar | medium | 4,824 |
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Izzy A routing table is a set of rules used to decide where data traveling over a network should go. All IP-enabled devices, including routers and switches, use routing tables. Every IPFS peer maintains a routing table with links to other peers in the network and the content that they have. IPFS | medium | 4,825 |
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relies on Kademlia to define what should and should not go into the routing table: When we connect to a peer, check if it qualifies to be added to our routing table; If it qualifies, determine how close the new peer is to us to figure out which bucket it should go into; Attempt to put the peer in | medium | 4,826 |
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the bucket; If we ever fail to connect to a peer in our routing table, drop them from the routing table. We have a massive table that keeps track of which peer has this thing or these things are held by this set of peers. There is a problem though because a single peer cannot hold this routing | medium | 4,827 |
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table, maybe at the moment they could, but when the data gets really big and runs into millions and millions of data on the routing table, no one peer will be able to hold the table. To solve this problem, we use a distributed routing/hashing table, which is about taking the routing table, and then | medium | 4,828 |
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distributing it to all peers in the network in such a way that each peer can store some bit of the routing table. Distributed Hash Table (DHT) A distributed hash table (DHT) is a distributed system for mapping keys to values. In IPFS, the DHT is used as the fundamental component of the content | medium | 4,829 |
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routing system and acts like a cross between a catalog and a navigation system. It maps what the user is looking for to the peer that is storing the matching content. Think of it as a huge table that stores who has what data. How to know who has what piece of the routing table Before you need to | medium | 4,830 |
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find who has a piece of content, you first need to find the set of peers that has the routing table. This problem can be solved by using Kademlia (deterministically distributing the routing table). KADEMLIA is based on two key features: The distance Metric — is peer X closer to content C than peer | medium | 4,831 |
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Y? The Query Algorithm — Given the distance metric, how do we get to find the peers closest to C? The query algorithm uses the distance metric to find peers that are close to a particular content. Ask the closest peers you know for closer peers to the content, and remember the closest peers. Every | medium | 4,832 |
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time you reach out to a peer that knows peers who are closer to content, you are always halfway from the content. So the first you reach out, you are halfway to the content, and those peers you reach out to will locate other peers that are halfway closer to the content, this happens until you get | medium | 4,833 |
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to the content. 4.0 — FETCHING FILES ON IPFS BITSWAP — This is how we actually fetch data on IPFS. The way this works is by keeping a WANT LIST. A want list is literally just a list of things that you want. You then tell everyone on the network about the list of things that you want. After that, | medium | 4,834 |
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they then swap their want list with you. After receiving what the other peer wants, you check and see which item on the list you have, and the other peer also checks to see which of the received items on the list he has, and they both exchange/swap or send items to the other peer. Once you receive | medium | 4,835 |
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your content, you do resource checking to verify the authenticity of the content received. Resource integrity checking is one way to verify/ensure that the data you received is what you actually requested. The idea is to calculate an identifier for the data, from the data itself. The identifier is | medium | 4,836 |
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called the hash, and you use cryptography when calculating the hash to ensure that it has some properties like uniqueness and determinism. Once you get the hash, you can share it with the rest of the world, and when someone gets a hold of the data, they also calculate the hash, and they check that | medium | 4,837 |
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it matches. If the hash matches correctly, they know that the data is accurate or is what they requested. If the hashes do not match, it means someone has tampered with the data. Bitswap is all about the fact that I send you a list of things that I want, and you send me a list of things that you | medium | 4,838 |
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want. So far, we have been able to cover the following steps on how IPFS works: Importing files Naming files Finding files Fetching files However, if you like this article and want to encourage me to write more articles, you can donate to this ETH, USDC and USDT Address on the Ethereum network: | medium | 4,839 |
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Volatility forecasting plays a crucial role in various financial applications, including risk management, portfolio optimization and derivative pricing. Accurately predicting volatility allows market participants to make more informed decisions and mitigate potential risks effectively. One popular | medium | 4,841 |
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method for volatility forecasting is the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model. In this advanced Python tutorial, we will delve into the world of GARCH models for volatility forecasting. We will start by explaining the importance of volatility forecasting and | medium | 4,842 |
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providing an overview of GARCH models. Subsequently, we will explore the theoretical underpinnings of volatility modeling, delve into the intricacies of GARCH models and discuss their relevance in financial markets. Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash Table of Contents Section 1: Understanding | medium | 4,843 |
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Volatility: Definition of volatility, its significance in financial markets and the rationale for accurate forecasting. Section 2: GARCH Models: Introduction to GARCH models, their functioning principles and the reasons for their widespread adoption in volatility forecasting. Section 3: | medium | 4,844 |
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Implementing GARCH Models in Python: A step-by-step guide on implementing GARCH models in Python, covering data preprocessing, model fitting and forecasting. Section 4: Model Evaluation: Techniques for evaluating GARCH model performance, including AIC and BIC criteria, backtesting and out-of-sample | medium | 4,845 |
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testing. Section 5: Advanced Topics in Volatility Forecasting: Discussion on advanced subjects such as multivariate GARCH models, volatility clustering and long-range dependence. Conclusion: Summarizing key insights, emphasizing the significance of GARCH models in volatility forecasting and | medium | 4,846 |
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suggesting potential areas for future research. Through this comprehensive guide, readers will gain a thorough understanding of GARCH models and learn how to leverage Python for effective volatility forecasting in financial markets. Let’s embark on this journey of mastering GARCH models for | medium | 4,847 |
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volatility forecasting together. Understanding Volatility Volatility in financial markets refers to the degree of variation or dispersion of returns for a specific security or market index over a certain period. It is a key metric that reflects the uncertainty and risk associated with an asset’s | medium | 4,848 |
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price movements. Understanding volatility is crucial for various reasons in financial markets: Definition of Volatility: Volatility is commonly measured as the standard deviation of returns or as the variance of returns squared. Higher volatility indicates greater price fluctuations, while lower | medium | 4,849 |
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volatility suggests more stable price movements. Importance in Financial Markets: Volatility impacts several aspects of financial markets, including pricing of options, risk management, portfolio construction and asset allocation. Investors and traders use volatility as a gauge of market | medium | 4,850 |
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uncertainty and adjust their strategies accordingly. Need for Accurate Forecasting: Accurately predicting volatility is essential for making informed investment decisions, managing risk effectively and optimizing portfolio performance. By anticipating future volatility levels, market participants | medium | 4,851 |
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can adjust their positions and strategies to capitalize on market opportunities and mitigate potential losses. In the dynamic and unpredictable world of finance, volatility forecasting plays a pivotal role in decision-making processes. By understanding and predicting volatility levels, investors | medium | 4,852 |
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and financial institutions can navigate turbulent market conditions with ease, maximize returns and protect their portfolios from adverse market movements. By incorporating sophisticated modeling techniques like GARCH models, analysts can improve the accuracy of volatility forecasts and enhance | medium | 4,853 |
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their risk management practices. GARCH models offer a systematic framework for capturing the dynamics of volatility and adjusting for autocorrelation and conditional heteroskedasticity in financial time series data. GARCH Models Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) | medium | 4,854 |
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models are a class of time series models that aim to capture the volatility clustering and persistence observed in financial data. These models were introduced by Tim Bollerslev in the early 1980s and have since become a popular tool for volatility forecasting in financial markets. How GARCH Models | medium | 4,855 |
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Work: GARCH models are based on the concept of conditional heteroskedasticity, which means that the variance of the error term in a regression model is not constant but varies over time. GARCH models incorporate lagged values of the squared residuals (errors) to model the volatility dynamics. By | medium | 4,856 |
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capturing the autocorrelation and conditional volatility clustering, GARCH models can provide more accurate volatility forecasts compared to traditional models. Why GARCH Models are Used for Volatility Forecasting: Flexibility: GARCH models allow for flexible modeling of volatility patterns, | medium | 4,857 |
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capturing both short-term volatility spikes and long-term persistence in volatility. Ability to Capture Volatility Clustering: Financial data often exhibit periods of high and low volatility clustering. GARCH models are designed to capture these clustering effects, providing more accurate | medium | 4,858 |
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volatility forecasts during turbulent market conditions. Accommodation of Autocorrelation: GARCH models can account for the autocorrelation present in financial time series data, improving the accuracy of volatility predictions over time. Conditional Volatility: By modeling the conditional variance | medium | 4,859 |
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of the error term, GARCH models provide insights into how volatility changes based on past information, making them valuable for risk management and portfolio optimization. With their robust statistical framework and ability to capture the complex dynamics of financial volatility, GARCH models have | medium | 4,860 |
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become a cornerstone of volatility forecasting in quantitative finance. In the next section, we will dive into the practical implementation of GARCH models in Python for effective volatility forecasting. # Import necessary libraries import yfinance as yf # Download data with yfinance ticker = | medium | 4,861 |
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'AAPL' start_date = '2010-01-01' end_date = '2024-04-30' data = yf.download(ticker, start=start_date, end=end_date) # Print the first few rows of the data print(data.head()) Data Output: Open High Low Close Adj Close Volume Date 2010-01-04 7.622500 7.660714 7.585000 7.643214 6.470740 493729600 | medium | 4,862 |
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2010-01-05 7.664286 7.699643 7.616071 7.656429 6.481929 601904800 2010-01-06 7.656429 7.686786 7.526786 7.534643 6.378825 552160000 2010-01-07 7.562500 7.571429 7.466071 7.520714 6.367033 477131200 2010-01-08 7.510714 7.571429 7.466429 7.570714 6.409363 447610800 In the forthcoming sections, we | medium | 4,863 |
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will explore how to preprocess data, fit GARCH models and forecast volatility using Python. Stay tuned for an in-depth walkthrough on leveraging GARCH models for volatility forecasting in financial markets. # Import necessary libraries import yfinance as yf import pandas as pd import numpy as np | medium | 4,864 |
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from arch import arch_model # Download data with yfinance ticker = 'AAPL' start_date = '2010-01-01' end_date = '2024-04-30' data = yf.download(ticker, start=start_date, end=end_date) # Calculate log returns data['log_return'] = np.log(data['Adj Close'] / data['Adj Close'].shift(1)) # Data | medium | 4,865 |
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preprocessing returns = data['log_return'].dropna() # Fit GARCH Model am = arch_model(returns, mean='Zero', vol='Garch', p=1, q=1) res = am.fit(disp='off') # Forecast volatility forecasts = res.forecast(horizon=5) # Print the forecasted volatility print(forecasts.mean.iloc[-1, :]) Output: h.1 0.0 | medium | 4,866 |
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h.2 0.0 h.3 0.0 h.4 0.0 h.5 0.0 Name: 2024-04-15 00:00:00, dtype: float64 Model Evaluation Model evaluation plays a critical role in assessing the performance and reliability of GARCH models for volatility forecasting. Various techniques are used to gauge the effectiveness of these models, | medium | 4,867 |
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including AIC and BIC criteria, backtesting and out-of-sample testing. Let’s delve into each of these evaluation methods: AIC and BIC Criteria Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) are statistical measures used to evaluate the goodness of fit of a model while | medium | 4,868 |
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penalizing for model complexity. Lower values of AIC and BIC indicate a better fit of the model to the data. AIC places a higher penalty on model complexity compared to BIC. When fitting a GARCH model, we can calculate AIC and BIC to determine the optimal model specification that strikes a balance | medium | 4,869 |
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between model accuracy and complexity. Backtesting Backtesting is a technique used to assess the performance of a volatility forecasting model, such as a GARCH model, by comparing predicted values with observed data. By analyzing the residuals (difference between predicted and actual volatility), | medium | 4,870 |
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backtesting helps identify potential weaknesses or biases in the model. In the context of GARCH models, backtesting involves calculating the squared standardized residuals and analyzing their distribution to check for consistency with assumed model properties. Deviations from expected distribution | medium | 4,871 |
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patterns may indicate model inadequacies or limitations. Out-of-Sample Testing Out-of-sample testing involves evaluating the forecasting performance of a model on data it has not been trained on. In the case of GARCH models, this means assessing how well the model forecasts volatility on unseen | medium | 4,872 |
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data. This validation technique helps determine the generalizability and robustness of the model in capturing volatility dynamics. By splitting the data into training and testing sets, fitting the GARCH model on the training data and then forecasting volatility on the test data, we can measure the | medium | 4,873 |
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accuracy and reliability of the model’s predictions under real-world conditions. Evaluation Code for GARCH Model To evaluate the performance of a GARCH model for volatility forecasting, we can use the following Python code snippet. This code calculates the AIC and BIC criteria, conducts backtesting | medium | 4,874 |
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and performs out-of-sample testing to assess the model’s efficacy. # Data preprocessing to remove NaN or infinite values from arch import arch_model import yfinance as yf import numpy as np import pandas as pd data = data.dropna() data = data.replace([np.inf, -np.inf], np.nan).dropna() # Define | medium | 4,875 |
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function for model evaluation def evaluate_model(data): # Fit GARCH model am = arch_model(data['log_return'], mean='Zero', vol='Garch', p=1, q=1, rescale=True) res = am.fit(disp='off') # Calculate AIC and BIC aic = res.aic bic = res.bic # Perform backtesting residuals = data['log_return'] - | medium | 4,876 |
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res.conditional_volatility res_t = residuals / res.conditional_volatility backtest = (res_t**2).sum() # Out-of-sample testing data_length = len(data) train_size = int(0.8 * data_length) train_data = data[:train_size] test_data = data[train_size:] res_oos = am.fit(last_obs=train_data.index[-1], | medium | 4,877 |
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disp='off') forecast = res_oos.forecast(start=train_data.index[-1], horizon=len(test_data)) # Calculate out-of-sample forecast error forecast_vol = forecast.residual_variance.iloc[-1, :] error = (test_data['log_return'] - forecast_vol).dropna() return aic, bic, backtest, error # Evaluate the GARCH | medium | 4,878 |
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model using log returns data aic, bic, backtest, forecast_error = evaluate_model(data) # Print the evaluation results print(f'AIC: {aic}') print(f'BIC: {bic}') print(f'Backtesting Result: {backtest}') In this code snippet, we preprocess the data, fit a GARCH model, calculate evaluation metrics | medium | 4,879 |
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(AIC, BIC), conduct backtesting and perform out-of-sample testing to assess the GARCH model’s performance in forecasting volatility. AIC: 13790.869973541776 BIC: 13809.430201903117 Backtesting Result: 3589.102920139574 By following these evaluation techniques, analysts can ensure the reliability | medium | 4,880 |
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and accuracy of GARCH models for volatility forecasting in financial markets. Advanced Topics in Volatility Forecasting In the realm of volatility forecasting, advanced topics like multivariate GARCH models, volatility clustering and long-range dependence are crucial to capturing the intricate | medium | 4,881 |
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dynamics of financial markets. Multivariate GARCH Models: Multivariate GARCH models extend the univariate GARCH framework to incorporate correlations and dependencies across multiple assets or variables. By considering the interrelationships between different assets, multivariate GARCH models offer | medium | 4,882 |
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a more comprehensive approach to volatility forecasting. These models are particularly useful in portfolio optimization and risk management, where the interactions between asset returns play a significant role. Volatility Clustering: Volatility clustering refers to the phenomenon where periods of | medium | 4,883 |
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high volatility tend to occur in clusters, followed by periods of relative calmness. This clustering effect is prevalent in financial markets due to the inherent nature of market dynamics. GARCH models excel at capturing volatility clustering by incorporating lagged volatility information and | medium | 4,884 |
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adjusting for autocorrelation in volatility shocks. Understanding volatility clustering is essential for anticipating market turbulence and adjusting risk management strategies accordingly. Long-Range Dependence: Long-range dependence in volatility forecasting refers to the persistence of | medium | 4,885 |
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volatility shocks over extended periods of time. This property implies that past volatility fluctuations can have a lasting impact on future volatility levels. GARCH models with long memory components, such as the FIGARCH model, are adept at capturing long-range dependence in volatility. By | medium | 4,886 |
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accounting for these persistent volatility shocks, analysts can obtain more accurate forecasts of future volatility behavior. Conclusion In conclusion, GARCH models serve as potent tools for volatility forecasting in financial markets. By capturing the dynamics of volatility clustering, persistence | medium | 4,887 |
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and autocorrelation, GARCH models offer a systematic framework for predicting market uncertainty and managing risk effectively. Here are the key takeaways from this guide: Importance of Volatility Forecasting: Volatility forecasting is essential for informed decision-making, risk management and | medium | 4,888 |
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portfolio optimization in financial markets. Accurately predicting volatility levels allows market participants to adapt their strategies and capitalize on market opportunities. Role of GARCH Models: GARCH models provide a robust framework for modeling volatility dynamics, accounting for key | medium | 4,889 |
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features like clustering and persistence. With their ability to adjust for autocorrelation and conditional heteroskedasticity, GARCH models offer reliable forecasts of future volatility levels. Practical Implementation in Python: This guide demonstrated how to implement GARCH models in Python for | medium | 4,890 |
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volatility forecasting. From data preprocessing to model fitting and forecasting, Python offers a versatile platform for leveraging GARCH models in financial analysis. Model Evaluation Techniques: Evaluating GARCH models using metrics like AIC, BIC, backtesting and out-of-sample testing is crucial | medium | 4,891 |
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for assessing model performance and reliability. These techniques help validate the efficacy of GARCH models in capturing volatility dynamics. Advanced Topics in Volatility Forecasting: Multivariate GARCH models, volatility clustering and long-range dependence represent advanced topics in | medium | 4,892 |
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volatility forecasting. Understanding these concepts can enhance the sophistication and accuracy of volatility models for practical applications. Moving forward, potential areas for future research in volatility forecasting using GARCH models include: Enhanced Model Estimation: Exploring improved | medium | 4,893 |
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estimation techniques for GARCH models to capture complex volatility patterns more effectively. Adding Exogenous Variables: Incorporating exogenous variables into GARCH models to enhance forecasting accuracy and capture external factors impacting volatility. Dynamic Model Adaptation: Developing | medium | 4,894 |
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adaptive GARCH models that adjust to changing market conditions and adapt in real-time for more robust volatility forecasts. By continually refining and advancing GARCH models, researchers and practitioners can stay at the forefront of volatility forecasting in financial markets, enabling better | medium | 4,895 |
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risk management and informed decision-making. Embracing the power of GARCH models in conjunction with Python programming can revolutionize the way volatility is forecasted and managed in the dynamic landscape of finance. | medium | 4,896 |
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