[R-SIG-Finance] Problem with garch (tseries)
Eric Zivot
ezivot at u.washington.edu
Sun Aug 20 00:17:51 CEST 2006
The riskmetrics approach (simple EWMA on r(t)^2 with lamda = 0.94) is a
stable adaptive volatility estimator. It's also a simple restricted IGARCH
model. No estimation is required. Carol Alexander has a nice discussion of
Robustness issues in the estimation of garch models in chapters 3-5 of her
book Market Models.
Also, simple markov switching models in variance sometimes work as a good
alternative to garch models when volatility goes through abrupt regimes. For
returns, the basic hidden markov model works reasonably well and there is an
R package for estimating HMMs.
ez
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From: r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of michael
mathews
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 4:50 PM
To: Patrick Burns
Cc: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Problem with garch (tseries)
As I mentioned to Joe off list I am dealing with natural Gas prices at
houston ship channel. While I could assemble a longer price series it
seems that nat gas has entered into a new price/volatility regime in
the last two years which I think makes using older data somewhat
problematic.
If garch does not like "small" samples what would be a robust way to
estimate the volatility?
thanks for your input
michael
--- Patrick Burns <patrick at burns-stat.com> wrote:
> These are good points. But probably a key aspect
> is that garch thinks 800 data points is a small sample,
> and 400 points (at least for daily data) is likely to yield
> parameter estimates that are exceptionally variable.
>
> Patrick Burns
> patrick at burns-stat.com
> +44 (0)20 8525 0696
> http://www.burns-stat.com
> (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User")
>
> Joe W. Byers wrote:
>
> >Micheal,
> >
> >Physical natural daily prices are a problem with time series models
> >especially if the physical asset is storable. Storable assets means
>
> >that the prices are not an easy single model time series process but
> a
> >multi-variate model ie Supply and Demand. Another problem is the
> >returns of these prices are not normally distributed especially over
>
> >short times series. Other things to think about are how liquid are
> these
> >asset prices, the breath and depth of the markets, are is there a
> well
> >developed forward market?
> >
> >These do not mean that your model is not going to work, it may just
> not
> >be robust next time you estimate it. I would suggest running some
> >outlier tests for spikes in the prices, looking at volatility
> clustering
> >around these outliers. Also consider using a GED GARCH model that
> is
> >normal distribution under restrictions on the parameters and a
> negative
> >exponential on others. My collegues and I and U Tulsa have found
> this
> >works well for some Power prices and Weather Temps. I am working on
> it
> >for other prices series as well.
> >
> >Good Luck
> >Joe
> >
> >michael mathews wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi folks,
> >>I have been playing with garch models to model the volatility in
> >>physical natural prices.
> >>Here is the issue I have a dataset of 801 daily returns (attached).
> >>If I run
> >>
> >>garchall<-garch(hsc)
> >>
> >> ***** ESTIMATION WITH ANALYTICAL GRADIENT *****
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>summary(garchall)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Call:
> >>garch(x = hsc)
> >>
> >>Model:
> >>GARCH(1,1)
> >>
> >>Residuals:
> >> Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
> >>-4.3424 -0.5734 0.0000 0.6037 4.0501
> >>
> >>Coefficient(s):
> >> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
> >>a0 2.507e-05 9.200e-06 2.726 0.00642 **
> >>a1 1.218e-01 2.085e-02 5.840 5.21e-09 ***
> >>b1 8.759e-01 1.937e-02 45.212 < 2e-16 ***
> >>---
> >>Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
> >>
> >>Diagnostic Tests:
> >> Jarque Bera Test
> >>
> >>data: Residuals
> >>X-squared = 62.7291, df = 2, p-value = 2.387e-14
> >>
> >>
> >> Box-Ljung test
> >>
> >>data: Squared.Residuals
> >>X-squared = 0.0384, df = 1, p-value = 0.8447
> >>
> >>Now if we run the same model on a subset say the last 351 days we
> get
> >>
> >>
> >>>garch351<-garch(tail(hsc,351))
> >>>
> >>>
> >> ***** ESTIMATION WITH ANALYTICAL GRADIENT *****
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>summary(garch351)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Call:
> >>garch(x = tail(hsc, 351))
> >>
> >>Model:
> >>GARCH(1,1)
> >>
> >>Residuals:
> >> Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
> >>-4.171521 -0.424628 0.008727 0.532158 3.962116
> >>
> >>Coefficient(s):
> >> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
> >>a0 2.511e-05 1.589e-05 1.580 0.114167
> >>a1 1.043e-01 2.950e-02 3.536 0.000406 ***
> >>b1 8.957e-01 2.567e-02 34.896 < 2e-16 ***
> >>---
> >>Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
> >>
> >>Diagnostic Tests:
> >> Jarque Bera Test
> >>
> >>data: Residuals
> >>X-squared = 76.3704, df = 2, p-value < 2.2e-16
> >>
> >>
> >> Box-Ljung test
> >>
> >>data: Squared.Residuals
> >>X-squared = 1.2806, df = 1, p-value = 0.2578
> >>
> >>still ok. Now finally we get t the point of this email lets look at
> 352
> >>days of data:
> >>
> >>garch352<-garch(tail(hsc,352))
> >>
> >> ***** ESTIMATION WITH ANALYTICAL GRADIENT *****
> >>
> >>
> >>Warning message:
> >>NaNs produced in: sqrt(pred$e)
> >>
> >>
> >>>summary(garch352)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Call:
> >>garch(x = tail(hsc, 352))
> >>
> >>Model:
> >>GARCH(1,1)
> >>
> >>Residuals:
> >> Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
> >>-4.16377 -0.58155 0.01454 0.70886 12.41242
> >>
> >>Coefficient(s):
> >> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
> >>a0 2.428e-05 1.556e-05 1.561 0.118632
> >>a1 1.043e-01 2.947e-02 3.540 0.000400 ***
> >>b1 8.962e-01 2.556e-02 35.058 < 2e-16 ***
> >>---
> >>Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
> >>
> >>Diagnostic Tests:
> >> Jarque Bera Test
> >>
> >>data: Residuals
> >>X-squared = 10993.57, df = 2, p-value < 2.2e-16
> >>
> >>
> >> Box-Ljung test
> >>
> >>data: Squared.Residuals
> >>X-squared = 0.1831, df = 1, p-value = 0.6687
> >>
> >>whats up? Any Ideas.
> >>I have also tried using garchFit from the fSeries package but it
> locks
> >>up completely left it running last night and it was still spinning
> this
> >>morning when I got back to the office.
> >>
> >>thanks in advance
> >>
> >>michael
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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