VOLATILITY FORECASTING - A PERFORMANCE MEASURE OF GARCH TECHNIQUES WITH DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTION MODELS

Volatility Forecasting is an interesting challenging topic in current financial instruments as it is directly
associated with profits. There are many risks and rewards directly associated with volatility. Hence
forecasting volatility becomes most dispensable topic in finance. The GARCH distributions play an important
role in the risk measurement and option pricing. The min motive of this paper is to measure the performance
of GARCH techniques for forecasting volatility by using different distribution model. We have used 9
variations in distribution models that are used to forecast the volatility of a stock entity. The different GARCH
distribution models observed in this paper are Std, Norm, SNorm, GED, SSTD, SGED, NIG, GHYP and JSU.
Volatility is forecasted for 10 days in advance and values are compared with the actual values to find out the
best distribution model for volatility forecast. From the results obtain it has been observed that GARCH with
GED distribution models has outperformed all models