Monitoring Volatility Change for Time Series Based on Support Vector Regression

Entropy (Basel). 2020 Nov 17;22(11):1312. doi: 10.3390/e22111312.

Abstract

This paper considers monitoring an anomaly from sequentially observed time series with heteroscedastic conditional volatilities based on the cumulative sum (CUSUM) method combined with support vector regression (SVR). The proposed online monitoring process is designed to detect a significant change in volatility of financial time series. The tuning parameters are optimally chosen using particle swarm optimization (PSO). We conduct Monte Carlo simulation experiments to illustrate the validity of the proposed method. A real data analysis with the S&P 500 index, Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), and the stock price of Microsoft Corporation is presented to demonstrate the versatility of our model.

Keywords: CUSUM monitoring; GARCH-type time series; particle swarm optimization; support vector regression.