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We compare three frequently used volatility modelling techniques: GARCH, Markovian switching and cumulative daily volatility models. Our primary goal is to highlight a practical and systematic way to measure the relative effectiveness of these techniques. Evaluation comprises the analysis of the validity of the statistical requirements of the various models and their performance in simple options hedging strategies. The latter puts them to test in a “real life” application. Though there was not much difference between the three techniques, a tendency in favour of the cumulative daily volatility estimates, based on tick data, seems clear. As the improvement is not very big, the message for the practitioner — out of the restricted evidence of our experiment — is that he will probably not be losing much if working with the Markovian switching method. This highlights that, in terms of volatility estimation, no clear winner exists among the more sophisticated techniques.
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Flôres, R.G., Roche, B.B. (2000). Volatility Modelling in the Forex Market: An Empirical Evaluation. In: Dunis, C.L. (eds) Advances in Quantitative Asset Management. Studies in Computational Finance, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4389-3_12
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