Stochastic Volatility Estimation of Stock Prices using the Ensemble Kalman Filter

Yudi Mahatma, Ibnu Hadi

Abstract


Abstract

Volatility plays important role in options trading.  In their seminal paper published in 1973, Black and Scholes assume that the stock price volatility, which is the underlying security volatility of a call option, is constant.  But thereafter, researchers found that the return volatility was not constant but conditional to the information set available at the computation time.  In this research, we improve a methodology to estimate volatility and interest rate using Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF).  The price of call and put option used in the observation and the forecasting step of the EnKF algorithm computed using the solution of Black-Scholes PDE.  The state-space used in this method is the augmented state space, which consists of static variables: volatility and interest rate, and dynamic variables: call and put option price. The numerical experiment shows that the EnKF algorithm is able to estimate accurately the estimated volatility and interest rates with an RMSE value of 0.0506.

Keywords: stochastic volatility; call option; put option; Ensemble Kalman Filter.

 

Abstrak

Volatilitas adalah faktor penting dalam perdagangan suatu opsi.  Dalam makalahnya yang dipublikasikan tahun 1973, Black dan Scholes mengasumsikan bahwa volatilitas harga saham, yang merupakan volatilitas sekuritas yang mendasari opsi beli, adalah konstan. Akan tetapi, para peneliti menemukan bahwa volatilitas pengembalian tidaklah konstan melainkan tergantung pada kumpulan informasi yang dapat digunakan pada saat perhitungan.  Pada penelitian ini dikembangkan metodologi untuk mengestimasi volatilitas dan suku bunga menggunakan metode Ensembel Kalman Filter (EnKF)Harga opsi beli dan opsi jual yang digunakan pada observasi dan pada tahap prakiraan pada algoritma EnKF dihitung menggunakan solusi persamaan Black-Scholes.  Ruang keadaan yang digunakan adalah ruang keadaan yang diperluas yang terdiri dari variabel statis yaitu volatilitas dan suku bunga, dan variabel dinamis yaitu harga opsi beli dan harga opsi jual. Eksperimen numerik menunjukkan bahwa algoritma ENKF dapat secara akurat mengestimasi volatiltas dan suku bunga dengan RMSE 0.0506.

Kata kunci: volatilitas stokastik; opsi beli; opsi jual; Ensembel Kalman Filter.

Keywords


stochastic volatility; call option; put option; Ensemble Kalman Filter.

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DOI: 10.15408/inprime.v3i2.20256

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