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Can night trading sessions improve forecasting performance of gold futures' volatility in China?
Journal of Forecasting ( IF 3.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 , DOI: 10.1002/for.2748
Xuan Yao ₁ , Xiaofeng Hui ₁ , Kaican Kang ₂

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We use heterogeneous autoregression (HAR) and two related HAR extension models to examine volatility forecasting performances before and after the launch of night trading sessions in the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) gold futures market. To capture fluctuations from external information and volatility of realized volatility (RV), we incorporate the trading volume and jumping into the HAR-V-J model in the first place and then incorporate a GARCH specification into the HAR-GARCH model. Results showed that there were large fluctuations in SHFE gold futures market before the launch of night trading sessions and mostly stemmed from overnight fluctuation in the international gold futures market. After the launch of night trading sessions, the realized volatility has a clear trend of moderation. In the in-sample estimation, both jump and external information are found to have significant explanatory power with the HAR-V-J model. Additionally, the volatility clustering and high persistence of the realized volatility were confirmed by the GARCH coefficients. Last but not the least, night trading sessions have significantly improved the out-of-sample forecasting performances of realized volatility models. Among them, the HAR-V-J model is the best-performing model. This conclusion holds for various prediction horizons and has great practical values for investors and policymakers.

更新日期：2020-12-11

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