Volatility calculation (by analogy of moving average)

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Hi, guys. How can I calculate Volatility for the data set (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility_(finance))? I'm pretty newbie in Matlab and programming, that's why loops are hard for my understanding.
%ticker - is array of data
Z = 252; %Number of trading Days in a year
n = 20; %window of volatility
Volat=zeros(length(ticker)- n, 1);
for i = 1:n
log_change = log(ticker(2:n+1)./ticker(1:n));
stdev = std(log_change);
Vol(i) = (stdev*sqrt(252))';
end
It calculates the only one number, however I'm trying to do 2 things: 1) Create "volatility" array (dataset), which, of course, will contain "ticker minus n" numbers; 2) Create "volatility" as window - from number of start element to number of end element from original dataset.
Will be glad for any assistance.

Answers (1)

Adolfo
Adolfo on 24 May 2019
You have to calculate a time-window volatily of N ticks.
A simple function for only one series of data, that not considers any possible errors on the data structure, could be implemented as follows:
function r = histvar(serie, N)
r = nan(size(serie));
dailyret = (serie(2:end)-serie(1:end-1))./serie(1:end-1);
for i = N+1:size(serie, 1)-1
window = dailyret(i-N:i, :);
r(i+1) = sqrt(cov(window));
end
end

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