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Forecasting stock market volatility on Bursa Malaysia Plantation Index


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Lee, Hui Shan and Ng, David Ching Yat and Lau, Teck Chai and Ng, Chee Hong (2016) Forecasting stock market volatility on Bursa Malaysia Plantation Index. International Journal of Finance and Accounting, 5 (1). pp. 54-61. ISSN 2168-4812; ESSN: 2168-4820

Abstract

This research applies the Bursa Malaysia Plantation Index to examine the most suitable forecasting model. The Plantation Index is studied because Malaysia is the world second largest in oil palm producer. Additionally, volatile crude palm oil price has resulted in the Plantation Index becoming more volatile as earnings of plantation companies depend heavily on crude palm oil prices. The forecasting techniques applied were random walk, moving average, simple regression and historical mean. The error in forecasting was measured by symmetric and asymmetric error statistics. The most suitable volatility forecasting technique for Bursa Malaysia Plantation Index was simple regression technique. The findings to a very large extent indicate that although there are different sophisticated forecasting technique, investor, managers and regulators could employ the less costly simple regression method to forecast oil palm related stocks and make their wise decision in investment, management and regulation in oil palm industry.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Economics and Management
Graduate School of Management
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.5923/j.ijfa.20160501.07
Publisher: Scientific & Academic Publishing
Keywords: Forecasting; Security market volatility; Volatility forecasting technique; Symmetric error statistics; Asymmetric error statistics
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 27 Apr 2017 09:51
Last Modified: 27 Apr 2017 09:51
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51077
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