Modelling Monthly Volatility of the Muscat Securities Market (MSM) Index Using Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA)

Abstract: The Stock market is eyewitness’s responsive activities and is gradually more gaining importance. The purpose of the study is to measure the volatility of selected emerging indices Muscat Securities Market (MSM). Time series analysis techniques were used including Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models. The time series data considered of this study taken MSM 30. The study period has taken from January 2013 to December 2018 except Sharia-compliant index would be June 2013 to December 2018. Tools used for the study is Unit Toot Test (Augmented Dickey–Fuller and Phillips-Perron), ARIMA models and for performance model using Theil’s U-Statistic. The study made a few observations which may help the investors and model builders to understand better about the stock market.

Key words: muscat securities market (MSM) index; stock market; ARIMA; forecasting; AIC; MAPE

JEL codes: G00