I am trying to calculate the rolling 20 period historical volatility. I take the daily returns:
ret<-ROC(data1)
And then I use rollapply to get the 20 day HV for each column:
vol<-rollapply(ret,20,sd,by.column=T,fill=NA)
The problem is that observations in vol starts appearing after ten days which is wrong as I specified 20.
For demonstration here is sample of the data:
0.000000000, 0.005277045, 0.023622047, 0.002564103,-0.002557545, -0.020512821,
0.007853403,-0.012987013, 0.007894737, 0.015665796, 0.000000000, -0.002570694,
0.002577320, -0.015424165, 0.002610966, 0.010416667, 0.002577320, 0.015424165,
0.000000000, -0.002531646, -0.002538071, 0.030534351, 0.014814815, -0.007299270,
-0.009803922, -0.012376238, 0.002506266, -0.015000000,-0.002538071, 0.002544529
Assume the data above is stored in x, then:
rollapply(x,20,sd,fill=NA)
will yield a first observation at 10th row instead of 20. Also the sd is wrong too.
I should be missing something here...