Risk-Sensitive Specialist Routing for Volatility Forecasting

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Main Author: Zhong, Tenghan
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author Zhong, Tenghan
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contents Volatility forecasting becomes challenging when market conditions shift and model performance varies across market states. Motivated by this instability, we develop a risk-sensitive specialist routing framework for ETF volatility forecasting. The framework uses online risk-sensitive evaluation and state-dependent gating to combine different forecasting specialists across calm and stressed market states. Using a daily panel of six ETFs under a rolling walk-forward design, we find that the strongest forecaster is regime-dependent rather than stable across all states. Relative to the rolling-best baseline, the proposed routing framework reduces high-volatility forecast loss by about 24% and underprediction loss by about 22%. These results suggest that specialist routing provides a practical forecasting architecture that adapts to changing market conditions.
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spellingShingle Risk-Sensitive Specialist Routing for Volatility Forecasting
Zhong, Tenghan
Statistical Finance
Risk Management
Volatility forecasting becomes challenging when market conditions shift and model performance varies across market states. Motivated by this instability, we develop a risk-sensitive specialist routing framework for ETF volatility forecasting. The framework uses online risk-sensitive evaluation and state-dependent gating to combine different forecasting specialists across calm and stressed market states. Using a daily panel of six ETFs under a rolling walk-forward design, we find that the strongest forecaster is regime-dependent rather than stable across all states. Relative to the rolling-best baseline, the proposed routing framework reduces high-volatility forecast loss by about 24% and underprediction loss by about 22%. These results suggest that specialist routing provides a practical forecasting architecture that adapts to changing market conditions.
title Risk-Sensitive Specialist Routing for Volatility Forecasting
topic Statistical Finance
Risk Management
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10402