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iShares 0-1 Year Treasury Bond ETF GAS-GARCH Student T Volatility Analysis

Volatility prediction for Tuesday, October 20th, 2026

1 Day

0.33%

decreased by 0.02%

1 Week

0.33%

decreased by 0.02%

1 Month

0.34%

decreased by 0.01%

Analysis last updated: Monday, October 19, 2026 at 09:30 PM UTC

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Volatility Forecast

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Parameter Estimates

Jan 11, 2007 to Oct 16, 2026

Model Insight

With persistence 0.999, volatility shocks have a half-life of 693 trading days (~2.7 years), close to a unit root, so long-run forecasts are highly sensitive to this estimate. Returns follow a Student-t distribution with v = 7.45 degrees of freedom, capturing fatter tails than a normal distribution.

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GAS-GARCH-T Model

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High persistence: persistence 0.999, shock half-life ~693 daysv = 7.45 · fat tails
ParamValuet-stat
ωconst0.0009
1.59
αARCH0.0588
14.03***
βGARCH0.9990
1,632.35***
νDF7.4453
2.67***

0.999

Persistence

693d

Half-life
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GAS-GARCH-T Model

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ParameterValuet-statistic
ω

const

Unconditional variance weight

0.0009
1.59
α

ARCH

Response to squared shocks

0.0588
14.03***
β

GARCH

Volatility persistence

0.9990
1,632.35***
ν

DF

Student-t tail thickness

7.4453
2.67***

Persistence:

0.999

Half-life:

693 days