Figure 1. Original Series of Gold Prices
Figure 1. Original Series of Gold Prices
2,000.0
1,800.0
1,600.0
1,400.0
1,200.0
1,000.0
800.0
600.0
400.0
200.0
0.0
GoldPrice
-50
-100
-150
-200
-250
Figure 3. Sample ACF and PACF for original gold price data
Figure 4 Sample ACF and PACF for gold price series in the first difference.
Table-1: Augmented Dickey-Fuller test for the original gold price data
Null Hypothesis: GOLDPRICE has a unit root
Exogenous: Constant
Lag Length: 1 (Automatic based on SIC, MAXLAG=13)
t-Statistic
Augmented Dickey-Fuller test statistic
-0.620746
Test critical values:
1% level
-3.469451
5% level
-2.878618
10% level
-2.575954
*MacKinnon (1996) one-sided p-values.
Prob.*
0.8616
Table-2: Augmented Dickey-Fuller test for the gold price series in the first difference
Null Hypothesis: D(GOLDPRICE) has a unit root
Exogenous: Constant
Lag Length: 1 (Automatic based on SIC, MAXLAG=13)
t-Statistic
Augmented Dickey-Fuller test statistic
-15.52339
Test critical values:
1% level
-3.469451
5% level
-2.878618
10% level
-2.575954
*MacKinnon (1996) one-sided p-values.
Prob.*
0.0000
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
Coefficients
0.106047
-0.441020
-0.296879
-0.236397
-0.245517
0.101481
-0.093900
-0.319091
0.239066
-0.427767
-0.109091
0.144297
t-value
0.463007
-2.134855
-3.675108
-2.871710
-3.069583
1.227456
-1.103118
-3.938108
0.660331
-1.263958
-1.304945
1.712438
AIC
10.67960
SIC
10.73850
10.66644
10.72535
10.69518
10.75409
10.68022
10.73938
10.75480
10.81396
10.74729
10.80645
4
(3, 1, 1)
(3, 1, 2)
(3, 1, 3)
(4, 1, 1)
(4, 1, 2)
(4, 1, 3)
(5, 1, 1)
(5, 1, 2)
(5, 1, 3)
(6, 1, 1)
(6, 1, 2)
(6, 1, 3)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
AR term (p)
MA term (q)
0.133269
-0.344045
0.190634
-0.147873
0.448660
-0.231910
-0.190062
-0.302480
-0.241404
-0.126036
-0.224696
0.103312
0.090020
-0.363054
0.089824
0.157534
0.089824
0.157534
0.220617
-0.348688
0.199419
-0.208918
0.259375
0.212981
1.633356
-4.425587
2.226769
-1.705487
1.488713
-0.702514
-2.268055
-3.799197
-2.936047
-1.532243
-2.667543
1.222146
1.063088
-4.678860
0.965559
-2.546003
1.056538
1.889657
2.655773
-4.477398
2.358548
-2.505328
3.069211
2.513623
10.67453
10.73395
10.73495
10.79437
10.74109
10.80051
10.66648
10.72617
10.72355 10.78323
10.72565
10.78533
10.69707
10.75701
10.77408
10.83403
10.76961
10.82955
10.66445
10.72466
10.74926
10.80947
10.72477
10.78498