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arXiv2026

VOLatility Archive for Realized Estimates (VOLARE)

VOLARE (VOLatility Archive for Realized Estimates - https://volare.unime.it) is an open research infrastructure providing standardized realized volatility and covariance measures constructed from ultra-high-frequency financial data. The platform processes tick-level observations across equities, exchange rates, and futures using an asset-specific pipeline that addresses heterogeneous trading calendars, microstructure noise, and timestamp precision. For equities, price series are cleaned using a documented outlier detection procedure and sampled at regular intervals. VOLARE delivers a comprehensive set of realized estimators, including realized variance, range-based measures, bipower variation, semivariances, realized quarticity, realized kernels, and multivariate covariance measures, ensuring methodological consistency and cross-asset comparability. In addition to bulk dataset download, the platform supports interactive visualization and real-time estimation of established volatility models such as HAR and MEM specifications.

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arXiv2020

A Front Fixing Implicit Finite Difference Method for the American Put Options Model

In this paper, we present an implicit finite difference method for the numerical solution of the Black-Scholes model of American put options without dividend payments. We combine the proposed numerical method by using a front fixing approach where the option price and the early exercise boundary are computed simultaneously. Consistency and stability properties of the method are studied. We choose to improve the accuracy of the computed solution via a mesh refinement based on Richardson's extrapolation. Comparisons with some proposed methods for the American options problem are carried out to validate the obtained numerical results and to show the efficiency of the proposed numerical methods. Finally, by \textit{a posteriori} error estimator, we find a suitable computational grid requiring that the computed solution verifies a prefixed tolerance.

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