Advantages and limitations of the existing models for practical forecasting of stock market volatility have been identified.
Support vector machine (SVM) have been proposed as a complimentary volatility model that is capable to extract information
from multiscale and high-dimensional market data. Presented results for SP500 index suggest that SVM can efficiently work
with high-dimensional inputs to account for volatility long-memory and multiscale effects and is often superior to the main-stream
volatility models. SVM-based framework for volatility forecasting is expected to be important in the development of the novel
strategies for volatility trading, advanced risk management systems, and other applications dealing with multi-scale and high-dimensional
market data.