Price forecasting model

[TheMonkster]

I am working on a problem where I have an item 'x' which is available in local market and 'x' is produced using item 'y'.Item 'y' is traded in futures market.I have historic price data available for last 2 years of both items.
I have to forecast prices of x for next year.
What should be my approach?

Note:This is my first post in this forum:wave:.Pardon me if I broke any norm/rule here.

 

[noetsi]

That depends entirely on how much knowledge you have of time series. There are many ways to do this and they vary from complicated to very painful.

Essentially you are testing how one time series predicts another over time. Two obvious approaches are ARIMA with an input variable and regression with ARMA errors. Both require you to make your data stationary if they aren't already (and they almost certainly won't be stationary). Regression with ARMA errors or Regression with autoregressive error are going to be less painful to do probably.

I have studied time series for several years, but am no expert in it. Hopefully Vinux will wander by.

 

[TheMonkster]

That depends entirely on how much knowledge you have of time series. There are many ways to do this and they vary from complicated to very painful.

Essentially you are testing how one time series predicts another over time. Two obvious approaches are ARIMA with an input variable and regression with ARMA errors. Both require you to make your data stationary if they aren't already (and they almost certainly won't be stationary). Regression with ARMA errors or Regression with autoregressive error are going to be less painful to do probably.

I have studied time series for several years, but am no expert in it. Hopefully Vinux will wander by.

Thanks for response.Let me be specific here.

I am 'Monkster Airlines'.I want to protect my business from price volatility of jet fuel cost.Jet fuel is not traded in futures market but Crude oil is traded in futures market. I have daily spot prices of jet fuel and contract prices of crude oil.
e.g. on 19th April,spot price(Jet fuel) is 100.April contract price (crude oil) = 103,May contract price = 110,June Contract price =118 and July contract price = 109 and August price = 125. Spot and contract prices change on daily basis as per demand-supply dynamics.

Should I find correlation between spot price on particular date and contract prices on that date for all contracts? How should I go about it?
Please help me with approach.