In this paper, an attempt has been made to model and forecast the short term volatility of the Indian banking sector. A … 2000; a total of 3122 observations up to the period of June 2013, are used in modeling the volatility of the banking stock …-Rissanen. As per the analysis, ARIMA (1,0,2) model was found to be the best fit to forecast the volatility of bank stock returns …