The recent surge in Bitcoin price performance has attracted significant attention from both the market and academic researchers. This paper constitutes the first principled attempt to determine market risk own-funds requirements for Bitcoin. To this end, we examine price microstructure of the USD per bitcoin, and compare to other financial variables, as a proxy toward classifying Bitcoin into the appropriate risk-class. Using the outcomes of this analysis, we classify and quantify the entailed risk from a market risk minimum capital requirements perspective. To perform the prescribed analysis, we introduce a novel methodological paradigm, which adopts bleeding-edge concepts from the field of Data Science and Machine Learning.
Iftikhar Ahmad, Muhammad Ovais Ahmad, Mohammed A. Alqarni, Abdulwahab Ali Almazroi · 5 authors
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) have seen a surge in value in the recent past and appeared as a useful investment opportunity for traders. However, their short term profitability using algorithmic trading strategies remains unanswered. In this work, we focus on the short term profitability of BTC against the euro and the yen for an eight-year period using seven trading algorithms over trading periods of length 15 and 30 days. We use the classical buy and hold (BH) as a benchmark strategy. Rather surprisingly, we found that on average, the yen is more profitable than BTC and the euro; however the answer also depends on the choice of algorithm. Reservation price algorithms result in 7.5% and 10% of average returns over 15 and 30 days respectively which is the highest for all the algorithms for the three assets. For BTC, all algorithms outperform the BH strategy. We also analyze the effect of transaction fee on the profitability of algorithms for BTC and observe that for trading period of length 15 no trading strategy is profitable for BTC. For trading period of length 30, only two strategies are profitable.
This study investigates the volatility of daily Bitcoin returns and multifractal properties of the Bitcoin market by employing the rolling window method and examines relationships between the volatility asymmetry and market efficiency. Whilst we find an inverted asymmetry in the volatility of Bitcoin, its magnitude changes over time, and recently, it has become small. This asymmetric pattern of volatility also exists in higher frequency returns. Other measurements, such as kurtosis, skewness, average, serial correlation, and multifractal degree, also change over time. Thus, we argue that properties of the Bitcoin market are mostly time dependent. We examine efficiency-related measures: the Hurst exponent, multifractal degree, and kurtosis. We find that when these measures represent that the market is more efficient, the volatility asymmetry weakens. For the recent Bitcoin market, both efficiency-related measures and the volatility asymmetry prove that the market becomes more efficient.
Since its founding in 2008, Bitcoin (financial code: BTC) has emerged as a digital currency in market cap and continues to attract investors and policymakers' attention. In recent years, BTC has high price volatility, a substantial increase in 2016, followed by a significant decline in 2018. Unlike stock markets, BTC is open for 24x7 dan has no closing period. It means everyone can trade it for any time. However, this flexibility carries investment risk. This research attempts to forecast BTC's price by considering the blockchain's information to minimize the risk. We employ Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM), the artificial Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) architecture. Its model can avoid long-term problems. The data used is BTC's price and blockchain information data from August 4, 2018, to January 21, 2020. The model with 20 neurons and 500 epochs has the smallest MSE value. Then a prediction has an accuracy rate of 91.07%.
Ioannis E. Livieris, Niki Kiriakidou, Stavros Stavroyiannis, Panagiotis Pintelas
Nowadays, cryptocurrencies are established and widely recognized as an alternative exchange currency method. They have infiltrated most financial transactions and as a result cryptocurrency trade is generally considered one of the most popular and promising types of profitable investments. Nevertheless, this constantly increasing financial market is characterized by significant volatility and strong price fluctuations over a short-time period therefore, the development of an accurate and reliable forecasting model is considered essential for portfolio management and optimization. In this research, we propose a multiple-input deep neural network model for the prediction of cryptocurrency price and movement. The proposed forecasting model utilizes as inputs different cryptocurrency data and handles them independently in order to exploit useful information from each cryptocurrency separately. An extensive empirical study was performed using three consecutive years of cryptocurrency data from three cryptocurrencies with the highest market capitalization i.e., Bitcoin (BTC), Etherium (ETH), and Ripple (XRP). The detailed experimental analysis revealed that the proposed model has the ability to efficiently exploit mixed cryptocurrency data, reduces overfitting and decreases the computational cost in comparison with traditional fully-connected deep neural networks.
Increasing fluctuations in pricing and having great profit potential, utilization in advanced machine learning technologies to make robust predictions of cryptocurrencies especially bitcoin have attracted great attention in recent years. In this study, various statistical techniques; Moving Average Analysis and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average and machine learning (ML) techniques; Artificial Neural Network, Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Convolutional Neural Network have been conducted and compared to predict the future value of Bitcoin cryptocurrency price. They have been applied for the univariate time series analysis with a window size of 32. To prove the usefulness of ML algorithms, and to show that the results of RNN is a better, mean squared error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) indicators have been applied. The study revealed that recurrent neural network yields better results than other methods in predicting daily Bitcoin price in terms of MSE, MAE and MAPE metrics. Besides, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney nonparametric statistic test is applied to test the performance between ARIMA and machine learning algorithms.
The development process in financial markets give rise to the emergence of various financial instruments and cryptocurrencies, which are the newest tools of this process, are trying to integrate into the system. Even though the use of crypto-currencies for investment and speculation has increased, limited information on the market leads to high level of volatility in price and return. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the volatility dynamics of the returns of Bitcoin, which is the cryptocurrency with the largest market volume, using the weekly data set for 2013:04-2020:09 period. In this context, Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (EGARCH) model is employed to investigate the asymmetric volatility, which refers to the asymmetric effects of positive and negative shocks. The results of the analysis show that the leverage effect applies to Bitcoin returns. In other words, the asymmetric effect between good and bad news is revealed. Moreover, the fact that the parameter of the volatility resistance has a high value reflects that the asymmetric past period shocks have a significant effect on the current period conditional variance.
Sérgio Adriani David, Claudio Marcio Cassela Inacio, Rafael Amorim Belo Nunes, J. A. Tenreiro Machado
Introduction: Cryptocurrencies have been attracting the attention from media, investors, regulators and academia during the last years. In spite of some scepticism in the financial area, cryptocurrencies are a relevant subject of academic research. Objectives: In this paper, several tools are adopted as an instrument that can help market agents and investors to more clearly assess the cryptocurrencies price dynamics and, thus, guide investment decisions more assertively while mitigating risks. Methods: We consider three methods, namely the Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), Auto-Regressive Fractionally Integrated Moving Average (ARFIMA) and Detrended Fluctuation Analysis, and three indices given by the Hurst and Lyapunov exponents or the Fractal Dimension. This information allows assessing the behaviour of the time series, such as their persistence, randomness, predictability and chaoticity. Results: The results suggest that, except for the Bitcoin, the other cryptocurrencies exhibit the characteristic of mean reverting, showing a lower predictability when compared to the Bitcoin. The results for the Bitcoin also indicate a persistent behavior that is related to the long memory effect. Conclusions: The ARFIMA reveals better predictive performance than the ARIMA for all cryptocurrencies. Indeed, the obtained residual values for the ARFIMA are smaller for the auto and partial auto correlations functions, as well as for confidence intervals.
Alexander Brauneis, Roland Mestel, Ryan Riordan, Erik Theissen
This paper investigates the efficacy of low-frequency transactions-based liquidity measures to describe actual (high-frequency) liquidity. We show that the Corwin and Schultz (2012) and Abdi and Ranaldo (2017) estimators outperform other measures in describing time-series variations, irrespective of the observation frequency, trading venue, high-frequency liquidity benchmark, and cryptocurrency. Both measures perform well during high and low return, volatility and volume periods. The Kyle and Obizhaeva (2016) estimator and the Amihud (2002) illiquidity ratio outperform when estimating liquidity levels. These two estimators also reliably identify liquidity differences between trading venues. Overall, the results suggest that there is not yet a universally bestmeasure but there are reasonably good low-frequency measures.
This study examines the predictability of three major cryptocurrencies-bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin-and the profitability of trading strategies devised upon machine learning techniques (e.g., linear models, random forests, and support vector machines). The models are validated in a period characterized by unprecedented turmoil and tested in a period of bear markets, allowing the assessment of whether the predictions are good even when the market direction changes between the validation and test periods. The classification and regression methods use attributes from trading and network activity for the period from August 15, 2015 to March 03, 2019, with the test sample beginning on April 13, 2018. For the test period, five out of 18 individual models have success rates of less than 50%. The trading strategies are built on model assembling. The ensemble assuming that five models produce identical signals (Ensemble 5) achieves the best performance for ethereum and litecoin, with annualized Sharpe ratios of 80.17% and 91.35% and annualized returns (after proportional round-trip trading costs of 0.5%) of 9.62% and 5.73%, respectively. These positive results support the claim that machine learning provides robust techniques for exploring the predictability of cryptocurrencies and for devising profitable trading strategies in these markets, even under adverse market conditions.
Teknolojinin gelişmesiyle birlikte son yıllarda küresel çağın sürekli ve değişen ihtiyaçlarına cevap verebilmek için her alanda olduğu gibi finans sektöründe de değişimler olmaktadır. Genel ve özel olarak çok fazla kripto para oluşturulmuştur. Örneğin Etherum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple gibi kripto paralar ortaya çıkmıştır. Bunlardan en yaygın olanı ise Bitcoin'dir. Bu çerçevede popülerliği artarak hayatımızda yer alan kripto paraların finansal sisteme olan etkilerine değinilmektedir. Blok zinciri adını sıklıkla duyduğumuz kripto para madenciliği ve madencilerine de bu çalışmada yer verilmektedir. Özetle kripto paralar ve Bitcoin bu çerçevede ele alınacak ve incelenecektir. Bu tez çalışması kapsamında, BTC / USD döviz kuru, en yüksek işlem hacmi ve en değerli para birimleri ile EUR / USD, JPY / USD, XAU / UDS, CNY / USD, PETROL / USD pariteleri arasındaki ilişki Ocak 2017- Şubat 2021 dönemleri için Granger Nedensellik testi uygulanarak incelenmiştir. Analiz sonuçlarına göre EUR/USD, JPY/USD, XAU/USD paritesinden BTC/USD paritesine doğru tek yönlü bir nedenselliğin olduğu bulgusuna ulaşılmıştır. Diğer pariteler ile Bitcoin arasında nedensellik ilişkisi tespit edilememiştir.
This paper studies cryptocurrency. Firstly, this paper discusses the currency attribute of cryptocurrency. Secondly, this paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of cryptocurrency. Thirdly, this paper discusses the impact of cryptocurrency on the currency structure. Finally, this paper constructs the returns according to the daily price and statistically analyzes the yield difference of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin. The ARIMA model is used to predict the return of cryptocurrency. This paper also gives the corresponding investment suggestions.
This paper presents an empirical verification of the effectiveness and usefulness of investment diversification using the main stock exchange indices and Bitcoin. The objective is to determine the effects applying the Markowitz portfolio optimization theory, i.e., the advantages of applying the modern portfolio theory for institutional investors. The research offers an answer to the following question: what are the advantages and disadvantages of using Bitcoin in portfolio optimization? The paper contributes to the representation of the reach and limitations of the modern portfolio theory for institutional investors. The conclusion is that rational behaviour of institutional investors requires consideration of portfolio optimization using the Markowitz model, because it is possible to create portfolios which, on the basis of historical returns, provide desired returns alongside certain risks. The methodology includes the analysis of high frequency data, i.e., daily trading data were used. The results indicate that the use of the Markowitz portfolio selection method, with all its limitations, is desirable, possible and applicable, but that it entails serious flaws in the sense of neglecting transaction costs, foreign exchange differences and the real value in the stock market. The results of the research show that Bitcoin is a good source of diversification in a portfolio that contains traditional financial instruments both for the risk-averse investor as well as for those investors who have a greater appetite for risk. The conclusion is that rational behavior of institutional investors requires consideration of investing in Bitcoin using the Markowitz model. However, given the high degree of volatility, investors should be very careful when making decisions about including Bitcoin in the portfolio.
Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Ali Yavuz Polat, Hasan Tekin, Ahmet Semih Tunalı
This study aims to investigate the effect of fear sentiment with a novel data set on Bitcoin’s return, volatility and transaction volume. We divide the sample into two subperiods in order to capture the changing dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We retrieve the novel fear sentiment data from Thomson Reuters MarketPsych Indices (TRMI). We denote the subperiods as pre- and post-COVID-19 considering January 13th, 2020, when first COVID-19 confirmed case was reported outside China. We employ bivariate vector autoregressive (VAR) models given below with lag-length k, to investigate the dynamics between Bitcoin variables and fear sentiment. Bitcoin market measures have dissimilar dynamics before and after the Coronavirus outbreak. The results reveal that due to the excessive uncertainty led by the outbreak, an increase in fear sentiment negatively affects the Bitcoin returns more persistently and significantly. For the post-COVID-19 period, an increase in fear also results in more fluctuations in transaction volume while its initial and cumulative effects are both negative. Due to extreme uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, investors may trade more aggressively in the initial phases of the shock.
This work is a comparative study of different univariate and multivariate time series predictive models as applied to Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, and other related financial time series data. ARIMA models, long regarded as the gold standard of univariate financial time series prediction due to both its flexibility and simplicity, are used a baseline for prediction. Given the highly correlative nature amongst different cryptocurrencies, this work aims to show the benefit of forecasting with multivariate time series models—primarily focusing on a novel parameter optimization of VARIMA models outlined in this paper. These models are trained on 3 years of historical data, aggregated from different cryptocurrency exchanges by Coinmarketcap.com, which includes: daily average prices and trading volume. Historical time series data of traditional market data, including the stock Nvidia, the de facto leading manufacture of gaming GPU’s, is also analyzed in conjunction with cryptocurrency prices, as gaming GPU’s have played a significant role in solving the profitable SHA256 hashing problems associated with cryptocurrency mining and have seen equivalently correlated investor attention as a result. Models are trained on this historical data using moving window subsets, with window lengths of 100, 200, and 300 days and forecasting 1 day into the future. Validation of this prediction against the actually price from that day are done with following metrics: Directional Forecasting (DF), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and Mean Squared Error (MSE).
Ahmed Saied El-Berawi, Mohamed Belal, Mahmoud Mahmoud Abd Ellatif
This paper proposes a deep learning based predictive model for forecasting and classifying the price of cryptocurrency and the direction of its movement. These two tasks are challenging to address since cryptocurrencies prices fluctuate with extremely high volatile behavior. However, it has been proven that cryptocurrency trading market doesn’t show a perfect market property, i.e., price is not totally a random walk phenomenon. Based upon this, this study proves that the price value forecast and price movement direction classification is both predictable. A recurrent neural networks based predictive model is built to regress and classify prices. With adaptive dynamic features selection and the use of external dependable factors with a potential degree of predictability, the proposed model achieves unprecedented performance in terms of movement classification. A naïve simulation of a trading scenario is developed and it shows a 69% profitability score a cross a six months trading period for bitcoin.