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Machine Learning the Cryptocurrency Market

Alessandretti, L., ElBahrawy, A., Aiello, L. M. & Baronchelli, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-0255-0829 (2018). Machine Learning the Cryptocurrency Market. Complexity, 2018, pp. 1-16. doi: 10.1155/2018/8983590

Abstract

Machine learning and AI-assisted trading have attracted growing interest for the past few years. Here, we use this approach to test the hypothesis that the inefficiency of the cryptocurrency market can be exploited to generate abnormal profits. We analyse daily data for $1,681$ cryptocurrencies for the period between Nov. 2015 and Apr. 2018. We show that simple trading strategies assisted by state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms outperform standard benchmarks. Our results show that non-trivial, but ultimately simple, algorithmic mechanisms can help anticipate the short-term evolution of the cryptocurrency market.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: Copyright © 2018 Laura Alessandretti et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Mathematics
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