Technical analysis on the Bitcoin market: Trading opportunities or investors' pitfall?

Artikel

In this paper we aimed to examine the profitability of technical trading rules in the Bitcoin market by using trend-following and mean-reverting strategies. We applied our strategies on the Bitcoin price series sampled both at 5-min intervals and on a daily basis, during the period 1 January 2012 to 20 August 2019. Our findings suggest that, overall, trading on daily data is more profitable than going intraday. Furthermore, we concluded that the Buy and Hold strategy outperforms the examined alternatives on an intraday basis, while Simple Moving Averages yield the best performances when dealing with daily data.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Risks ; ISSN: 2227-9091 ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1-15 ; Basel: MDPI

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes ; General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)
• Subject: technical analysis ; trading rules ; profitability ; Bitcoin

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Resta, Marina ; Pagnottoni, Paolo ; De Giuli, Maria Elena
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): MDPI
• (where): Basel
• (when): 2020

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.3390/risks8020044
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/257998
• Last update: 20.09.2024, 8:22 AM CEST