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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Forecasting mid-price movement of Bitcoin futures using machine learning
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Erdinc Akyildirim
  • Oguzhan Cepni
  • Shaen Corbet
  • Gazi Salah Uddin
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Annals of Operations Research
Publisher Springer
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0254-5330
Volume 330
Number 1-2
Page Range 553 - 584
Date 2023
Abstract Text In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, investors face challenges in understanding price dynamics across assets. This paper explores the performance of the various type of machine learning algorithms (MLAs) to predict mid-price movement for Bitcoin futures prices. We use high-frequency intraday data to evaluate the relative forecasting performances across various time frequencies, ranging between 5 and 60-min. Our findings show that the average classification accuracy for five out of the six MLAs is consistently above the 50% threshold, indicating that MLAs outperform benchmark models such as ARIMA and random walk in forecasting Bitcoin futures prices. This highlights the importance and relevance of MLAs to produce accurate forecasts for bitcoin futures prices during the COVID-19 turmoil.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1007/s10479-021-04205-x
Other Identification Number merlin-id:21306
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