What Drives Bitcoin? An Approach from Continuous Local Transfer Entropy and Deep Learning Classification Models

【Author】 Garcia-Medina, Andres; Luu Duc Huynh, Toan

【Source】ENTROPY

【影响因子】2.738

【Abstract】Bitcoin has attracted attention from different market participants due to unpredictable price patterns. Sometimes, the price has exhibited big jumps. Bitcoin prices have also had extreme, unexpected crashes. We test the predictive power of a wide range of determinants on bitcoins' price direction under the continuous transfer entropy approach as a feature selection criterion. Accordingly, the statistically significant assets in the sense of permutation test on the nearest neighbour estimation of local transfer entropy are used as features or explanatory variables in a deep learning classification model to predict the price direction of bitcoin. The proposed variable selection do not find significative the explanatory power of NASDAQ and Tesla. Under different scenarios and metrics, the best results are obtained using the significant drivers during the pandemic as validation. In the test, the accuracy increased in the post-pandemic scenario of July 2020 to January 2021 without drivers. In other words, our results indicate that in times of high volatility, Bitcoin seems to self-regulate and does not need additional drivers to improve the accuracy of the price direction.

【Keywords】local transfer entropy; long-short-term-memory; Bitcoin

【发表时间】2021 DEC

【收录时间】2022-01-09

【文献类型】期刊

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