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Identification of technical analysis patterns with smoothing splines for bitcoin prices

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  • Nikolay Miller
  • Yiming Yang
  • Bruce Sun
  • Guoyi Zhang

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This research studies automatic price pattern search procedure for bitcoin cryptocurrency based on 1-min price data. To achieve this, search algorithm is proposed based on nonparametric regression method of smoothing splines. We investigate some well-known technical analysis patterns and construct algorithmic trading strategy to evaluate the effectiveness of the patterns. We found that method of smoothing splines for identifying the technical analysis patterns and that strategies based on certain technical analysis patterns yield returns that significantly exceed results of unconditional trading strategies.

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  • Nikolay Miller & Yiming Yang & Bruce Sun & Guoyi Zhang, 2019. "Identification of technical analysis patterns with smoothing splines for bitcoin prices," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(12), pages 2289-2297, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:46:y:2019:i:12:p:2289-2297
    DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2019.1580251
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    1. Artur Sokolovsky & Luca Arnaboldi, 2020. "A Generic Methodology for the Statistically Uniform & Comparable Evaluation of Automated Trading Platform Components," Papers 2009.09993, arXiv.org, revised Jun 2022.
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    5. Hakan Pabuccu & Serdar Ongan & Ayse Ongan, 2023. "Forecasting the movements of Bitcoin prices: an application of machine learning algorithms," Papers 2303.04642, arXiv.org.
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