Q: Faced with a bear market, cryptocurrency holders are not confident, and the volume /keyword searches is shrinking. According to your judgment, is there still room for improvement in the total market value of cryptocurrencies?
A: From the previous data analysis, there are two factors that can influence and predict the cryptocurrency behavior pattern: the momentum effect and investosrs’ attention.
The momentum effect is that if the bitcoin price rises continuously over a week, it may keep growing for the next week. This is a common feature of almost all known asset classes, and we have found that the momentum effect strongly affects the cryptocurrency. We have designed a simple investment strategy in which investors buy Bitcoin only when their price increases by more than 20% from the previous week. This strategy has excellent returns and a very high Sharpe ratio.
In addition to the momentum effect, investors’ attention have a large impact on the price of cryptocurrency. If people search for a large amount of cryptocurrency on Google or Twitter, the next return on cryptocurrency will rise. At the same time, if investors hold negative concerns, the next rate of return on the cryptocurrency will decrease.
It should be emphasized that the momentum effect and investors’ attention are not unique phenomena in the cryptocurrency market. What we find is that in the cryptocurrency market, if placed in the daily average or weekly average, these two phenomenon is more significant. But if you look at it in the long run, this phenomenon may not be obvious.
From the analysis of past data, if the cryptocurrency behavior mode does not change, when the cryptocurrency market value rises and the attention is high, there will be a greater probability of earning money. Chasing up or killing down? On average, chasing up is easier to make money. Bottom-hunting, unless you know what is the bottom, or it is difficult to have high returns.