Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175075 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 1718
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper examines price overreactions in the case of the following cryptocurrencies: BitCoin, LiteCoin, Ripple and Dash. A number of parametric (t-test, ANOVA, regression analysis with dummy variables) and non-parametric (Mann-Whitney U test) tests confirm the presence of price patterns after overreactions: the next-day price changes in both directions are bigger than after "normal" days. A trading robot approach is then used to establish whether these statistical anomalies can be exploited to generate profits. The results suggest that a strategy based on counter-movements after overreactions is not profitable, whilst one based on inertia appears to be profitable but produces outcomes not statistically different from the random ones. Therefore the overreactions detected in the cryptocurrency market do not give rise to exploitable profit opportunities (possibly because of transaction costs) and cannot be seen as evidence against the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH).
Subjects: 
cryptocurrency market
Bitcoin
overreaction
momentum
abnormal returns
contrarian strategy
trading strategy
trading robot
JEL: 
G12
G17
C63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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