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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2022.35.2.189

Factor augmentation for cryptocurrency return forecasting  

Yeom, Yebin (Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University)
Han, Yoojin (Department of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University)
Lee, Jaehyun (Department of Mathematics, Sungkyunkwan University)
Park, Seryeong (Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University)
Lee, Jungwoo (Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University)
Baek, Changryong (Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.35, no.2, 2022 , pp. 189-201 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we propose factor augmentation to improve forecasting power of cryptocurrency return. We consider financial and economic variables as well as psychological aspect for possible factors. To be more specific, financial and economic factors are obtained by applying principal factor analysis. Psychological factor is summarized by news sentiment analysis. We also visualize such factors through impulse response analysis. In the modeling perspective, we consider ARIMAX as the classical model, and random forest and deep learning to accommodate nonlinear features. As a result, we show that factor augmentation reduces prediction error and the GRU performed the best amongst all models considered.
Keywords
cryptocurrency; factor augmentation; deep learning; news sentiment analysis;
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