Description du projet
Prévoir la valeur de la crypto-monnaie en mesurant le sentiment
Les évolutions du marché des crypto-monnaies sont difficiles à prévoir. Contrairement aux actions et aux taux de change, influencés par des indicateurs économiques, les prix des crypto-monnaies sont déterminés par les sentiments. Le projet CryptoVolatility, financé par l’UE, étudiera de nouvelles façons de prévoir la volatilité des crypto-monnaies. Plus précisément, il construira une machine qui produit chaque jour des phases de sentiment discrètes à l’aide d’articles de presse et de données de recherche sur Internet. En utilisant des réseaux de neurones artificiels pour mesurer les sentiments, cet outil devrait aider les régulateurs et les investisseurs à en savoir plus sur la volatilité des crypto-monnaies. À terme, ce nouvel outil permettra également de concevoir des politiques d’aide à la sortie des crises financières.
Objectif
Forecasting cryptocurrency volatility is a topic of interest in quantitative finance. A growing number of studies argue that compared to equty price cryptocurrency prices are to a large and perhaps abnormal degree driven by sentiments. However, econometric studies focus on forcing conditional volatility models developed for equity return volatility to fit on cryptocurrency data despite being aware that estimation techniques developed for analyzing equity price or commodity price volatility lack robustness and do not work as intended. Is it possible to propose solutions to deal with the mentioned shortcomings? Is it possible to suggest a new family of models? If so, how? The purpose of New, realistic and robust models for cryptocurrency volatility is to answer these questions by suggesting new and more realistic conditional volatility models accompanied with reliable cross-disciplinary estimation techniques to forecast cryptocurrency price volatility. What is novel and innovative about the suggested framework is that contrary to the current literature our point of departure is the empirical features observed in cryptocurrency prices combined with a useful tool, namely, artificial neural networks used to measure sentiments. Our aim is to build a machine that produces discrete sentiment phases each day using news articles and internet search data. Once we have identified the number of phases and determined, which phase an observation at a given time-period belongs to following neural network estimation, we can estimate the model parameters, jumps and filter out the continuous conditional volatility process contemporaneously using particle filtering techniques. Besides academics, this proposal is also relevant for regulators and investors as they can learn a great deal by understanding how cryptocurrency volatility actually behaves. Regulators can use sentiment labels from the neural network to design policies to contrast and overcome financial crises in the future.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
33100 Tampere
Finlande