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Researcher at MIT Develops Machine Learning Algorithm to Predict Price Variation of Bitcoin

by Eileen McNulty
October 23, 2014
in Machine Learning, News
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A researcher at MIT has developed a machine-learning algorithm that can predict the price of the “infamously volatile crypto-currency Bitcoin.”

Principal investigator Devavrat Shah, at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems along with recent graduate Kang Zhang, used  “Bayesian regresion,” to train an algorithm to automatically identify patterns from price data they had collected from all major Bitcoin exchanges every second for five months, which they used to predict prices, and trade accordingly, reports MIT News.

“We developed this method of latent-source modeling, which hinges on the notion that things only happen in a few different ways,” said  Mr. Shah. “Instead of making subjective assumptions about the shape of patterns, we simply take the historical data and plug it into our predictive model to see what emerges,” thus allowing his team to nearly double its investment over a period of 50 days.

Essentially, “every two seconds they predicted the average price movement over the following 10 seconds. If the price movement was higher than a certain threshold, they bought a Bitcoin; if it was lower than the opposite threshold, they sold one; and if it was in-between, they did nothing,” explains MIT News.

The team’s total 2,872 trades ended with an 89 percent return on investment with a Sharpe ratio (measure of return relative to the amount of risk) of 4.1, over a period of 50 days. An exhaustive explanation is available in the paper published earlier this month at the 2014 Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.

In the future, Mr. Shah would like to test the effectiveness of his algorithm and feels confident about modeling virtually any quantity that varies over time.

Read more here.

(Image credit: Jason Benjamin)

Tags: bitcoinMachine LearningMIT

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