Trading volume and the predictability of return and volatility in the cryptocurrency market

Elie Bouri, Chi Keung Marco Lau, Brian Lucey, David Roubaud

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    Abstract

    We extend our limited understanding on the Granger causality from trading volume to the returns and volatility in the cryptocurrency market via a copula-quantile causality approach. Using daily data of seven leading cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Litecoin, Nem, Dash, and Stellar), results show that trading volume Granger causes extreme negative and positive returns of all cryptocurrencies under study. However, volume Granger causes return volatility for only three cryptocurrencies (Litecoin, NEM, and Dash) when the volatility is low. However, this latter result only holds when squared returns are used as a proxy of volatility and not when GARCH volatility is employed.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)340-346
    Number of pages7
    JournalFinance Research Letters
    Volume29
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 12 Jun 2019

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