85% of effectiveness in forecasting Bitcoin’s price trends? It’s possible.

by | Jan 11, 2021 | Trend forecasting

Since October 2020 we have been testing prediction models of average BTC price in the time intervals of 8 hours,
4 hours and 1 hour. Today we present the results of prediction effectiveness for the 1 hour model. The tests were
conducted in November and December 2020. The measurements of predictions effectiveness were made at 15:00 UTC
and covered the last 24 hours each time.

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The effectiveness of 1 hour prediction reached 85.8% in November and 85.0% in December.

bitcoin-1-hour-prediction-chart-december-2020

The minimum (acceptable) level of monthly prediction effectiveness was 70%. Across November and December
there were  only 5 cases when avarage prediction effectiveness dropped below the required minimum of 70%.
On the other hand in that exact time, the total number of cases exceeding 90% of effectiveness was 26 (!).