Altcoins Performance Study

Welcome to our Data Report on altcoins performance study.

Welcome to our Data Report on altcoins performance study.

Key Takeaways

• We studied the past one year’s performance of 52 coins supported by Crypto.com DeFi Wallet via different methods: the correlation of daily return, token clustering and portfolio management;
  
• The pairs with the highest and lowest correlations were (EOS, LTC) and (CHR, SNX), which are 0.92 and 0.08 respectively;
  
• We have further applied the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and K-means clustering to the tokens’ daily performance matrix to classify them into four different groups:
  
  • Group 1: Veterans;
  • Group 2: Rising Stars;
  • Group 3: Challengers;
  • Group 4: New Joiners
    
• Theories in the portfolio management were applied to the cryptocurrencies: we plotted the Efficient Frontier based on the supported tokens and the maximum Sharpe ratio on the EF was 3.40. This optimal portfolio was comprised of {SNX, KNC, ERD, LINK, CHR};
  
• The optimal portfolio we suggested above is for illustrative purposes only. Due to the backward-looking nature of our analysis, replicating this portfolio will very likely result in different returns. Readers should note that the results do not constitute as any investment advice.
  

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