Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Financial Risk and Investment Management (ICFRIM 2025)

Predicting BTC and ETH Prices Using Time Series Models

Authors
Xinyi Wang1, *
1Sino-French Institute, Renmin University of China, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
*Corresponding author. Email: wangxinyi2023202637@ruc.edu.cn
Corresponding Author
Xinyi Wang
Available Online 3 July 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-748-9_83How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Cryptocurrency; Time series; Forecast; Seasonality
Abstract

Cryptocurrencies are difficult to be replaced by traditional currencies due to their numerous advantages. The uncertainty of their fluctuations makes cryptocurrency prediction valuable yet challenging, and an effective prediction model can provide investors with many decision-making bases. In this study, the daily closing prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum from 2020 to 2022 were used as the training set, and the closing prices in 2023 were used as the test set to explore and compare the prediction effects of five models: Naive Method, Drift Method, Error, Trend, and Seasonal (ETS) Method, Damped Holt’s Method, and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA). The analysis found that the datasets have strong trend characteristics and weak seasonality. In the prediction, the Drift Method and Damped Holt’s Method fit these characteristics better and thus have good prediction effects. Moreover, the strong flexibility of the ARIMA model usually enables it to make appropriate adjustments for specific datasets. However, models that rely too much on seasonal characteristics show large residuals and are not suitable for predicting cryptocurrency prices.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Financial Risk and Investment Management (ICFRIM 2025)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
3 July 2025
ISBN
978-94-6463-748-9
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-748-9_83How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2025 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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