Research Article | Open Access
IMPROVING THE CRYPTOCURRENCY PRICE PREDICTION PERFORMANCE BASED ON REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
J.Lalithavani S.Prasanna S.Keerthana
Pages: 1862-1868
Abstract
Cryptocurrency is a new type of asset that has emerged as a result of advancements in financial technology and has
created an excellent opportunity for research. Cryptocurrency price prediction is difficult due to price volatility and
momentum. Worldwide, hundreds of cryptocurrencies are used. This article provides three types of Recurrent Neural
Network (RNN) algorithms used to predict the prices of three types of cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin (BTC),
Litecoin (LTC), and Ethereum (ETH). The models show excellent predictions based on the mean absolute error in
percentage (MAPE). The results obtained from these models show that the closed recurrent unit (GRU) performed
better in prediction for all types of cryptocurrency than the long-term memory models (LSTM) and two-way LSTM (
biLSTM). Therefore, it can be considered as the best algorithm. GRU has the most accurate prediction for LTC with
[yMAPE percentages of 0.2454%, 0.8267%, and 0.2116% for BTC, ETH and LTC, respectively
Keywords
Cryptocurrency, Reinforcement Learning, Dataset, LSTM