Past research has proven the correlation between the sentiment and price of a stock. This trading system aims to utilize the changes of sentiment surrounding bitcoin and ethereum to predict future trends of the BTC-ETH currency pair. Comparing the sentiment of the last 5,000 tweets to the sentiment of the historical 100,000 tweets provides aids in forumlating a hypothesis of price trends in the near future.
The python wrapper to connect with the bittrex API is given here
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Buy ETH when current eth sentiment is greater than 4.2% than historical eth sentiment
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Buy ETH when current btc sentiment is lower than 5.7% than historical btc sentiment
Sell indicators are only checked after 30 minutes after buying
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Sell ETH when BTC sentiment is 0.800 standard deviations above the mean
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Sell ETH when ETH sentiment is 0.674 standard deviations below the mean