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Bitcoin Time-of-Day, Day-of-Week and Month-of-Year Effects in Returns and Trading Volume

2017; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.3088472

1556-5068

Dirk G. Baur, Daniel Cahill, Keith M. Godfrey, Zhangxin Liu,

Financial Markets and Investment Strategies

There is a large literature that reports time-specific anomalies in equity markets such as the Monday effect, the January effect and the Halloween effect. This study is the first to report intra-day time-of-day, day-of-week, and month-of-year effects for Bitcoin returns and trading volume. Using more than 15 million price and trading volume observations from seven global Bitcoin exchanges reveal time-varying effects but no consistent or persistent patterns across the sample period. The results suggest that Bitcoin markets are efficient.