Exploring Relationships Between Cryptocurrency News Outlets and Influencers' Twitter Activity and Market Prices

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Main Authors: Alizadeh, Meysam, Asgari, Yasaman, Samei, Zeynab, Yari, Sara, Dehghani, Shirin, Kubli, Mael, Zare, Darya, Bermeo, Juan Diego, Batzdorfer, Veronika, Gilardi, Fabrizio
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author Alizadeh, Meysam
Asgari, Yasaman
Samei, Zeynab
Yari, Sara
Dehghani, Shirin
Kubli, Mael
Zare, Darya
Bermeo, Juan Diego
Batzdorfer, Veronika
Gilardi, Fabrizio
author_facet Alizadeh, Meysam
Asgari, Yasaman
Samei, Zeynab
Yari, Sara
Dehghani, Shirin
Kubli, Mael
Zare, Darya
Bermeo, Juan Diego
Batzdorfer, Veronika
Gilardi, Fabrizio
contents Academics increasingly acknowledge the predictive power of social media for a wide variety of events and, more specifically, for financial markets. Anecdotal and empirical findings show that cryptocurrencies are among the financial assets that have been affected by news and influencers' activities on Twitter. However, the extent to which Twitter crypto influencer's posts about trading signals and their effect on market prices is mostly unexplored. In this paper, we use LLMs to uncover buy and not-buy signals from influencers and news outlets' Twitter posts and use a VAR analysis with Granger Causality tests and cross-correlation analysis to understand how these trading signals are temporally correlated with the top nine major cryptocurrencies' prices. Overall, the results show a mixed pattern across cryptocurrencies and temporal periods. However, we found that for the top three cryptocurrencies with the highest presence within news and influencer posts, their aggregated LLM-detected trading signal over the preceding 24 hours granger-causes fluctuations in their market prices, exhibiting a lag of at least 6 hours. In addition, the results reveal fundamental differences in how influencers and news outlets cover cryptocurrencies.
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spellingShingle Exploring Relationships Between Cryptocurrency News Outlets and Influencers' Twitter Activity and Market Prices
Alizadeh, Meysam
Asgari, Yasaman
Samei, Zeynab
Yari, Sara
Dehghani, Shirin
Kubli, Mael
Zare, Darya
Bermeo, Juan Diego
Batzdorfer, Veronika
Gilardi, Fabrizio
Social and Information Networks
Academics increasingly acknowledge the predictive power of social media for a wide variety of events and, more specifically, for financial markets. Anecdotal and empirical findings show that cryptocurrencies are among the financial assets that have been affected by news and influencers' activities on Twitter. However, the extent to which Twitter crypto influencer's posts about trading signals and their effect on market prices is mostly unexplored. In this paper, we use LLMs to uncover buy and not-buy signals from influencers and news outlets' Twitter posts and use a VAR analysis with Granger Causality tests and cross-correlation analysis to understand how these trading signals are temporally correlated with the top nine major cryptocurrencies' prices. Overall, the results show a mixed pattern across cryptocurrencies and temporal periods. However, we found that for the top three cryptocurrencies with the highest presence within news and influencer posts, their aggregated LLM-detected trading signal over the preceding 24 hours granger-causes fluctuations in their market prices, exhibiting a lag of at least 6 hours. In addition, the results reveal fundamental differences in how influencers and news outlets cover cryptocurrencies.
title Exploring Relationships Between Cryptocurrency News Outlets and Influencers' Twitter Activity and Market Prices
topic Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05577