Cryptocurrency-backtester

CS122 Final Presentation: Building a Cryptocurrency Backtester GROUP MEMBERS: Shalini Chandar, Michelle Liang, Calvin Chu, JX Xu March 12, 2018

In this file you will find a description of the project and of each of the files in the crypto_website folder.

An overview of our project can be found at the following link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IRw2CAZUggStlQui1iLmNkWGrDhN6cKb3sXao_Freog/edit#slide=id.g2f1c04b915_0_5

Project Description:

Goal: build an interactive cryptocurrency backtester to analyze different trading strategies for cryptocurrencies (or coins)
Based on trading strategies, determine absolute returns, returns relative to a benchmark, and Sharpe ratio
Save best strategies on a leaderboard (ranked by Sharpe ratios)

Trading Strategies Tested:

- Test if the letter a coin starts with influences returns
	- Coins that begin with A may have more exposure
- Analyze a coin’s white paper complexity using NLTK
	- Coins with more complex language in their white paper may have a more advanced development team and a better product
- Reddit subscriber growth and total subscriber at end of period
	- Faster growing subreddits indicate high buyer interest
- Google Trends search volume change over time
	- Increased search volume may lead price movement
- Twitter mentions of various coins on 2018-03-01
	- Increased number of mentions may lead price movement 

Table of Contents:

Note: there is a "ghost" column in many of the CSVs called "Twitter_Mentions". This is here because we initially intended to find day-to-day Twitter mentions data, but eventually were not able to. We did not want to re-generate all of the CSVs, so the values in each of these columns is 1.

• historical_dfs: folder containing CSVs for coins we were able to get historical price and volume data for (244 coins)

• All_Coin_dfs: folder of CSVs containing day-to-day Google Trends data

• reddit_dfs: folder of CSVs containing day-to-day Reddit subscriber data

• final_coins: folder containing final CSVs for all 250 coins (including all time-dependent data available)

• whitepaper_pdfs: PDFs of coins' white papers

• whitepaper_text_files: PDF content in .txt format

• mysite: folder containing code for Django website

• predictors: folder containing code for strategy selection/testing application

• all_data.p: dumped pickle dictionary. Contains data from each coin's JSON file from the CoinMarketCap API

• unclean_data.p: unclean version of all_data.p

• backtester.py: contains functions to analyze DataFrames and build backtester (called in views.py in predictors)

• chromedriver: required to run webdriver from Selenium

• create_leaderboard.py: contains functions to create strategy leaderboard (called in views.py in predictors)

• Cryptocoins.csv: contains information (coin name and ticker, specifically) for cryptocurrencies

• Updated_Cryptocoins.csv: same as Cryptocoins.csv, with corrections to format of some of the coins' names

• get_data.py: contains functions to generate all of the CSVs/DataFrames.

• leaderboard.csv: file containing the current strategy leaderboard

• Static_Params.csv: file containing all the non-time-dependent data for each coin

• twitter.csv: file containing number of Twitter mentions for each coin on March 1, 2018

• twitter.py: contains code to count number of Twitter mentions for each coin on March 1, 2018, and export the data to a CSV