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by varjag 2934 days ago
There doesn't seem to be enough frequency in crypto trading for meaningful info at millisecond resolution.
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minutes or seconds would be more useful than one hour intervals.
This is assuming no trading fees and highly liquid exchanges with low spreads, otherwise the profit from these micro-movements could be eaten up. I see no problem with automatic trading over periods of hours if you're getting >60% accuracy.
> no problem with automatic trading over periods of hours if you're getting >60% accuracy.

They a look at the sampling distribution of your projected P/L assuming each trade is an independent Bernoulli trial with success probability 60%.