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Market Universe

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Investment Instruments

The investment universe we create consists of seven cryptocurrencies related to or directly used to trade NFT's. They are all of varying market-cap classes. When taking into account transaction costs, we assume we are trading these assets on Binance, which takes a 0.1% fee on each transaction. We also assume that all cash has been converted into USDT for trading purposes.

Large-Cap Instruments

  • Solana (SOL), ~$44B
  • Cardano (ADA), ~$39B
  • Avalanche (AVAX), ~$26B

Medium-Cap Instruments

  • Polygon (MATIC), ~$11.5B
  • Decentraland (MANA), ~$5B
  • Flow (FLOW), ~$2.5B

Small-Cap Instruments

  • Theta Fuel (TFUEL), ~$1.1B

AMI Capitalization-Weighted Index Benchmark

For backtesting purposes, we create a capitalization-weighted index of our universe which serves as a benchmark long-term "buy-and-hold" strategy to compare our trading algorithm against. The weights of this index are rebalanced quarterly, similar to the S&P 500.