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Table 2 Optimal weights, hedge ratios and hedging effectiveness under different scales

From: High frequency multiscale relationships among major cryptocurrencies: portfolio management implications

Portfolios

\({W}_{t}^{BTC}\)

\({\beta }_{t}\)

REVAR (%)

Raw series

BTC/ETH

0.6332

0.8231

0.2899

BTC/LTC

− 0.0497

0.9119

0.3813

BTC/DASH

0.3435

0.6850

0.5135

BTC/XRP

0.1463

0.8543

0.4877

BTC/XMR

0.2196

0.8291

0.5359

D1

BTC/ETH

2.3039

− 0.5336

− 2.6977

BTC/LTC

0.2102

1.4016

0.6771

BTC/DASH

0.4992

− 1.9546

0.9105

BTC/XRP

0.6801

− 1.2410

2.9236

BTC/XMR

0.2035

− 4.1168

1.1959

D2

BTC/ETH

0.2939

0.3984

0.8973

BTC/LTC

0.3702

− 0.5863

1.3051

BTC/DASH

0.5371

1.0930

0.9968

BTC/XRP

− 0.1191

− 7.3638

0.7519

BTC/XMR

0.0948

− 8.2036

0.1589

D3

BTC/ETH

− 0.3691

3.0295

0.7858

BTC/LTC

0.5080

1.0737

1.2410

BTC/DASH

0.0280

0.6639

0.8915

BTC/XRP

1.2612

3.4945

0.4041

BTC/XMR

− 0.1838

0.3284

1.5576

D4

BTC/ETH

− 7.9228

− 0.0164

− 10.6329

BTC/LTC

− 0.0345

0.8847

1.3392

BTC/DASH

0.2852

0.5123

0.9385

BTC/XRP

− 0.2056

1.1843

0.7564

BTC/XMR

0.5518

2.4997

1.6471

D5

BTC/ETH

− 1.0418

0.5409

2.2105

BTC/LTC

0.3046

0.7648

0.8204

BTC/DASH

− 0.2126

0.5997

0.7013

BTC/XRP

0.1156

0.6702

0.6843

BTC/XMR

0.6114

1.0588

0.8084

D6

BTC/ETH

1.0857

0.5962

1.3132

BTC/LTC

0.1880

0.8720

0.4522

BTC/DASH

0.6469

0.3812

0.7056

BTC/XRP

− 0.0583

0.6003

0.6428

BTC/XMR

0.1302

0.8099

1.2568

D7

BTC/ETH

− 0.8670

0.7372

0.5418

BTC/LTC

0.1298

0.7119

0.3139

BTC/DASH

0.0481

0.4515

0.6513

BTC/XRP

0.1935

− 0.0566

0.8699

BTC/XMR

4.2093

0.4772

93.0881

D8

BTC/ETH

− 1.0611

0.8583

0.4838

BTC/LTC

0.0569

0.8583

− 0.5250

BTC/DASH

0.8044

0.0311

0.8686

BTC/XRP

0.6123

0.5866

0.5871

BTC/XMR

− 0.1864

0.1465

0.8040

  1. In this table, we used dynamic conditional covariance between cryptocurrency returns along with their individual conditional variances using DCC model. The dynamic ratio is estimated using covariance between two cryptocurrency assets divided by variance of the benchmark BTC asset