Analysis

The performance of major cryptocurrencies over the past month was good, with only 44 out of the 50 cryptocurrencies that we examined up from their values 30 days ago. Bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is on the rise and is currently trading slightly above $8700 at the time of writing.

Outside of cryptocurrencies, the S&P 500 is down 3.97% from 30 days ago and closed last Friday at $2826.06.

Figure 1 presents the risk versus return trade-off over the past 30 days by plotting mean daily return versus historical daily volatility for various cryptocurrencies.

Figure 1. Plot of mean daily return against historical daily volatility for individual cryptocurrencies from April 27, 2019 to May 26, 2019. Higher returns at a given level of risk, measured through historical daily volatility, indicates a better investment.

