Forecasting prices of Bitcoin and Google stock with ARIMA vs Facebook Prophet

Sammanfattning: In this thesis we have presented econometrics and forecasts of Bitcoin and Google (GOOG) prices. We have implemented two models, one traditional, “ARIMA” and a relatively new one, “Prophet model” by using Facebook Prophet (ML). Machine learning is still new in the economic field, it has been rewarding to learn its capability. We have evaluated the model’s performance by using root mean square error (RMSE) and compared the result which model performed better. We wanted to compare to different assets, volatile Bitcoin to considerable stable Google (GOOG), thus investigate our models performance and if they differ or not. Regarding our result, we found that the ARIMA models have the best forecasting ability. We also investigate the impact of rational expectation and its impact on an asset price. We found that announcements on Bitcoin cause a significantly change in price and had an impact on the model’s performance.