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In this paper we have researched how to use machine learning in the financial industry on the example of robo-advisor; defined the basic functionality of robo-advisor, an implementation of robo-advisor based on analysis of the most popular financial services, such as Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Motif Investing, Schwab Intelligent and Wealthfront. We have also compared their functionality, formulated a list of critical features and described our own high-level architecture design of a general robo-advisor tool for private investors. Our goal is to build three application modules for a single robo-advisor which combines its architecture and modern financial instruments – cryptocurrencies for the first time. The first module is a Long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network, which forecasts cryptocurrencies prices daily. As a result of simulation experiment through the application using real data from open sources, we have found that the combination of criterion can explain 61% of cryptocurrencies prices variation. The second module uses robo-advising approach to build an investment plan for novice cryptocurrencies investors with different risk attitude investment decisions. The third module is ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) for a statistics dataset and neural networks models. Results of the investigation show that investing in cryptocurrencies can give 23.7% per year for risk-averse, 31.8% per year for risk-seeking investors and 16.5% annually for investors of hybrid type.
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Snihovyi, O., Kobets, V., Ivanov, O. (2019). Implementation of Robo-Advisor Services for Different Risk Attitude Investment Decisions Using Machine Learning Techniques. In: Ermolayev, V., Suárez-Figueroa, M., Yakovyna, V., Mayr, H., Nikitchenko, M., Spivakovsky, A. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications. ICTERI 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1007. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13929-2_15
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