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title: Investor Sentiment and Bitcoin Risk
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4928563/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4928563
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4928563
featured: 2024-08-21
citations: unknown
topic: Crypto & DeFi
---


# Investor Sentiment and Bitcoin Risk

The study reveals a correlation between extreme investor sentiment from traditional financial markets and a negative Bitcoin basis during unexpected inflation and deflation periods.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4928563
- Identifier: SSRN 4928563
- Released: 2024-04-01
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 62 (2024-08-21): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-08-21/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Crypto & DeFi

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