The field of robo advisors has its roots around the year 2010, right after the housing market crisis. With the recent advances in the fintech industry, they are becoming mainstream. They work by creating an optimal portfolio for the user based on his risk profile. Such portfolio will provide expected annual growth and lay within the risk tolerance of the user. Around the same time as robo advisors, Bitcoin cryptocurrency arose. Because the cryptocurrency market is uncorrelated from other financial markets, we added them as a possible allocation within our optimal portfolio. Using them, we introduced an uncorrelated asset, which results in a more stable portfolio or an increase in annual growth. We compared generated portfolios with S&P 500 index, equal weights, All Weather and Golden Butterfly portfolios. By using cryptocurrencies in our portfolios during the COVID-19 timespan, we managed to increase the annual return by 116.3 %. Furthermore, we also managed to reduce the maximum drawdown by 5.7 %. With the use of the moving average method within our tactical allocation phase, we increased total return within a period of 6 years by 75.2 %.
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