The aim of this article is to perform a comparison of the performance of machine learning and deep
reinforcement learning algorithms for buying and selling cryptocurrencies based on price
prediction. This is done by training and testing such models using daily data spanning the period
from 2017-11-09 to 2022-05-01 and was downloaded from Yahoo finance page in their
cryptocurrency section. It is observed that machine learning algorithms have high accuracy metrics
in their predictions and execute quickly, although they do not result in high return on investment,
nor do they surpass deep reinforcement learning in this regard.