§ Preset · Two ways to deploy the same dollars
DCA vs. lump-sum: January 2017
There is a perennial argument among recurring buyers. Should you deploy your savings all at once, or split them across a schedule? The honest answer is that lump-sum wins in rising markets and loses in falling ones, and bitcoin has mostly been the former. This page runs both. A weekly $50 buy from the first trading day of 2017 to today, beside the same dollars deployed in a single lump on day one. The chart is the comparison. We don't tell you which to pick — we just stop letting the question be theoretical.
$50 weekly · from 2017-01-01 to 2026-05-29
$50 weekly · 1 Jan 2017 → 29 May 2026 · CryptoCompare · daily close
The Stack Report
What if you'd actually
stacked sats?
A historical dollar-cost-average backtester for Bitcoin. Pick an amount, a cadence, a starting date. The numbers don't lie.
Portfolio value, today
$201,440
Fig. 01 — Value vs. Cost Basis
Total invested
$24,550
Buys executed
491
BTC accumulated
₿ 2.726276
Avg. cost basis
$9,005/BTC
Your worst day on paper
−78.2%
$25,250 → $5,496
The story
On 16 Dec 2018, you were down 78% on paper. You did nothing. It came back.
If you'd lump-summed at the start
$1,822,271
+$1,797,721
Verdict
Lump sum won — but you also had to time it perfectly.
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