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Bitcoin Cash BCH

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Price History

$97.07$909.05$1,721$2,533
2017-11 · DCA start$1,390

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-96.2%-64.1%-32.1%0.0%
2017-112026-08 · -91.6%

Worst drawdown: −96%, peaking Dec 2017 and bottoming Dec 2022 — still unrecovered after 104 months.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$10,600
Value today
$8,096
Return
-23.6%
Months invested
106

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $12,432 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is -34.9%.

Lump sum instead — $10,600 all at once in Nov 2017: $1,620 (-84.7%) — DCA came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Dec 2017): $8,081 on $10,500 invested (-23.0%).

Backtests use monthly closing prices. Stock dividends aren’t reinvested, so long-run equity returns are understated.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2017-11: -23.6%

About Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin with a protocol upgrade to fix on-chain capacity. Bitcoin Cash intends to be a Bitcoin without Segregated Witness (SegWit) as soft fork, where upgrades of the protocol are done mainly through hard forks and without changing the original economic rules of the Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is released on 1st August 2017 as an upgraded version of the original Bitcoin Core software. The main upgrade is the increase in the block size limit from 1MB to 8MB. (CoinGecko)

It's a cryptocurrency categorised under layer 1, with a market cap of about $5.0B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.4/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: systemic / correlation (4.0/5) and market / volatility (3.7/5).

Scoring well: regulatory at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: governance / team. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-High Risk(2.4/5)90% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.7/5 · weight 30%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/579.5
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/596.2
  • Beta vs BTC3/51.2
Liquidity2.7/5 · weight 10%
  • 24h volume / market cap3/54.1
  • Top exchange % of volume4/552.0
  • Significant listings1/529.0
Supply & Concentration1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Top 10 wallets % of supplynot yet researched
  • Unlocks in next 6mo, % of supplynot yet researched
  • Annual supply growth %1/50.80
Smart Contract / Technical3.0/5 · weight 12%
  • Audit status3/5unaudited long track record
  • Admin key / upgradeability1/5none immutable
  • Share of its mining algorithm (PoW)5/53.5
Custody / Bridge1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Bridge reliance1/5no bridge dependency
Governance / Teamunrated · weight 10%
  • Teamnot yet researched
  • Largest staking operator, % of stakenot yet researched
Regulatory1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Regulatory profile1/5organic no history
Systemic / Correlation4.0/5 · weight 3%
  • Correlation to BTC4/50.77

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