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PancakeSwap CAKE

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Price History

$0.349$13.86$27.38$40.89
2020-09 · DCA start$0.436

Time underwater

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

-97.1%-64.8%-32.4%0.0%
2020-092026-08 · -96.5%

Worst drawdown: −97%, peaking Apr 2021 and bottoming Sep 2023 — still unrecovered after 64 months.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$7,200
Value today
$5,056
Return
-29.8%
Months invested
72

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $7,978 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is -36.6%.

Lump sum instead — $7,200 all at once in Sep 2020: $23,580 (+227.5%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Apr 2021): $3,635 on $6,500 invested (-44.1%).

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 2020-09: -29.8%

About PancakeSwap

PancakeSwap is an automated market maker (“AMM”) that allows two tokens to be exchanged on the Binance Smart Chain. It is fast, cheap, and allows anyone to participate. (CoinGecko)

It's a cryptocurrency categorised under defi, with a market cap of about $590M.

There isn’t enough researched data to give it an overall rating yet — only 43% of the scoring weight is backed by facts, below the 60% needed. The score shown is partial and covers only what’s known.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.7/5) and systemic / correlation (3.0/5).

Scoring well: liquidity at 1.3/5.

Not yet researched: supply & concentration, smart contract / technical, custody / bridge, governance / team, regulatory. 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

Partial 3.1/5(43%)

Only 43% of the weighting is fact-backed so far — not enough for an overall rating. The partial score covers the rated categories below; the unrated ones may be where this asset’s real risk sits.

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.7/5 · weight 30%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/582.0
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/597.1
  • Beta vs BTC3/51.2
Liquidity1.3/5 · weight 10%
  • 24h volume / market cap1/510.4
  • Top exchange % of volume2/526.6
  • Significant listings1/531.0
Supply & Concentrationunrated · weight 15%
  • Top 10 wallets % of supplynot yet researched
  • Unlocks in next 6mo, % of supplynot yet researched
  • Annual supply growth %not yet researched
Smart Contract / Technicalunrated · weight 12%
  • Audit statusnot yet researched
  • Admin key / upgradeabilitynot yet researched
  • Share of its mining algorithm (PoW)not yet researched
Custody / Bridgeunrated · weight 10%
  • Bridge reliancenot yet researched
Governance / Teamunrated · weight 10%
  • Teamnot yet researched
  • Largest staking operator, % of stakenot yet researched
Regulatoryunrated · weight 10%
  • Regulatory profilenot yet researched
Systemic / Correlation3.0/5 · weight 3%
  • Correlation to BTC3/50.59

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