Precious Metals
commodity · 4 assets
Market overview
+903% since 1998-09 · 4 assets, equal-weighted
DCA Backtest
- Invested
- $33,600
- Value today
- $128,243
- Return
- +281.7%
- Months invested
- 336
Scenarios
Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $49,851 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +157.3%.
Lump sum instead — $33,600 all at once in Sep 1998: $337,172 (+903.5%) — lump sum came out ahead.
Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Feb 2026): $665.8 on $700 invested (-4.9%).
Backtests use monthly closing prices. Stock dividends aren’t reinvested, so long-run equity returns are understated.
Hypothetical — this backtests the group’s cap-weighted index, which isn’t directly investable. A real tracker fund adds fees and tracking difference, and the index only spans months where enough members have history.
4 assets. Select up to 4 to compare.
- Partial 1.7/5(45%)Gold GOLDcommodity · precious metals, USD per troy ounce
- Partial 2.7/5(45%)Silver SILVERcommodity · precious metals, USD per troy ounce
- Partial 2.3/5(45%)Platinum PLATINUMcommodity · precious metals, USD per troy ounce
- Partial 3.0/5(45%)Palladium PALLADIUMcommodity · precious metals, USD per troy ounce