Satoshi Institute · scenario
$100 · weekly · since 2018-01-01
Lump sum, same dollars
Lump sum wins more often in a rising asset. DCA wins on the nights you can actually sleep. Here is the gap, in numbers.
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Satoshi Institute · backtest
Pick an amount and a cadence. See what steady buying would have become, and what you'd have done buying something else on the same schedule.
A single lump of $44,100 put into Bitcoin since Jan 2018
That's 2.826 BTC at an average price of $15,605.
Scenarios
The common questions, already answered. Open one to see the numbers, or change the inputs above.
What this leaves out. Prices are weekly closes from CoinGecko. No fees, no spreads, no taxes, and no slippage, so real-world returns run lower. Past performance is not a forecast, and a different start date can flip the story entirely. This is a backtest for understanding, not advice.
Equities are next. The BTC-vs-S&P comparison every DCA tool needs requires an equities data feed wired through the server layer. The engine here already accepts new assets. Stocks and gold drop in once that feed is connected.
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Educational tools. Not investment, accounting, or security advice.