Algorand Investment Calculator
What would buying ALGO have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily Algorand closes.
What ALGO actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 2,641 daily closes this page replays — 22 June 2019 to 13 September 2026, from Binance. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 7 years and 3 months (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 0.042× — a loss of 95.8% |
| Highest close in this window | $2.38 on 12 September 2021 |
| Where it sits against that high | 96.1% below |
| Deepest fall | −96.7%, 12 September 2021 → 29 July 2026 |
| Time to get back to that peak | still below it |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 2 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 98.9% |
| Best calendar year | 2021: +317.1% |
| Worst calendar year | 2022: -90.1% |
| Annualised volatility | 110.4% |
ALGO year by year
First close to last close each year. 2019 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2019 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | -90.1% | partial year |
| 2020 | +52.3% | |
| 2021 | +317.1% | best full year |
| 2022 | -90.1% | worst full year |
| 2023 | +25.7% | |
| 2024 | +40.1% | |
| 2025 | -70.7% | |
| 2026 | -23.4% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, ALGO returned 0.042× — a loss of 95.8%. Long holding periods are usually presented as the thing that rescues a volatile asset, and over this particular window for this particular coin, they did not. It is worth setting the calculator above to the full range and seeing that result written out before assuming time fixes an entry.
The deepest fall took ALGO down 96.7%, from $2.38 on 12 September 2021 to $0.0775 on 29 July 2026 — 4 years and 11 months of falling. ALGO has not been back to that peak since. Anyone who bought on 12 September 2021 is still waiting, 2 years and 4 months later — which is the scenario a backtest showing a positive average return quietly averages away.
110.4% annualised volatility is ordinary for a major crypto asset and still several times a stock index. All ALGO calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying ALGO on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
No. Held across the whole window the position ended at 0.042× — a loss of 95.8%. That is worth stating plainly because "hold long enough and it recovers" is the usual advice, and over the 7 years and 3 months we hold for ALGO it did not happen.
＋What is the worst ALGO has fallen?
96.7% in this data, from 12 September 2021 down to 29 July 2026 — 4 years and 11 months of falling. It has not returned to that peak since, so anyone who bought at the top is still waiting. Bear in mind our ALGO series starts in 2019; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How often does ALGO lose half its value?
2 separate falls of 50% or more appear in this data, and the position spent 98.9% of all days more than 20% below a previous peak. A drop of that size is not an exceptional event for this asset — it is a recurring feature of the record, which is the thing to size a position around.
＋What were ALGO's best and worst years?
2021 was the best at +317.1%, and 2022 the worst at -90.1%. The gap between those two is the reason a single average annual return is a poor description of this asset: almost nobody experiences the average, they experience one of the two extremes depending on when they bought.
＋Is 7 years and 3 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
Reasonably. 7 years and 3 months spans roughly one full cycle for ALGO — enough for the drawdown figure to mean something, not enough to call it a pattern. The assets here with a decade or more behind them support firmer conclusions.
What to keep in mind for ALGO
ALGO trades far below its 2019 launch and 2021 highs and behaves like a high-beta altcoin: quiet for long stretches, then sharp moves on broad market rotations.
Algorand's minimum fee is 0.001 ALGO, a fraction of a cent, and it does not spike with congestion — fees are effectively a non-issue for ALGO position sizing.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices ALGO went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.