Dogecoin Investment Calculator
What would buying DOGE have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily Dogecoin closes.
What DOGE actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 2,628 daily closes this page replays — 5 July 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 2 months (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 21.88× |
| Highest close in this window | $0.6898 on 7 May 2021 |
| Where it sits against that high | 87.7% below |
| Deepest fall | −92.3%, 7 May 2021 → 18 June 2022 |
| 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 | 96.7% |
| Best calendar year | 2021: +2,898.2% |
| Worst calendar year | 2025: -63.9% |
| Annualised volatility | 187.9% |
DOGE 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 | -48% | partial year |
| 2020 | +130.7% | |
| 2021 | +2,898.2% | best full year |
| 2022 | -59.4% | |
| 2023 | +27.5% | |
| 2024 | +243.5% | |
| 2025 | -63.9% | worst full year |
| 2026 | -33.2% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, DOGE returned 21.88×. That headline is the easy part. The number underneath it is that the position spent 96.7% of all days more than 20% below a previous peak — so for most of the time you owned it, you were looking at a figure lower than one you had already seen.
The deepest fall took DOGE down 92.3%, from $0.6898 on 7 May 2021 to $0.0529 on 18 June 2022 — 13 months of falling. DOGE has not been back to that peak since. Anyone who bought on 7 May 2021 is still waiting, 6 years and 1 month later — which is the scenario a backtest showing a positive average return quietly averages away.
At 187.9% annualised volatility, DOGE sits in the top band of anything on this site — the drawdown figures above, not the average, are the number to plan around. All DOGE calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying DOGE on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
Yes — 21.88× from 5 July 2019 to 13 September 2026. The figure is real but it is also the single luckiest entry available in this window, and it required holding through a fall of 92.3% on the way. Set the calculator to a date you might plausibly have chosen instead and the answer usually changes a great deal.
＋What is the worst DOGE has fallen?
92.3% in this data, from 7 May 2021 down to 18 June 2022 — 13 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 DOGE series starts in 2019; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How often does DOGE lose half its value?
2 separate falls of 50% or more appear in this data, and the position spent 96.7% 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 DOGE's best and worst years?
2021 was the best at +2,898.2%, and 2025 the worst at -63.9%. 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 2 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
Reasonably. 7 years and 2 months spans roughly one full cycle for DOGE — 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 DOGE
DOGE is sentiment-driven and can double or halve on social-media flow alone — size positions on the assumption that the move against you is fast.
DOGE transaction fees are low in dollar terms, but exchange withdrawal fees on meme coins are often a flat coin amount that hurts small positions.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices DOGE went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.