Hyperliquid Investment Calculator
What would buying HYPE have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily Hyperliquid closes.
What HYPE actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 365 daily closes this page replays — 14 September 2025 to 13 September 2026, from CoinGecko. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 12 months (from CoinGecko) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 1.45× |
| Highest close in this window | $87.95 on 7 September 2026 |
| Where it sits against that high | 10.1% below |
| Deepest fall | −64%, 19 September 2025 → 21 January 2026 |
| Time to get back to that peak | 4 months after the low — 24 May 2026 |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 1 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 71% |
| Best calendar year (partial) | 2026: +210.6% |
| Worst calendar year (partial) | 2025: -52.4% |
| Annualised volatility | 94.7% |
HYPE year by year
First close to last close each year. 2025 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2025 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | -52.4% | partial year |
| 2026 | +210.6% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, HYPE returned 1.45×. That headline is the easy part. The number underneath it is that the position spent 71% 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 HYPE down 64%, from $58.61 on 19 September 2025 to $21.09 on 21 January 2026 — 4 months of falling. Getting back to that peak took a further 4 months, reached on 24 May 2026. Add those together and the round trip was 8 months — the length of time someone who bought at the top had to hold before they were merely even again.
One caveat specific to HYPE: we only hold 12 months of daily closes for it, which is not enough to cover a full cycle. Any result the calculator gives you is a statement about one short stretch of an unusually eventful market, and the confidence you can place in it is correspondingly low. The coins on this site with six or more years of history give far more meaningful answers.
94.7% annualised volatility is ordinary for a major crypto asset and still several times a stock index. All HYPE calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying HYPE on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
Yes — 1.45× from 14 September 2025 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 64% 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 HYPE has fallen?
64% in this data, from 19 September 2025 down to 21 January 2026 — 4 months of falling. It took a further 4 months to get back to that peak, on 24 May 2026, so the full round trip was 8 months. Bear in mind our HYPE series starts in 2025; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How much time does HYPE spend below its previous high?
71% of all days in this window sat more than 20% below a previous peak. Put another way, for most of the time you would have owned it, the screen showed a number lower than one you had already seen — which is the part of a backtest's headline return that the headline never conveys.
＋What were HYPE's best and worst years?
2026 was the best at +210.6% (a partial year in our data), and 2025 the worst at -52.4% (also partial). 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 12 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
No, and that is the honest answer for HYPE specifically. 12 months does not cover a full market cycle, so any result here describes one short stretch rather than a pattern. Treat it as a record of what happened, not as evidence about what tends to happen.
What to keep in mind for HYPE
HYPE moves on protocol revenue and on unlock schedules, and a large share of supply is still vesting — worth checking the unlock calendar before sizing a position.
The perps exchange charges maker/taker fees rather than per-transaction gas, and placing or cancelling an order is free — so trading cost here is a fee-tier question, not a gas question.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices HYPE went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.