Shiba Inu Investment Calculator
What would buying SHIB have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily Shiba Inu closes.
What SHIB actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 1,953 daily closes this page replays — 10 May 2021 to 13 September 2026, from Binance. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 5 years and 4 months (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 0.152× — a loss of 84.8% |
| Highest close in this window | $0.00007906 on 27 October 2021 |
| Where it sits against that high | 93.3% below |
| Deepest fall | −94.8%, 27 October 2021 → 16 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 | 2024: +98.3% |
| Worst calendar year | 2022: -76.3% |
| Annualised volatility | 114.6% |
SHIB year by year
First close to last close each year. 2021 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2021 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | -3.7% | partial year |
| 2022 | -76.3% | worst full year |
| 2023 | +27.6% | |
| 2024 | +98.3% | best full year |
| 2025 | -68.2% | |
| 2026 | -29.5% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, SHIB returned 0.152× — a loss of 84.8%. 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 SHIB down 94.8%, from $0.00007906 on 27 October 2021 to $0.00000411 on 16 July 2026 — 4 years and 9 months of falling. SHIB has not been back to that peak since. Anyone who bought on 27 October 2021 is still waiting, 8 months later — which is the scenario a backtest showing a positive average return quietly averages away.
114.6% annualised volatility is ordinary for a major crypto asset and still several times a stock index. All SHIB calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying SHIB on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
No. Held across the whole window the position ended at 0.152× — a loss of 84.8%. That is worth stating plainly because "hold long enough and it recovers" is the usual advice, and over the 5 years and 4 months we hold for SHIB it did not happen.
＋What is the worst SHIB has fallen?
94.8% in this data, from 27 October 2021 down to 16 July 2026 — 4 years and 9 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 SHIB series starts in 2021; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How often does SHIB 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 SHIB's best and worst years?
2024 was the best at +98.3%, and 2022 the worst at -76.3%. 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 5 years and 4 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
Reasonably. 5 years and 4 months spans roughly one full cycle for SHIB — 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 SHIB
SHIB is among the most volatile large caps and is driven almost entirely by retail sentiment and listing news.
SHIB is an ERC-20, so every on-chain move costs Ethereum gas — for small positions that fee can exceed the trade itself.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices SHIB went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.