TRON Investment Calculator
What would buying TRX have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily TRON closes.
What TRX actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 3,017 daily closes this page replays — 11 June 2018 to 13 September 2026, from Binance. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 8 years and 3 months (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 7.02× |
| Highest close in this window | $0.4334 on 3 December 2024 |
| Where it sits against that high | 21.6% below |
| Deepest fall | −83.1%, 20 June 2018 → 12 March 2020 |
| Time to get back to that peak | 11 months after the low — 11 February 2021 |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 3 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 90.5% |
| Best calendar year | 2021: +180.8% |
| Worst calendar year | 2019: -31% |
| Annualised volatility | 87.6% |
TRX year by year
First close to last close each year. 2018 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2018 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | -61.4% | partial year |
| 2019 | -31% | worst full year |
| 2020 | +102.5% | |
| 2021 | +180.8% | best full year |
| 2022 | -28.9% | |
| 2023 | +96.4% | |
| 2024 | +136.5% | |
| 2025 | +11.2% | |
| 2026 | +18.3% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, TRX returned 7.02×. That headline is the easy part. The number underneath it is that the position spent 90.5% 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 TRX down 83.1%, from $0.0498 on 20 June 2018 to $0.00841 on 12 March 2020 — 21 months of falling. Getting back to that peak took a further 11 months, reached on 11 February 2021. Add those together and the round trip was 2 years and 8 months — the length of time someone who bought at the top had to hold before they were merely even again.
87.6% annualised volatility is ordinary for a major crypto asset and still several times a stock index. All TRX calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying TRX on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
Yes — 7.02× from 11 June 2018 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 83.1% 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 TRX has fallen?
83.1% in this data, from 20 June 2018 down to 12 March 2020 — 21 months of falling. It took a further 11 months to get back to that peak, on 11 February 2021, so the full round trip was 2 years and 8 months. Bear in mind our TRX series starts in 2018; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How often does TRX lose half its value?
3 separate falls of 50% or more appear in this data, and the position spent 90.5% 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 TRX's best and worst years?
2021 was the best at +180.8%, and 2019 the worst at -31%. 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 8 years and 3 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
It is among the longer records available here — 8 years and 3 months covering several complete cycles, which is enough for the drawdown and recovery figures to carry real weight. It is still one path that already happened, and the next sequence of prices has no obligation to resemble it.
What to keep in mind for TRX
TRX is less reflexive than most altcoins but is heavily tied to stablecoin flows and to news about its founder.
TRON transfers are effectively free if you have frozen enough TRX for energy; if you have not, the network burns TRX instead, which surprises first-time users.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices TRX went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.