Crypto DCA Calculator
Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) means buying a fixed dollar amount of an asset on a regular schedule, regardless of price. This simulator uses historical prices from CoinGecko to show what a DCA strategy would have returned over a date range you choose.
How dollar-cost averaging works
When you invest a fixed amount on a schedule, you buy more coins when prices are low and fewer when prices are high. Over time this tends to reduce your average cost per coin compared to a single lump-sum purchase. The chart above shows your cumulative invested amount (the dashed line) against the value of your accumulated coins (the solid line).
Limitations of this simulation
- It assumes you could always buy at the daily market price, with no exchange fees and no slippage.
- Historical performance does not guarantee future results — a strategy that worked in the past may not work again.
- Prices come from CoinGecko's public API and may occasionally be unavailable; in that case the calculator falls back to the last cached data.
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