Solana (SOL) DCA Calculator
What a fixed monthly buy of Solana actually did — computed from real daily closes (Apr 2020 → Jul 2026), not projections. Run your own amount and schedule below.
What $100 a month actually built
The last 5 years of a $100 monthly plan in SOL, month by month: the flat line is cash paid in ($6,100 total), the accent line is what the position was worth along the way — ending at $8,941. Every point is computed from that day's real close.
Timing luck, quantified
Same plan, different start month. Each bar below is one possible 5-year monthly DCA window in SOL's history, sorted from worst to best — the honest spread between unlucky and lucky timing, and the case for starting on a schedule instead of waiting:
16 possible 5-year start months — 100% ended positive.
Why dollar-cost average into Solana?
Solana is one of the most volatile large-cap assets in this dataset. Since 2020 it has lived through a ~220x run-up, a drawdown of roughly −96% after 2021's peak, and a multi-year recovery — exactly the kind of path where a single badly-timed entry can define your whole outcome. A fixed monthly schedule removes that one decision: the 2022 crash months quietly became the cheapest buys in the plan.
The flip side is just as real. Volatility that rewards a schedule on the way up can spend years underwater, and SOL's history is short — the windows above cover barely one full market cycle. Treat the numbers as a study of how the strategy behaves on a violent asset, not as a promise that the next cycle rhymes with the last one.
FAQ
History, not opinion: $100 every month into SOL for the last 5 years (61 buys, $6,100 invested) would be worth $8,941 today — +47% before fees and taxes. Past performance doesn't predict the future, but that's what the plan actually produced.
The worst 5-year monthly-DCA start in SOL's history began Jul 2021 and finished at +49%. The best (May 2020) finished at +2070%. DCA doesn't delete timing luck — it narrows it and removes the decision.
A lump sum bets everything on one entry price. Monthly DCA spreads your cost across SOL's ups and downs — you buy more units when it's cheap, fewer when it's expensive. Compare both directly in our lump sum vs DCA calculator.
Real SOL daily closing prices from Apr 2020 to Jul 2026 (6.3 years), refreshed weekly and validated for gaps, zeros and staleness — see the data & methodology page. Fees, spreads and taxes are not modelled.
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