Tracking 2019 Top Ten Cryptocurrencies – Month Seventy-Four

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Month Seventy-Four – UP 588%  

The 2019 Top Ten Crypto Index Fund consists of: BTC, XRP, ETH, BCH, EOS, Stellar, USDT, Litecoin, BSV, and Tron.  

February highlights for the 2019 Top Ten Crypto Portfolio: 

• Bloody month, as all cryptos end February in the red except Litecoin
• Ethereum knocked out of first place by Bitcoin, which maintains a strong overall lead since January 2019 (+2,170%).  Third place is Tron.

February Ranking and Dropout Report

Top Ten dropouts since January 2019: After seventy-four months, 50% of the cryptos that started in the Top Ten in January 2019  have been knocked out.

BSV has fallen the furthest in rank so far (#92).

February Winners and Losers 

February Winners – Litecoin (+0.3%) outperformed the rest of the Top Ten by breaking even.  

February Losers – Tough month for the E coins: ETH and EOS lost -32% and -31% respectively.

Overall Update: BTC surpasses ETH for the overall lead.  80% of cryptos in positive territory, EOS in the basement.

Bitcoin (+2,170% since Jan. 2019), trailing Ethereum in the 2019 Portfolio for years, has now overtaken second place ETH. 

The $100 investment into first place BTC on January 1st, 2019 is currently worth $2,314.

After seventy-four months, 80% of the cryptos in the 2019 Top Ten Portfolio are in positive territory. The worst performer is EOS (-78%).

Total Market Cap for the Entire Cryptocurrency Sector:

There was no easy way to do so at the time, but if you were able to capture the entire cryptocurrency market since January 2019, you would be up +2,124%

This is still behind first place BTC (+2,170%) but just barely and much better than the rest of the Top Ten cryptos, including second place Ethereum (+1,511%).  

The total market is performing much better than the Top Ten approach (+588%) as well.

Crypto Market Cap Low Point in the 2019 Top Ten Crypto Index Experiment: $114B in January 2019.

Bitcoin Dominance:

BitDom ended February at 60.1%.

For context, here are the high and low points of BTC domination over the life of the 2019 Experiment:

Low Point in the 2019 Top Ten Crypto Index Experiment: 38.1% in November 2022.

High Point in the 2019 Top Ten Crypto Index Experiment: 70.5% in August 2019.

Overall return on $1,000 investment since January 1st, 2019:

After seventy-four months, the value of the initial $1000 investment is $6,875 up +588%. This is down from November 2021’s all time high of +665% for the 2019 Portfolio. 

Although the 2019 Top Ten Portfolio is up +588%, it is not the best performing of the eight Top Ten Crypto Index Fund Experiment Portfolios: it is still a distant second place behind the 2020 Top Ten Portfolio which is up +809% at the moment.

Combining the 2018 – 2025 Top Ten Crypto Portfolios 

Speaking of other Top Ten Portfolios, let’s put all eight together now:

• 2018 Top Ten Experiment: up +34% (total value $1,342)
• 2019 Top Ten Experiment: up +588% (total value $6,875)
• 2020 Top Ten Experiment: up +809% (total value $9,088) (best performing portfolio)
• 2021 Top Ten Experiment: up +294% (total value $3,942)
• 2022 Top Ten Experiment: up -21% (total value $793) (worst performing portfolio)
• 2023 Top Ten Experiment: up +162% (total value $2,619)
• 2024 Top Ten Experiment: up +48% (total value $1,483)
• 2025 Top Ten Experiment: up -18% (total value $816)

So overall? Taking the eight portfolios together:

After a $8,000 total investment in the 2018 – 2025 Top Ten Cryptocurrencies, the combined portfolios are worth $26,959

That’s up +237% on the combined portfolios.  The peak  for the combined Top Ten Index Fund Experiment Portfolios was November 2021’s all time high of +533%.

Here’s the combined monthly ROI since I started tracking the metric in January 2020:

In summary: That’s a +237% gain by investing $1k on whichever cryptos happened to be in the Top Ten on January 1st (including stablecoins) for eight straight years.

Comparison to S&P 500:

I’m also tracking the S&P 500 as part of the experiments to have a comparison point with traditional markets.

Because the S&P 500 Index is up 138% since January 2019, the initial $1k investment I put into crypto seventy-four months ago would be worth $2,376 had it been redirected to the S&P 500 in January 2019. 

But what if I took the same world’s-slowest-dollar-cost-averaging $1,000-per-year-on-January-1st-Crypto-Index-Fund-Experiment approach with the S&P 500? It would yield the following:

• $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2018 = $2,228 today
• $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2019 = $2,376 today
• $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2020 = $1,844 today
• $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2021 = $1,585 today
• $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2022 = $1,249 today
• $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2023 = $1,551 today
• $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2024 = $1,248 today
• $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2025 = $1,012 today

Taken together, the results for a similar approach with the S&P: 

After eight $1,000 annual investments on January 1st into an S&P 500 index fund from 2018 to 2025 my portfolio would be worth $13,095.

That is up +64% since January 2018 compared to a +237% gain of the combined Top Ten Crypto Experiment Portfolios.  

Here’s a table providing an overview of the eight year ROI comparison between a Top Ten Crypto approach and the S&P: 

Conclusion:

To both old-timers and newcomers: thanks so much for taking the time to read and for supporting the Top Ten Crypto Index Fund Experiments. I hope you find the updates helpful in terms of perspective as you navigate the crypto landscape.  Be careful out there and don’t put your mental, physical, or financial health at risk chasing gainz. If crypto is causing you to lose sleep at night, chances are you have too much in crypto: try to think long term and don’t invest what you truly can’t afford to lose.Feel free to reach out with any questions and stay tuned for the latest progress reports. A reporting note: I’ll focus on the 2025 Top Ten Portfolio report + one other portfolio on a rotating basis this year, so expect two reports per month.  February’s extended report is the 2019 Top Ten Portfolio (the one you’re reading now). You can check out the latest 2018 Top Ten, 2020 Top Ten, 2021 Top Ten, 2022 Top Ten, 2023 Top Ten, and 2024 Top Ten Portfolio reports as well.y’s extended report is the 2019 Top Ten Portfolio (the one you’re reading now). You can check out the latest 2018 Top Ten, 2020 Top Ten, 2021 Top Ten, 2022 Top Ten, and 2023 Top Ten reports as well.

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