If I had bought HFT
If I had bought HFT
Dates within the last week use the minute candle — accurate to the minute of purchase.
Ready examples: $100 put into HFT
a week ago-9.3%$100 → $91
a month ago-37.7%$100 → $62
three months ago-44.9%$100 → $55
six months ago-57.8%$100 → $42
a year ago-92.2%$100 → $8
three years ago-98.2%$100 → $2
since our history starts, May 13, 2023-98.7%$100 → $1
Dates within the last week use the minute candle — accurate to the minute of purchase.
A year of buying HFT
Over the last 364 days HFT closed between $0.006117 (August 24, 2026) and $0.099150 (September 5, 2025). One hundred dollars put in at the low would be worth $98 today; at the high, $6. The current price $0.006008 is above 0 of those 364 daily closes, so a purchase on a random day of that stretch would be in profit 0% of the time — fees aside.
A typical day moves HFT by 19.3%: a $1,000 position swings about $193 a day.
Low of the stretch$0.006117 · $100 → $98
High of the stretch$0.099150 · $100 → $6
Share of profitable dates0% · 0/364
The same calculation for neighbouring instruments
Calculators for other instruments in the “decentralised finance” category.