If I had bought MERL
If I had bought MERL
Dates within the last week use the minute candle — accurate to the minute of purchase.
Ready examples: $100 put into MERL
a week ago+8.3%$100 → $108
a month ago+0.5%$100 → $101
three months ago-28.8%$100 → $71
six months ago-57.4%$100 → $43
a year ago-82.5%$100 → $17
since our history starts, April 19, 2024-98.3%$100 → $2
Dates within the last week use the minute candle — accurate to the minute of purchase.
A year of buying MERL
Over the last 364 days MERL closed between $0.016760 (July 13, 2026) and $0.4760 (November 26, 2025). One hundred dollars put in at the low would be worth $115 today; at the high, $4. The current price $0.019260 is above 51 of those 364 daily closes, so a purchase on a random day of that stretch would be in profit 14% of the time — fees aside.
A typical day moves MERL by 9.1%: a $1,000 position swings about $91 a day.
Low of the stretch$0.016760 · $100 → $115
High of the stretch$0.4760 · $100 → $4
Share of profitable dates14% · 51/364
The same calculation for neighbouring instruments
Calculators for other instruments in the “layer-2 network” category.