YTD ROI
Year-to-date return for each calendar year, overlayable to compare how different years unfolded.
Understanding this chart
Each line tracks one calendar year's cumulative return, starting from that year's first close (0% on the year's first trading day). All years are drawn on a shared January-to-December axis, so you can overlay any set of them and compare their paths day by day.
Use the year pills to toggle years on and off, or the presets to jump to a cycle view. Overlaying halving years (2012, 2016, 2020, 2024) reveals how similar their second-half accelerations were; post-halving years (2013, 2017, 2021, 2025) and bear years (2014, 2018, 2022) each have their own recognizable shapes. The presidential presets slice the same calendar by the US political cycle — and note the coincidence: election years and halving years are the same years, so the two 4-year rhythms are perfectly in phase, with pre-election years being the one phase the crypto presets don't cover.
Reading tip: the absolute levels matter less than the shape. Years that spent H1 flat and exploded in Q4 look very different from years that front-loaded their gains — and where the current year sits inside that family of shapes is a quick sanity check on cycle narratives.