What Was Happening in 2019
Bitcoin opened 2019 at $3,547, near the bottom of the post-2017 bear market. The year brought a surprising recovery: a rally to $10,784 by June, followed by a pullback to $7,193 by December. It was a year of false starts and uncertain momentum.
For DCA investors, 2019 was a year of steady accumulation at what turned out to be deeply discounted prices. Your $100/week bought bitcoin ranging from $3,547 to $10,784. The average cost for 2019 purchases was around $7,000, a price that would look extraordinarily cheap within two years.
Nobody knew in 2019 that the third halving was coming in May 2020, or that institutional adoption would explode in the years that followed. The people who DCA'd through 2019 were simply sticking to their plan. That discipline paid off enormously.
The Crashes You Survived
From 2019, you weathered the COVID crash in March 2020 (Bitcoin briefly fell below $6,500), the mid-2021 correction from $57,878 to $35,040, the 2022 bear market that took Bitcoin from $57,000 to $16,547 as Luna and FTX collapsed, and the current correction from $115,758 to $68,000. Four drawdowns in seven years. Your DCA bought through every one of them.
- COVID Crash: -27% ($8,780 to $6,430)
- Mid-2021 Correction: -39% ($57,878 to $35,040)
- 2022 Bear Market: -71% ($56,994 to $16,547)
- 2025-2026 Correction: -41% ($115,758 to $68,000)
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