Can Alts ROI outperform BTC in two cycles? Should you buy Alts in the bear market?

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In response to This post comparing alts performance to BTC I decided to study the ROI over the bear market.

To study whether it is better to DCA into alts hoping for a new ATH or DCA into bitcoin.

I analyzed the TOP 10 crypto by market cap at the height of Alts season in January 2018.

I used a website called DCAcryptocalculator which pulls its prices from Coingecko.

The study assumes a DCA of 10$ each week from January 1st, 2018. The total DCA in dollars amount to date would be 2360$.

The 1st group of columns shows the amount of DCA and the current value.

The second group was calculating the DCA amount and value to when BTC hit ATH on Nov 9th, 2021.

The third part of the table calculates the DCA amount to when the token hit its ATH this cycle. Some tokens did it in April 2021 some in May 2021 some in August and so on.

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ROI on TOP 10 COINS from Jan 2018

• From the table we can see the current value of Cardano is still up 460% . ETH is second with 330% then BTC with 190%.
• When BTC hit ATH 7X ROI, only ADA and ETH had better returns ADA 23x and ETH 16x. All other coins were in the green but with a lower ROI compared to BTC.

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• When measured to the ATH in 2021 of each coin individually. We can see that ADA had 35x returns ETH 16x NEM 8.3X then BTC 7x as the top 4. Then IOTA at 6.1X returns etc
• TLDR;

If you put 10$ each week for the top 10 coins since January 2018.

Only ADA and ETH outperformed BTC well.

Even though ETH and ADA DIDN'T put any new ATH against BTC in 2021 they gave better returns.