Bitcoin Yearly Candles
How has each year actually gone?
One candle per calendar year, from 2010 to today.
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- Bitcoin yearly candles (selected): Open $87,568, high $97,932, low $57,740, close $77,399
Latest displayed close: $77,399 on Jan 1, 2026. The all-time view shows 17 price bars from Jul 17, 2010 to Jan 1, 2026. The latest close is higher than the first displayed open. The displayed low is $0.01 on Jul 17, 2010. The displayed high is $126,236 on Jan 1, 2025.
What is 2026 doing so far?
-11.6% so farBitcoin opened 2026 at $87,568 and its latest daily close is $77,399. The high so far is $97,932 and the low is $57,740.
This candle is still being drawn. It covers 2026 up to the last settled daily close and finishes on the last day of the year.
How many years finished higher than they started?
12 of 16Finished upSettled years only, so this year is not counted.+5318.2%Best year (2013)-72.9%Worst year (2018)How wide is 2026's swing compared with past years?
From its low to its high, 2026 has covered 70% so far. That is wider than 1 of the 16 finished years.
$97,932 high so far in 2026$57,740 low so far in 2026What does this mean for you?
Yearly candles are a reminder of scale, not a signal to act on. Bitcoin has finished 12 of its 16 completed years higher than it started, and the years it lost were not gentle: the worst of them gave back -72.9%. Both of those facts are the same asset.
The useful habit is to check how a year felt against how it finished. Long wicks are years that went a long way in both directions before landing where they landed, and the people who sold inside those wicks did not get the year the candle describes.
Understanding Bitcoin's Yearly Candles
Where it stands today
Bitcoin opened 2026 at $87,568 and its latest daily close is $77,399, down 11.6% so far this year as of .
Zooming all the way out to one bar per year strips Bitcoin's history down to something you can hold in your head. Each bar shows four numbers for that year: the price it opened at in January, the highest it reached, the lowest it fell to, and where it finished in December.
What the shape tells you is how the year was earned. A tall body with short wicks was a year that went one way and stayed there. A short body between long wicks was a year that went a long way in both directions and ended near where it started, which feels nothing like a flat year to anyone who lived through it.
The scale button matters more here than almost anywhere else on the site. Bitcoin's first years traded in cents and its recent ones in tens of thousands, so on a plain scale the early history is a flat line along the bottom. The log scale gives each multiplication the same height, so an early year and a recent one show up as the same size of move when they were.
Two bars on this chart are not full years and are labelled that way. Reliable daily prices begin in July 2010, so the first bar covers half a year. The last bar is the year still running, and it moves with the live price, so its close is today's number rather than a settled one.