BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, AND ALTCOIN MONTHLY AND QUARTERLY RETURNS
What is the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Altcoin Monthly and Quarterly Returns tool?
This returns analytics (%) for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins provides you monthly and quarterly historical performance of over 600 assets so that you can get better timing on your trades as well as choose the best periods of the year in order to make your long-term investments.
BTC MONTHLY RETURNS
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What the monthly returns heatmap shows
The Monthly Returns heatmap shows historical month-by-month performance of Bitcoin and Ethereum in a color-coded calendar format, making it easy to identify seasonal patterns, bull and bear market phases, and relative performance between the two assets. Green cells represent profitable months; red cells represent losing months; color intensity reflects the magnitude of the return.
Seasonality in Bitcoin's monthly returns
Seasonality patterns in Bitcoin's monthly returns are among the most discussed in the crypto community. Historically, certain months have shown consistent tendencies across multiple cycles. These patterns are not mechanical laws, but they reflect real behavioral dynamics: institutional rebalancing, tax-loss selling, and the impact of annual event cycles on market sentiment.
Comparing Bitcoin and Ethereum
Comparing Bitcoin and Ethereum monthly returns side by side reveals periods where both assets move together — broad risk-on or risk-off phases — and periods where one significantly outperforms the other, signaling capital rotation. Extended periods where Ethereum consistently outperforms often signal a broader altcoin bull phase; sustained Bitcoin outperformance often indicates capital concentrating in the largest asset.
Zooming out to quarters and years
The quarterly and annual return views help zoom out from monthly noise to identify the bigger picture — which years were structural bull markets, which were bear markets, and where the current year's performance sits in historical context. This long-view perspective is useful for calibrating expectations and avoiding the recency bias that single-timeframe analysis encourages.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this heatmap show?
It lays out Bitcoin and Ethereum's historical month-by-month returns in a colour-coded calendar, so every month of every year can be compared at a glance. Green marks positive months and red negative ones, with intensity reflecting size.
Is crypto seasonality real?
Certain months have historically averaged stronger or weaker returns, and those patterns are widely discussed. The sample is small, crypto has only a decade or so of history, and averages across so few observations are easily distorted by one extreme month.
Can I trade based on monthly patterns?
It is risky to do so in isolation. Any apparent pattern rests on a handful of observations per month, which is nowhere near enough to distinguish a real effect from coincidence. Most traders treat seasonality as background context rather than a reason to act.
Why compare Bitcoin and Ethereum side by side?
Because the months where they agree and the months where they diverge mean different things. Both moving together points to broad risk-on or risk-off flows, while Ethereum outperforming usually reflects rotation further out the risk curve.
What do the quarterly and annual views add?
They filter out monthly noise to show which years and quarters carried the returns. That longer view makes the concentration obvious, since a small number of periods have historically accounted for most of the gains in any given cycle.