NASDAQ 100 · DCA since 2015
$500/month in NASDAQ 100 since 2015
What a monthly $500 dollar-cost average into NASDAQ 100 would be worth today if you'd started in January 2015 and never stopped. Real adjusted closes, T+1 execution, no transaction fees modeled.
If you invested $500/month in NASDAQ 100 from 2015-01 to 2026-10...
$241,536
grown from $71,000 invested over 11.8 years. +$170,536 (+240.19%)
Growth over time
Dashed: cumulative invested · Solid: portfolio value
Investment schedule
- Per investment
- $500.00
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Window
- 2015-01-01 → 2026-10-21
- Duration
- 11.8 years
- Number of investments
- 142× $500.00 each
Results
- Total invested
- $71,000142 × $500.00
- Final value
- $241,536as of 2026-10-21
- Total return
- +$170,536+240.19%
- Annualized (IRR)
- 19.34%/yrcompounded over 11.8 years
What 2015 actually was: through a flat year
The 2015 start coincided with a sideways year — the index ended roughly where it began. For DCA, that flatness was a gift: months of buying without prices running away. The payoff came over the next decade, as the market broke out again in 2017 and then again post-pandemic.
For a NASDAQ 100 DCA buyer who started January 2015 with $500 a month, the schedule pulled in 142 purchases through 2026-10-21. Total invested: $71,000. Final value: $241,536. That works out to an annualized return of 19.34% per year on the irregular cashflow series.
The numbers above use adjusted closing prices (dividends reinvested, splits applied) and apply a T+1 policy: when the 1st of the month landed on a weekend or holiday, the trade executed at the next trading day's close. Bitcoin pages execute on the exact scheduled date because crypto trades 24/7.
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