Is Bitcoin doing badly today and you need a reminder of the good times? Or is Bitcoin doing really well and you want to know how well it’s doing? The chart below gives the top 50 up days for Bitcoin in the last 5 years. On average, the price increase was a whopping 13%.
Remember, Bitcoin returns have negative skew. This means that on bad Bitcoin days, the price drops a lot more than on good days, but there are fewer bad days than good days to balance things out.
| date | Close-Open Spread | open | high | low | close |
| 1/15/2015 | 29% | 162 | 234 | 161 | 209 |
| 7/20/2017 | 27% | 2265 | 2938 | 2265 | 2875 |
| 12/7/2017 | 22% | 13624 | 16616 | 13086 | 16600 |
| 4/2/2019 | 19% | 4134 | 5080 | 4131 | 4900 |
| 12/6/2017 | 17% | 11677 | 13700 | 11660 | 13624 |
| 10/25/2019 | 17% | 7427 | 8784 | 7393 | 8663 |
| 3/13/2020 | 16% | 4842 | 5990 | 3850 | 5623 |
| 7/17/2017 | 16% | 1918 | 2230 | 1911 | 2226 |
| 9/15/2017 | 15% | 3228 | 3820 | 2977 | 3700 |
| 8/5/2017 | 14% | 2855 | 3340 | 2848 | 3264 |
| 3/19/2020 | 14% | 5413 | 6434 | 5266 | 6181 |
| 4/12/2018 | 14% | 6941 | 8069 | 6758 | 7924 |
| 5/11/2019 | 14% | 6339 | 7445 | 6339 | 7217 |
| 12/26/2017 | 13% | 13911 | 16148 | 13747 | 15764 |
| 4/29/2020 | 13% | 7762 | 8970 | 7717 | 8790 |
| 5/19/2019 | 13% | 7258 | 8300 | 7248 | 8200 |
| 10/12/2017 | 13% | 4822 | 5445 | 4794 | 5445 |
| 2/6/2018 | 13% | 6874 | 8150 | 5921 | 7737 |
| 12/11/2017 | 12% | 14691 | 17270 | 14677 | 16470 |
| 5/13/2019 | 12% | 6969 | 8168 | 6864 | 7810 |
| 9/18/2017 | 12% | 3663 | 4123 | 3659 | 4102 |
| 11/28/2018 | 12% | 3771 | 4355 | 3771 | 4220 |
| 1/5/2018 | 12% | 15144 | 17200 | 14810 | 16928 |
| 3/23/2020 | 12% | 5817 | 6630 | 5686 | 6494 |
| 2/14/2018 | 11% | 8523 | 9515 | 8505 | 9491 |
| 11/13/2017 | 11% | 5870 | 6776 | 5846 | 6525 |
| 7/27/2020 | 11% | 9941 | 11417 | 9934 | 11046 |
| 11/2/2015 | 11% | 326 | 369 | 320 | 362 |
| 5/28/2016 | 11% | 471 | 529 | 468 | 522 |
| 2/2/2015 | 11% | 215 | 242 | 215 | 238 |
| 6/28/2019 | 11% | 11154 | 12447 | 10739 | 12354 |
| 1/20/2018 | 11% | 11552 | 13052 | 11516 | 12776 |
| 12/20/2018 | 11% | 3684 | 4172 | 3657 | 4074 |
| 7/3/2019 | 11% | 10830 | 12009 | 10830 | 11967 |
| 11/15/2017 | 10% | 6609 | 7350 | 6609 | 7294 |
| 2/12/2018 | 10% | 8067 | 8995 | 8067 | 8899 |
| 6/16/2016 | 10% | 695 | 773 | 690 | 766 |
| 11/5/2020 | 10% | 14168 | 15771 | 14100 | 15605 |
| 11/3/2015 | 10% | 362 | 421 | 360 | 398 |
| 12/18/2019 | 10% | 6620 | 7450 | 6425 | 7287 |
| 12/16/2020 | 10% | 19435 | 21577 | 19278 | 21366 |
| 6/26/2019 | 10% | 11760 | 13880 | 11647 | 12921 |
| 12/16/2017 | 10% | 17472 | 19377 | 17270 | 19188 |
| 12/31/2017 | 10% | 12640 | 14296 | 12491 | 13880 |
| 7/18/2019 | 10% | 9712 | 10797 | 9280 | 10649 |
| 12/17/2018 | 10% | 3191 | 3590 | 3181 | 3497 |
| 1/2/2021 | 10% | 29411 | 33333 | 29050 | 32217 |
| 6/12/2016 | 9% | 610 | 683.02 | 603.21 | 667.94 |
| 1/2/2018 | 9% | 13443.41 | 15257.53 | 12910.58 | 14678.94 |
| 5/7/2020 | 9% | 9163.63 | 10074 | 9030.03 | 10000 |