2020 COVID crash
DCA through the 2020 COVID crash
Historical S&P 500 DCA through the 2020 drawdown — blind weekly buys vs SteadyGrow adaptive sizing.
2020-02-07 → 2020-12-25
$500/week · Weekly DCA · S&P 500
Contributed$23,500
Blind DCA value$27,691
Return+17.8%
SteadyGrow value$54,504
vs blind DCA+$26,813
Lump sum (same capital)$26,589
S&P 5002020-02-07 → 2020-12-25 · $500/week
+$26,813 vs blind (+96.8%)Ended +96.8%
Blind DCASteadyGrow
What if your contribution wasn't always the same?
Blind DCA deploys $500/week every period. SteadyGrow keeps the same long-term habit but sizes weeks from valuation and regime — more when markets are cheap, less when they're stretched.