Currency

Bitcoin price history chart since 2009

Bitcoin is one of the most successful cryptocurrencies. It’s short history if full of interesting facts and events which must be known by everyone who is dealing with it.

Today there are many dealers accepting bitcoins as payment. The payment system works without a central repository. Network node operators running the bitcoin system receive bitcoins as reward of their efforts.

Bitcoin historical performance since the beginning*

The most important performance factor of bitcoin is how much US dollars is a bitcoin worth? So let’s see a BTC/USD chart since 2009:

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Stock index

Special S&P 500 5 years charts and return

The Standard and Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) index has been introduced in its current form on 4 March 1957, but it existed previously as well. It has 500 components.

5 year S&P 500 index chart

S&P 500’s returns in the last 5 years on a chart

S&P 500‘s return against inflation in the last 5 years

5 year chart of the S&P 500 stock index*

S&P 500’s value was going up with short pauses since its lowest low in 2009, then it seemed to go sideways for a year, and is rising again.

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Stock index

S&P 500 10 years charts and return

The Standard and Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) index has been introduced in its current form on 4 March 1957, but it existed previously as well. It has 500 components.

10 year S&P 500 index chart

S&P 500‘s returns in the last 10 years on a chart

S&P 500‘s returns against inflation in the last 10 years

10 year chart of the S&P 500 stock index*

S&P 500’s 10 years history covers the entire financial crysis and 1-2 years preceeding it. Today it is far above its pre-crysis peak (1600 vs 2348). Actually it was rapidly growing since 2009 with short drawdawns, then it seemed to be moving sideways for a year, and now it is growing again.

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Gold

Gold vs. silver chart about price, performance and risk

Both gold and silver are precious metals and both are often mentioned as some kind of safe haven – especially in a financial crysis. On the other hand both the application and the production of silver and gold are more or less different.

However risk and potential return carried by them was also different in the past 5 year, as it can be seen on the charts below:

Gold vs. silver price chart about the past 5 years*

The chart below shows by how many percents the price of precious metals has increased or decreased, as compared to the point on the left side of the screen.

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Gold

Gold 10 year charts of performance and historical outlook

Gold is often referred as a “safe haven” during an economical / financial crysis. Well, these opinions have proven more or less wrong according to long term / 10 year charts because gold’s price has shown quite high volatility. On the other hand gold’s price did not change as extremely as silver’s price.

(Differences between gold and silver are highlighted in the 5 year gold-silver comparison charts.)

10 year gold spot price chart

Gold price performance chart in the past 10 years

Gold price performance against inflation in the last 10 years

10 year chart of the gold price*

Gold’s 10 year history covers the entire financial crysis and 1-2 year preceeding it. Today it is at cca. 700 $ below its peak (1900 vs 1200) Actually its price seems to stay around 1200 for the past year.

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Gold

Gold 5 year charts of performance and historical outlook

Gold is often referred as a “safe haven” during an economical / financial crysis. Well, these opinions have proven more or less wrong according to long term / 5 year charts because gold’s price has shown quite high volatility. On the other hand gold’s price did not change as extremely as silver’s price.
Other commodity

Oil 5 year charts of price and performance

Oil is ofter reffered to as “black gold”. This page is about the past 5 years of the unprocessed form of crude light oil which is traded worldwide in the unit of bbl (1 US bbl oil = 158.99 l) and in the currency of USD.

5 year chart of crude oil future*

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Other commodity

Natural gas 5 year charts of price and performance

Natural gas is mostly used for heating, in chemical industry, power generation and transportation.

This page is about the past 5 years of natural gas which is traded worldwide in the unit of mmBTU (1 mmBTU = 1.05587 GJ or 293.3 kWh) and in the currency of USD.

5 year chart of natural gas spot price*

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Stock index

Dow Jones 10 years charts of performance

The Dow Jones Industrial Average index has been introduced on 26 May 1896 and it has 30 components.

10 year Dow Jones Industrial Average index chart

DJIA performance chart in the past 10 years

DJIA performance against inflation in the last 10 years

10 year chart of the Dow Jones stock index*

DJIA’s 10 year history covers the entire financial crysis and 1-2 years preceeding it. Today it is cca. 6000 points above its pre-crysis peak (20500vs. 14400) Actually it was growing rapidly since 2009, then the trend stopped for a while and it continues now.

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Long term charts of gold, silver and more