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      "title": "EXPERIMENT - Tracking Top 10 Cryptocurrencies for Two Years (2018 & 2019) - Month Twenty-Three - Down 85%",
      "body": "![Nov recap.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQH6h6y28MGdwJWenrdohWNDu2bm2RPeF7p7zpHQBkAXr/Nov%20recap.png)\n\n<p><br></p>\n<p><em>Interested in earning cryptocurrency for publishing and reading articles? Join us at&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.publish0x.com/?a=4openzDe7A&amp;tid=publish0x\"><em>Publish0x!**</em></a> <em><strong>Ready to invest in crypto? Coinbase is a good place to start. Sign up using this&nbsp;</strong></em><a href=\"http://bit.ly/2lZYU8q\"><em><strong>link***</strong></em></a><em><strong>, buy or sell $100 or more of crypto, and you'll receive $10 worth of free Bitcoin.</strong></em> &nbsp;</p>\n<h1>The Experiment:</h1>\n<p>Instead of hypothetically tracking cryptos, I made an actual $1000 investment, $100 in each of the Top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap as of the 1st of January 2018. Think of it as a lazy man's Index Fund (no weighting or rebalancing), less technical, more fun (for me at least), and hopefully still a proxy for the market as a whole - or at the very least an interesting snapshot of the 2018/2019 crypto space. I’m trying to keep it simple and accessible for beginners and those looking to get into crypto but maybe not quite ready to jump in yet. I have also started a&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-2019-month-ten-3-xplxrj\">parallel project:</a>&nbsp;on January 1st, 2019, I repeated the experiment, purchasing another $1000 ($100 each) into the new Top Ten cryptos as of January 1st&nbsp;<em>2019</em>. Spoiler alert: the 2019 Experiment makes for much happier reading.&nbsp;</p>\n<h1>The Rules:</h1>\n<p>Buy $100 of each the Top 10 cryptocurrencies on January 1st, 2018. Run the experiment two years. Hold only. No selling. No trading. Report monthly. Compare loosely to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-2019-month-ten-3-xplxrj\">2019 Top Ten Experiment</a>.&nbsp;</p>\n<h1>Month Twenty-Three - Down 85%</h1>\n<p>After a strong October bounce, the 2018 Top Ten portfolio reverted to downward trajectory of the summer months.&nbsp; While all cryptos in the experiment were either in the green or flat last month, the opposite was true in November as each crypto ended the month solidly in the red.&nbsp;</p>\n<h1>Ranking and November Winners and Losers</h1>\n<p>There was no upward movement in November: every crypto either held onto its position or slid.&nbsp; After slipping three slots last month, <strong>Dash</strong> fell two more places in November and has now fallen to #22 and out of the Top Twenty for the first time since the beginning of the experiment.&nbsp; For the second straight month, <strong>IOTA</strong> dropped two places and now is in danger of joining <strong>Dash</strong> outside the Top Twenty.&nbsp; <strong>Bitcoin Cash</strong> and <strong>NEM</strong> also fell one position each, ending November at #5 and #28 respectively.&nbsp; <em>November Winners</em> - Although it lost -11% in November, <strong>Cardano </strong>handily outperformed its peers.&nbsp; <strong>NEM </strong>finished in second, \"only\" down -15% on the month. <em>November Losers</em> - <strong>Dash </strong>had a rough month, losing -28% of its value and dropping out of the Top Twenty.&nbsp; November also marks the first time since January 2018 that <strong>Dash</strong> ended a month at the bottom.&nbsp; <strong>Bitcoin Cash </strong>followed close behind <strong>Dash</strong>, finishing -27% in November.&nbsp; For those keeping score, here is tally of which coins have the most monthly wins and losses during the first 23 months of this experiment. Most monthly wins (5): <strong>Bitcoin</strong>. Most monthly losses (5): <strong>Stellar</strong>. All cryptos have at least one monthly win.&nbsp; Up until last month, the only two coins never to lose a month were <strong>Bitcoin</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Dash</strong>.&nbsp; Thanks to a&nbsp;<strong>Dash</strong>'s loss in November,&nbsp;<strong>Bitcoin&nbsp;</strong>now stands alone as the only crypto that hasn't lost a month. &nbsp;</p>\n<h1>Overall update – Bitcoin still well ahead. 60% of cryptos have lost at least -90% of their January 2018 value, NEM still absolute worst performer.&nbsp;</h1>\n<p>Although down -45% since January 2018, <strong>Bitcoin</strong> is still miles ahead of the rest of the field.&nbsp; <strong>Litecoin</strong> and <strong>Ethereum </strong>are virtually tied for second place, down -79%.&nbsp; <strong>NEM</strong> has performed the absolute worst (currently down -96%) but has plenty of company at the bottom: six out of the ten cryptos that started 2018 in the Top Ten are down at least 90%: <strong>NEM, Cardano</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Dash</strong>, <strong>IOTA, Ripple, </strong>and <strong>Bitcoin Cash. </strong>My initial $100 investment in&nbsp;<strong>NEM</strong> is worth just $3.83. Additionally, 40% of the cryptos that started 2018 in the Top Ten have dropped out, specifically <strong>NEM, Dash, IOTA</strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Cardano</strong>. They have been replaced by&nbsp;<strong>EOS, Binance Coin, Tether,</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>BTCSV</strong>.&nbsp;</p>\n<h1>Total Market Cap for the entire cryptocurrency sector:</h1>\n<p>The crypto market gave up its October gains and then some as $50B was shed in November. The overall market cap now back to the $198B mark, last seen in May 2019.&nbsp; Since January 2018, the total market cap is down -66%.&nbsp;</p>\n<h1>Bitcoin dominance:</h1>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin</strong> dominance decreased slightly in November.&nbsp; For context, the range since the beginning of the experiment in January 2018 has been quite wide: a high of 70% in September 2019 and a low of 33% in February 2018.&nbsp;</p>\n<h1>Overall return on investment from January 1st, 2018:</h1>\n<p>The 2018 Top Ten Portfolio lost -$42 in November.&nbsp; If I cashed out today, my $1000 initial investment would return $150, down -85%. The 2019 Top Ten Experiment is doing better. If I cashed that experiment out today, that $1,000 initial investment would return $1,100, a +10% gain. Full November report to come. Taken together, here's the bottom bottom line:&nbsp;<strong>after a $2000 investment in both the 2018 and the 2019 Top Ten Cryptocurrencies, my portfolios would be worth $1,250.</strong> That's down -37.5%.&nbsp;</p>\n<h1>Implications/Observations:</h1>\n<p>As always, the experiment's focus of solely holding the Top Ten Cryptos continues to be a losing approach. While the overall market is down -%66 from January 2018, the cryptos that began 2018 in the Top Ten are down <strong>-85%</strong> over the same period.&nbsp; This of course implies that I would have done a bit better if I'd picked different cryptos. At no point in this experiment has this investment strategy been successful: the initial 2018 Top Ten have under-performed each of the twenty-three months compared to the market overall. I'm also tracking the S&amp;P 500 as part of my experiment to have a comparison point with other popular investments options. The S&amp;P 500 is now up +17.5% since the beginning of 2018. My initial $1k investment into crypto would have yielded about +$175 had it been redirected to the S&amp;P. &nbsp;</p>\n<h1>Conclusion:</h1>\n<p>After a bounce in October, it seems like we're back to our previously scheduled programming of downward movement. One month to go in 2019, let's see what happens. <strong>A note:&nbsp; although I'm planning on continuing to track both the 2018 and 2019 Top Ten Cryptos next year, I'm undecided on whether or not to repeat the experiment yet again in 2020.&nbsp; Please do leave your suggestions and ideas in the comments below.</strong> Thanks for reading and for supporting the experiment. I hope you’ve found it helpful. I continue to be committed to seeing this process through and reporting along the way. Feel free to reach out with any questions and stay tuned for progress reports. Keep an eye out for my&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-2019-month-ten-3-xplxrj\">parallel project</a>&nbsp;where I repeated the experiment, purchasing another $1000 ($100 each) of a new set of Top Ten cryptos as of January 1st 2019.&nbsp;</p>\n<h6>**As part of Publish0x's Ambassador program, signing up using this&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.publish0x.com/?a=4openzDe7A&amp;tid=publish0x\">link</a>&nbsp;may provide me with a small benefit, at no cost to you (Publish0x is 100% free to use).</h6>\n<h6>***As part of Coinbase's referral program, signing up using this&nbsp;<a href=\"http://bit.ly/2lZYU8q\">link</a>&nbsp;will result in us both receiving $10 worth of free Bitcoin at no extra cost to you.</h6>\n<p><br></p>\n</html>\n\n\n<hr>\n<center>Enjoy this post? 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      "body": "<center>![eofirktpap.png](https://img.esteem.ws/eofirktpap.png)</center>\n#### <center>  *Interested in earning cryptocurrency for publishing and reading articles?  Join us at [Publish0x!**](https://www.publish0x.comurl?a=4openzDe7A&tid=Steemit)*</center>\n\n<center>***Ready to invest in crypto?  Coinbase is a good place to start. Sign up using this [link***](http://bit.ly/2lZYU8q), buy or sell $100 or more of crypto, and you'll receive $10 worth of free Bitcoin.***</center>\n<hr>\n\n# The Experiment:\nInstead of hypothetically tracking cryptos,[ I made an actual $1000 investment, $100 in each of the Top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap as of the 1st of January 2018](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-two-years-2018-2-xxromn). ***I then repeated the experiment on the 1st of January 2019***. Think of it as a lazy man's Index Fund (no weighting or rebalancing), less technical, more fun (for me at least), and hopefully still a proxy for the market as a whole - or at the very least an interesting snapshot of the 2019 crypto space. I am trying to keep this project simple and accessible for beginners and those looking to get into crypto but maybe not quite ready to jump in yet.  I try not to take sides or analyze, but rather report and document in a detached manner letting the numbers speak for themselves.  \n\n# The Rules:\nBuy $100 of each the Top 10 cryptocurrencies on January 1st, 2019.  Hold only. No selling. No trading. Report monthly. Compare loosely to the [2018 Top Ten Experiment](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-two-years-2018-2-xxromn).\n\n# Month Ten - Up 39%\n<center>![vvdr9weh02.png](https://img.esteem.ws/vvdr9weh02.png)</center>\n\nWith each of the 2019 Top Ten Cryptos finishing in the green (except **Tether** of course, which was flat), October decisively snapped the downward trend we had seen over the three previous months.  When **Tether** finishes last, the portfolio is having a good month.\n\nOverall, the 2019 Top Ten portfolio is up a strong +39% on the year, but no where near the +114% peak this same portfolio achieved at the end of May 2019.\n\nTied last month with the stock market (as measured by the S&P 500), the 2019 Top Ten Portfolio has regained a healthy lead (see below).\n\n# Ranking and October Winners and Losers\n<center>![72yr5wdl2t.png](https://img.esteem.ws/72yr5wdl2t.png)</center>\n\nIt's almost as if the rankings were reset in October: despite some internal maneuvering (**Bitcoin Cash** back into fourth place, **EOS** and **Tether** both slipping a spot to #8 and #5, respectively), the players remain almost exactly the same.  Even **Tron**, which has slipped out of the Top Ten, is almost back in its original position thanks to a very strong month where it climbed from #14 to #11.  \n\nThis is quite different from the [2018 Top Ten Experiment](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-two-years-2018-2-xxromn) where after 10 months four cryptos had convincingly dropped out of the Top Ten.  It's only gotten worse as those four have continued to fall as the 2018 experiment rolls on.\n\nAgain, despite its strong October, **Tron** stands alone as a Top Ten dropout, replaced by **Binance Coin**.  \n\n***October Winners*** - **BTCSV** gained a massive +50%, easily outperforming the field.  Second goes to **Tron**, up +36%.\n\n***October Losers*** - **Tether** alone was in the red this month, followed by **Ethereum** which gained a modest +4%.\n\nFor those keeping score, here is tally of which coins have the most monthly wins and loses during the first ten months of this experiment: a three way tie between **Bitcoin**, **BTCSV**, and **Tether** all with two monthly victories each.  **Bitcoin SV** also has the most monthly loses, finishing last in four out of the first ten months of 2019.\n<center>![bnhb0lsace.png](https://img.esteem.ws/bnhb0lsace.png)</center>\n\n\n# Overall update – Bitcoin with a sizeable lead followed by Litecoin. All cryptos in positive territory except Ripple and Stellar.\n**BTC** and **Litecoin** are still far ahead of their peers, up +145% and +95% respectively in 2019.  My initial $100 investment in **Bitcoin** is now worth $250.  \n\nAll Top Ten cryptos are still either flat or in positive territor except **Ripple** and **Stellar**. Although each increased in value in October, **Stellar** remains in the basement down -40% so far in 2019, followed by **Ripple**, down -18%.\n\n# Total Market Cap for the entire cryptocurrency sector:\n<center>![zjs6xxdhvl.png](https://img.esteem.ws/zjs6xxdhvl.png)</center>\n\nAfter three straight losing months, October saw a bounce.  The total crypto market cap increased about $26B in October. The overall market cap is sitting around the $248B mark, a level we last saw in September 2019.  \n\nStill, it has been a very strong year for crypto: we've seen an increase of +95% in total crypto market cap since the beginning of 2019.\n\n# Bitcoin dominance:\n<center>![ezsitfxanc.png](https://img.esteem.ws/ezsitfxanc.png)</center>\n\nBitcoin dominance ticked down slightly in October, down about -1/2% to 67.2%.  The month end high in 2019 was 70.5% in at the end of August.\n\n\n# Overall return on investment from January 1st, 2019:\n\n<center>![6x6r62dfty.png](https://img.esteem.ws/6x6r62dfty.png)</center>\n\nIf I cashed out today, my $1,000 initial investment would return $1,386, a +39% gain.  \n\nI'm down significantly in my [2018 Top Ten Experiment](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-two-years-2018-2-xxromn). If I cashed that group out today, the $1000 initial investment would return about $192, down nearly -81%. \n\nSo, taken together, here's the bottom bottom line:  **after a $2000 investment in both the 2018 and the 2019 Top Ten Cryptocurrencies, my portfolios would be worth $1,579.** \n\nThat's down about -21%.\n\n# Implications/Observations:\nWith the market as a whole up +95% on the year, how have the 2019 Top Ten cryptos performed?  Up a respectible but still much lower +39%.  As a reminder, in May 2019, the gains from the Top Ten and the entire market were both exactly the same: +114%. The last few months have seen that gap widen: for five straight months, focusing only on the Top Ten has been a losing strategy. \n\nThis is reminiscent of last year as [at no point in the Top Ten 2018 Experiment did the Top Ten strategy outperform the overall market](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-two-years-2018-2-xxromn).\n\nI'm also tracking the S&P 500 as part of my experiment to have a comparison point with other popular investments options. The S&P 500 is up a very healthy +23% since the beginning of 2019, but still much less than the Top Ten of 2019, up +39%.  \n\nFor reference, the gap has been extremely wide at different points during the year.  For example, the Top Ten portfolio was up +114% compared to +10% for the S&P in late May of this year.\n\nThe initial $1k investment I put into crypto would have yielded +$230 had it been redirected to the S&P.\n\n<center>![kxq6wk5so2.png](https://img.esteem.ws/kxq6wk5so2.png)</center>\n\n# Conclusion:\nProbabaly due to the news out of China, October saw a welcome reversal of a multi month slide in crypto. The last few months of the year have been busy in recent history.  Around this time of year two years ago, the market started skyrocketing while last year it started to slide.  We'll soon see which of these histories repeat itself or if crypto has something altogether different in store.   \n\nIf you're just finding this experiment now, here's the backstory: On the 1st of January, 2018, I bought $100 each of the Top Ten cryptos at the time for a total investment of $1000 to see how they would perform over the year. I tracked the experiment and reported each month. The result? [I ended 2018 down -85%, my $1000 worth only $150.](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-one-year-2018-final-report-for-2018-down-85-xlol)\n\nAfter last year's experiment ended, I decided to do two things:\n\n\n1. Extend the Top Ten 2018 Crypto project one more year. The experiment is now in its 22nd month. You can check out the latest update [here](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-two-years-2018-2-xxromn).\n2. What you're reading now is the 10th report of a parallel project: this year I repeated the experiment, purchasing another $1000 ($100 each) of the new Top Ten cryptos as of January 1st, 2019.\n\nThanks for reading and the support for the experiment. I hope you’ve found it helpful. I continue to be committed to seeing this process through and reporting along the way. Feel free to reach out with any questions and stay tuned for progress reports.\n\n###### **As part of Publish0x's Ambassador program, signing up using this [link](https://www.publish0x.comurl/?a=4openzDe7A&tid=Steemit) may provide me with a small benefit, at no cost to you (Publish0x is 100% free to use).\n \n###### ***As part of Coinbase's referral program, signing up using this [link](http://bit.ly/2lZYU8q) will result in us both receiving $10 worth of free Bitcoin at no extra cost to you. \n\n<hr>\n<center>Enjoy this post? 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      "title": "EXPERIMENT - Tracking Top 10 Cryptocurrencies for Two Years (2018 & 2019) - Month Twenty-Two - Down 81%",
      "body": "<center>![txj6ke6kpp.png](https://img.esteem.ws/txj6ke6kpp.png)</center>\n\n#### <center>  *Interested in earning cryptocurrency for publishing and reading articles?  Join us at [Publish0x!**](https://www.publish0x.comurl?a=4openzDe7A&tid=Steemit)*</center>\n\n<center>***Ready to invest in crypto?  Coinbase is a good place to start. Sign up using this [link***](http://bit.ly/2lZYU8q), buy or sell $100 or more of crypto, and you'll receive $10 worth of free Bitcoin.***</center>\n<hr>\n\n# The Experiment:\nInstead of hypothetically tracking cryptos, I made an actual $1000 investment, $100 in each of the Top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap as of the 1st of January 2018.  Think of it as a lazy man's Index Fund (no weighting or rebalancing), less technical, more fun (for me at least), and hopefully still a proxy for the market as a whole - or at the very least an interesting snapshot of the 2018/2019 crypto space. I’m trying to keep it simple and accessible for beginners and those looking to get into crypto but maybe not quite ready to jump in yet.\n\nI have also started a [parallel project:](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-2019-month-nine-xyqkqe) on January 1st, 2019, I repeated the experiment, purchasing another $1000 ($100 each) into the new Top Ten cryptos as of January 1st *2019*. Spoiler alert: the 2019 Experiment makes for much happier reading.\n\n# The Rules:\nBuy $100 of each the Top 10 cryptocurrencies on January 1st, 2018. Run the experiment two years. Hold only. No selling. No trading. Report monthly. Compare loosely to the [2019 Top Ten Experiment](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-2019-month-nine-xyqkqe).\n# Month Twenty-Two - Down 81%\n\n<center>![87zymj123c.png](https://img.esteem.ws/87zymj123c.png)</center>\n\nThanks to some positive news out of China, October decisively broke a three month losing streak for the 2018 Top Ten portfolio. All cryptos in the experiment were either up or flat this month, a welcome change from summer's downward trend.\n\n# Ranking and October Winners and Losers\n<center>![kp4c1myskt.png](https://img.esteem.ws/kp4c1myskt.png)</center>\n\nAlthough the market as a whole gained, a few of our 2018 Top Ten coins had trouble keeping up.  **IOTA** and **NEM** each dropped two places to #18 and #27, respectively.  **Dash** slid three slots, and now teeters on the edge of the Top Twenty.  On the positive side **Bitcoin Cash** gained one position in the rankings, climbing to the four spot.\n\n*October Winners* - **Bitcoin Cash** rebounded nicely after a dismal September finishing +29% up on the month.  **Ripple** and **Stellar** had solid months as well, ending October at +16% and +14% respectively.  \n\n*October Losers* - Only **IOTA** lost value this month, down -1%.  Along with **NEM** and **Dash**, the three were basically flat in October.\n\nFor those keeping score, here is tally of which coins have the most monthly wins and loses during the first 22 months of this experiment. Most monthly wins (5): **Bitcoin**. Most monthly loses (5): **Stellar**. All cryptos have at least one monthly win. The only two coins never to lose a month? **Bitcoin** and **Dash**.\n\n<center>![lakkohkd48.png](https://img.esteem.ws/lakkohkd48.png)</center>\n\n\n# Overall update – Bitcoin far ahead of peers. Four worst performers down over -90% each, NEM still in basement.\n\n**Bitcoin** is still miles ahead of the pack maintaining a *40+ percentage point lead* over second place **Litecoin** and third place **Ethereum**.  This isn't even the widest lead **Bitcoin** has held since I started the experiment nearly two years ago: August 2019's +50% lead is still the record.\n\nLooking through my past reports, poor **NEM** has been stuck in the basement all year.  Since January 2019 is has been the experiment's worst overall performer.  **NEM** is currently down -96% followed by **Cardano**, **Dash**, and **IOTA** all down over -90% since January 1st, 2018.  My initial $100 investment in **NEM** is worth just $4.49.\n\n40% of the cryptos that started 2018 in the Top Ten have dropped out, specifically **NEM, Dash, IOTA**, and **Cardano**.  They have been replaced by **EOS, Binance Coin, Tether,** and **BTCSV**.\n\n\n# Total Market Cap for the entire cryptocurrency sector:\n\n<center>![lfsaenbjmh.png](https://img.esteem.ws/lfsaenbjmh.png)</center>\n\nBreaking a three month losing streak, crypto ended October in positive territory, up about +$26B by month's end. The overall market cap is sitting around the $248B mark, rebounding to September 2019 levels.  Since January 2018, the total market cap is down -57%.     \n\nIf you're looking for a silver lining, followers of my [2019 Top Ten Experiment](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-2019-month-nine-xyqkqe) will note that there has been an increase of +74% in total crypto market cap since the beginning 2019.\n\n\n# Bitcoin dominance:\n\n<center>![g1zhca99et.png](https://img.esteem.ws/g1zhca99et.png)</center>\n\n**Bitcoin** dominance ticked down slightly in October, but no major shift from last month.  For context, the range since the begining of the experiment in January 2018 has been quite wide: a high of 70% in September 2019 and a low of 33% in February 2018.\n\n# Overall return on investment from January 1st, 2018:\n\n<center>![wmrz4hv578.png](https://img.esteem.ws/wmrz4hv578.png)</center>\n\nAfter three straight months of loses, the portfolio gained a modest $17 in October.  If I cashed out today, my $1000 initial investment would return $192, down nearly -81%. \n\nThe 2019 Top Ten Experiment is doing a bit better. If I cashed that experiment out today, that $1,000 initial investment would return $1,387, a +39% gain.  Full October report to come.  \n\nTaken together, here's the bottom bottom line:  **after a $2000 investment in both the 2018 and the 2019 Top Ten Cryptocurrencies, my portfolios would be worth $1,579.** \n\nThat's down about -21%.\n\n# Implications/Observations:\n\nAs always, the experiment's focus of solely holding the Top Ten Cryptos continues to be a losing approach. While the overall market is down -%57 from January 2018, the cryptos that began 2018 in the Top Ten are down **-81%** over the same period. \n\nAt no point in this experiment has this investment strategy been successful: the initial 2018 Top Ten have under-performed each of the twenty-two months compared to the market overall.\n\nI'm also tracking the S&P 500 as part of my experiment to have a comparison point with other popular investments options. The S&P 500 is now up +15.2% since the beginning of 2018.  My initial $1k investment into crypto would have yielded about +$152 had it been redirected to the S&P. \n\n<center>![qf784rtyo9.png](https://img.esteem.ws/qf784rtyo9.png)</center>\n\n# Conclusion:\n\nThanks to the news out of China, October ended up breaking the streak of three consecutive months of downward movement for crypto.  Again, this shows that unpredictability is the norm in crypto: we seemed on track to continue the downward trend until the end of the year.  With two months left in the year, will the October gains hold? \n\nThanks for reading and for supporting the experiment. I hope you’ve found it helpful. I continue to be committed to seeing this process through and reporting along the way. Feel free to reach out with any questions and stay tuned for progress reports.  Keep an eye out for my [parallel project](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-2019-month-nine-xyqkqe) where I repeated the experiment, purchasing another $1000 ($100 each) of a new set of Top Ten cryptos as of January 1st 2019.\n\n###### **As part of Publish0x's Ambassador program, signing up using this [link](https://www.publish0x.comurl/?a=4openzDe7A&tid=Steemit) may provide me with a small benefit, at no cost to you (Publish0x is 100% free to use).\n \n###### ***As part of Coinbase's referral program, signing up using this [link](http://bit.ly/2lZYU8q) will result in us both receiving $10 worth of free Bitcoin at no extra cost to you. \n\n\n<hr>\n<center>Enjoy this post? Follow @starthere to stay updated on the experiment</center>\n\n<center>![wzmntvzxay.png](https://img.esteem.ws/wzmntvzxay.png)</center> \n\n<hr>\n\n<center>Catch up with previous experiment updates:</center> \n\n\n  \n<center>\n  [August 2019 Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-two-years-2018-and-2019-month-twenty-down-80)\n  [July 2019 Recap](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-2019-month-seven-xknveq)\n  [June 2019 Recap](https://www.publish0x.com/top-ten-cryptocurrency-index-fund-experiments/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-two-years-2018-2-xomekw)\n  [May 2019 Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-two-years-2018-and-2019-month-seventeen-down-72)\n  [April 2019 Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-two-years-2018-and-2019-month-sixteen-down-82)\n  [March 2019 Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-two-years-2018-and-2019-month-fifteen-down-83)\n  [February 2019 Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-two-years-2018-and-2019-month-fourteen-down-86)\n  [January 2019 Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-two-years-2018-and-2019-month-thirteen-down-88)\n[December/2018 Final Report](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-one-year-2018-final-report-for-2018-down-85)\n[November Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-one-year-2018-month-eleven-down-84-a1c698e48d30cest)\n[October Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-one-year-2018-month-ten-down-75-853aaa344c9feest)\n[September Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-one-year-2018-month-nine-q3-down-71-bb3047a4693a8est)\n[August Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-one-year-2018-month-eight-down-70-339cdc918ae4eest)\n[July Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-one-year-2018-month-seven-down-63-40349c630ba41est)\n[June/Half-time Report](https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@starthere/experiment-tracking-top-10-cryptocurrencies-for-one-year-2018-month-six-half-time-report-down-66)\n[May Recap](https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@starthere/experiment-top-10-crypto-index-fund-2018-month-episode-five-the-bears-strike-back-down-51)\n[April Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-top-10-crypto-index-fund-2018-month-episode-four-a-new-hope-down-37)\n[March/Q1 Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/experiment-top-10-crypto-index-fund-2018-month-three-q1-recap-down-63)\n[February Recap](https://steemit.com/newbieresteemday/@starthere/experiment-top-10-crypto-index-fund-2018-month-two-recap-down-32)\n[January Recap](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@starthere/top-10-crypto-index-fund-experiment-january-recap)</center>\n<hr>\n<center>To learn more about the non-crypto me, check out @eoj:</center>\n\n<center>[Allow Me to Introduce Myself! 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