And the gain it takes to get back — not the same number
Losing half your money means the remaining half has to double to break even. Down 50% requires up 100%; down 80% requires up 400%; down 95% requires up 1,900%. The two figures are not symmetric because the loss is measured against the old price and the recovery against the new, smaller one. This is the single most misread number in a drawdown, so this page never shows one without the other.
The practical consequence is that deep drawdowns are much harder to escape than they look. A coin sitting 90% below its high is not "90% of the way" to recovery when it doubles — doubling takes it to 80% below, still needing a further 400%. Sorting the table by required gain rather than by drawdown makes that ordering visible, and the two orderings are not the same.
One caveat about the highs themselves. They are the highest daily close in the Binance history available for each coin, so they exclude intraday spikes and any price from before the coin listed on Binance. A token that peaked on another exchange, or earlier in its life, will show a high beneath its true record. Using daily closes keeps these numbers on the same basis as every forecast on this site, which matters more than matching a headline figure from a different source.
⚠️ Not investment advice. A large required gain describes arithmetic, not opportunity — a coin down 95% is not therefore due a 1,900% rise, and many never recover at all. All decisions and risks are your own.
The loss is measured against the old price and the recovery against the new, smaller one. Half of your money has to double to get back to the whole. The asymmetry grows quickly: down 80% needs up 400%, and down 95% needs up 1,900%.
They are the highest daily closing price in the Binance history available for each coin. That excludes intraday spikes and any price from before the coin listed on Binance, so a token that peaked elsewhere or earlier will show a high below its true record.
Every model on this site — the forecast bands, the touch probabilities, the historical scenarios — is built on daily closes. Mixing an intraday high into that would mean the price and the probability beside it describe different things. Consistency matters more here than matching a headline figure from another source.
No. The number is arithmetic, not opportunity. A coin down 95% needs 1,900% to recover, and that difficulty is a reason for caution rather than a reason to expect the move. Many assets never regain a former high at all.
They rank the same coins differently because the relationship between them is non-linear. Sorting by required gain pushes the deepest drawdowns much further apart than sorting by drawdown does, which is a more honest picture of how hard each recovery actually is.