What monthly grid yield compounds to, scenario by scenario
Model: K(month+1) = K(month) × (1 + y) + deposit. Educational tool, not financial advice.
A grid bot's cycle profit compounds if you leave it on the exchange: next month's orders are sized on a slightly larger capital. Add a monthly deposit and the curve steepens. This page projects that arithmetic. It deliberately gives you four yield scenarios instead of one number: a BTC/USDC grid's monthly yield swings roughly 3x between calm and volatile regimes, so a range of scenarios is honest where a single promise would not be.
Companion tool: Size the grid, which computes thresholds, order sizing and scheduling from your exchange and risk profile.
Annualized equivalents, compounded monthly: 0.5%/mo ≈ 6.2%/yr · 0.75%/mo ≈ 9.4%/yr · 1.0%/mo ≈ 12.7%/yr · 1.25%/mo ≈ 16.1%/yr. These are scenarios to explore, not offered rates.
Projection,
How the model works
One recurrence, applied month by month for 120 months:
y = monthly yield scenario · A = monthly deposit, added at the end of each month
- Final capital is K after 24, 48, 72, 96 and 120 months.
- Your deposits + start is the money you put in: starting capital plus every monthly deposit up to that point. No yield, just addition.
- From the bot is the difference: everything the compounding produced, including yield earned on earlier yield.
- The savings comparison runs the exact same recurrence with a 2.4%/yr rate (about 0.198% per month), the same starting capital and the same deposits.
Limits of this model
- Cycles profit only. The model compounds realized cycle profit. A grid holds BTC between buy and sell, and that open position moves with the market: in a sustained downtrend you can show unrealized losses that no line of this table captures.
- The yield is not guaranteed. Monthly grid yield depends on volatility, spread, fees and capital deployment. It varies month to month, roughly 3x between regimes, and can be negative.
- Past regime does not promise the next one. A scenario that matched the last six months says nothing binding about the next six.
- Constant-yield assumption. The model applies the same percentage to a growing capital every month. In practice yield does not scale linearly forever: larger capital means more or larger orders, and fills do not scale with them automatically.
- Deposits are idealized. Every deposit arrives in full, on time, every month, for up to 10 years. Taxes, withdrawals and transfer fees are ignored.
- Not financial advice. This page is an educational calculator, nothing in it is a recommendation to deposit anything anywhere.
Not financial advice. The scenarios on this page are arithmetic, not forecasts. Grid strategies can and do lose money, in particular in sustained downtrends. Past performance of any setup is not indicative of future results. See the Terms of Sale for the full risk disclosure.
To turn a risk profile into concrete thresholds and order sizes, use the grid settings calculator.