Each cell is the actual daily return on that Oct date in that year — one row per year, one column per calendar day.
This page cuts Cardano (ADA)'s daily history two ways — average return by weekday for each year, and the actual daily return on every calendar date once a single month is picked. ADA's daily grid is where its grind is most visible: after 2021, strings of mildly negative days outnumber the rallies, and no single day needs to be dramatic for the year to end deep red. The weekday averages lean red across the board in the bleed years.
Each figure is a UTC daily close against the previous close, in USD; days after a data gap are excluded rather than smeared into the next day. ADA's data starts at its perpetual listing in early 2020. The run into the September 2021 peak gave way to one of the most persistent bleed patterns among large caps.
Cardano's latest daily return is +4.51% for 10 October 2026, the daily close against the previous day's close on UTC boundaries. So far in October 2026, 4 of 10 trading days closed higher; the biggest up day was the 4th at +6.56% and the biggest down day was the 8th at −9.10%.
Across all years on record, Friday has the highest median average daily return for Cardano at +0.96% per day, while Thursday is the weakest at −0.41%. In 2026 so far, Friday leads at +1.00% per day and Tuesday trails at −0.73%. Each cell is the mean of that weekday's daily returns within a year, so the numbers are small per day but add up over time.
Cardano's median average daily return is +0.49% on Saturdays and +0.03% on Sundays, against an average of +0.20% per day across Monday to Friday. Crypto futures trade 24/7, so weekend candles are real trading days, not gaps.
By median average daily return across all years, the 13th of the month has been Cardano's strongest calendar day at +0.89% and the 21st its weakest at −1.03%. 18 of the 31 calendar days carry a positive median. Day-of-month effects are noisy, so read them as texture rather than a rule.
The texture of the bleed. ADA's post-2021 losses came from persistent small down-days rather than crashes, and the daily grain shows that drip directly — most cells shallow, few extreme.
ADA's history here begins at its first daily perpetual-futures candle on Binance in early 2020; every weekday and day-of-month figure is computed from that point forward — earlier spot-era history is not included.
Each day's UTC close divided by the previous day's UTC close, minus one, in USD. Days that follow a gap in the data are excluded so a multi-day move is never counted as one day.