Each quarter compounds its three months — the coarsest grain that still shows a cycle turning inside a single year.
This page compresses Litecoin (LTC)'s history into four cells per year — Q1 through Q4 — coarse enough to watch a cycle turn inside a single year. LTC's quarters mirror Bitcoin's at lower amplitude, cycle after cycle — the clearest quarterly demonstration of an asset losing narrative share while keeping directional correlation. Quarters where LTC sat out an alt rally mark that rally as narrative-specific.
Each quarter compounds its three calendar months from UTC daily closes, so a cell is what a position held through those months would actually have returned. LTC's data starts at its perpetual listing in early 2020. Each cycle's rally rows are less saturated than the last as capital concentrated into Bitcoin — a fading echo, at every grain.
Litecoin is down 18.4% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October through the daily close of 31 October 2026 (UTC). The figure keeps moving until the quarter closes.
Litecoin returned +60.6% in Q3 2026, its most recent completed quarter, compounding that quarter's three monthly returns. The median Q3 return on record is −9.8%, so it came in above the norm.
Litecoin's 2026 quarters so far: Q1 −29.8%, Q2 −22.3%, Q3 +60.6%, Q4 −18.4% (in progress). Compounded together they put Litecoin down 28.5% year-to-date.
2025: Q1 −19.4%, Q2 +3.5%, Q3 +24.3%, Q4 −28.2%. The strongest quarter was Q3 at +24.3% and the weakest Q4 at −28.2%; the full year compounded to −25.5%.
Across 13 completed Q4s on record, the median Q4 return for Litecoin is +12.6%. The best Q4 was 2013 at +934.8%, the worst 2018 at −50.2%, and 8 of 13 closed positive. The current Q4 is excluded until it closes.
By median return across all completed years, Q4 has been Litecoin's strongest quarter at +12.6% and Q3 its weakest at −9.8%. Q1 −6.4%, Q2 −9.4%, Q3 −9.8%, Q4 +12.6% are the four medians; they shift as each new year is added.
Across 54 completed quarters, Litecoin's best was Q4 2013 at +934.8% and its worst Q2 2022 at −56.6%. 25 of 54 quarters closed positive.
Directionally very closely, at smaller magnitude — green and red quarters usually match BTC's, shallower. Divergent quarters are the informative ones: they flag moves that were narrative-driven rather than market-wide.
LTC's history here begins at its first daily perpetual-futures candle on Binance in early 2020, so the grid starts with the first quarter completed after that date. All medians are computed from that point on.
Because returns compound. A +10% month followed by a −10% month leaves −1%, not 0%. The quarterly figure multiplies the monthly factors together, which is the return a held position would actually see.