What if you invested €100 a month in the Nasdaq-100?

Use the calculator below to see what €100 a month into the Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) would be worth today, against putting the same total in on day one. Real daily prices, dividends reinvested, free and with no signup.

Why the Nasdaq-100 specifically

The Nasdaq-100 is the S&P 500 with the steady parts removed — heavily weighted toward the same technology names that appear individually on this list. It rises faster and falls harder, which makes the drawdown figure below more informative than the return.

the Nasdaq-100 is the 100 largest non-financial companies on the Nasdaq, held through QQQ. Change the ticker in the calculator above to run the same schedule on anything else — the numbers on this page are just one setting of it.

What this calculation does and doesn’t include

Contributions land on the first trading day of each month at the closing price. Dividends are included and treated as reinvested. Taxes are ignored, and so are the fees your broker charges on a small monthly purchase — on a €100 contribution a flat commission is a real drag that this does not model. The window is the free five-year one, which matters more than it sounds: five years is one market cycle at most, and a schedule that started five years ago is not the same experiment as one that started in 2007.

Above all, this is one company over one stretch of history that already happened. It cannot tell you what the next five years hold, and picking the ticker with the best number on this list is choosing with hindsight — which is the one advantage you will never have in advance.

The same question, other companies

Want to compare strategies rather than companies? The full backtester runs rule-based setups — moving-average crossovers, breakouts, mean reversion — against buy & hold on the same prices.