All-Time Low

The all-time low is the minimum of the provider's composite price series since coverage began. For most tokens it is set within the first hours or days of trading rather than during any later decline. It anchors the percent-above-all-time-low figure and little else.

Where it misleads

The low is usually established at launch on a single venue with almost no depth, so it commonly reflects a handful of trades rather than a market price. Tokens launched through a liquidity bootstrapping pool or a descending-price auction record opening prints that are mechanism artifacts by design. If a provider began coverage after launch, its recorded low is a coverage artifact and can differ by orders of magnitude from another provider's. As with the high, the figure is not adjusted for redenominations or contract migrations.

The equity comparison, and why it fails

All-time low on a listed equity; equity lows sit within a continuous, regulated price history from the initial public offering onward, while token history often begins at whatever moment a data provider started collecting it.

Reading a high or a low value

The all-time low marks the lowest price ever recorded in the covered history. For most assets it describes conditions at launch rather than any later period.