GBP to USD — British Pound vs US Dollar
A currency pair is not an investment in the way a share or a coin is. A high figure below does not mean this was a good thing to buy — it means the second currency lost value against the first, year after year. That matters if you are sending money home or deciding which currency to hold savings in. It is not a return.
Of 1,048 past one-year holding periods for British Pound vs US Dollar, 68% ended in profit. In the typical case $100 became $102. The worst year on record was -21.2% and the best was +15.9%.
If you had put $100 in — every past year
1,048 periods · from 1,300 days of pricesEach bar counts how many one-year periods finished in that range. Red is a loss, green is a gain. Fees and spread are not included.
What the chart says today
We calculate these on our own server from 1,300 days of prices, so the figures on this page are the same ones our assistant is given. Nothing is read off a picture.
Have these signals actually worked on British Pound vs US Dollar?
tested on its own historyMost sites show you a signal. We also show you how often it was right — including when it was wrong. A rate near 50% means the signal told you nothing on this asset.
How British Pound vs US Dollar compares
$100 · one year · same maths| Pair | Bad year | Typical | Good year | Ended in profit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Pound vs US Dollar (this page) | $91 | $102 | $108 | 68% |
| US Dollar vs Indian Rupee | $101 | $104 | $110 | 100% |
| US Dollar vs Turkish Lira | $117 | $123 | $163 | 100% |
| US Dollar vs Bangladeshi Taka | $101 | $108 | $121 | 99% |
| US Dollar vs Egyptian Pound | $98 | $126 | $165 | 85% |
| US Dollar vs Japanese Yen | $98 | $106 | $116 | 81% |
| US Dollar vs Philippine Peso | $98 | $103 | $110 | 76% |
Showing 6 of 11. The full table, other holding periods and cross-market sorting are Pro features.
Actually sending money?
The rate above is the mid-market rate — the one banks quote each other. What lands in the other account depends on who you send with, and the gap is usually larger than a day's move.
One caveat worth understanding. The holding periods we count start on every trading day, so they overlap heavily — yesterday's year and today's year share all but one day. That means they are not 1,048 independent experiments; a single long run up or down colours a great many of them at once. It is an honest picture of what holding this asset felt like, not a sample you can do statistics on. We do not show unlock dates, because the data source for them is not something we can verify for free, and we would rather leave a gap than guess. Buzdy is free to compare and does not take a commission on anything you do next.
