The Sandbox (SAND) is 13.2× the size of Alien Worlds (TLM) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, TLM is ahead by 16.3 percentage points (TLM -57.6% against SAND -73.9%). Their daily returns move loosely together (correlation 0.36 across 399 shared trading days). TLM has been the more volatile of the two, at 142% annualised against SAND's 103%.
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0.36over 399 shared trading days
Measured on daily returns rather than on prices. Two assets that both simply trend upward score near 1.0 on raw prices whether or not they move together, so returns are what answer the question people mean by correlation.
| Metric | TLM | SAND |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -82.7% | -88.4% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.37 | 0.07 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +199.0% | +94.1% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -54.1% | -48.8% |
Relative strength over 90 days: SAND outperformed TLM by 35.7% — measured on the TLM/SAND ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.