Brightpool (BRI) and Bitcoin (BTC) compared side by side. Over the past 1 year, BTC is ahead by 42.5 percentage points (BRI -69.8% against BTC -27.3%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.07 across 369 shared trading days). BRI has been the more volatile of the two, at 132% annualised against BTC's 44%.
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0.07over 369 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 | BRI | BTC |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -80.3% | -53.0% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.24 | 0.51 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +77.0% | +26.8% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -74.8% | -32.9% |
Relative strength over 90 days: BTC outperformed BRI by 67.5% — measured on the BRI/BTC ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.