Legacy Frax Dollar (FRAX) is 4.4× the size of Brazilian Digital (BRZ) by market capitalisation. Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.10 across 54 shared trading days). FRAX has been the more volatile of the two, at 99% annualised against BRZ's 25%.
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0.10over 54 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 | BRZ | FRAX |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -9.2% | -81.3% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.24 | -0.16 |
Relative strength over 90 days: BRZ outperformed FRAX by 17.0% — measured on the BRZ/FRAX ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.