The Sandbox (SAND) is 7.8× the size of Fusionist (ACE) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, ACE is ahead by 29.6 percentage points (ACE -45.2% against SAND -74.8%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.25 across 399 shared trading days). ACE has been the more volatile of the two, at 187% annualised against SAND's 103%.
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0.25over 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 | ACE | SAND |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -87.1% | -88.4% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.28 | 0.07 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +260.6% | +94.1% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -43.3% | -48.8% |
Relative strength over 90 days: ACE outperformed SAND by 70.9% — measured on the ACE/SAND ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.