Litecoin (LTC) is 2138.2× the size of Handshake (HNS) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, HNS is ahead by 27.4 percentage points (HNS -10.5% against LTC -37.9%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.21 across 363 shared trading days). HNS has been the more volatile of the two, at 212% annualised against LTC's 62%.
HNSLTC
0.21over 363 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 | HNS | LTC |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -80.7% | -67.5% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.19 | 0.32 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | — | +45.4% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | — | -39.5% |
Relative strength over 90 days: LTC outperformed HNS by 8.8% — measured on the HNS/LTC ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.