HeliChain (HELI) and Solana (SOL) compared side by side. Over the past 1 year, SOL is ahead by 54.4 percentage points (HELI -98.5% against SOL -44.1%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.04 across 363 shared trading days). HELI has been the more volatile of the two, at 248% annualised against SOL's 66%.
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0.04over 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 | HELI | SOL |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -99.4% | -73.5% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.09 | 0.44 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | — | +47.8% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | — | -46.1% |
Relative strength over 90 days: SOL outperformed HELI by 28.3% — measured on the HELI/SOL ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.