Hamster Kombat (HMSTR) is 172.6× the size of Holdcoin (HOLD) by market capitalisation. Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.08 across 83 shared trading days). HOLD has been the more volatile of the two, at 71790198% annualised against HMSTR's 135%.
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0.08over 83 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 | HOLD | HMSTR |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -100.0% | -80.5% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.00 | -0.44 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | — | +121.8% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | — | -48.9% |
Relative strength over 90 days: HMSTR outperformed HOLD by 99.5% — measured on the HOLD/HMSTR ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.