Kaizen.Finance (KZEN) and Bitway (BTW) compared side by side. Their daily returns move barely in opposite directions (correlation -0.07 across 37 shared trading days). BTW has been the more volatile of the two, at 365% annualised against KZEN's 51%.
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-0.07over 37 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 | KZEN | BTW |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -57.5% | -60.7% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.14 | 0.43 |
Relative strength over 90 days: BTW outperformed KZEN by 70.5% — measured on the KZEN/BTW ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.