Anonymous Cat (ZCAT) is 674.9× the size of KittyMineCoin (KMC) by market capitalisation. Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.29 across 22 shared trading days). ZCAT has been the more volatile of the two, at 290% annualised against KMC's 83%.
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0.29over 22 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 | KMC | ZCAT |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -23.2% | -67.3% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.19 | -0.20 |
Relative strength over 90 days: KMC outperformed ZCAT by 53.1% — measured on the KMC/ZCAT ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.