Optimism (OP) is 4344.2× the size of LightLink (LL) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, OP is ahead by 25.3 percentage points (LL -93.4% against OP -68.1%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.17 across 373 shared trading days). OP has been the more volatile of the two, at 100% annualised against LL's 61%.
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0.17over 373 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 | LL | OP |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -93.9% | -89.2% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.84 | 0.24 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +10.4% | +67.2% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -53.3% | -60.5% |
Relative strength over 90 days: OP outperformed LL by 54.8% — measured on the LL/OP ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.