PancakeSwap (CAKE) is 98.8× the size of MetFi (METFI) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, CAKE is ahead by 58.4 percentage points (METFI -73.4% against CAKE -15.0%). Their daily returns move barely in opposite directions (correlation -0.05 across 373 shared trading days). METFI has been the more volatile of the two, at 144% annualised against CAKE's 82%.
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-0.05over 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 | METFI | CAKE |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -94.1% | -73.4% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.23 | 0.49 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +191.6% | +65.1% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -49.6% | -38.0% |
Relative strength over 90 days: METFI outperformed CAKE by 12.4% — measured on the METFI/CAKE ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.