Mayflower (MAY) and yearn.finance (YFI) compared side by side. Over the past 1 year, YFI is ahead by 44.4 percentage points (MAY -97.2% against YFI -52.8%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.19 across 365 shared trading days). MAY has been the more volatile of the two, at 162% annualised against YFI's 76%.
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0.19over 365 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 | MAY | YFI |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -97.5% | -70.8% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.28 | -0.03 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | — | +52.0% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | — | -35.3% |
Relative strength over 90 days: YFI outperformed MAY by 69.7% — measured on the MAY/YFI ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.